stamp-mill 
rial as soon as reduced to the required fineness, while a 
stream of water sweeps the slimes away as they are pro- 
duced. Such a row of stamps is also called a (tamo-tot- 
toy. In another form of stamp-mill the stamp is placed 
at the end of the piston-rod of a steam-cylinder on the 
principle of the steam-hammer. Also called stampiny- 
2. An oil-mill employing a pestle or pestles to 
crush seeds and fruits. 
Stamp-note (stamp'not), . In com., a memo- 
randum delivered by a shipper of goods to the 
searcher, which, when stamped by him, allows 
the goods to be sent off by lighter to the ship, 
and is the captain's authority for receiving them 
on board. Nimii/onds. 
Stamp-office (stamp'of'is), . An office where 
government stamps are issued, and stamp-du- 
ties and taxes are received. 
Stance (stans). . [Early mod. E. also staunce; 
< OF. stance, estance, a station, situation, con- 
dition, also a stanchion, = Pr. estansa, station 
condition, = Sp. Pg. estancia, a dwelling, = It 
stanza, a station, stanza, etc., < ML. stantia, a 
chamber, a house, lit. a standing, < L. slant t-)s 
ppr. of stare, stand: see stand. Cf.stanza.] 1. 
A station; a site; an area for building; a posi- 
tion ; a stand. [Scotch.] 
i J f 1 fet S h ed -, a J l;anlbo1 upon one foot ' and . turning to the 
ft hand failed not to carry his body perfectly round, 
just into its former stance. 
Urjuhart, tr. of Rabelais, i. 35. (Dames.) 
The boy answered his invitation with the utmost con- 
fidence, and danced down from his stance with a galliard 
8011 of 8te P- Scott, Kenilworth, x. 
2f. Space; gap; distance. 
Since I can do no better, I will set such a staunce be- 
tween him and Pasiphalo that all this town shall not 
make them friends. 
Oascoigne, tr. of Ariosto's Supposes, ii. 3. 
3f. A stave or stanza. 
The other voices sung to other music the third stance 
Chapman, .Mask of Middle Temple and Lincoln's Inn. 
Stancet (stans), v. t. [< stance, .] To station ; 
place. 
He ne'er advanc'd from the place he was stanc'd 
Battle of Sheri/.Muir (Child's Ballads, VII. 162). 
stanch 1 , staunch 1 (stanch, stanch), v. [< ME. 
stanchen, staunchen, stawnchen, stonchen, < OF. 
estanclier, estanchier, stanchier, etc., cause to 
cease flowing, stop, stanch, F. etancher, stanch 
= Pr. Sp. Pg. estancar = It. stancare (ML. stan- 
care), stanch, < L. stagnare, stagnate, cause to 
cease flowing, make stagnant, ML. also stanch 
(blood), L.staflnare, cease flowing, becomestag- 
nant, <sto<7nw,apool,standingwater: eeestaq- 
nant, stagnate. Cf. stank*, staunch?, stanchion.] 
1. trans. 1. To cause to cease flowing; check 
the flow of. 
I will staunche his floudes, and the great waters shal be 
.restrayned. Bible of 1551, Ezek. xxxi. 
Over each wound the balm he drew, 
And with cobweb lint he stanched the blood. 
J. S. Drake, Culprit Fay, p. 34. 
2. To stop a flow from; dry, as a wound, by the 
application of a styptic. 
Then came the hermit out and bare him in 
There stanch' A his wound. 
Tennyson, Lancelot and Elaine. 
3. To quench; allay; assuage. [Obsolete or 
archaic.] 
Al weere it that a riche coveytos man hadde a ryver 
fletynge al of gold, yit sholde It never staunchen his 
coveytise. Chaucer, Boethius, iii. meter 3. 
Let my tears stanch the earth's dry appetite 
Shale., lit. And., iii. 1.14. 
I stanch with ice my burning breast, 
With silence balm my whirling brain. 
M. Arnold, Saint Brendan. 
4f. To free; relieve: with of. 
