STAN , as a termination, is said to have expressed the superlative degree; as in Athelstan, most noble; Dunstan, the highest. But qu. stan in Saxon, is stone.
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1. Sound; firm; strong and tight; as a stanch ship.
2. Firm in principle; steady; constant and zealous; hearty; as a stanch churchman; a stanch republican; a stanch friend or adherent.
3. In politics I hear youre stanch
4. Strong; not to be broken.
5. Firm; close.
6. This is to be kept stanch
1. To stop, as blood; to cease to flow.
In a general sense, to stop; to set or fix; but applied only to the blood; to stop the flowing of blood. Cold applications to the neck will often stanch the bleeding of the nose.
1. That which stanches or checks.
2. A flood gate by which water is accumulated, for floating a boat over a shallow part of a stream by its release.
To cease, as the flowing of blood.
1. To stop the flowing of, as blood; to check; also, to stop the flowing of blood from; as, to stanch a wound.
3. Strong and tight; sound; firm; as, a stanch ship.
4. Firm in principle; constant and zealous; loyal; hearty; steady; steadfast; as, a stanch churchman; a stanch friend or adherent.
5. Close; secret; private.
6. To prop; to make stanch, or strong.
Stopped or restrained from flowing.
He or that which stops the flowing of blood.
One who, or that which, stanches, or stops, the flowing, as of blood.
A prop or support; a piece of timber int he form of a stake or post, used for a support. In ship-building, stanchions of wood or iron are of different forms, and are used to support the deck, the quarter rails, the nettings, awnings and the like.
1. A prop or support; a piece of timber in the form of a stake or post, used for a support or stay.
2. Any upright post or beam used as a support, as for the deck, the quarter rails, awnings, etc.
3. A vertical bar for confining cattle in a stall.
That cannot be stanched or stopped.
1. Incapable of being stanched, or stopped.
2. Unquenchable; insatiable.
Soundness; firmness in principle; closeness of adherence.
The quality or state of being stanch.
1. A stop; a halt; as, to make a stand; to come to a stand either in walking or in any progressive business.
2. The horse made a stand when he charged them and routed them.
3. A station; a place or post where one stands; or a place convenient for persons to remain for any purpose. The sellers of fruit have their several stands in the market.
4. I took my stand upon an eminence.
5. Rank; post; station.
6. Father, since your fortune did attain so high a stand I mean not to descend.
7. [In lieu of this, standing is now used. He is a man of high standing in his own country.]
8. The act of opposing.
10. The highest point; or the ultimate point of progression, where a stop is made, and regressive motion commences. The population of the world will not come to a stand while the means of subsistence can be obtained. The prosperity of the Roman empire came to a stand in the reign of Augustus; after which it declined.
11. Vice is at stand and at the highest flow.
12. A young tree, usually reserved when the other trees are cut. [English.]
13. A small table; as a candle-stand; or any frame on which vessels and utensils may be laid.
14. In commerce, a weight of from two hundred and a half to three hundred of pitch.
15. Something on which a thing rests or is laid; as a hay-stand.
16. STAND of arms, in military affairs, a musket with its usual appendages, as a bayonet, cartridge box, etc.
17. To be at a stand to stop on account of some doubt or difficulty; hence, to be perplexed; to be embarrassed; to hesitate what to determine, or what to do.
1. preterit tense and participle passive stood. [This verb, if from the root of G., is a derivative from the noun, which is formed from the participle of the original verb. In this case, the noun should properly precede the verb. It may be here remarked that if stan is the radical word, stand and Latin Sto cannot be from the same stock. But stand in the preterit tense is stood, and sto forms steti. This induces a suspicion that stan is not the root of stand but that n is casual. I am inclined however to believe these words to be from different roots. The Russ. Stoyu, to stand is the Latin sto, but it signifies also to be, to exist, being the substantive verb.]
2. To be upon the feet, as an animal; not to sit, kneel or lie.
3. The absolution to be pronounced by the priest alone, standing.
4. And the king turned his face about and blessed all the congregation of Israel, and all the congregation of Israel stood. 1 Kings 8:11 .
5. To be erect, supported by the roots, as a tree or other plant. Notwithstanding the violence of the wind, the tree yet stands.
6. To be on its foundation; not to be overthrown or demolished; as, an old castle is yet standing.
7. To be placed or situated; to have a certain position or location. Paris stands on the Seine. London stands on the Thames.
8. To remain upright, in a moral sense; not to fall.
9. To stand or fall, free in thy own arbitrement it lies.
10. To become erect.
12. To stop; to halt; not to proceed.
13. I charge thee, stand and tell thy name.
14. To stop; to be at a stationary point.
15. Say, at what part of nature will they stand?
16. To be in a state of fixedness; hence, to continue; to endure. Our constitution has stood nearly forty years. It is hoped it will stand for ages.
