stand 
Stand! 
If thou advance an inch, thuu art dead. 
Fletcher (and another'!'), Prophetess, ii. 2. 
3. Specifically, in hunting, to point: said of 
dogs. See jioiitU-r, xrtteri. 
To point, set, or stand (which are different names for 
the same act). Dogs of Great Britain and America, p. ii4. 
4. To rest as on a support; be upheld or sus- 
tained, literally or figuratively; depend: fol- 
lowed by on, upon, or rarely Inj. 
This Ymage stnnt upon a Pylere of Marble at Coshmh - 
noble. Mandenlle, Travels, p. !>. 
This reply standeth all by conjectures. Whitrjift. 
They stand upon their own bottom, without their main 
dependance on the royal nod. 
Milton, Church-Government, ii., Concl. 
No friendship will abide the test, 
That stands on sordid interest, 
Or mean self-love erected. 
Coieper, Friendship. 
5. To be placed; be situated; lie. 
"Now " quod Seigramor, "telle vs what wey stondeth 
Camelot." Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 2i. 
In this King's [William I.] sixteenth Year, his Brother 
Duke Robert, being sent against the Scots, builded a Fort, 
where at this Day standeth New-Castle upon Tyne. 
Baker, Chronicles, p. 29. 
A nest of houses and trees at the mountain's foot, stand- 
ing so invitingly as to make the traveller wish for a longer 
sojourn. E. A. Freeman, Venice, p. 191. 
6. To continue in place ; maintain one's posi- 
tion or ground; hold one's own; avoid falling, 
failing, or retreating. 
The Saisnes were so many that they myght not be perced 
lightly thourgh, but stode stiffly a geiu the Crysten. 
Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 215. 
Take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may 
be able to withstand in the evil day, and, having done all, 
to stand. Eph. vl. 13. 
Who, not content that former worth stand fast. 
Looks forward, persevering to the last. 
Wordsworth, The Happy Warrior. 
7. To continue in being; resist change, decay, 
or destruction ; endure ; last. 
He tolde vs also that the clerkes ne knew not the cause 
why that youre tour may not gtonde; but he shall telle 
yow apertly. Merlin (E. E. T. 8.), I. 35. 
His living temples, built by faith to stand. 
Miltan, i: L., xii. 527. 
I reach into the dark, 
Feel what I cannot see, and still faith stands. 
Browning, Ring and Book, II. 209. 
It [most of the black Indian ink] blots when a damp 
brush is passed over it ; or, as draughtsmen say, " it does 
not stand." Workshop Receipts, 2d ser., p. 330. 
8. To continue in force: remain valid; hold 
good. 
The resumpsion, men truste, shall forthe, and my Lordes 
of Yorkes first power of protectorship stande. 
Paston Letters, I. 378. 
.My covenant shall stand fast with him. Ps. Ixxxlx. 28. 
No conditions of our peace can stand. 
Shak., 2 Hen. IV., iv. 1. 184. 
9. To take a particular attitude with respect 
to others or to some general question ; adopt a 
certain course, as of adherence, support, oppo- 
sition, or resistance; take sides; specifically, 
to make a stand. 
Y tryste in God that he schalle me spede, 
He standyth wytb the ryght. 
MS. Cantab. Ff. ii. 38, f. 79. (IlaUiwell.) 
I'll stand to-day for thee and me and Troy. 
Shak., T. and C., v. S. 3(1. 
Godwin Earl of Kent, and the West^Saxons with him, 
stood for Hardecnute. Milton, Hist. Eng., vi. 
Instructed by events, after the quarrel began, the Amer- 
icans took higher ground, and stood for political indepen- 
dence. Emerson, Address, Soldiers' Monument, Concord. 
10. To become a candidate for office or dig- 
nity : usually with for. 
How many stand for consulships? Shak., Cor., it 2. 2. 
The Town of Richmond in Richmondshire hath made 
choice of me for their Burgess, tho' Master Christopher 
Wandesford, and other powerful Men, and more deserv- 
ing than I, stood .for it. Hmcell, Letters, I. v. 8. 
It had just been suggested to him at the Reform Club 
that he should stand for the Irish borough of Lonshshane. 
. . . What ! he stand for Parliament, twenty-four years 
old ! Trollope, Phineas Finn, i. 
11. To continue in a specified state, frame of 
mind, train of thought, course of action or ar- 
gument, etc. ; keep on ; persevere ; persist. 
But this so plain to be lawful by God's word, and exam- 
ples of holy men, that I need not to stand in it 
Ridley, Works (Parker Soc.), p. 63. 
One that stands in no opinion because it is his owne, but 
suspects it, rather, because it is his owne, and is confuted, 
and than kcs you. 
Bp. Earle, Micro-cosmographie, A Modest Man. 
Never lie before a king, or a great person ; nor stand in 
a lie when thou art accused ; but modestly be ashamed of 
it, ask pardon, and make amends. 
Jer. Taylor. Holy Living, ii. 5. 
