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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Stand \Stand\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Stood}; p. pr & vb n. {Standing}.] [OE. standen; AS standan; akin to OFries stonda, st[=a]n, D. staan, OS standan, st[=a]n, G. stehen, Icel. standa, Dan. staae, Sw st[*a], Goth. standan, Russ. stoiate, L. stare, Gr ? to cause to stand ? to stand Skr. sth[=a]. [root]163. Cf {Assist}, {Constant}, {Contrast}, {Desist}, {Destine}, {Ecstasy}, {Exist}, {Interstice}, {Obstacle}, {Obstinate}, {Prest}, n., {Rest} remainder, {Soltice}, {Stable}, a. & n., {State}, n., {Statute}, {Stead}, {Steed}, {Stool}, {Stud} of horses, {Substance}, {System}.] 1. To be at rest in an erect position; to be fixed in an upright or firm position; as: a To be supported on the feet, in an erect or nearly erect position; -- opposed to {lie}, {sit}, {kneel}, etc ``I pray you all stand up!'' --Shak. b To continue upright in a certain locality, as a tree fixed by the roots, or a building resting on its foundation. It stands as it were to the ground yglued. --Chaucer. The ruined wall Stands when its wind worn battlements are gone. --Byron. 2. To occupy or hold a place to have a situation; to be situated or located; as Paris stands on the Seine. Wite ye not where there stands a little town? --Chaucer. 3. To cease from progress; not to proceed; to stop; to pause; to halt; to remain stationary. I charge thee, stand And tell thy name --Dryden. The star, which they saw in the east, went before them till it came and stood over where the young child was --Matt. ii 9. 4. 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. My mind on its own center stands unmoved. --Dryden. 5. To maintain one's ground; to be acquitted; not to fail or yield; to be safe. Readers by whose judgment I would stand or fall. --Spectator. 6. To maintain an invincible or permanent attitude; to be fixed, steady, or firm; to take a position in resistance or opposition. ``The standing pattern of their imitation.'' --South. The king granted the Jews . . . to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life. --Esther viii. 11. 7. To adhere to fixed principles; to maintain moral rectitude; to keep from falling into error or vice. We must labor so as to stand with godliness, according to his appointment. --Latimer. 8. 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. 9. To be in some particular state; to have essence or being to be to consist. ``Sacrifices . . . which stood only in meats and drinks.'' --Heb. ix 10. Accomplish what your signs foreshow; I stand resigned, and am prepared to go --Dryden. Thou seest how it stands with me and that I may not tarry. --Sir W. Scott. 10. To be consistent; to agree; to accord. Doubt me not by heaven, I will do nothing But what may stand with honor. --Massinger. 11. (Naut.) To hold a course at sea; as to stand from the shore; to stand for the harbor. From the same parts of heaven his navy stands. --Dryden. 12. To offer one's self or to be offered, as a candidate. He stood to be elected one of the proctors of the university. --Walton. 13. To stagnate; not to flow; to be motionless. Or the black water of Pomptina stands. --Dryden. 14. To measure when erect on the feet. Six feet two as I think, he stands. --Tennyson. 15. (Law) a To be or remain as it is to continue in force; to have efficacy or validity; to abide. --Bouvier. b To appear in court. --Burrill. {Stand by} (Naut.), a preparatory order equivalent to {Be ready}. {To stand against}, to opposite; to resist. {To stand by}. a To be near to be a spectator; to be present. b To be aside; to be aside with disregard. ``In the interim [we] let the commands stand by neglected.'' --Dr. H. More c To maintain; to defend; to support; not to desert; as to stand by one's principles or party. d To rest on for support; to be supported by --Whitgift. {To stand corrected}, to be set right as after an error in a statement of fact --Wycherley. {To stand fast}, to be fixed; to be unshaken or immovable. {To stand firmly on}, to be satisfied or convinced of ``Though Page be a secure fool, and stands so firmly on his wife's frailty.'' --Shak. {To stand for}. a To side with to espouse the cause of to support; to maintain, or to profess or attempt to maintain; to defend. ``I stand wholly for you.'' --Shak. b To be in the place of to be the substitute or to represent; as a cipher at the left hand of a figure stands for nothing. ``I will not trouble myself, whether these names stand for the same thing or really include one another.'' --Locke. {To stand in}, to cost. ``The same standeth them in much less cost.'' --Robynson (More's Utopia). The Punic wars could not have stood the human race in less than three millions of the species. --Burke. {To stand in hand}, to conduce to one's interest; to be serviceable or advantageous. {To stand off}. a To keep at a distance. b Not to comply. c To keep at a distance in friendship, social intercourse, or acquaintance. d To appear prominent; to have relief. ``Picture is best when it standeth off as if it were carved.'' --Sir H. Wotton. {To stand off and on} (Naut.), to remain near a coast by sailing toward land and then from it {To stand on} (Naut.), to continue on the same tack or course. {To stand out}. a To project; to be prominent. ``Their eyes stand out with fatness.'' --Psalm lxxiii. 7. b To persist in opposition or resistance; not to yield or comply; not to give way or recede. His spirit is come in That so stood out against the holy church. --Shak. {To stand to}. a To ply; to urge; to persevere in using. ``Stand to your tackles, mates, and stretch your oars.'' --Dryden. b To remain fixed in a purpose or opinion. ``I will stand to it that this is his sense.'' --Bp. Stillingfleet c To abide by to adhere to as to a contrast, assertion, promise, etc.; as to stand to an award; to stand to one's word d Not to yield; not to fly; to maintain, as one's ground. ``Their lives and fortunes were put in safety, whether they stood to it or ran away.'' --Bacon. e To be consistent with to agree with as it stands to reason that he could not have done so f To support; to uphold. ``Stand to me in this cause.'' --Shak. {To stand together}, to be consistent; to agree. {To stand to sea} (Naut.), to direct the course from land. {To stand under}, to undergo; to withstand. --Shak. {To stand up}. a To rise from sitting; to be on the feet. b To arise in order to speak or act ``Against whom when the accusers stood up they brought none accusation of such things as I supposed.'' --Acts xxv. 18. c To rise and stand on end as the hair. d To put one's self in opposition; to contend. ``Once we stood up about the corn.'' --Shak. {To stand up for}, to defend; to justify; to support, or attempt to support; as to stand up for the administration. {To stand upon}. a To concern; to interest. b To value; to esteem. ``We highly esteem and stand much upon our birth.'' --Ray. c To insist on to attach much importance to as to stand upon security; to stand upon ceremony. d To attack; to assault. [A Hebraism] ``So I stood upon him and slew him.'' --2 Sam. i. 10. {To stand with}, to be consistent with ``It stands with reason that they should be rewarded liberally.'' --Sir J. Davies. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Stood \Stood\, imp. & p. p. of {Stand}.
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