ye, 79. To succeed ; to be acquitted ; to be Though Page be a secure fool, and stand se safe. firmly on his wife's frailty, yet I cannot put off Readers, by whose judgment I would stand or my opinion so easily. Sbakspeare. fall, would not be such as are acquainted only 39. To be without motion. with the French and Italian criticks. Spectator. !'ll tell you who time ambles withal, who time 28. To be with respect to any particular. gallops withal.- Whom stands it still withal?-Cæsar entreats With lawyers in the vacation ; for they sleep beNot to consider in what case thou stand'st, tween term and term, and then they perceive not how time moves. Further than he is Cæsar. Sbakspeare. Sbakspeare. To heav'n I do appeal, 40. To make delay. I have lov'd my king and commonweal; They will suspect they shall make but small As for my wife, I know not how it stands. Sbak. progress, if, in the books they read, they must stand to examine and unravel every argument. 29. To be resolutely of a party. Locke. The cause must be presumed as good on our part as on theirs, till it be decided who have 41. To insist; to dwell with many words, stood for the truth, and who for error. Hooker. or much pertinacity. Shall we sound him? To stand upon every point, and be curious in I think he will stand very strong with us. Shaks. particulars, belongeth to the first author of the It remains, story: 2 Maccabees. To gratify his noble service, that It is so plain that it needech not to be stored Hath thus stood for his country. Sbakspeare. upon. Bacon 30. To be in a place; to be representa- 42. To be exposed. tive. Have I lived to stand in the taunt of one that Chilon said that kings friends and favourites makes fritters of English? Sbakspeare. were like casting counters, that sometimes stood 43. To persist ; to persevere. for one, sometiines for ten. Bacon. Never stand in a lie when thou art accused, I will not trouble myself whether these names but ask pardon, and make amends. Tayler. stand for the same thing, or really include one The emperor, standing upon the advantage he another. Locke. had got by the seizure of their feet, obliged them Their language, being scanty, had no words in to deliver. Gulliver. it to stand for a thousand. Locke. Hath the prince a full commission, 31. To remain; to be fixed. To hear, and absolutely to determine Watch stand fast in the faith, quit you Of what conditions we shall stand upon? Sbaksp. like men, be strong. 1 Corintbians. 44. To persist in a claim. Flow soon hath thy prediction, seer blest! 45. To adhere ; to abide. Measur'd this transient world, the race of time, Despair would stand to the sword, Till time stand tix'd. Milton. To try what friends would do, or fate afford. 32. To hold a course at sea. Daniel. Behold on Latian shores a forcign prince! 46. To be consistent. From the same parts of heav'n his navy stands, His faithful people, whatsoever they rightly To the same parts on earth his army lands. ask, the same shall they receive, so far as may Dryden. stund with the glory of God and their own ever. Full for the port the Ithacensians stand, lasting good; unto either of which it is no visAnd furl their sails, and issue on the land.Popes tuous man's purpose to seek any thing preju dicial. 3,3. To have direction toward any local Hooker. Some instances of fortune cannot stand with point. some others; but if you desire this, you must The wand did not really stand to the metals, lose that. Tayisr. when placed under it, or the metalline veins. It stood with reason that they should be re Boyle. warded liberally out of their own labours, since 34. To offer as a candidate. they received pay; Davies, He stood to be elected one of the proctors for Sprightly youth and close application will the university. Sarderson's Life. hardly stand together. Felton, 35. To place himself; to be placed. 47. To be put aside with disregard. The fool hath planted in his memory We make all our addresses to the promises, An army of good words; and I do know hug and caress them, and in the interim let the A many fools that stand in better place, commands stand by neglected. Decay of Picty. Garnish'd like him, that for a tricksy word 48. To STAND by. To support; to de. Defy the matter. Shakspeare. fend ; not to desert. He was commanded by the duke to stand aside The ass hoped the dog would stand by him, if and expect his answer. Knolles. set upon by the wolf. I stood between the Lord and you, to shew L'Estrange If we meet with a repulse, we must throw off you the Lurd's word. Deuteronomy. the fox's skin, and put on the lion's: come, genStand by when he is going. Swift. Dryde. 