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put a body to a stand what to make of him. L'Estrange. 
—A frame or table on which vessels are placed. 
Such squires are only fit for country towns, 
To stink of ale, and dust a stand with clowns; 
Who to be chosen for the land’s protectors. 
Tope and get drunk before the wise electors. Dry den. 
STANDAARBUIDEN, or Zanderbieten, a village and 
lordship of North Brabant, in the marquisate of Bergen-op- 
Zoom. 
STA'NDARD, s. [ffcanbapb, Sax., from jxanban; 
standart, old Fr.; estandart, mod.] An ensign in war, 
particularly the ensign of the horse. 
To their common standard they repair; 
The nimble horsemen scour the fields of air. Dry den. 
That which is of undoubted authority; that which is the 
test of other things of the same kind. 
First follow nature, and your judgment frame, 
By her just standard, which is still the same. Pope. 
That which has been tried by the proper test.—-The 
English tongue, if refined to a certain standard, perhaps 
might be fixed for ever. Swift. —A settled rate.—That pre¬ 
cise weight and fineness, by law appropriated to the pieces 
of each denomination, is called the standard. Locke .— 
-—The device of king Henry VII. was profound in making 
farms of a standard, that is, maintained with such a propor¬ 
tion of lands as may breed a subject to live in plenty. 
Bacon.- —A standing stem or tree.—A standard of a damask 
rose with the root on, was set upright in an earthen pan, full 
of fair water, half a foot under the water, the standard being 
more than-two foot above it. Bacon. 
STA'NDARD, adj. Established; lasting in fame; 
chiefly applied to hooks as a standard work. 
STA'NDARD-BEARER, s. One who bears a standard 
or ensign.-—-These are the standard-bearers in our contend¬ 
ing armies, the dwarfs and squires who carry the impresses of 
the giants or knights. Spectator. 
STANDARD-HILL, the Buroleruin of the Romans, a 
hill of England, in Kent, south of Newington, by Sitting- 
bourne, on which it is said Julius Caesar encamped.—Also, a 
hill in Sussex, near Battel, now called Beacon-hill, where 
William the Conqueror raised his standard, the day before 
his battle with the English. 
STA'ND-CROP, s. [i oermicularis , Lat.] An herb. 
STA'NDEL, s. A tree of long standing.—The Druinians 
were nettled to see the princely standel of their royal oak 
return with a branch of willows. Howell. 
STA'NDER, s. One who stands; a tree that has stood 
long.—The young spring was pitifully nipt and over-trodden 
by very beasts; and also the fairest standers of all were 
rooted up and cast into the fire. Ascham. 
Sta'nder by. One present; a mere spectator. 
I would not be a stander by to hear 
My sovereign mistress clouded so, without 
My present vengeance taken. Ska/cspeare. 
Sta'nder up. One who makes himself of a party.-—The 
plausible, affected titles of public spirits, standers up for 
their country, and for the liberties, properties, and the rights 
of the subject. South. 
STA'NDERGRASS, s. [ satyr-ion , Lat.] An herb. Ains¬ 
worth. 
STANDER WICK, a parish of England, in Somerset¬ 
shire ; 31- miles east-north-east of Frame. 
STANDFORD BISHOPS, a township of England, in 
Herefordshire; 3| miles south-east of Bromyard. 
STANDFORD REGIS, a hamlet in the above town¬ 
ship ; 3 miles south-south-east of Bromyard. 
STANDFORD, a hamlet of England, in Kent; 3§ miles 
north-west of Hythe. 
STANDFORD, a parish of England, in Oxfordshire; 
3 miles from Deddingfon. 
STANDFORD DINGLEY, a parish of England, in 
Berkshire; 8| miles east-north-east of Speenhamland. 
Vpx.. XXIII. No. 1588. 
STANDGROUND, a village of England, in Huntingdon¬ 
shire ; 1 mile south-east of Peterborough. Population 442. 
STANDI A, or Dia, a small island of the Grecian archi¬ 
pelago, a little to the north of Candia, opposite to the town 
of Candia. It is rocky and almost uninhabited, but has a 
harbour, where large ships, bound to Candia, generally dis¬ 
charge part of their cargoes; 10 miles north of Candia. 
Lat. 25. 36. N. long. 25. 9. E. 
STAND1A, a small town of European Turkey, in Mace- 
don, on a small bay of the gulf of Salonichi; 15 miles north 
of Larissa. 
STANDIA, a village on the western coast of Anatolia, in 
Asiatic Turkey. Lat. 36.54. N. long. 27. 18. E. 
STA'NDING, part. adj. Settled; established; not tem¬ 
porary. 
Great standing miracle, that Heaven assign’d ! 
’Tis only thinking gives this turn of mind. Pope. 
Lasting; not transitory.—The landlord had swelled his 
body to a prodigious size, and worked up his complexion to 
a standing crimson. Addison.-— Stagnant; not running.— 
From standing lake to tripping ebb. Milton. —Fixed; not 
movable. 
There’s his chamber, 
His standing bed and truckle bed. Shakspeare. 
Continuing erect; not fallen; not cut down.—He let them 
go into the standing corn of the Philistines. Judges. 
STA'NDING, s. Continuance; long possession of an 
office, character, or place.—Nothing had been more easy 
than to command a patron of a long standing. Dryden. 
—Station ; place to stand in.—His coming in state, I will 
provide you a good standing to see his entry. Bacon. — 
Power to stand.—l sink in deep mire, where there is no 
standing. Ps. —Rank; condition. 
STA'NDISH, s. A case for pen and ink.—I have newly 
made at least an essay of my invention in the structure of a 
little poor standish. Wotton. —-A Grub-street patriot does 
not write to secure, but get something; should the govern¬ 
ment be overturned, he has nothing to lose but an old 
standish. Addison. 
STANDISH, a- parish of England, in Gloucestershire, 
where there is a medicinal spring, in great repute for the cure 
of many diseases; 4j miles north-west of Stroud. Popula¬ 
tion 474. 
STANDISH, a parish of England, in Lancashire; 3 miles 
north-west of Wigan. Population 6258. 
STANDISH, a post township of the United States, in 
Cumberland county, Maine, on the Saco; 120 miles north- 
north-east of Boston. Population 1378. 
STANDLAKE, a parish of England, in Oxfordshire; 5 
miles south-south-east of Witney. Population 577. 
STANDLINCH, a parish of England, in Wiltshire; 41- 
miles south-east of Salisbury. 
STANDON, Stanton, or Stanelow, a market town 
and parish of England, in the county of Hertford. It is a 
place of some antiquity, and is mentioned by Ingulphus as 
having been granted to Cray land abbey in the early part of 
the 9th century, and as the place where abbot Brithmere, 
about the year 1030, built a spacious house for the accom¬ 
modation of himself and his retinue, during his jouruies to 
London. In the parish, also, was a preceplory of knights 
hospitallers, the remains of which are now connected with a 
farm-house, called Friars. Standon church contains many 
monuments and sepulchral memorials. In the eastern part 
of the chancel are the tombs of Sir Ralph Sadler and his 
family. Market on Friday, and one annual fair; 1 mile 
south-east of Pockridge, and 26 north-north-east of London. 
STANDON, a parish of England, in Staffordshire; 3| 
miles north-north-west of Eccleshall. 
STANE, s. [jean, Sax.] Our northern word for stone. 
STANEMORE, a dreary district of England, in West¬ 
moreland, between Brough and Kirkby-Steven, and partly 
in the parish of Bows, Yorkshire. Here is a fragment of 
Rerecross, placed as a boundary between England and Scot¬ 
land, when Cumberland belonged to the latter kingdom. 
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