stand 
The heavy, irregular arches of the bridge, and the tall, 
S(,uare mass of the tower, xlauit nut against the red skv 
and are reflected in the raidil >v:itn. 
C. K. Xurlim, Travel anil Study In Italy, p. 11. 
5890 
To stand sam for one. See *awr-'. TO stand to. 
() 
I will stand to and feed, 
Although my last. Shak., Tempest, ill. 3. 49. 
(() [To, prep.] (1) To stand by ; sustain ; help. 
Give them leave to fly that will not stay 
And call them pillars that will stand to us. 
Shale., 3 Hen. VI., ii. :{. ;,i. 
(2) To adhere to; abide by ; uphold. 
Stand strongly to your vow, and do not faint. 
Fletcher, Faithful Shepherdess, ii. 2. 
(3) To await and submit to ; take the chanee or risk of- 
abide. 
Truilus will stand ta the proof. 
Shak., T. and C., 1. 2. 142. 
[They) fled Into the woods, and there rather desired to 
end their dales then stand to their trials and the euent of 
Justice. Quoted in Capt. John Smith's Works, II. 122. 
(4) To take to; have recourse to; keep to; annlv one's 
self to resolutely. 
Their sentinel! caled, "Arnie, arme"; so they bestired 
them & stood to their armes. 
Bradford, Plymouth Plantation, p. 84. 
But Mr. Sampson stood to his guns, notwithstanding 
and tired away, now upon the enemy, and now upon the 
dust which he had raised. Scolt, Guy Mannering, xlvi. 
To stand to a Child, to be sponsor for a child Ualli- 
well, [1'rov. Eng.] To stand together, to be consist- 
ent; agree. To stand to it. (a) Tostandone'sground ; 
hold one's own, as in a struggle ; hold out. 
Their lives and fortunes were put in safety, and pro- 
tected, whether they stood to a or ran away. 
Bacon, Hist. Hen. VII., p. 145. 
I do not think . . . that my brother stood to it so lustily 
as he makes his brags for. 
Middleton, Blurt, Master-Constable, I. 1. 
(6) To persist, as in an opinion ; maintain. 
Now I'll stand to it, the pancakes were naught. 
Shak., As you Like it, i. 2. 69. 
To Stand to reason, to be reasonable. 
This stands to reason indeed. 
Brome, Sparagus Garden, ii. 3. 
To stand under, to bear the weight or burden of : as, I 
stand under heavy obligations. To Stand up for, to de- 
fend the cause of ; contend for ; support ; uphold. 
He meant to sin in? up for every change that the eco- 
nomical condition of the country required. 
George Eliot, Felix Holt, viii. 
Ye see I stood up far ye, Mr. Avery, but I thought 't 
would n't do no harm to kind o' let ye know what folks is 
sayin'. H. B. Stone, Oldtown, p. 483. 
To stand upon or on. (a) To rely upon ; trust to. 
We stand upon the same defence that St. Paul did ; we 
appeal to Scripture, and the best and purest Antiquity. 
Slillingfieet, Sermons, II. I. 
So, standing only on his good Behaviour, 
He 's very civil, and entreats yonr Favour. 
Congreve, Old Eatchelor, Prol. 
(6) To be dependent or contingent upon ; hinge upon. 
Your fortune stood upon the casket there. 
Shak., M. of V., iii. 2. 203. 
(c) To concern ; affect ; involve. 
Consider how it stands upon my credit. 
Shak., C. of E., iv. 1. 68. 
I pray God move your heart to be very careful, for it 
stands upon their lives. 
Quoted in Winthrop's Hist. New England, I. 66. 
(d) To dwell on ; linger over, as a subject of thought. 
Since the Authors of most of our Sciences were the Ec- 
mans, and before them the Greekes, let vs a little stand 
vppon their authorities. Sir P. Sidney, Apol. for 1'oetrie 
If you want to dance, Fanny, I will stand up u-ith you. 