36. To slaonate ; not to flow. Our good works will attend and stand by us at Where Ufens giides along the lowly lands, the hour of death. Or the black water of Pomptina stands. Dryden. 49. TO STAND by. To be present, without Calamy. 37. To be with respect to chance. being an actor. Yourself, renowned prince, then stood as fair Marçaret's curse is fall’n upon our heads, As any comer I have looked op, For my affection. Sbakspeare. For standing by when Richard kill'd her son. Each thinks he stands fairest for the great lot, Sbakspeare. 50. TO STAND by. To repose on; to rest and that he is possessed of the golden number. Spectator. in. He was a gentleman of considerable practice The world is inclined to stand by the Arunat the bar, and stuod fair for the first vacancy on delian marble. Place the bench. Rowe. 51. To STAND for. To propose one's self 36. To remain satisfied, a candidate. a How many stand for consulships!-three: but He that will pass his land, 't is thought of every one Coriolanus will carry As I have mine, may set his hand it. Shakspeare. And heart unto this deed, when he hath read; If they were jealous that Coriolanus had a de- And make the purchase spread sign on their liberties when he stood for the con To both our goods, if he to it will stand. sulship, it was but just that they should give Herbert. him a repulse. Dennis. I will stand to it, that this is his sense, as will 32. TO STAND for. To maintain ; to pro- appear from the design of his words. Stilling fleet. fess to support. 62. TO STAND to. To abide by a contract Those which stood for the presbytery thought or assertion. their cause had more sympathy with the dis- As I have no reason to stand to the award of cipline of Scotland, than the hierarchy of Eng- my eneries, so neither dare I trust the partiality land. Bacon. of my friends. Dryden. Freedom we all stand for. Ben Jonson. 63. TO STAND under. To undergo; to 33. TO STAND off. To keep at a distance. sustain. Stand off, and let me take my fill of death. If you unite in your complaints, Dryden. And force them with a constancy, the cardinal 54. To STAND off. Not to comply. Cannot stand under them. Shakspeare. Stand no more off 64. To STAND up. To erect one's self; But give thyself unto my sick desires. Sbaksp. to rise from sitting, 53. To STAND off. To forbear friendship 65. To STAND up. To arise in order to or intimacy. gain notice. Our bloods pour'd altogether When the accusers stood up, they brought Would quite confound distinction; yet stand of none accusation of such things as I supposed. In differences so mighty. Sbakspeare. Acts. Such behaviour frights away friendship, and 66. TO STAND up. To make a party. makes it stand off in dislike and aversion. When we stood up about the corn, he himself Collier. stuck not to call us the many-headed monster, Sbakspeart. than an acquaintance with God, we stand 67. TO STAND upon. To concern; to infrom it, and will not be tempted to embrace it. Atterbury. terest. An impersonal sense. 56. TO STAND off. To have relief; to ap Does it not stund me now upon? Shakspeare. The king knowing well that it stood him upon, pear protuberant or prominent. by how much the more he had hitherto proPicture is best when it standetb off, as if it tracted the time, by so much the sooner to dise were carved; and sculpture is best when it ap patch with the rebels. Bacon, peareth so tender as if it were painted; when It stands me much upon there is such a softness in the límbs, as if not T'enervate this objection. Hudibras. a chissel had hewed them out of stone, but a Does it not stand them upon, to examine uppencil had drawn and stroaked them in oil. on what grounds they presume it to be a reveWotton. lation from God? Locke. 57. To STAND out. To hold resolution ; to hold a post; not to yield a point. 