Stand (?), v. i. [imp. & p.
p. Stood (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Standing.] [OE. standen; AS. standan; akin to
OFries. stonda, stān, D. staan, OS.
standan, stān, G. stehen, Icel.
standa, Dan. staae, Sw. stå, Goth.
standan, Russ. stoiate, L. stare, Gr. &?; to
cause to stand, &?; to stand, Skr. sthā. √163. Cf.
Assist, Constant, Contrast, Desist,
Destine, Ecstasy, Exist, Interstice,
Obstacle, Obstinate, Prest, n.,
Rest remainder, Soltice, Stable,
a. & n., State,
n., Statute, Stead, Steed,
Stool, Stud of horses, Substance, System.]
1. To be at rest in an erect position; to be
fixed in an upright or firm position; as: (a)
To be supported on the feet, in an erect or nearly erect
position; -- opposed to lie, sit, kneel,
etc. "I pray you all, stand up!" Shak.
(b) To continue upright in a certain locality, as
a tree fixed by the roots, or a building resting on its
foundation.
It stands as it were to the ground
yglued.
Chaucer.
The ruined wall
Stands when its wind worn battlements are gone.
Byron.
2. To occupy or hold a place; to have a
situation; to be situated or located; as, Paris stands on the
Seine.
Wite ye not where there stands a little
town?
Chaucer.
3. To cease from progress; not to proceed; to
stop; to pause; to halt; to remain stationary.
I charge thee, stand,
And tell thy name.
Dryden.
The star, which they saw in the east, went before them,
till it came and stood over where the young child
was.
Matt. ii. 9.
4. To remain without ruin or injury; to hold
good against tendencies to impair or injure; to be permanent; to
endure; to last; hence, to find endurance, strength, or
resources.
My mind on its own center stands
unmoved.
Dryden.
5. To maintain one's ground; to be acquitted;
not to fail or yield; to be safe.
Readers by whose judgment I would stand or
fall.
Spectator.
6. To maintain an invincible or permanent
attitude; to be fixed, steady, or firm; to take a position in
resistance or opposition. "The standing pattern of their
imitation." South.
The king granted the Jews . . . to gather themselves
together, and to stand for their life.
Esther
viii. 11.
7. To adhere to fixed principles; to maintain
moral rectitude; to keep from falling into error or vice.
We must labor so as to stand with godliness,
according to his appointment.
Latimer.
8. To have or maintain a position, order, or
rank; to be in a particular relation; as, Christian charity, or love,
stands first in the rank of gifts.
9. To be in some particular state; to have
essence or being; to be; to consist. "Sacrifices . . . which
stood only in meats and drinks." Heb. ix. 10.
Accomplish what your signs foreshow;
I stand resigned, and am prepared to go.
Dryden.
Thou seest how it stands with me, and that I may
not tarry.
Sir W. Scott.
10. To be consistent; to agree; to
accord.
Doubt me not; by heaven, I will do nothing
But what may stand with honor.
Massinger.
11. (Naut.) To hold a course at sea;
as, to stand from the shore; to stand for the
harbor.
From the same parts of heaven his navy
stands.
Dryden.
12. To offer one's self, or to be offered, as
a candidate.
He stood to be elected one of the proctors of
the university.
Walton.
13. To stagnate; not to flow; to be
motionless.
Or the black water of Pomptina
stands.
Dryden.
14. To measure when erect on the
feet.
Six feet two, as I think, he
stands.
Tennyson.
15. (Law) (a) To be or
remain as it is; to continue in force; to have efficacy or validity;
to abide. Bouvier. (b) To appear in
court. Burrill.
Stand by (Naut.), a preparatory order,
equivalent to Be ready. -- To stand
against, to opposite; to resist. -- To
stand by. (a) To be near; to be a
spectator; to be present. (b) To be aside; to
be aside with disregard. "In the interim [we] let the commands
stand by neglected." Dr. H. More. (c)
To maintain; to defend; to support; not to desert; as, to stand
by one's principles or party. (d) To rest
on for support; to be supported by. Whitgift. --
To stand corrected, to be set right, as after an
error in a statement of fact. Wycherley. -- To
stand fast, to be fixed; to be unshaken or
immovable. -- To stand firmly on, to be
satisfied or convinced of. "Though Page be a secure fool, and
stands so firmly on his wife's frailty." Shak. --
To stand for. (a) To side with;
to espouse the cause of; to support; to maintain, or to profess or
attempt to maintain; to defend. "I stand wholly
for you." Shak. (b) To be in the
place of; to be the substitute or to represent; as, a cipher at the
left hand of a figure stands for nothing. "I will not
trouble myself, whether these names stand for the same thing,
or really include one another." Locke. -- To stand
in, to cost. "The same standeth them
in much less cost." Robynson (More's Utopia).