5898 
12. To be pertinacious or obstinate; be in- 
sistent or punctilious ; hence, to be overexact- 
ing: generally followed by on or upon, rarely 
by in or with. Compare to stand upon (e). 
Stand not in an evil thing. Eccles. viii. 3. 
Well, I will not stand with thee ; give me the money. 
llarlinre, r'austus, iv. 5. 
13. To hold back; scruple; hesitate; demur. 
To have his will, he stood not to doe things never so 
much below him. Miltnn, Eikonoklastes, iii. 
An I had asked him to oblige me in a thing, though it 
had been to cost his hanging, he wadna hae stude twice 
about it. Scott, Old Mortality, x 
14. To be placed relatively to other things : 
have a particular place as regards class, order, 
rank, or relations. 
Amongst Liquids endued with this Quality of relaxing, 
warm Water stands first. 
Arbuthnot, Aliments, v. prop. 4, I 9. 
Amphioxus stands alone among vertebrated animals in 
having a ciecal diverticulum of the intestine for a liver. 
Huxley, Anat. Vert., p. 79. 
Faith and scepticism stand to each other much in the 
relation of poetry and criticism. 
H. X. Orenham, Short Studies, p. 263. 
15. To be at a certain degree, as in a scale of 
measurement or valuation : as, the mercury (or 
the thermometer) stands at 80. 
In 1791 the corn law was changed by Pitt. When the 
price of wheat stood at 54s. the quarter, or above that 
price, wheat might be imported at a duty of 6d. 
S. Botrett, Taxes in England, IV. 10. 
16. To have a specified height when standing. 
He ... ttood four feet six inches and three-quarters in 
his socks. Dickens, Sketches, Tales, x. 1. 
17. To be in a particular position of affairs; 
be in a particular state or condition: often in 
the sense of be, as a mere copula or auxiliary 
verb : as, to stand prepared ; to stand in awe of 
a person; to stand one's friend. 
Alas, Fadyr, how standisthls case, 
That ye bene in this peynes stronge ? 
Political Poems, etc. (ed. Furnivall>, p. 99. 
In pity I stand bound to counsel him. 
Massinger, Bashful Lover, i. 1. 
He stood in good terms with the state of France, and also 
with the company. Winthrop, Hist. Xew England, II. 130. 
I do not know how the laws stand in this particular. 
Steele, Taller, No. 135. 
Wonder not that the great duke [Buckingham] bore him 
out, and all .-'"".' mum. 
Court and Times of Charles /., I. 96. 
18. To occupy the place of another; be a rep- 
resentative, equivalent, or symbol: followed 
by for. 
I speak this to you in the name of Rome, 
For whom you stand. B. Jonson, Catiline, v. 6. 
Definition being nothing but making another under- 
stand by words what idea the term denned stands for. 
Locke, Human Understanding, III. iii. 10. 
The ideal truth stands for the real truth, but expresses 
it in its own ideal forms. 
O. H. Leires, Probs. of Life and Mind, II. ii. 56. 
19t. To consist; be comprised or inherent: 
with in. 
No man's life standeth in the abundance of the things 
which he possesseth. 
Latimer, 2d Sermon bef. Edw. VI., 1550. 
Faith standeth not in disputing. 
J. Bradford, Letters (Parker Soc., 1853), II. 121. 
20. To be consistent; be in accordance ; agree: 
followed by with, except in the phrases to stand 
to reason and to stand together. 
It cannot stand u-ith God's mercy that so many should 
he damned. Burton, Anat. of Mel., p. 634. 
The great Turke hearing Musitians so long a tuning, he 
thought it stood not with his state to wait for what would 
follow. A*. Ward, Simple Cooler, p. 40. 
How an evasive indirect reply will stand with your rep- 
utation ... is worth your consideration. 
Junius, Letters, No. 68. 
21. With an implication of motion (from or to 
a certain point) contained in an accompany- 
ing adverb or preposition, to step, move, ad- 
vance, retire, come or go, in a manner speci- 
fied: noting actual motion, or rest after mo- 
tion: as, to stand back ; to stand aside ; to stand 
off; to stand out. 
The place also liked ... me wondrously well, it being 
a point of land standing into a cornfield. 
R. Knox (Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 386). 
As things stood, he was glad to have his money repayed 
him and stand out. 
Bradford, Plymouth Plantation, p. 280. 
So he was bid stand by. 
Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress, p. 158. 
Our nearest friends begin to stand aloof, as if they were 
half-ashamed to own us. Strift, Tale of a Tub, i. 
Stand off, approach not, but thy purpose tell. 
Pope, Iliad, x. 93. 
stand 
The tlowerage 
That stood from out a stilt' brocade. 
Tennyson, Aylmer's Field. 
Trieste stands forth as a rival of Venice. 
E. A. Freeman, Venice, p. 71. 
22. Specifically (>mf.),tohold a course at sea; 
sail; steer: said of a ship or its crew: followed 
by tin adverb or preposition of direction. 
No sooner were they entered into that resolution but 
they descried a saile standing in forthe shore. 