17. Commonwealth by virtue ever stood.
18. To be fixed or steady; not to vacillate. His mind stands unmoved.
19. To be in or to maintain a posture of resistance or defense. Approach with charged bayonets; the enemy will not stand
20. The king granted the Jews to stand for their life. Esther 8:11 .
21. To be placed with regard to order or rank. Note the letter that stands first in order. Gen. Washington stood highest in public estimation. Christian charity stands first in the rank of gracious affections.
22. To be in particular state; to be, emphatically expressed, that is, to be fixed or set; the primary sense of the substantive verb. How does the value of wheat stand? God stands in no need of our services, but we always stand in need of his aid and his mercy.
23. Accomplish what your signs foreshow; I stand resignd.
24. To continue unchanged or valid; not to fail or become void.
25. No condition of our peace can stand
26. My mercy will I keep for him, and my covenant shall stand fast with him. Psalms 89:28 .
27. To consist; to have its being and essence.
28. Sacrifices--which stood only in meats and drinks. Hebrews 9:1 .
29. To have a place.
30. This excellent man, who stood not on the advantage-ground before, provoked men of all qualities.
31. To be in any state. Let us see how our matters stand
32. As things now stand with us--
33. To be in particular respect or relation; as, to stand godfather to one. We ought to act according to the relation we stand in towards each other.
34. To be, with regard to state of mind.
35. STAND in awe, and sin not. Psalms 4:4 .
36. To succeed; to maintain ones ground; not to fail; to be acquitted; to be safe.
37. Readers by whose judgment I would stand or fall--
38. To hold a course at sea; as, to stand from the shore; to stand for the harbor.
39. From the same parts of heavn his navy stands.
40. To have a direction.
41. The wand did not really stand to the metal, when placed under it.
42. To offer ones self as a candidate.
43. He stood to be elected one of the proctors of the university.
44. To place ones self; to be placed.
45. I stood between the Lord and you at that time-- Deuteronomy 5:31 .
46. To stagnate; not to flow.
47. --Or the black water of Pomptina stands.
48. To be satisfied or convinced.
50. To make delay. I cannot stand to examine every particular.
52. Never stand in a lie when thou art accused.
54. Despair would stand to the sword.
56. To stand by,
57. To be near; to be a spectator; to be present. I stood by when the operation was performed. This phrase generally implies that the person is inactive, or takes no part in what is done. In seamens language, to stand by is to attend and be ready. stand by the haliards.
58. To be aside; to be placed aside with disregard.
59. In the mean time, we let the commands stand by neglected.
60. To maintain; to defend; to support; not to desert. I will stand by my friend to the last. Let us stand by our country. To stand by the Arundelian marbles, in Pope, is to defend or support their genuineness.
61. To rest on for support; to be supported.
62. This reply standeth by conjecture.
63. To stand for,
64. To offer ones self as a candidate.
65. How many stand for consulships?--Three.
66. To side with; to support; to maintain, or to profess or attempt to maintain. We all stand for freedom, for our rights or claims.
67. To be in the place of; to be the substitute or representative of. A cipher at the left hand of a figure stands for nothing.
68. I will not trouble myself, whether these names stand for the same thing, or really include one another.
69. In seamens language, to direct the course towards.
70. To stand from, to direct the course from.
71. To stand one in, to cost. The coat stands him in twenty dollars.
72. To stand in, or stand in for, in seamens language, is to direct a course towards land or a harbor.
73. To stand off,
74. To keep at a distance.
75. Not to comply.
77. We stand off from an acquaintance with God.
78. To appear prominent; to have relief.
79. Picture is best when it standeth off, as if it were carved.
80. To stand off, or off from, in seamens language, is to direct the course from land.
81. To stand off and on, is to sail towards land and then from it.
82. To stand out,
83. To project; to be prominent.
84. Their eyes stand out with fatness. Psa 73.
86. His spirit is come in, that so stood out against the holy church.
87. With seamen, to direct the course from land or a harbor.
88. To stand to,
90. STAND to your tackles, mates, and stretch your oars.
91. To remain fixed in a purpose or opinion.
92. I still stand to it, that this is his sense.
93. To abide by; to adhere; as to a contract, assertion, promise, etc.; as, to stand to an award; to stand to ones word.
94. Not to yield; not to fly; to maintain the ground.
95. Their lives and fortunes were put in safety, whether they stood to it or ran away.
96. To stand to sea, to direct the course from land.
97. To stand under, to undergo; to sustain.
98. To stand up,
99. To rise from sitting; to be on the feet.
100. To arise in order to gain notice.
101. Against whom when the accusers stood up, they brought no accusation of such things as I supposed. Acts 25:10 .
102. To make a party.
103. When we stood up about the corn--
104. To stand up for, to defend; to justify; to support, or attempt to support; as, to stand up for the administration.
105. To stand upon,
106. To concern; to interest. Does it not stand upon them to examine the grounds of their opinion? This phrase is, I believe, obsolete; but we say, it stands us in hand, that is, it is our concern, it is for our interest.