The Punic wars could not have stood the human
race in less than three millions of the species.
Burke.
--
To stand in hand, to conduce to one's
interest; to be serviceable or advantageous. -- To stand
off. (a) To keep at a distance.
(b) Not to comply. (c) To
keep at a distance in friendship, social intercourse, or
acquaintance. (d) To appear prominent; to
have relief. "Picture is best when it standeth off, as if
it were carved." Sir H. Wotton. -- To stand off and
on (Naut.), to remain near a coast by sailing
toward land and then from it. -- To stand on
(Naut.), to continue on the same tack or course. --
To stand out. (a) To project; to
be prominent. "Their eyes stand out with fatness."
Psalm lxxiii. 7. (b) To persist in
opposition or resistance; not to yield or comply; not to give way or
recede.
His spirit is come in,
That so stood out against the holy church.
Shak.
--
To stand to. (a) To ply;
to urge; to persevere in using. "Stand to your tackles,
mates, and stretch your oars." Dryden. (b)
To remain fixed in a purpose or opinion. "I will stand
to it, that this is his sense." Bp. Stillingfleet.
(c) To abide by; to adhere to; as to a contrast,
assertion, promise, etc.; as, to stand to an award; to stand
to one's word. (d) Not to yield; not to
fly; to maintain, as one's ground. "Their lives and fortunes were
put in safety, whether they stood to it or ran away."
Bacon. (e) To be consistent with; to agree
with; as, it stands to reason that he could not have done
so. (f) To support; to uphold. "Stand
to me in this cause." Shak. -- To stand
together, to be consistent; to agree. -- To
stand to sea (Naut.), to direct the course from
land. -- To stand under, to undergo; to
withstand. Shak. -- To stand up.
(a) To rise from sitting; to be on the feet.
(b) To arise in order to speak or act.
"Against whom, when the accusers stood up, they brought none
accusation of such things as I supposed." Acts xxv. 18.
(c) To rise and stand on end, as the hair.
(d) To put one's self in opposition; to
contend. "Once we stood up about the corn." Shak. -
- To stand up for, to defend; to justify; to
support, or attempt to support; as, to stand up for the
administration. -- To stand upon.
(a) To concern; to interest.
(b) To value; to esteem. "We highly esteem
and stand much upon our birth." Ray.
(c) To insist on; to attach much importance to;
as, to stand upon security; to stand upon ceremony.
(d) To attack; to assault. [A Hebraism] "So I
stood upon him, and slew him." 2 Sam. i. 10. --
To stand with, to be consistent with. "It
stands with reason that they should be rewarded liberally."
Sir J. Davies.
Stand (?), v. t. 1.
To endure; to sustain; to bear; as, I can not stand the
cold or the heat.
2. To resist, without yielding or receding; to
withstand. "Love stood the siege." Dryden.
He stood the furious foe.
Pope.
3. To abide by; to submit to; to
suffer.
Bid him disband his legions, . . .
And stand the judgment of a Roman senate.
Addison.
4. To set upright; to cause to stand; as, to
stand a book on the shelf; to stand a man on his
feet.
5. To be at the expense of; to pay for; as, to
stand a treat. [Colloq.] Thackeray.
To stand fire, to receive the fire of arms
from an enemy without giving way. -- To stand one's
ground, to keep the ground or station one has taken; to
maintain one's position. "Peasants and burghers, however brave,
are unable to stand their ground against veteran soldiers."
Macaulay. -- To stand trial, to sustain
the trial or examination of a cause; not to give up without
trial.
Stand (?), n. [As. stand. See
Stand, v. i.] 1. The act
of standing.
I took my stand upon an eminence . . . to look
into thier several ladings.
Spectator.