Yf two brother be at debate, 
Loke nother thou forther in nor hate, 
But helpe to staunche horn <?/ malice. 
Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 307. 
II. intrans. 1. To stop flowing; be stanched. 
[Rare.] 
Immediately her issue of blood stanched. Luke viii. 44. 
2f. To stop ; cease. 
And the wynde stonchede and blew no more, 
And the meyst trunde into a bryjt cloude 
Chron. Vilodun., p. 127. (Hallimll.) 
StanchH, Staunch 1 ! (stanch, stanch), n. [< 
stanch*, staunch*, r.] That which stanches; 
that which quenches or allays. 
O frendship, flour of flowers, O liuely sprite of lyfe 
O sacred bond of blissful peace, the stalworth stanch of 
strife. 
Poems of Vncertaine Auctors, On Frendship. (Richardson.) 
Stanch 2 (stanch), n. [An assibilated form of 
stank* ; < OF. estanche, a pool, fish-pond, etc. : 
see stank*."] A flood-gate in a river for accumu- 
jal ing a hr-ad of water to float boats over shal- 
lows; a weir. Beetteftii. K. n. K Hi,/iii. 
Formerly rivers used to be penned in by a series of 
stanches n.-ai- shoal places, which held up the water anil 
when several boats were collected in the pool above a 
lanch , it was suddenly opened, and the sudden rush of 
water floated the boats over the shallows below. 
Kuri/c. Brit., XX. 573. 
Stanch :i , staunch 2 (stanch, stand] ), a. [< ME. 
MHMGM, < OF. i-xtanc. I'cni. istiini-lic, cnl>-n<\ 
MtMi, i-xlain, dried, dry, exhausted, wearied, 
tired, vanquished, F. etanche, stanch, water- 
tight, = Pr. estaiir, still, unchangeable. = Sp. 
rxttiHco = Pg. fxt<iin/Hi; stanch, water-tight, = 
It. stanco, tired: from the verb shown under 
stanch*, staunch*. Cf. stank?, the same word.] 
1. Dry; free from water ; water-tight; sound: 
said of a vessel. 
Now, good son, thyne ypocras is made parflte & welle 
y wold than ye put it in staunche & a clene vesselle. ' 
BabeesBook(E. K. T. S.), p. 128. 
What hoop should hold us stanch, from edge to edge 
O the world I would pursue it. 
Shale., A. and C., ii. 2. 117. 
Our provisions held out well, our ship was stanch, and 
our crew all in good health. AW, Gulliver's Travels, ii. 1. 
2. Strong; firm. 
You will lose their love. This is to be kept very staunch 
and carefully to be watched. Locke, Education, 107. 
3. Sound and trustworthy; true: applied to 
hounds with reference to their keeping the 
scent. 
If some staunch hound, with his authentic voice 
Avow the recent trail, the jugtling tribe 
Attend his call. Somenille, The Chase, ii. 125. 
4. Sound or firm in principle; loyal; heartv; 
trustworthy. 
Standing absurdities, without the belief of which no man 
is reckoned a stanch churchman, are that there is a calves- 
head club ; . . . and that all who talk against Popery are 
Presbyterians in their hearts. Addison, Freeholder, No. 7. 
You are staunch indeed in learning's cause. 
Cowper, Tirocinium, 1. 492. 
=Syn. 4 Stout, steadfast, resolute, stable, unwavering. 
Stanchel 1 (stan'chel), n. [Formerly also stan- 
chell, stanchil, Sc. stainchel, stenchil, etc.; cf. 
stanchion.] Same as stanchion. [Obsolete or 
prov. Eng. or Scotch.] 
Round about the said tomb-stone, both at the sides and 
at e ther end, were set up neat stanchells of wood, joyned 
so close that one could not put in his hand betwixt one 
and the other. 
Danes, Ancient Rites (ed. 1672), p. 118. (Hallimll.) 
Stanchel 2 (stan'chel), n. Same as staniel 
stancher, stauncher (stan'cher, stan'cher), n. 
[< stanch* + -*)!.] One who or that which 
stanches; specifically, a styptic. 