Jane Austen Mansfield I'ark, .\ii. 
(b) To act as groomsman or bridesmaid to : as, I stood up 
mth him at his wedding. [Colloq.]- To stand Witu 
See def. 20. 
II. trims. 1. To cause to stand; specifically, 
to set upright. 
"And as concerning the nests and the drawers, 1 sni.l 
Sloppy, after measuring the handle on his sleeve, and 
softly standing the stick aside against the wall, "why, it 
would be a real pleasure to me." 
Dickens, Our Mutual Friend, iv. 111. 
2f. To abide by ; keep to ; be true to. 
These men, stondi/nge the charge and the bonde which 
the! haue takene, wille leve vtterly the besynes of lie 
world, . . . and hooly yeve hem to contemplatife lille. 
Hampole, Prose Treatises (E. E. T. S.), p. 24. 
3. To undergo; endure; bear; more loosely, 
to endure without succumbing or complain- 
ing; tolerate; put up with ; be resigned to; be 
equal to. 
I am sorry you are so poor, so weak a gentleman, 
Able to stand no fortune. 
Beau, and Fl., Knight of Malta, iv. 2. 
I should never be able to stand Noll's jokes ; so I'd have 
him think, Lord forgive me ! that we are a very happy 
cou Ple- Sheridan, School for Scandal, i. >. 
The business of their dramatic characters will not stand 
the moral test. Lamb, Artificial Comedy. 
She did not mind death, but she could not stand pinching. 
Barham, Ingoldsby Legends, I. 271. 
4. To await and submit to ; abide : as, to stand 
trial. 
Bid him disband his legions, . . . 
And stand the judgment of a Roman senate. 
Addison, Cato, ii. 2. 
5f. To withstand ; resist ; oppose ; confront. 
Valiant Talbot above human thought 
Enacted wonders with his sword and lance ; 
Hundreds he sent to hell, and none durst stand him. 
Shak., 1 Hen. VI., i. 123. 
Not for Fame, but Virtue's better end, 
He stood the furious foe. 
Pope, Prol. to Satires, L 343. 
The rebels, who fled from him after their victory, and 
durst not attack him when so much exposed to them at 
his passage of the Spey, now stood him, they seven thou- 
sand, he ten. Walpole, Letters, II. 19. 
6. To be important or advantageous to ; be in- 
cumbent upon ; behoove. 
He knew that it depended solely on his own wit whether 
or no he could throw the joke back upon the lady. He 
knew that it stood him to do so if he possibly could. 
Trollope, Barchester Towers, xlvi. 
7. To be at the expense of; pay for: as, to stand 
treat. [Colloq.] 
Asked whether he would stand a bottle of champagne 
for the company, he consented. 
Thackeray, Vanity Fair, liii. 
To Stand a watch (naut.\ to perform the duties of a star- 
board or port watch for a specified time. To stand bufft 
See buff*. To stand fire, to receive the fire of an enemy 
without giving way. To stand off, to keep off ; hold at 
adistance: as, to stand o/Tacreditororadun. To Stand 
one's ground. See ground^. To stand out. (o) To 
endure or suffer to the end. 
Jesus fled from the persecution ; as he did not siand it 
out, so he did not stand out against it 
Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), I. 78. 
(6) To persist ; insist ; maintain ; contend. 
It were only yesterday at e'en she were standing out that 
he liked her better than you. 
Mrs. Oaskell, Sylvia's Lovers, xxxix. 
To stand pad. See pad}. To stand shot. See shot*. 
Thethird^point ._. . deserveth to be a little stood upon, stand (stand), ti. [< ME. stand = D. stand = 
MLG. stant, stant = MHG. stant (stand-), G. 
stand = Dan. (> Icel.) stand, standing, stand, 
station, etc. ; also, in some mechanical senses, 
E. dial, stand, stound, < ME. stonde, < AS. stand 
= MD. stande = MLG. LG. standc, a tub, = OHG. 
stante, MHG. G. stande, a tub, stand, a stand, 
jack, support, etc. (the Gael, stanna, a tub, vat, 
is from E.); all from the verb.] 1. The act of 
standing, (a) A coming to a stop ; a cessation from 
progress, motion, or activity ; a halt ; a rest ; stoppage. 