68. TO STAND upon. To value; to take King John hach reconcil'd pride. Himself to Rome; his spirit is come in, Men stand very much upon the reputation of That so stocd out against the holy church. Shak. their understandings, and of all things hate to be Pomtinius knows not you, accounted fools : the best way to avoid this imWhile you stand out upon these traiterous terms. putation is to be religious. Tillotson, Ben Jonson. We highly esteem and stand much upon our Let not men flatter themselves, that though birth, though we derive nothing from our anthey find it difficult at present to combat and cestors but our bodies; and is useful to imstand out against an ill practice, yet that old age prove this advantage, to imitate their good exwould do that for them, which they in their amples. Ray. youth could never find in their hearts to do for 69. TO STAND upon. To insist. themselves. South. A rascally, yea-forsooth knave, to bear a genScarce can a good-natured man refuse a com- tleman in hand, and then stand upon security. pliance with the solicitations of his company, Sbakspeare. and stand out against the raillery of his familiars. T, STAND. v. a. Rogers. 58. TO STAND out. Not to comply ; to 1. Tò endure ; to resist without flying or yielding secede. None durst stand him; Here, there, and every where, enragéd he flew, If the ladies will stand out, let them remember Shakspeare. Love stood the siege, and would not yield his that the jury is not all agreed. Dryden, breast. 39. TO STAND out. To be prominent or Dryden. Oh! had bounteous heav'n protuberant. Bestow'd Hippolitus on Phædra's arms, Their eyes stand out with fatness. Psalms. So had I stood the shock of angry fate. Smitb. 60. TO STAND to. To ply; to persevere. That not for fame, but virtue's better end, Palinurus cried aloud, He stood the furious foe, the timid friend, What gusts of weather from that gathering The damning critick. cloud 2. To await ; to abide ; to suffer. My thoughts presage! ere that the tempest roars, Bid him disband the legions, Dryden. And stand the judgment of a Roman senate. SI. TO STAND 10. To remain fixed in a Addison. purpose. ģ. To keep; to maintain : with ground. Paper oars. Turning at the length, he stood his ground, stund, with little variation of length or short. And miss'd his friend. Dryden. ness; because the diurnal variation of the sun STAND. n. s. [from the verb.] partakes more of a right line than of a spiral. Dryden. I. A station; a place where one waits The sea, since he memory of all ages, hath standing. continued at a stand, without considerable va. I have found you out a stand most fit, riation. Bentley. Where you may have such’vantage on the duke, 7. A point beyond which one cannot proHe shall not pass you. Sbakspeare. ceed. Culling the principal of all the deer. Sbaksp. Every part of what we would, Must make a stand at what your highness will. Down he alights among the sportful herds. Sbakspeare. Milton. When fam'a Varelst this little wonder drew, The princely hierarch Flora vouchsaf'd the growing work to view: In their bright stand there left his pow'rs, to Finding the painter's science at a stand, seize The goddess snatch'd the pencil from his hand; Possession of the garden. Milton. And finishing the piece, she smiling said, The male bird, whilst the hen is covering her Behold one work of mine that ne'er shall fade. Prior, eggs, generally takes his stand upon a neighbouring bough, and diverts her with his songs during 8. Difficulty ; perplexity; embarrassment; her sitting. Spectator. hesitation. I took my stand upon an eminence which was A fool may so far imitate the mien of a wise appointed for a general rendezvous of these fe- man, as at first to put a body to a stand what to male carriers, to look into their several ladings. make of him. L'Estrange. Spectator. The well-shap'd changeling is a man, has a Three persons entered into a conspiracy to rational soul, though it appear not: this is past assassinate Timoleon, as he was offering up his doubt. Make the ears a little longer, then you devotions in a certain temple : in order to it begin to boggle: make the face yet narrower, they took their several stands in the most con- and then you are at a stand. Lecke. venient places. Addison. 9. A frame or table on which vessels are When just as by her stand Arsaces past, placed. The window by design or chance fell down, Such squires are only fit for country towns, And to his view expos'd her blushing beauties. To stink of ale, and dust a stand with clowns ; Rowe. Who, to be chosen for the lasis protectors, The urchin from his private stand Tope and get drunk before the wise electors. Took aim, and shot with all his strength. Swift. Dryden. 2. Rank; post; station. Not used. After supper a stand was brought in, with a Father, since your fortune did attain brass vessel full of wine, of which he that pleased So high a stand, I mean not to descend. Daniel. might drink; but no liquor was forced. Dryden. 