2. A halt or stop for the purpose of defense,
resistance, or opposition; as, to come to, or to make, a
stand.
Vice is at stand, and at the highest
flow.
Dryden.
3. A place or post where one stands; a place
where one may stand while observing or waiting for
something.
I have found you out a stand most fit,
Where you may have such vantage on the duke,
He shall not pass you.
Shak.
4. A station in a city or town where carriages
or wagons stand for hire; as, a cab stand.
Dickens.
5. A raised platform or station where a race
or other outdoor spectacle may be viewed; as, the judge's or the grand
stand at a race course.
6. A small table; also, something on or in
which anything may be laid, hung, or placed upright; as, a hat
stand; an umbrella stand; a music
stand.
7. A place where a witness stands to testify
in court.
8. The situation of a shop, store, hotel,
etc.; as, a good, bad, or convenient stand for business.
[U. S.]
9. Rank; post; station; standing.
Father, since your fortune did attain
So high a stand, I mean not to descend.
Daniel.
10. A state of perplexity or embarrassment;
as, to be at a stand what to do. L'Estrange.
11. A young tree, usually reserved when other
trees are cut; also, a tree growing or standing upon its own root, in
distinction from one produced from a scion set in a stock, either of
the same or another kind of tree.
12. (Com.) A weight of from two hundred
and fifty to three hundred pounds, -- used in weighing
pitch.
Microscope stand, the instrument, excepting
the eyepiece, objective, and other removable optical parts. --
Stand of ammunition, the projectile, cartridge,
and sabot connected together. -- Stand of arms.
(Mil.) See under Arms. -- Stand of
colors (Mil.), a single color, or flag.
Wilhelm (Mil. Dict.) -- To be at a stand,
to be stationary or motionless; to be at a standstill; hence, to
be perplexed; to be embarrassed. -- To make a
stand, to halt for the purpose of offering resistance to
a pursuing enemy.
Syn. -- Stop; halt; rest; interruption; obstruction;
perplexity; difficulty; embarrassment; hesitation.
Stand (?), v. i. (Card Playing)
To be, or signify that one is, willing to play with one's hand as
dealt.
Stand (?), v. i. [imp. & p.
p. Stood (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Standing.] [OE. standen; AS. standan; akin to
OFries. stonda, stān, D. staan, OS.
standan, stān, G. stehen, Icel.
standa, Dan. staae, Sw. stå, Goth.
standan, Russ. stoiate, L. stare, Gr. &?; to
cause to stand, &?; to stand, Skr. sthā. √163. Cf.
Assist, Constant, Contrast, Desist,
Destine, Ecstasy, Exist, Interstice,
Obstacle, Obstinate, Prest, n.,
Rest remainder, Soltice, Stable,
a. & n., State,
n., Statute, Stead, Steed,
Stool, Stud of horses, Substance, System.]
1. To be at rest in an erect position; to be
fixed in an upright or firm position; as: (a)
To be supported on the feet, in an erect or nearly erect
position; -- opposed to lie, sit, kneel,
etc. "I pray you all, stand up!" Shak.
(b) To continue upright in a certain locality, as
a tree fixed by the roots, or a building resting on its
foundation.
It stands as it were to the ground
yglued.
Chaucer.
The ruined wall
Stands when its wind worn battlements are gone.
Byron.
2. To occupy or hold a place; to have a
situation; to be situated or located; as, Paris stands on the
Seine.
Wite ye not where there stands a little
town?
Chaucer.
3. To cease from progress; not to proceed; to
stop; to pause; to halt; to remain stationary.
I charge thee, stand,
And tell thy name.
Dryden.
The star, which they saw in the east, went before them,
till it came and stood over where the young child
was.
Matt. ii. 9.
4. To remain without ruin or injury; to hold
good against tendencies to impair or injure; to be permanent; to
endure; to last; hence, to find endurance, strength, or
resources.
My mind on its own center stands
unmoved.
Dryden.
5. To maintain one's ground; to be acquitted;
not to fail or yield; to be safe.
Readers by whose judgment I would stand or
fall.
Spectator.
6. To maintain an invincible or permanent
attitude; to be fixed, steady, or firm; to take a position in
resistance or opposition. "The standing pattern of their
imitation." South.