Stanchion (stan'shon), n. [Early mod. E. also 
stancheon, stanchon, staunchon; < OF. estancon, 
estanson, F. ctancon, a prop, staff, dim. of OF. 
estance, a stanchion, prop, support, lit. a sta- 
tion : see stance. Ct.stanchel*.'] A post, pillar, 
or beam used for a support, as a piece of tim- 
ber supporting one of the main parts of a roof; 
a prop. Specifically -(a) One of the upright iron bars 
passing through the eyes of the saddle-bars and forming 
part of the armature steadying the lead lights of a large 
window-bay. 
He did him to the wire-window, 
As fast as he could gang ; 
Says, " Wae to the hands put in the stancheons, 
Jor out we'll never win." 
Fire of Frendraught (Child's Ballads, VI. 180). 
(b) One of the upright bars in a stall for cattle, (c) In 
ship-budding, an upright post or beam of different forms 
used to support the deck, the rails, the nettings, awnings 
etc. (d) pi. In miiit. engin., one of the upright side-pieces 
of a gallery-frame. 
Stanchion (stan'shon), v. t. [< stanchion, .] 
To fasten to or by a stanchion. 
The cows tied, or stanchioned, as in their winter feeding. 
New Amer. Farm Book, p. 380. 
Stanchion-gun (stau'shpn-gun), . A pivot- 
gun ; a boat-gun for wild-duck shooting, 
stanchless, staunchless (stanch'les, stanch'- 
les), a. [< stanch* + -less."] Incapable of be- 
ing stanched or stopped; unquenchable; in- 
satiable. 
There grows 
In my most ill-composed affection . . 
A stanchless avarice. Shak., Macbeth, Iv. 3. 78. 
And thrust her down his throat into his stanchless maw 
Drauton, Polyolbion, vil. 791. (Nares.) 
stanchly, staunchly (stanch'li, stanch'li), 
adv. In a stanch manner; soundly; firmly. 
stanchness, staunchness (stanch'nes, stanch'- 
nes), n. The state or quality of being stanch, 
in any sense. Boyle, Works, III. 184. 
stancfct. See stank*, stank?. 
Stand (stand), .; pret. and pp. stood, ppr.stand- 
ing. [< ME. standen, stonden (pres. ind. 3d 
stand 
pers. slandi'tli, stmidi-tli, contr. slant, stunt, pret. 
stui,i/, st/itl. pp. slninli n, xinnili'ii), < AS. s/aiiiliui. 
xtoiidfiii (pret. xtoil (fur 'slaiiil), pp. s/iuii/rn, 
xtnndrn) = OS. xliiiiilfin = OFrics. xlnnila 
OHG. xtiniliin. MlKi. xliinilrii (rare) = led. 
x'anda = Sw. stannii, sttiilnn = (ic,th. xliiinlun 
(pret. stt'itli, pp. xtiilliniix for "xtfiniliins), stand : 
a secondary or extended form, Tent, i/ slum/ 
(perhaps orig. based on the orig. ppr.. OIK;. 
stdnt-er, xti'iit-rr, etc., = L. xtnn( t-)x, standing), 
parallel with a simpler form, namely, OS. stun 
= OFries. xtdn = MD. staen, D. stanu = MLG. 
staii, LG. stnaii = OHG. MHG. stdn (also with 
altered vowel (prob. due to association with 
the contrasted verb OHG. ,/,"/,. (i. ,/,/,,. go), 
OHG. MHG. (and OS. ; tOn, c, . sH,, ,i) = Sw .sta 
= Dan. staae, stand (whence E. dial, xlnir, 
stand), Tent. / utai (not found in AS.. Ice]., 
or Goth., and not found at all in pret. and pp., 
which are supplied by the pret. and pp. of stan- 
dnii, -(/ xtand), orig. -/ sta = L. stare (redupl. 
pert', steti, pp. status) = Gr. laravai, cause to 
stand, set up, mid. and pass. "iaraa6at, stand. 
