The more I shaked the stake which he had planted in the ground of my heart, the deeper still it sunk into it. Sidney. His credit in the world might stand the poor town in great stead, as hitherto their ministers foreign estimation hath been the best stake in their hedge. Hooker.

He wanted pikes to set before his archers; Instead whereof sharp stakes, pluck'd out of hedges, They pitched in the ground. Shakesp. Henry VI. In France the grapes that make the wine grow upon low vines bound to small stakes, and the raised vines in arbors make but verjuice. Bacon's Nat. Hist. Or sharpen stakes, or head the forks, or twine The sallow twigs to tie the straggling vine. 2. A piece of long rough wood.

Dryden.

zard.

2.

themselves.

South.

of the stone.

Shakesp. Twelfth Night. 5. Any thing pledged or wagered. know not well whence it has this meaning: I suppose it is so named from being at stake, that is, in a state of hazard like an animal baited, and in hazard from which it cannot be withdrawn.

'Tis time short pleasure now to take,

Of little life the best to make,

And manage wisely the last stake.

O then, what interest shall I make

To save my last important stake,

Cowley.

Rosc. More.

When the most just have cause to quake?
He ventures little for so great a stake.
Th' increasing sound is borne to either shore,
And for their stakes the throwing nations fear.

Dryden.

The game was so contrived, that one particular cast took up the whole stake; and, when some others came up, you laid down. Arbuthnot. 6. The state of being hazarded, pledged, or wagered.

When he heard that the lady Margaret was declared for it, he saw plainly that his kingdom must again be put to the stake, and that he must fight for it. Bacon's Henry VII.

Are not our liberties, our lives,
The laws, religion, and our wives,
Enough at once to lie at stake,

For cov'nant and the cause's sake? Hudibras. The honour of the nation being in a manner at stake to make good several deficiencies. Davenant.

Of my crown thou too much care dost take; That which I value more, my love, 's at stake.

Dryden. Hath any of you a great interest at stake in a distant part of the world? Hath he ventured a good share of his fortune? Atterbury.

Every moment Cato's life's at stake. Addison. 7. The stake is a small anvil, which stands upon a small iron foot on the workbench, to remove as occasion offers; or else it hath a strong iron spike at the bottom, let into some place of the workbench, not to be removed. Its office is to set small cold work strait upon, or to cut or punch upon with the cold chissel or cold punch. Moxon's Mech. Exer. To STAKE. v. a. [from the noun.]

1. To fasten, support, or defend with posts set upright.

2.

This, Richard, is a curious case: Suppose your eyes sent equal rays Upon two distant pots of ale,

Not knowing which was mild or stale; In this sad state your doubtful choice Would never have the casting voice.

Prior.

A stale virgin sets up a shop in a place where she is not known. Spectator.

Used till it is of no use or esteem; worn out of regard or notice.

The duke regarded not the muttering multitude, knowing that rumours grow stale, and vanish Hayward

with time.

About her neck a pacquet mail,
Fraught with advice, some fresh, some stale,

Butler. Many things beget opinion; so doth novelty; wit itself, if stale, is less taking. Grew's Cosmol. Pompey was a perfect favourite of the people; but his pretensions grew stale, for want of a timely opportunity of introducing them upon the stage. Swift. They reason and conclude by precedent, And own stale nonsense which they ne'er invent. Pope. STALE. n. s. [from prælan, Sax. to steal.] 1. Something exhibited or offered as an allurement to draw others to any place or purpose.

His heart being wholly delighted in deceiving us, we could never be warned; but rather one bird caught, served for a stale to bring in more. Sidn. Still as he went he crafty stales did lay, With cunning trains him to entrap unwares; And privy spials plac'd in all his way, To weet what course he takes and how he fares. Spenser.

The trumpery in my house bring hither, For stale to catch these thieves. Shakesp. Tempest. Had he none else to make a stale but me? I was the chief that rais'd him to the crown, And I'll be chief to bring him down again. Shakesp. Henry VI. A pretence of kindness is the universal stale to all base projects; by this m are robbed of their fortunes, and women of their honour. Government of the Tongue.