3. A stop; a halt. STANDARD. n. s. [estendart, Fr.] A race of youthfal and unhandled colts Fetching mad bounds, bellowing and neighing; 1. An eisign in war, particularly the ene If any air of musick touch their ears, sign of the horse. You shall perceive them make a mutual stand, His armies, in the following day, Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze. On those fair plains their standards proud disSbakspeare. play. Fairfax The earl of Northampton followed the borse. Erect the standard there of ancient night, so closely, that they made a stand, when he Yours be th' advantage all, mine the revenge. furiously charged and routed them. Clarendon. Milton. Once more the fleeting soul came back, Behold Camillus loaded home T'inspire the mostal frame, With standards well redeem'd, and foreign foes And in the body took a doubtful stand, o'ercome. Dryden. Hov'ring like expiring fame, To their common standard they repair ; That mounts and falls by turns. Dryden. The nimble horsemen scour the fields of air. At every turn she made a little stand, Dryden. And thrust among the thorns her lily hand 2. [from stand.] That which is of unTo draw the rose. Dryden. doubted authority ; that which is the 4. Stop; interruption. test of other things of the same kind. The greatest part of trade is driven by young The dogmatist gives the lye to all dissenting merchants, upon borrowing at interest; so as, if apprehenders, and proclaims his judgment the the usurer either call in or keep back his money, fittest intellectual standard. Glanville. there will ensue presently a great stand of trade. The heavenly motions are more stated than Bacon. the terrestrial models, and are both originals Should this circulation cease, the formation of and standards. Holder, bodies would be at an end, and nature at a per Our measures of length I cannot call standfect stand. Woodward, ards; for standard measures must be certain and 5. The act of opposing. fixed. Holder. We are come off When people have brought right and wrong Like Romans; neither foolish in our stands, to a fa se standard, there follow's an envious Nor cowardly in retire. Sbakspeare. L'Estrange. The Rom ns made those times the standard 6. High-strark; stationary point; point of their wit, when they subdued the world. from which the next motion is re Spratt. gressive. From these ancient standards I descend to our Our sons but the same things can wish and do; own historians. Felton, Vice is at stand, and at the nighest flow : When I shall propose the standard wherehy. Then, satirt, spread thy sails; take all the winds I give judgment, any may easily inform himself Dryden. of the quantity and measure of it. Woodward. In the beginning of summer the days are at a The court, which used to be the standard of Car blow. per test. ter. Miltana propriety, and correctness of speech, ever since STA'NDING. part. adj. [from stand.] continued the worst school in England for that 1. Settled ; established; not temporary. accomplishment. Swift. Standing armies have the place of subjects, First follow nature, and your judgment frame and the government depends upon the conBy her just standard, which is still the same. tented and discontented humours of the soldiers Pope. Temple. :. That which has been tried by the pro- Laugh'd all the pow'rs who favour tyranny, And all the standing army of the sky. Dryden. The English tongue, if refined to a certain Money being looked upon as the standing standard, perhaps might be fixed for ever. Swift. measure of other commodities, men consider it In comely rank call ev'ry merit forth; as a standing measure; though, when it has vaImprint on ev'ry act its standard worth. Prior. ried its quantity, it is not so. Locke. 4. A settled rate. Thus doth he advise them to erect among That precise weight and fineness, by law ap- themselves standing courts by consent. propriated to the pieces of each denomination, Kesterorth. is called the standard. Locke. Such a one, by pretending to distinguisn himThe device of king Henry vil. was profound, self from the herd, becomes a standing object in making farms of a standard, that is, main of raillery. Addison, 'tained with such a proportion of lands as may The common standing rules of the gospel are breed a subject to live in plenty. Bacon. a more powerful means of conviction than any A standard might be made, under which no miracle. Atrerbury horse should be used for draught : this would Great standing miracle that heav'n a sign'd! enlarge the breed of horses. Temple. 