((noted InCapt. John Smith's Works, II. 125. 
We did not stand over towards Sumatra, but coasted 
along nearest the Malacca shore. 
Dampier, Voyages, II. \. 171. 
They tacked about, and stood that way so far that they 
were fain to ttand o/Fagain for fear of the shore. 
Court and Times of Charles I., I. 2i;<i. 
The ship . . . filled away again, and stood out, being 
bound up the coast to San Francisco. 
R. H. Dana, Jr., Bef ore the Mast, p. 68. 
23f. To put up with something ; forbear. 
But stonde he moste unto hisowene harm. 
For when he spak he was anon bore doun 
With hende Nicolas and Alisoun. 
Chaucer, Miller's Tale, 1. 644. 
Covenant to stand seized to uses. See covenant. To 
stand abeigh. See abeigh.To stand bluff*. Seeblufi. 
To stand by. (a) [By, prep.] (1) To side with; aid: 
uphold ; sustain. 
I would stand by him against her and all the world. 
Sittft, Story of the Injured Lady. 
Well said, Jack, and I'll stand by you. my boy. 
Sheridan, The Rivals, v. 3. 
(2) To adhere to; abide by; maintain : as, to stand bij un 
agreement or a promise. 
Thy lyf is sauf, for I wol stonde thei*?;, 
Upon my lyf, the queene wol seye as I. 
Chaucer, Wife of Bath's Tale, 1. 159. 
If Tom did make a mistake of that sort, he espoused it, 
and ttood by it. George Eliot, Mill on the Floss, i. 7. 
(3) A'oul., to take hold or be ready to take hold of, or to 
act in regard to : as, to stand by a halyard ; to stand by 
the anchor, (b) [By, adv. | To make ready, stand in a 
position of readiness to seize upon something ; be ready 
to perform some act when a subsequent command or signal 
Is given : used principally in the imperative, as a word of 
command. Originally a nautical term, it has come to be 
used quite commonly in its original sense. To stand for, 
from, In, off, or over (naut.\ See def. 22. To stand 
fortnt, to persist 
To stonde forth in such duresse 
Igcruelte and wikkidnesse. 
Rom. of the Rose, 1. 3547. 
To stand from under, to beware of objects falling from 
aloft. To stand good. See good. To stand high, in 
printing, to exceed the standard height of eleven twelfths 
of an inch : said of a type or an engraving. To stand 
in. (o) To cost : followed by a personal object in the da- 
tive : sometimes used without in . as, it stood me [in] five 
dollars. 
As every bushel of wheat-meal stood us in fourteen 
shillings. Winthrop, Hist. New England, I. 55. 
His wife is more zealous, and therefore more costly, and 
he bates her in tyres what she stands him in Religion. . 
Bp. Earle, Micro-cosmographie, A Church Papist. 
(b) To be associated; make terms: as, to stand in with 
the politicians; the police stand in with them for the 
profits. [Slang, U. S.| To stand In band, to be on 
hand ; be ready for use or service ; be of advantage : usu- 
ally with an indirect personal object : as, It will stand us 
in hand to be cautious. 
Well, my Lady, I stand in hand to side with you al- 
ways. A. E. Barr, Friend Olivia, xvii. 
To stand in one's own light. See Kghn. To stand 
In stead, to be serviceable ; serve one's turn : with an in- 
direct personal object. 
My legs and arms stood me in more stead than either 
my gentle kin or my hook-lear. 
Scott, Legend of llontrose, ii. 
To stand in the gap. See yap. To stand in the gate. 
See gate*. To stand low, in printing, to fall short of 
the standard height of eleven twelfths of an inch: said of 
a type or an engraving. To Stand mute. See mute*. 
To Stand off. (a) See def. 21. (b) To stand out ; show. 
The truth of it stands of us gross 
As black and white. Shak., Hen. V., ii. 2. 103. 
Picture Is best when it standeth of as if it were carved. 
Sir H. Wotton, Elem. of Architecture, ii. 
To stand off and on, to sail away from the shore and 
then toward it, repeatedly, so as to keep a certain point in 
sight. To Stand on. (a) See to stand upon, (b) AVnit.. 
to continue on the same course or tack. To stand on 
compliment, on scruple, etc. See the nouns. To 
Stand out. (a) To hold out, especially in a struggle ; per- 
sist In opposition or resistance ; refuse to yield. 
His spirit is come in, 
That so stood out against the holy church. 
Shak., K. John, v. 2. 71. 
Of their own Accord the Princes of the Countrey came 
in, and submitted themselves unto him, only Rodorick 
King of Connaught stood out. Baker, Chronicles, p. 6ti. 
(6) To project, or seem to project ; be prominent or in re- 
lief ; show conspicuously. See def. 21. 
Their eyes stand out with fatness. Ps. Ixxili. 7. 
In the history of their [the princes'] dynasty the name 
of the city chiefly stands out as the chosen place for the 
execution of princes whom it was convenient to put out 
of the way. E. A. Freeman, Venice, p. 111. 