It may be a vizor for the hypocrite, and a stale for the ambitious. Decay of Piety. This easy fool must be my stale, set up To catch the people's eyes: he's tame and merciful; Him I can manage. Dryden's Don Sebastian. In Shakespeare it seems to signify a prostitute.

I stand dishonour'd, that have gone about To link my dear friend to a common stale. Shakesp. [From stale, adj] Urine; old urine. Old beer; beer somewhat acidulated. [Stele, Dut a stick.] A handle.

But, seeing th' arrow's stale without, and that the head did goe

No further than it might be seene, he call'd his spirits again. Chapman.

It hath a long stale or handle, with a button at
the end for one's band. Mortimer's Husbandry.
To STALE. v. a. [from the adjective.] To
wear out; to make old. Not in use.
Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale
Her infinite variety. Shakes. Ant. and Cleop.
Were I a common laughter, or did use
To stale with ordinary oaths my love
To every new protestor. Shakesp. Julius Cæsar.
A barren-spirited fellow, one that feeds
On abject orts and imitations;
Which, out of use, and stal'd by other men,
Begin his fashion;
Shakesp. Julius Cæsar.
To STALE. v. n. [from the noun.] To
make water.

Having tied his beast t' a pale,
And taken time for both to stale.

Hudibras.

STA'LELY. adv. [from stale.] Of old; of long time.

Ben Jonson.

All your promis'd mountains And seas I am so stalely acquainted with. STA LENESS. n. s. [from stale.] Oldness; state of being long kept; state of being corrupted by time.

The beer and wine, as well within water as above, have not been palled; but somewhat better than bottles of the same drinks and staleness, kept in a cellar. Bacon's Natural History. Provided our landlord's principles were sound, we did not take any notice of the staleness of his provisions. Addison.

To STALK. v. n. [rrealcan, Sax.] 1. To walk with high and superb steps. It is used commonly in a sense of dislike.

His-monstrous enemy, With sturdy steps came stalking in his sight. Spenser.

Shall your city call us lord, In that behalf by which we challeng'd it? Or shall we give the signal to our rage, And stalk in blood to our possession? Shakesp. King John, Unfold th' eternal door : You see before the gate what stalking ghost Commands the guard, what sentries keep the post. Dryden. With manly mien he stalk'd along the ground; Nor wonted voice bely'd nor vaunting sound.

The king asked how far it was to a certain town:

they said six miles. Half an hour after he asked

again one said six miles and a half. The king alighted out of his coach, and crept under the shoulder of his led horse: and when some asked his majesty what he meant, I must stalk, said he; for yonder town is shy, and flies me. Bacon's Apophtheg. STALK. n. 8. [from the verb.]

1. High, proud, wide, and stately step.
Behind it forth there leapt

An ugly fiend, more foul than dismal day;
The which with monstrous stalk behind him stept,
And ever as he went due watch upon him kept.

Spenser.

Great Milton next, with high and haughty stalks, Unfetter'd in majestick numbers walks. Addison. 2. [Stele, Dut.] The stem on which flowers or fruits

grow.

A stock-gilly flower, gently tied on a stick, put into a steep glass full of quicksilver, so that the quicksilver cover it; after five days you will find the flower fresh, and the stalk harder and less flexible than it was. Bacon.

Small store will serve, where store, All seasons, ripe for use, hangs on the stalk. Milton. That amber attracts not basil, is wholly repugnant unto truth; for if the leaves thereof, or dried stalks, be stripped unto small straws, they arise unto amber, wax, and other electricks, no otherways than those of wheat and rye.

Brown.

Roses unbid, and ev'ry fragrant flow'r, Flew from their stalks to strew thy nuptial bow'r. Dryden.

3. The stem of a quill.

Viewed with a glass, they appear made up of little bladders, like those in the plume or stalk of a quill. Grew. STALKINGHORSE. n. s. [stalking and horse.] A horse either real or fictitious, by which a fowler shelters himself from the sight of the game; a mask; a pretence.