He stalks up and down like a peacock a stride and a 
stand. Shak., T. and C., iii. 3. 252. 
Lead, if thou thlnk'st we are right. 
Why dost thou make 
These often stands? thou said'st thon knew'st the way. 
Fletcher, Beggars' Bush, v. 1. 
(6) The act of taking a decided attitude, as in aid or resis- 
tance : a determined effort for or against something ; spe- 
cifically, in Hit., a halt for the purpose of checking the ad- 
vance of an enemy. 
Breathe you, my friends ; well fought ; we are come off 
Like Romans, neither foolish in our stands, 
Nor cowardly in retire. Shak., Cor., i. 6. 2. 
All we have to ask is whether a man 's a Tory, and will 
make a stand for the good of the country? 
George Eliot, Felix Holt, vii. 
2. A state of rest or inaction; a standstill; 
hence, a state of hesitation, embarrassment, or 
perplexity. 
and not to be lightly passed over. 
Bacon, Advancement of Learning, i. 
(e) To insist upon ; make much of ; hence, to pride one's 
self upon ; presume upon. 
This widow is the strangest thing, the stateliest, 
And stands so much upon her excellencies ! 
Fletcher, Wit without Money, II. 2. 
Nor stand so much on your gentility. 
B. Jonson, Every Man in his Humour, I. 1. 
Stand not upon the order of your going, 
But go at once. Shak., Macbeth, ill. 4. 119. 
I must say that of you Women of Quality, if there Is but 
Money enough, you stand not upon Birth or Reputation 
in either Sex. Mrs. Centlinre, The Basset-Table, ii. 
C/t) To be incumbent upon : in the form to stand one upon. 
It stands me much upon, 
To stop all hopes whose growth may damage me. 
Shak., Rich. III., iv. 2. 59. 
Does it not stand them upon to examine upon what 
grounds they presume it to be a revelation from God? 
Locke. 
To stand upon one's pantablest, to stand upon 
points, etc. Heepantable, points, etc. To stand upon 
one's restt. See to set up one's rest (a), under tell. To 
stand up to, to make a stand against ; confront or face 
boldly. 
He stood up to the Banbury man for three minutes, and 
polished him off in four rounds. 
Thackeray, Vanity Fair, xxxiv. 
To stand up with, (a) To take one's place with (a part- 
ner) for a dance ; hence, to dance with. [Colloq.] 
stand 
The sight of him put me totmtanil in my mind whether 
1 should go on or stop. 
'/'. RfeMrf, Life red. Howells), p. 250. 
Here, then, poor Rip was hronitht to .1 
Intnf Sketeh-liouk, p. 56. 
3. The place where apersouoran object Mnmls: 
a position, site, or station; a post or place. 
At every halfe lipure one from the Corps du guard doth 
hollow, shaking his lips with his linger lietweene them; 
vnto whom every Sentinell doth answer round from his 
"tiiiiil. Capt. Jnhn Hmith, u o.ks, I. 148. 
The knight then asked me if I had s?en Prince Eugene, 
and made me promise to get him a stand in some 
nie.nl place where he might have a full sight of that ex- 
traordinary man. Addison, Spectator, No. 269 
Amid that area wide they took their stand. 
1'upe, l)uneiad, II. 27. 
A salmon is said to be swimming when he is moving up 
the river from pool to pool. At other times he is usually 
resting in his "stand" or "lie," or at most shifting from 
one stand in a pool to another. 
Quarterly Ret., CXXVI. 359, note. 
Specifically (a) The place where a witness stands to tes- 
tify in court. (6) A rostrum ; a pulpit. 
