SPage 491
- English Word Stand Definition To be at the expense of; to pay for; as, to stand a treat.
- English Word Stand Definition The act of standing.
- English Word Stand Definition A halt or stop for the purpose of defense, resistance, or opposition; as, to come to, or to make, a stand.
- English Word Stand Definition A place or post where one stands; a place where one may stand while observing or waiting for something.
- English Word Stand Definition A station in a city or town where carriages or wagons stand for hire; as, a cab stand.
- English Word Stand Definition 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.
- English Word Stand Definition 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.
- English Word Stand Definition A place where a witness stands to testify in court.
- English Word Stand Definition The situation of a shop, store, hotel, etc.; as, a good, bad, or convenient stand for business.
- English Word Stand Definition Rank; post; station; standing.
- English Word Stand Definition A state of perplexity or embarrassment; as, to be at a stand what to do.
- English Word Stand Definition 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.
- English Word Stand Definition A weight of from two hundred and fifty to three hundred pounds, -- used in weighing pitch.
- English Word Stand-by Definition One who, or that which, stands by one in need; something upon which one relies for constant use or in an emergency.
- English Word Standage Definition A reservior in which water accumulates at the bottom of a mine.
- English Word Standard Definition A flag; colors; a banner; especially, a national or other ensign.
- English Word Standard Definition 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.
- English Word Standard Definition That which is established as a rule or model by authority, custom, or general consent; criterion; test.
- English Word Standard Definition The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established by authority.
- English Word Standard Definition 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.
- English Word Standard Definition The upper petal or banner of a papilionaceous corolla.
- English Word Standard Definition An upright support, as one of the poles of a scaffold; any upright in framing.
- English Word Standard Definition An inverted knee timber placed upon the deck instead of beneath it, with its vertical branch turned upward from that which lies horizontally.
- English Word Standard Definition The sheth of a plow.
- English Word Standard Definition A large drinking cup.
- English Word Standard Definition 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.
- English Word Standard Definition Hence: Having a recognized and permanent value; as, standard works in history; standard authors.
- English Word Standard Definition Not supported by, or fastened to, a wall; as, standard fruit trees.
- English Word Standard Definition Not of the dwarf kind; as, a standard pear tree.
- English Word Standard-bred Definition Bred in conformity to a standard. Specif., applied to a registered trotting horse which comes up to the standard adopted by the National Association of Trotting-horse Breeders.