107. To value; to pride.
108. We highly esteem and stand much upon our birth.
109. To insist; as, to stand upon security.
110. To stand with, to be consistent. The faithful servants of God will receive what they pray for, so far as stands with his purposes and glory.
111. It stands with reason that they should be rewarded liberally.
112. To stand together, is used, but the last two phrases are not in very general use, and are perhaps growing obsolete.
113. To stand against, to oppose; to resist.
114. To stand fast, to be fixed; to be unshaken or immovable.
115. To stand in hand, to be important to ones interest; to be necessary or advantageous. It stands us in hand to be on good terms with our neighbors.
6. Bid him disband the legions--and stand the judgment of a Roman senate.
7. To stand ones ground, to deep the ground or station one has taken; to maintain ones position; in a literal or figurative sense; as, an army stands its ground, when it is not compelled to retreat. A man stands his ground in an argument, when he is able to maintain it, or is not refuted.
8. To stand it, to bear; to be able to endure; or to maintain ones ground or state; a popular phrase.
9. To stand trial, is to sustain the trial or examination of a cause; not to give up without trial.
1. To be at rest in an erect position; to be fixed in an upright or firm position
2. To be supported on the feet, in an erect or nearly erect position; -- opposed to lie, sit, kneel, etc.
3. To continue upright in a certain locality, as a tree fixed by the roots, or a building resting on its foundation.
4. To occupy or hold a place; to have a situation; to be situated or located; as, Paris stands on the Seine.
6. To remain without ruin or injury; to hold good against tendencies to impair or injure; to be permanent; to endure; to last; hence, to find endurance, strength, or resources.
7. To maintain one's ground; to be acquitted; not to fail or yield; to be safe.
8. To maintain an invincible or permanent attitude; to be fixed, steady, or firm; to take a position in resistance or opposition.
9. To adhere to fixed principles; to maintain moral rectitude; to keep from falling into error or vice.
10. To have or maintain a position, order, or rank; to be in a particular relation; as, Christian charity, or love, stands first in the rank of gifts.
11. To be in some particular state; to have essence or being; to be; to consist.
12. To be consistent; to agree; to accord.
13. To hold a course at sea; as, to stand from the shore; to stand for the harbor.
14. To offer one's self, or to be offered, as a candidate.
15. To stagnate; not to flow; to be motionless.
16. To measure when erect on the feet.
18. To appear in court.
1. The act of standing.
2. A halt or stop for the purpose of defense, resistance, or opposition; as, to come to, or to make, a stand.
3. A place or post where one stands; a place where one may stand while observing or waiting for something.
5. A raised platform or station where a race or other outdoor spectacle may be viewed; as, the judge's or the grand stand at a race course.
6. A small table; also, something on or in which anything may be laid, hung, or placed upright; as, a hat stand; an umbrella stand; a music stand.
7. A place where a witness stands to testify in court.
9. Rank; post; station; standing.
10. A state of perplexity or embarrassment; as, to be at a stand what to do.
11. A young tree, usually reserved when other trees are cut; also, a tree growing or standing upon its own root, in distinction from one produced from a scion set in a stock, either of the same or another kind of tree.
12. A weight of from two hundred and fifty to three hundred pounds, -- used in weighing pitch.
3. To abide by; to submit to; to suffer.
4. To set upright; to cause to stand; as, to stand a book on the shelf; to stand a man on his feet.
5. To be at the expense of; to pay for; as, to stand a treat.
One who, or that which, stands by one in need; something upon which one relies for constant use or in an emergency.
A plant.
A reservior in which water accumulates at the bottom of a mine.
1. An ensign of war; a staff with a flag or colors. The troops repair to their standard The royal standard of Great Britain is a flag, in which the imperial ensigns of England, Scotland and Ireland are quartered with the armorial bearings of Hanover.
2. His armies, in the following day, on those fair plains their standards proud display.
3. That which is established by sovereign power as a rule or measure by which others are to be adjusted. Thus the Winchester bushel is the standard of measures in Great Britain, and is adopted in the United States as their standard So of weights and of long measure.