'T is only thinking gives this turn of mind. By the present standard of the coinage, sixty Popca two shillings is coined out of one pound weight 2. Lasting; not transitory. of silver. Arbutbnot, The landlord had swelled his body to a pro5. A standing stem or tree. digious size, and worked up his complexion to A standard of a damask rose, with the root a standing crimson. Addison, on, was set upright in an earthen pan, full of 3. Stagnant ; not running. fair water, halt a foot under the water, the He turned the wilderness into a standint wastandard being more than two foot above it. Psalms Bacon. This made their flowing shrink Plant fruit of all sorts and standards, mural, From standing lake to tripping ebb. or shrubs which lose their leaf. Evelyn. 4. Fixed; not moveable. In France, part of their gardens is laid out for There's his chamber, Howers, others for fruits; some standards, some His standing bed and truckle bed. Shakspeare. against walls. Temple. STANDARD BEARER. N. so (standard and STA'NDING. n. s. [from stand.] bear.] One who bears a standard or 1. Continuance; long possession of an ofensign. fice, character, or place. They shall be as when a standardbearer faint- Nothing had been more easy than to command eth. Isaiah. a patron of a long standing. Dryden. These are the standardbearers in our con- Although the ancients were of opinion that fending armies, the dwarfs and squires who Egypt was formerly sea; yet this tract of land sarry the impresses of the giants or knights. is as old, and of as long a standing, as any upon Spectator. the continent of Africa. Woodward. STA'NDCROP. n. s. [vermicularis, Lat.] I wish your fortune had enabled you to have An herb. Ainsworth. continued longer in the university, till you were of ten years sbunding. STA'NDEL. n. s. [from stand.] A true of Swift. 2. Station ; place to stand in. long standing Such ordnance as he brought with him, beThe Druinians were nettled to see the princely cause it was fitter for service in field than for standel of their royal oak return with a branch of battery, did only beat down the battlements, willows. Howel. Knolles. STANDER. n. s. [from stand.] His coming is in state; I will provide you a 1. One who stands. good standing to see his entry. Bacca, 9. A tree that has stood long. 3. Power to stand. The young spring was pitifully nipt and over- I sink in deep mire, where there is no standtrodden by very beasts; and also the fairest ing. Psalms standers of all were rooted up and cast into the 4. Rank; condition. fire. Aschum. STA'NDISH. n. s. [stand and dish.] A casc 3. STANDER by. One present ; a mare for pen and ink. spectator. A Grubstreet patriot does not write to secure, Explain some statute of the land to the stand. but get something: should the government be et: by. Hooker. overturned, he has nothing to lose but an old I would not be a stander by to hear stardisb. Addison. My sovereign mistress clouded so, without I bequeath to Dean Swift, esquire, my large My present vengeance taken. Sbukspear?. silver standish, consisting of a large silver plate, When a gentleman is disposed to swear, it is an ink-pot, and a sand-box. Swift. not for any standers by to curtail his oaths. Sbak. The standers y see clearly this event, STANG. n. s. (stänz, Saxon.] A perch ; All parties say they 're sure, yet all dissent. a measure of land. Denham. These fields were intermingled with woods of The standers by suspected her to be a duchess. half' a stang, and the tallest tree appeared to Addison. be seven feet high. Swifi. STA'NDERGRASS. n. s. (satyrion, Latin.] STANK, adj. (stanco, Italian.] Weas; An herb. Ainsworth. worn out. Popr. fates; Diggon, I am so stiff and so stark, To the strong staple's inmost depth restord, That unneth I may stand any more, Secur'd the valves. And how the western wind bloweth sore, STAR. n. s. (rreonna, Saxon ;, sterre, Beating the withered leaf from the tree. Spenser. Dutch.) STANK. The preterit of stink. 