Sometimes, indeed, very unseemly scenes take place, 
when several deputies [in the French Chamber', all equally 
eager to mount the coveted stand, reach its narrow steps 
at the same moment and contest the privilege of pre- 
cedence, w. Wilson, Cong. Qov., II. 
(c) A stall in a stable. HalliweU. 
4. Comparative position; standing, as in a 
scale of measurement ; rank. 
Nay, father, since your fortune did attain 
So high a stand, I mean not to descend. 
Daniel, Civil Wars, iv. 90. 
5. A table, set of shelves, or the like, upon 
which articles may be placed for safety or ex- 
hibition ; also, a platform on which persons may 
place themselves. Specifically -(a) A small light ta- 
ble, such as is moved easily from place to place. 
A stand between them supported a second candle. 
Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, xxviii. 
(6) A stall for the sale of goods ; any erection or station 
where business is carried on : as, a fruit-stand; a news- 
stand ; a carriage-stand. 
The Chief of Police [of Racine, Wisconsin], acting under 
instructions from the Mayor, has notified the proprietors 
of every cigar store, soda-fountain, ice cream stand, and 
confectionery shop to close on Sunday. 
New York Evening Post, June 28, 1889. 
(c) A rack, as for umbrellas and canes, (d) In museums, 
the support for a mounted specimen of natural history ; 
especially, a perch for mounted birds, consisting of an up- 
right and cross-bar of turned wood, usually painted or 
varnished. Stands are also made in many ways, in imita- 
tion of natural objects upon which birds perch or rest. 
Stands for mammals are usually flat boards of suitable 
size, rectangular or oval, and with turned border. () In 
a microscope, the frame or support which holds the essen- 
tial parts of the instrument as well as the object under 
examination. It includes the tube with the coarse and 
fine adjustments, the stage and its accessories, the mirror, 
etc. See microscope. (/) In printing, same as composing- 
stand, (g) A platform or other structure, usually raised, 
as for spectators at an open-air gathering, or for a band or 
other group of performers : as, the grand stand on a race- 
course. 
A large wooden shed, called "The Stand," without floor 
or weather-boarding, capable of covering, say, four thou- 
sand persons, stood near the centre [of a camp-meeting 
ground]. Harper's Mag., LXXVIII. 902. 
The stand-buildings for the accommodation of the pa- 
trons of the course are four or five in number, and are 
three stories high. T. C. Crawford, English Life, p. 28. 
6. A standing growth, as of grass, wheat, In- 
dian corn, etc. 
By the middle of April there should be a good stand of 
the young sprouts (of sugar-cane]. 
The Century, XXXV. 111. 
7. (a) A tree growing from its own root, in 
distinction from one produced from a scion set 
in a stock of either the same or another kind 
of tree. (6) A young tree, usually one reserved 
when other trees are cut. See standel. 8. 
Ductility ; lack of elasticity. 
Leather may have the quality known as Stand that 
is to say, may be strongly stretched in either length or 
breadth without springing Irack. 
Workshop Receipts, 2d ser., p. 372. 
9. In com., a weight of from 2$ to 3 cwt. of 
pitch. 10j. A company; a troop. 
A stand of six hundred pikes, consisting of knights and 
gentlemen as had been officers in the armies of his late 
Majesty. England's Joy (Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 30)i 
1 1 . A complete set or suit ; an outfit. See stand 
of urins, below. 
Proclamation was made ... to furnish out to General 
Lesly's army, and to ilk soldier thereof, their share of a 
stand of gray cloaths, two shirts, and two pair of shoes. 
Spalding, Hist. Troubles in Scotland, I. 289. (Jamieson.) 
A stand o' claes was nae great matter to an Osbaldistone 
(be praised for 't '.). Scott, Rob Roy, xxxvi. 
12. A tub, vat, or cask, or the quantity it con- 
tains. A stand of ale is said in the seven- 
teenth century to correspond with a hogshead 
of beer. 