4. That which is established as a rule or model, by the authority of public opinion, or by respectable opinions, or by custom or general consent; as writings which are admitted to be the standard of style and taste. Homers Iliad is the standard of heroic poetry. Demosthenes and Cicero are the standards of oratory. Of modern eloquence, we have an excellent standard in the speeches of lord Chatham. Addisons writings furnish a good standard of pure, chaste and elegant English stayle. It is not an easy thing to erect a standard of taste.
5. In coinage, the proportion of weight of fine metal and alloy established by authority. The coins of England and of the United States are of nearly the same standard
6. By the present standard of the coinage, sixty two shillings is coined out of one pound weight of silver.
7. A standing tree or stem; a tree not supported or attached to a wall.
8. Plant fruit of all sorts and standard mural, or shrubs which lose their leaf.
1. Being, affording, or according with, a standard for comparison and judgment; as, standard time; standard weights and measures; a standard authority as to nautical terms; standard gold or silver.
2. Hence: Having a recognized and permanent value; as, standard works in history; standard authors.
3. Not supported by, or fastened to, a wall; as, standard fruit trees.
2. That which is established by authority as a rule for the measure of quantity, extent, value, or quality; esp., the original specimen weight or measure sanctioned by government, as the standard pound, gallon, or yard.
3. That which is established as a rule or model by authority, custom, or general consent; criterion; test.
4. The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established by authority.
5. A tree of natural size supported by its own stem, and not dwarfed by grafting on the stock of a smaller species nor trained upon a wall or trellis.
7. An upright support, as one of the poles of a scaffold; any upright in framing.
8. An inverted knee timber placed upon the deck instead of beneath it, with its vertical branch turned upward from that which lies horizontally.
10. A large drinking cup.
A curious paradise bird (Semioptera Wallacii) which has two long special feathers standing erect on each wing.
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And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground,
And Abraham looked up and saw three men standing nearby. When he saw them, he ran from the entrance of his tent to meet them and bowed low to the ground.
And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and came near to break the door.
“Get out of the way!” they replied. And they declared, “This one came here as a foreigner, and he is already acting like a judge! Now we will treat you worse than them.” And they pressed in on Lot and moved in to break down the door.
Behold, I stand here by the well of water; and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water:
Here I am, standing beside the spring, and the daughters of the townspeople are coming out to draw water.
And it came to pass, when he saw the earring and bracelets upon his sister’s hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, Thus spake the man unto me; that he came unto the man; and, behold, he stood by the camels at the well.
As soon as he saw the ring, and the bracelets on his sister’s wrists, and heard Rebekah’s words, “The man said this to me,” he went and found the man standing by the camels near the spring.
And he said, Come in, thou blessed of the LORD; wherefore standest thou without? for I have prepared the house, and room for the camels.
“Come, you who are blessed by the LORD,” said Laban. “Why are you standing out here? I have prepared the house and a place for the camels.”
Behold, I stand by the well of water; and it shall come to pass, that when the virgin cometh forth to draw water, and I say to her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water of thy pitcher to drink;
And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I am the LORD God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed;
And there at the top the LORD was standing and saying, “I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you now lie.
And she said to her father, Let it not displease my lord that I cannot rise up before thee; for the custom of women is upon me. And he searched, but found not the images.
And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river.
After two full years had passed, Pharaoh had a dream: He was standing beside the Nile,
And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, In my dream, behold, I stood upon the bank of the river:
Then Pharaoh said to Joseph: “In my dream I was standing on the bank of the Nile,
Get thee unto Pharaoh in the morning; lo, he goeth out unto the water; and thou shalt stand by the river’s brink against he come; and the rod which was turned to a serpent shalt thou take in thine hand.
Go to Pharaoh in the morning as you see him walking out to the water. Wait on the bank of the Nile to meet him, and take in your hand the staff that was changed into a snake.
And the fish that was in the river died; and the river stank, and the Egyptians could not drink of the water of the river; and there was blood throughout all the land of Egypt.
The fish in the Nile died, and the river smelled so bad that the Egyptians could not drink its water. And there was blood throughout the land of Egypt.
And the LORD said unto Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh; lo, he cometh forth to the water; and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Let my people go, that they may serve me.
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Get up early in the morning, and when Pharaoh goes out to the water, stand before him and tell him that this is what the LORD says: ‘Let My people go, so that they may worship Me.
And the magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils; for the boil was upon the magicians, and upon all the Egyptians.
The magicians could not stand before Moses, because the boils had broken out on them and on all the Egyptians.
And the LORD said unto Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of the Hebrews, Let my people go, that they may serve me.
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Get up early in the morning, stand before Pharaoh, and tell him that this is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘Let My people go, so that they may worship Me.