The king granted the Jews . . . to gather themselves
together, and to stand for their life.
Esther
viii. 11.
7. To adhere to fixed principles; to maintain
moral rectitude; to keep from falling into error or vice.
We must labor so as to stand with godliness,
according to his appointment.
Latimer.
8. To have or maintain a position, order, or
rank; to be in a particular relation; as, Christian charity, or love,
stands first in the rank of gifts.
9. To be in some particular state; to have
essence or being; to be; to consist. "Sacrifices . . . which
stood only in meats and drinks." Heb. ix. 10.
Accomplish what your signs foreshow;
I stand resigned, and am prepared to go.
Dryden.
Thou seest how it stands with me, and that I may
not tarry.
Sir W. Scott.
10. To be consistent; to agree; to
accord.
Doubt me not; by heaven, I will do nothing
But what may stand with honor.
Massinger.
11. (Naut.) To hold a course at sea;
as, to stand from the shore; to stand for the
harbor.
From the same parts of heaven his navy
stands.
Dryden.
12. To offer one's self, or to be offered, as
a candidate.
He stood to be elected one of the proctors of
the university.
Walton.
13. To stagnate; not to flow; to be
motionless.
Or the black water of Pomptina
stands.
Dryden.
14. To measure when erect on the
feet.
Six feet two, as I think, he
stands.
Tennyson.
15. (Law) (a) To be or
remain as it is; to continue in force; to have efficacy or validity;
to abide. Bouvier. (b) To appear in
court. Burrill.
Stand by (Naut.), a preparatory order,
equivalent to Be ready. -- To stand
against, to opposite; to resist. -- To
stand by. (a) To be near; to be a
spectator; to be present. (b) To be aside; to
be aside with disregard. "In the interim [we] let the commands
stand by neglected." Dr. H. More. (c)
To maintain; to defend; to support; not to desert; as, to stand
by one's principles or party. (d) To rest
on for support; to be supported by. Whitgift. --
To stand corrected, to be set right, as after an
error in a statement of fact. Wycherley. -- To
stand fast, to be fixed; to be unshaken or
immovable. -- To stand firmly on, to be
satisfied or convinced of. "Though Page be a secure fool, and
stands so firmly on his wife's frailty." Shak. --
To stand for. (a) To side with;
to espouse the cause of; to support; to maintain, or to profess or
attempt to maintain; to defend. "I stand wholly
for you." Shak. (b) To be in the
place of; to be the substitute or to represent; as, a cipher at the
left hand of a figure stands for nothing. "I will not
trouble myself, whether these names stand for the same thing,
or really include one another." Locke. -- To stand
in, to cost. "The same standeth them
in much less cost." Robynson (More's Utopia).
The Punic wars could not have stood the human
race in less than three millions of the species.
Burke.
--
To stand in hand, to conduce to one's
interest; to be serviceable or advantageous. -- To stand
off. (a) To keep at a distance.
(b) Not to comply. (c) To
keep at a distance in friendship, social intercourse, or
acquaintance. (d) To appear prominent; to
have relief. "Picture is best when it standeth off, as if
it were carved." Sir H. Wotton. -- To stand off and
on (Naut.), to remain near a coast by sailing
toward land and then from it. -- To stand on
(Naut.), to continue on the same tack or course. --
To stand out. (a) To project; to
be prominent. "Their eyes stand out with fatness."
Psalm lxxiii. 7. (b) To persist in
opposition or resistance; not to yield or comply; not to give way or
recede.
His spirit is come in,
That so stood out against the holy church.
Shak.
--
To stand to. (a) To ply;
to urge; to persevere in using. "Stand to your tackles,
mates, and stretch your oars." Dryden. (b)
To remain fixed in a purpose or opinion. "I will stand
to it, that this is his sense." Bp. Stillingfleet.
(c) To abide by; to adhere to; as to a contrast,
assertion, promise, etc.; as, to stand to an award; to stand
to one's word. (d) Not to yield; not to
fly; to maintain, as one's ground. "Their lives and fortunes were
put in safety, whether they stood to it or ran away."
Bacon. (e) To be consistent with; to agree
with; as, it stands to reason that he could not have done
so. (f) To support; to uphold. "Stand
to me in this cause." Shak. -- To stand
together, to be consistent; to agree. -- To
stand to sea (Naut.), to direct the course from
land. -- To stand under, to undergo; to
withstand. Shak. -- To stand up.
