| Stance |
n. |
The position of a player's feet, relative to each other and to the ball, when he is making a stroke. |
| Stance |
n. |
A stanza. |
| Stance |
n. |
A station; a position; a site. |
| Stanch |
v. t. |
To stop the flowing of, as blood; to check; also, to stop the flowing of blood from; as, to stanch a wound. |
| Stanch |
v. t. |
To extinguish; to quench, as fire or thirst. |
| Stanch |
v. i. |
To cease, as the flowing of blood. |
| Stanch |
n. |
That which stanches or checks. |
| Stanch |
n. |
A flood gate by which water is accumulated, for floating a boat over a shallow part of a stream by its release. |
| Stanch |
v. t. |
Strong and tight; sound; firm; as, a stanch ship. |
| Stanch |
v. t. |
Firm in principle; constant and zealous; loyal; hearty; steady; steadfast; as, a stanch churchman; a stanch friend or adherent. |
| Stanch |
v. t. |
Close; secret; private. |
| Stanch |
v. t. |
To prop; to make stanch, or strong. |
| Stanched |
imp. & p. p. |
of Stanch |
| Stanchel |
n. |
A stanchion. |
| Stancher |
n. |
One who, or that which, stanches, or stops, the flowing, as of blood. |
| Stanching |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Stanch |
| Stanchion |
n. |
A prop or support; a piece of timber in the form of a stake or post, used for a support or stay. |
| Stanchion |
n. |
Any upright post or beam used as a support, as for the deck, the quarter rails, awnings, etc. |
| Stanchion |
n. |
A vertical bar for confining cattle in a stall. |
| Stanchless |
a. |
Incapable of being stanched, or stopped. |
| Stanchless |
a. |
Unquenchable; insatiable. |
| Stanchly |
adv. |
In a stanch manner. |
| Stanchness |
n. |
The quality or state of being stanch. |
| Stand |
v. i. |
To be, or signify that one is, willing to play with one's hand as dealt. |
| Stand |
n. |
To be at rest in an erect position; to be fixed in an upright or firm position |
| Stand |
n. |
To be supported on the feet, in an erect or nearly erect position;
opposed to lie, sit, kneel, etc. |
| Stand |
n. |
To continue upright in a certain locality, as a tree fixed by the roots, or a building resting on its foundation. |
| Stand |
n. |
To occupy or hold a place; to have a situation; to be situated or located; as, Paris stands on the Seine. |
| Stand |
n. |
To cease from progress; not to proceed; to stop; to pause; to halt; to remain stationary. |
| Stand |
n. |
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. |
| Stand |
n. |
To maintain one's ground; to be acquitted; not to fail or yield; to be safe. |
| Stand |
n. |
To maintain an invincible or permanent attitude; to be fixed, steady, or firm; to take a position in resistance or opposition. |
| Stand |
n. |
To adhere to fixed principles; to maintain moral rectitude; to keep from falling into error or vice. |
| Stand |
n. |
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. |
| Stand |
n. |
To be in some particular state; to have essence or being; to be; to consist. |
| Stand |
n. |
To be consistent; to agree; to accord. |
| Stand |
n. |
To hold a course at sea; as, to stand from the shore; to stand for the harbor. |
| Stand |
n. |
To offer one's self, or to be offered, as a candidate. |
| Stand |
n. |
To stagnate; not to flow; to be motionless. |
| Stand |
n. |
To measure when erect on the feet. |
| Stand |
n. |
To be or remain as it is; to continue in force; to have efficacy or validity; to abide. |
| Stand |
n. |
To appear in court. |
| Stand |
v. t. |
To endure; to sustain; to bear; as, I can not stand the cold or the heat. |
| Stand |
v. t. |
To resist, without yielding or receding; to withstand. |
| Stand |
v. t. |
To abide by; to submit to; to suffer. |
| Stand |
v. t. |
To set upright; to cause to stand; as, to stand a book on the shelf; to stand a man on his feet. |
| Stand |
v. t. |
To be at the expense of; to pay for; as, to stand a treat. |
| Stand |
v. i. |
The act of standing. |
| Stand |
v. i. |
A halt or stop for the purpose of defense, resistance, or opposition; as, to come to, or to make, a stand. |
| Stand |
v. i. |
A place or post where one stands; a place where one may stand while observing or waiting for something. |
| Stand |
v. i. |
A station in a city or town where carriages or wagons stand for hire; as, a cab stand. |
| Stand |
v. i. |
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. |
| Stand |
v. i. |
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. |
| Stand |
v. i. |
A place where a witness stands to testify in court. |
| Stand |
v. i. |
The situation of a shop, store, hotel, etc.; as, a good, bad, or convenient stand for business. |
| Stand |
v. i. |
Rank; post; station; standing. |
| Stand |
v. i. |
A state of perplexity or embarrassment; as, to be at a stand what to do. |