Let the counsellor give counsel not for faction but for conscience, forbearing to make the good of the state the stalkinghorse of his private ends.

Hakewill on Providence. Hypocrisy is the devil's stalkinghorse, under an affectation of simplicity and religion L'Estrange. STALKY. adj. [from stalk] Hard like a stalk.

It grows upon a round stalk, and at the top bears Mortimer. a great stalky head. STALL. n. s. [rreal, Sax. stal, Dutch; stalla, Ital.]

1. A crib in which an ox is fed, or a horse is kept in the stable.

A herd of oxen then he carv'd,with high rais'd heads, forg'd all

Of gold and tin, for colour mixt,and bellowing from their stall,

Rusht to their pastures.

Chapman's Iliad.

Duncan's horses, Beauteous and swift, tne minions of the race, Turn'd wild in nature, broke their stalls, flung out, Contending 'gainst obedience. Shakesp. Macbeth. Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses. 1 Kings, iv. His fellow sought what lodging he could find; At last he found a stall where oxen stood. Dryden. 2. A bench or form where any thing is set to sale.

Stalls, bulks, windows,

3.

All these together in one heap were thrown, Like carcases of beasts in butcher's stall;

And in another corner wide were strown

The antique ruins of the Romans fall. Spenser. 4. The seat of a dignified clergyman in the choir.

To

1.

2.

The pope creates a canon beyond the number limited, and commands the chapter to assign unto such cannon a stall in the choir and place in the chapter. Ayliffe's Parergon.

The dignified clergy, out of mere humility, have called their thrones by the names of stalls. Warburt. STALL. v. a. [from the noun.]

To keep in a stall or stable.

For such encheason, if you go nie, Few chimneys reeking you will espy; The fat ox, that won't ligg in the stall,

Is now fast stalled in his crumenal. Spenser's Past. For my part, he keeps me rustically at home; or, to speak more properly, sties me here at home unkept: for call you that keeping, for a gentleman of my birth, that differs not from the stalling of an Shakesp.

ox?

Nisus the forest pass'd,

And Alban plains, from Alba's name so call'd, Where king Latinus then his oxen stall'd. Dryden. [For install.] To invest.

Long may'st thou live to wail thy children's loss; And see another, as I see thee now, Deck'd in thy rights as thou art stall'd in mine. Shakesp.

To STALL. v. n.

1.

2.

To inhabit; to dwell.

We could not stall together in the world. Shak.
To kennel.

1. Rent paid for a stall.
STAʼLLAGE. n. s. [from stall.

2. [In old books.] Laystall; dung; com-
post.

STA LLFED. adj. [stall and fed.] Fed not
with grass, but dry feed.

Every one must every day sustaine
The load of one beast, the most fat and best
Of all the stallfed, to the woers feast. Chapman.
Stallfed oxen, and crammed fowls, are often dis-
eased in their livers.
Arbuthnot on Aliments.

STALLION. n. s. [ysdalwyn, an old
Welsh word: the one is derived from
the other; but which from which I can-
not certainly tell. Wotton. Estallion,
Fr. stallone, Italian ; stallhengst, Dutch;
Junius thinks it derived from prælan, to
leap.] A horse kept for mares.

The present defects are breeding without choice of stallions in shape or size. Temple.

If fleet Dragon's progeny at last
Prove jaded, and in frequent matches cast,
No favour for the stallion we retain,

And no respect for the degen'rate strain. Dryden.
STALLWORN. adj. [stall and worn.]
Long kept in the stable. But it is proba-
bly a mistake for stalworth.[rrapelferð,
Sax. stout.]

His stallworn steed the champion stout bestrode. Shakesp. STAMINA. n. s. Lat.]