(a) To rise from sitting; to be on the feet.
(b) To arise in order to speak or act.
"Against whom, when the accusers stood up, they brought none
accusation of such things as I supposed." Acts xxv. 18.
(c) To rise and stand on end, as the hair.
(d) To put one's self in opposition; to
contend. "Once we stood up about the corn." Shak. -
- To stand up for, to defend; to justify; to
support, or attempt to support; as, to stand up for the
administration. -- To stand upon.
(a) To concern; to interest.
(b) To value; to esteem. "We highly esteem
and stand much upon our birth." Ray.
(c) To insist on; to attach much importance to;
as, to stand upon security; to stand upon ceremony.
(d) To attack; to assault. [A Hebraism] "So I
stood upon him, and slew him." 2 Sam. i. 10. --
To stand with, to be consistent with. "It
stands with reason that they should be rewarded liberally."
Sir J. Davies.
Stand (?), v. t. 1.
To endure; to sustain; to bear; as, I can not stand the
cold or the heat.
2. To resist, without yielding or receding; to
withstand. "Love stood the siege." Dryden.
He stood the furious foe.
Pope.
3. To abide by; to submit to; to
suffer.
Bid him disband his legions, . . .
And stand the judgment of a Roman senate.
Addison.
4. To set upright; to cause to stand; as, to
stand a book on the shelf; to stand a man on his
feet.
5. To be at the expense of; to pay for; as, to
stand a treat. [Colloq.] Thackeray.
To stand fire, to receive the fire of arms
from an enemy without giving way. -- To stand one's
ground, to keep the ground or station one has taken; to
maintain one's position. "Peasants and burghers, however brave,
are unable to stand their ground against veteran soldiers."
Macaulay. -- To stand trial, to sustain
the trial or examination of a cause; not to give up without
trial.
Stand (?), n. [As. stand. See
Stand, v. i.] 1. The act
of standing.
I took my stand upon an eminence . . . to look
into thier several ladings.
Spectator.
2. A halt or stop for the purpose of defense,
resistance, or opposition; as, to come to, or to make, a
stand.
Vice is at stand, and at the highest
flow.
Dryden.
3. A place or post where one stands; a place
where one may stand while observing or waiting for
something.
I have found you out a stand most fit,
Where you may have such vantage on the duke,
He shall not pass you.
Shak.
4. A station in a city or town where carriages
or wagons stand for hire; as, a cab stand.
Dickens.
5. A raised platform or station where a race
or other outdoor spectacle may be viewed; as, the judge's or the grand
stand at a race course.
6. A small table; also, something on or in
which anything may be laid, hung, or placed upright; as, a hat
stand; an umbrella stand; a music
stand.
7. A place where a witness stands to testify
in court.
8. The situation of a shop, store, hotel,
etc.; as, a good, bad, or convenient stand for business.
[U. S.]
9. Rank; post; station; standing.
Father, since your fortune did attain
So high a stand, I mean not to descend.
Daniel.
10. A state of perplexity or embarrassment;
as, to be at a stand what to do. L'Estrange.
11. A young tree, usually reserved when other
trees are cut; also, a tree growing or standing upon its own root, in
distinction from one produced from a scion set in a stock, either of
the same or another kind of tree.
12. (Com.) A weight of from two hundred
and fifty to three hundred pounds, -- used in weighing
pitch.
Microscope stand, the instrument, excepting
the eyepiece, objective, and other removable optical parts. --
Stand of ammunition, the projectile, cartridge,
and sabot connected together. -- Stand of arms.
(Mil.) See under Arms. -- Stand of
colors (Mil.), a single color, or flag.
Wilhelm (Mil. Dict.) -- To be at a stand,
to be stationary or motionless; to be at a standstill; hence, to
be perplexed; to be embarrassed. -- To make a
stand, to halt for the purpose of offering resistance to
a pursuing enemy.
Syn. -- Stop; halt; rest; interruption; obstruction;
perplexity; difficulty; embarrassment; hesitation.
Stand (?), v. i. (Card Playing)
To be, or signify that one is, willing to play with one's hand as
dealt.