| Stand |
v. i. |
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. |
| Stand |
v. i. |
A weight of from two hundred and fifty to three hundred pounds,
used in weighing pitch. |
| Stand-by |
n. |
One who, or that which, stands by one in need; something upon which one relies for constant use or in an emergency. |
| Standage |
n. |
A reservior in which water accumulates at the bottom of a mine. |
| Standard |
n. |
A flag; colors; a banner; especially, a national or other ensign. |
| Standard |
n. |
That which is established by authority as a rule for the measure of quantity, extent, value, or quality; esp., the original specimen weight or measure sanctioned by government, as the standard pound, gallon, or yard. |
| Standard |
n. |
That which is established as a rule or model by authority, custom, or general consent; criterion; test. |
| Standard |
n. |
The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established by authority. |
| Standard |
n. |
A tree of natural size supported by its own stem, and not dwarfed by grafting on the stock of a smaller species nor trained upon a wall or trellis. |
| Standard |
n. |
The upper petal or banner of a papilionaceous corolla. |
| Standard |
n. |
An upright support, as one of the poles of a scaffold; any upright in framing. |
| Standard |
n. |
An inverted knee timber placed upon the deck instead of beneath it, with its vertical branch turned upward from that which lies horizontally. |
| Standard |
n. |
The sheth of a plow. |
| Standard |
n. |
A large drinking cup. |
| Standard |
a. |
Being, affording, or according with, a standard for comparison and judgment; as, standard time; standard weights and measures; a standard authority as to nautical terms; standard gold or silver. |
| Standard |
a. |
Hence: Having a recognized and permanent value; as, standard works in history; standard authors. |
| Standard |
a. |
Not supported by, or fastened to, a wall; as, standard fruit trees. |
| Standard |
a. |
Not of the dwarf kind; as, a standard pear tree. |
| Standard-bred |
a. |
Bred in conformity to a standard. Specif., applied to a registered trotting horse which comes up to the standard adopted by the National Association of Trotting-horse Breeders. |
| Standard-wing |
n. |
A curious paradise bird (Semioptera Wallacii) which has two long special feathers standing erect on each wing. |
| Standardize |
v. t. |
To reduce to a normal standard; to calculate or adjust the strength of, by means of, and for uses in, analysis. |
| Standel |
n. |
A young tree, especially one reserved when others are cut. |
| Stander |
n. |
One who stands. |
| Stander |
n. |
Same as Standel. |
| Stander-by |
n. |
One who stands near; one who is present; a bystander. |
| Standerat |
n. |
See Legislature, above. |
| Standerath |
n. |
Alt. of Standerat |
| Standergrass |
n. |
A plant (Orchis mascula);
called also standerwort, and long purple. See Long purple, under Long. |
| Standgale |
n. |
See Stannel. |
| Standing |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Stand |
| Standing |
a. |
Remaining erect; not cut down; as, standing corn. |
| Standing |
a. |
Not flowing; stagnant; as, standing water. |
| Standing |
a. |
Not transitory; not liable to fade or vanish; lasting; as, a standing color. |
| Standing |
a. |
Established by law, custom, or the like; settled; continually existing; permanent; not temporary; as, a standing army; legislative bodies have standing rules of proceeding and standing committees. |
| Standing |
a. |
Not movable; fixed; as, a standing bed (distinguished from a trundle-bed). |
| Standing |
n. |
The act of stopping, or coming to a stand; the state of being erect upon the feet; stand. |
| Standing |
n. |
Maintenance of position; duration; duration or existence in the same place or condition; continuance; as, a custom of long standing; an officer of long standing. |
| Standing |
n. |
Place to stand in; station; stand. |
| Standing |
n. |
Condition in society; relative position; reputation; rank; as, a man of good standing, or of high standing. |
| Standish |
n. |
A stand, or case, for pen and ink. |
| Standpipe |
n. |
A vertical pipe, open at the top, between a hydrant and a reservoir, to equalize the flow of water; also, a large vertical pipe, near a pumping engine, into which water is forced up, so as to give it sufficient head to rise to the required level at a distance. |
| Standpipe |
n. |
A supply pipe of sufficient elevation to enable the water to flow into the boiler, notwithstanding the pressure of the steam. |
| Standpoint |
n. |
A fixed point or station; a basis or fundamental principle; a position from which objects or principles are viewed, and according to which they are compared and judged. |