2d aor. arf/vai, stand, = OBulg. stati = Serv. 
stati = Russ. stati, etc., also OBulg. stoyati = 
Serv. stayati = Bohem. stati = Russ. stoyati, 
etc. (Slavic / sta and tf sti, with numerous 
derivatives), = Skt. / sthd, stand. By reason 
ot the fundamental nature of the notion ' stand ' 
and its innumerable phases, and of the phonetic 
stability of the syllable sta, this root has pro- 
duced an immense number of derivatives, which 
are in E. chiefly from the L. source namely, 
from the E., stand, n., perstand, etc., under- 
stand, withstand, etc.; from Scand., staw* ; from 
the L. (from inf. stare), stable* (with constable, 
etc.), stable?, stablish, establish, staae, stamen, 
stamin (tamin, etc.), stay? (staid, etc.), cost?, 
rest?, contrast, obstacle, obstetric, etc.; (from 
the pp. status) state, estate, status, station, statist, 
statue, statute, armistice, interstice, solstice, etc. ; 
constitute, substitute, etc., superstition; (from 
the ppr. stan(t-)s) stance, stanchion, stanza, cir- 
cumstance, constant, distant, extant, substantive, 
etc.; (from sistere, causal of stare) sist, as- 
sist, consist, desist, exist, insist, persist, subsist, 
etc.; while from various derivatives or exten- 
sions of the L. )/ sta are ult. E. stagnate 
stanch, stank*, tank, stank?, stolid, sterile, des- 
tine, obstinate, etc.; from the Gr., stasis, static, 
apostate, ecstasy, metastasis, system, epistle, apos- 
tle, etc. To the same ult. y' sta, Teut. or other, 
may be referred, with more or less plausibility, 
many E. words having a root or base appar. ex- 
tended from sta, namely (< / stop or staf), staff, 
stave, stem*, stem?, step, slope, stoop*, stamp 
stub, stump, stiff, stifle; (< / stal) stall*, stale? 
steal?, stalk?, stell, still*, stilt, stool, stout, etc. ; 
(< V stam) stammer, stumble, stemS; (< -^ shid) 
stead, stud*, steed, stithy, stathe, etc.; and see 
also standard, stare*, steer*, steer?, stud?, steel, 
stow, tore3, story?, etc. The list, however, is 
elastic, and may be indefinitely increased or 
diminished. See the words mentioned. The L. 
verb has also passed into Sp. Pg. as the sub- 
stantive verb estar, be.] I. intrans. 1. To be 
upright ; be set upright ; take or maintain an 
upright position . (a) To place one's self or hold one's 
self in an upright position on the feet with the legs straight, 
as distinguished from sitting, lying, or kneeling: said of 
men or beasts. 
And thanne commandethe the same Philosophre azen 
Stondethe up. MandeviUe, Travels, p. 235. 
Stands he, or sits he ? 
Or does he walk? Shak., A. and C., i. 5. 19. 
Ida, . . . rising slowly from me, stood 
Erect and silent. Tennyson, Princess, vi. 
(6) To be set on end ; be or become erect or upright. 
Fro the erthe up til heuene bem, 
A leddre stonden, and thor-on 
Angeles dun-cumen and up-gon. 
Genesis and Exodus (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1607. 
Comb down his hair ; look, look ! it stands upright 
Shale., 2 Hen. VI., iii. 3. 15. 
To the south of the church stand up two great pillars. 
E. A. Freeman, Venice, p. 66. 
2. To stop moving; come to or be at a stand- 
still; halt; alight; more generally, to cease ac- 
tion of any kind ; be or become motionless, in- 
active, or idle ; be or become stagnant. 
Foulis fayre and bright, . . . 
W ith fediys fayre to frst ther flight fro stede to stede 
where thai will stande. York Plays, p. 12. 
Deepe was the wey, for whiche the carte stood. 
Chaucer, Friar's Tale, 1. 261. 
I'll tell you who Time ambles withal, . . . who Time 
gallops withal, and who he ttands still withal. 
Shak., As you Like it, III. 2. 329. 
