Stănd1, v. i.
v. i. [imp. & p. p. STOOD; p. pr. & vb. n. STANDING.] [O. Eng. stonde, A-S. standan, stondan, O. Sax. & Goth. standan, O. H. Ger. standan, stantan, Prov. Ger. standen, staan, steen, O. Fries. stonda, Icel. standa, O. Dan. stande, N. Dan. staae, Sw. stånda, stå, O. Sax. & O. Fries. also stân, D. staan, O. D. staen, M. H. Ger. stân, stên, N. H. Ger. stehen. Cf. STAY.]
Sense 1. To remain at rest in an erect position; to be fixed in an upright or firm position; as, (a.) To rest on the feet, neither lying nor sitting;—said of an animal, of a human being, and the like. “I pray you all, stand up.” Shak. (b.) To continue upright, fixed by the roots or fastenings;—said of a tree. (c.) To remain firm on a foundation;—said of an edifice.
The ruined wall Stands when its wind-worn battlements are gone. Byron.
Sense 2. To occupy, as its place; to have a situation; to hold a place; to be situated or located; as, Paris stands on the Seine.
Sense 3. To cease from progress; not to proceed; to make a rest; to stop; to pause; to halt.
I charge thee, stand, And tell thy name. Dryden.
Sense 4. To remain without ruin or injury; to hold good against tendencies to impair or injure; to be permanent; to endure; hence, to find endurance, strength, or resources.
Commonwealths by virtue ever stood. Dryden.
Sense 5. To maintain one’s ground; to be acquitted; not to fail; to be safe. “Readers by whose judgment I would stand or fall.” Spectator.
Sense 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 stand for their life. Esther viii. 11.
Sense 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.
Sense 8. To have or maintain a position, order, or rank; as, Christian charity stands first in the rank of gracious affections.
Sense 9. To be in some particular state; to be fixed or set; to have essence or being; to be. “Sacrifices . . . which stood only in meats and drinks.” Heb. ix. 10.
Accomplish what your signs foreshow; I stand resigned. Dryden.
Thou seest how it stands with me, and that I may not tarry. W. Scott.
Sense 10. To consist; to agree.
There are some instances of fortune and a fair condition that can not stand with some others; but if you desire this, you must lose that. Bp. Taylor.
Sense 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.
Sense 12. To offer one’s self as a candidate.
He stood to be elected one of the proctors of the univerity. Saunderson.
Sense 13. To stagnate; not to flow.
Or the black water of Pomptina stands. Dryden.
Sense 14. (Law.) (a.) To be or remain as it is; to continue in force; to have efficacy or validity; to abide; to submit. Bouvier. (b.) To appear in court. Burrill.
To stand against, to oppose; to resist.—To stand by. (a.) To be near; to be a spectator; to be present. (b.) To be aside; to be placed aside with disregard. “In the mean time, we let the commands stand by neglected.” Decay of Piety. (c.) To maintain; to defend; to support; not to desert; as, I will stand by my friend to the last; let us stand by our country. (d.) To rest on for support; to be supported. “This reply standeth by conjecture.” Whitgift. (e.) (Naut.) To attend and be ready.—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 offer one’s self as a candidate. “How many stand for consulships?” Shak. (b.) To side with; to support; to maintain, or to profess or attempt to maintain. “I stand wholly for you.” Shak. (c.) To be in the place of; to be the substitute or representative of; 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. (d.) (Naut.) To direct the course toward.—To stand from (Naut.), to direct the course from.—To stand in hand, to be conducive 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 or social intercourse; to forbear intimacy. “We stand off from an acquaintance with God.” Atterbury. (d.) To appear prominent; to have relief. “Picture is best when it standeth off, as if it were carved.” Wotton.—To stand off and on (Naut.), to remain near a coast by sailing toward land and then from it.—To stand on, to continue on the same tack or course. Totten.—To stand one in, to cost; as, the coat stands him in twenty dollars. “These wars—I mean the Punic wars—could not have stood the human race in less than three millions of the species.” Burke.—To stand out. (a.) To project; to be prominent. “Their eyes stand out with fatness.” Ps. 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.” Stillingfleet. (c.) To abide by; to adhere to, as to a contract, assertion, promise, and the like; as, to stand to an award; to stand to one’s word. (d.) Not to yield; not to fly; to maintain, as ground. “Their lives and fortunes were put in safety, whether they stood to it or ran away.” Bacon. (e.) To be consistent with; as, it stands to reason that he could not have done so.—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 sustain. 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 no accusation of such things as I supposed.” Acts xxv. 18. (c.) To make a party. “When 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 pride. “We highly esteem and stand much upon our birth.” Ray. (c.) To insist; as, to stand upon security.—To stand with, to be consistent with. “It stands with reason that they should be rewarded liberally.” Davies.