1. One of the luminous bodies that appear The fish in the river died, and the river stank. in the nocturnal sky. Exodus. When an astronomer uses the word star in STA'NNARY. adj. [from stannum, Latin.] its strict sense, it is applied only to the fixe Relating to the tin-works. stars; but in a large sense it includes the planets. A steward keepeth his court once every three Watfs. weeks: they are termed stannary courts, of the Then let the pebbles on the hungry beech Latin stannum, and hold plea of action of debt or Fillop the stars ; trespass about white or black tin. Carew. Murdering impossibility, to make STA'NZA.'n. s. [stanza, Italian ; stance, What cannot be, slight work. Sbakspeare French.) A number of lines regularly Hither the Syracusan's art translates, adjusted to each other ; so much of a Heaven's form, the course of things, and humm poem as contains every variation of Th' included spirit, serving the star-deck'd signs, measure or relation of rhyme. Stanza The living work in constant motions winds. is originally a room of a house, and Hakewill. came to signify a subdivision of a pocm; As from a cloud his fulgent head, a staff. And shape star bright, appear’d. Milton. So bold as yet no verse of mine has been, 2. The polestar. To wear that gem on any line; Well, if you be not turned Turk, there is no Nor, till the happy nuptial house be seen, more sailing by the star. Sbakspeare. Shall any stanza with it shine. Cowley. 3. Configuration of the planets, supposed Horace confines himself strictly to one sort of to influence fortune. verse or stanza in every ode. Dryden. From forth the fatal loins of these twc foes In quatrains, the last line of the stanza is to A pair of star-crost lovers take their life. Sbak. be considered in the composition of the first. We are apt to do amiss, and lay the blame Dryden. upon our stars or fortune. L'Estrange. Before his sacred name flies every fault, 4. A mark of reference; an asterisk. And each exalted stanza teems with thought. Pope. Remarks worthy of riper observation, note with a marginal star. Watts. STA'PLE, n. s. [estape, French; stapel, STAR of Bethlebem. n. s. [ornithogalum, Dutch.] Latin.] A flower. Miller. 1. A settled mart; an established empo- STA'R APPLE. n. š. A globular or oliverium. shaped soft Aeshy fruit, inclosing a stone A staple of romance and lies, False rears, and real perjuries. Prior. of the same shape. This plant grows in The customs of Alexandria were very great, the warmest parts of America, where it having been the staple of the Indian trade. the fruit is eaten by way of desert. It Arbuthnot. grows to the height of thirty or forty Tyre Alexander the Great sacked, and esta- feet. Miller. blishing the staple at Alexandria, made the STARBOARD. n. s. (rreonbord, Saxon.] greatest revolution in trade that ever was known. Arbutbnot. Is the right-hand side of the ship, as lar2. I know not the meaning in the follow board is the left. Harris. ing passage. On shipboard the mariners will not leave their Henry 11. granted liberty of coining to cer starboard and larboard, because some one ac; counts it gibrish. Bramball. tain abbies, allowing them one staple, and two puncheons, at a rate. Camden. STARCH. n. s. [from starc, Teutonick, 3. The original material of a manufacture. stiff.] A kind of viscous matter made of At Lenster, for her wool whose staple doth flower or potatoes, with which linen is excel, stiffened, and was formerly coloured. And seems to overmatch the golden Phrygian Has he feu. Drayton. Dislik'd your yellow starcb, or said your doublet STAPLE. adj. (from the noun.] Was not exactly Frenchified ? Fletcher. 1. Settled ; established in commerce. With starch thin laid on, and the skin well Some English wool, vex'd in a Belgian loom, stretched, prepare your ground. Peacban. And into cloth of spungy softness made, To STARCH. v. a. (from the noun.] T. Did into France or colder Denmark roam, stiffen with starch. To ruin with worse ware our stapletrade. Dryd. Her goodly countenance I've seen, a. According to the laws of commerce. Set off with kerchief starcb'd and pinners clean. What needy writers would not solicit to work Gay. under such masters, who will take off their STA'R CHAMBER. n. s. [camera stellata, ware at their own rates, and trouble not themselves to examine whether it be staple or no? Latin.] A kind of criminal court of Swift. equity. Now abolished. STA'PLE. n. s. [stapul, Saxon, a prop. ] 'll make a starchamber matter of it: if he were twenty sir John Falstaffs, he shall not abuso A loop of iron; a bar bent and driven in Robert Shallow, esquire. Sbakspeara at both ends. I have seen staples of doors and nails born. STA'RCHED. adj. [from starch.] 1. Stiffened with starch. The silver ring she pull'd, the door reclos'd: 2. Stiff ; precise ; formal. The bolt, obedient to the silken cord, Does the gospel any where prescribe a atarmbad |