Are smother'd up, leads fill'd, and ridges hors'd With variable complexions; all agreeing In earnestness to see him. Shakesp. Coriolanus. They are nature's coarser wares that lie on the. The first principles of any thing. stall, exposed to the transient view of every com- 2. The solids of a human body. Glanville. 3. [In botany.] Those little fine threads or capillaments which grow up within

2. Stamineous flowers are so far imperfect as to want those coloured leaves which are called petala, and consist only of the stylus and the stamina; and such plants as do bear these stamineous flowers Ray makes to constitute a large genus of plants these he divides into such as first, have their fruit or seed totally di vided from the flower; and these are such plants as are said to be of different sexes the reason of which is, that from the same seed some plants shall arise with flowers and no fruit, and others with fruit and no flowers; as hops, hemp, stinging nettles. 2. Such a have their fruit only a little disjointed from their flowers; as the ricinus, and the heliotropium triconon. S. Such as have their fruit immediately contiguous, or adhering, to their flower. 4. Such whose flowers adhere to the top or uppermost of the seed; as the beta, asarum, and alchimilla.

STA'MMEL. n. s. A species of red colour.
Reedhood, the first that doth appear
In stammel: scarlet is too dear.
Ben Jes

To STA'MMER. v. n. [ƒramer, a stam
merer, Sax. stamelen, stameren, to stan
mer, Dut.] To speak with unnatural he
sitation; to utter words with difficulty.
Sometimes to her news of myself to tell
about; but then is all my best
Wry words, and stamm'ring, or else doltish dumb
Say then,can this but of enchantment come?Sidney,
I would thou couldst stammer, that thou mightst
pour out of thy mouth, as wine comes out of
narrow-mouth'd bottle, either too much at once
or none at all.
Shakes

These prodigious conceits in nature spring out of framing abstracted conceptions, instead of those easy and primary notions which nature stamps in all men of common sense. Digby. There needs no positive law or sanction of God to stamp an obliquity upon such a disobedience.

South.

3.

have more than once offered themselves, have yet To STANCH. v. n. To stop. been little taken notice of; the mind, intent only on one thing, not settling the stamp deep into itself. Locke.

A thing marked or stamped.

The mere despair of surgery he cures ; Hanging a golden stamp about their necks, Put on with holy prayers. Shakesp. Macbeth. 4. A picture cut in wood or metal; a picture made by impression; a cut; a plate.

At Venice they put out very curious stamps of the several edifices, which are most famous for their beauty and magnificence. Addison on Italy. 5. A mark set upon things that pay customs to the government.

Indeed the paper stamp
Did very much his genius cramp;
And since he could not spend his fire,
He now intended to retire.

Swift.

itself it will find out God.

Tillotson.

Though God has given us no innate ideas of himself; though he has stampt no original characters on our minds, wherein we may read his being; yet, having furnished us with those faculties our minds are endowed with, he hath not left himself without witness. Locke.

What titles had they had, if nature had not Strove hard to thrust the worst deserving first, And stamp'd the noble mark of eldership Upon their baser metal? Rowe's Ambitious Stepm

What an unspeakable happiness would it be to a man engaged in the pursuit of knowledge, if he had but a power of stamping his best sentiments upon his memory in indelible characters. Watts. 5 To make by impressing a mark.

If two penny weight of silver, marked with a certain impression, shall here in England be equi vulent to three pennyweight marked with another impression, they will not fail to stamp pieces of that fashion, and quickly carry away your silver.

6. To mint; to form; to coin.

We are bastards all;

And that most venerable man, which 1 Did call my father, was I know not where When I was stampt.

Locke.

Shakesp. Cymbeline.

To STAMP. v. n. To strike the foot suddenly downward.

What a fool art thou,

A ramping fool, to brag, to stamp, and swear,
Upon my party! Thou cold-blooded slave,
Hast thou not spoke like thunder on my side?
Shakesp.

The men shall howl at the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong horses. Jer. xlvii. 3. There is such an echo among the old ruins and vaults, that, if you stamp but a little louder than ordinary, you hear the sound repeated. Addison. He cannot bear th' astonishing delight, But starts, exclaims, and stamps, and raves, and dies. Dennis.

They got to the top, which was flat and even, and stamping upon it, they found it was hollow. Swift. STAMP. n. s. [estampe, Fr. stampa, Ital.] 1. Any instrument by which a distinct and lasting impression is made.

Some other nymphs, with colours faint
And pencil slow, may Cupid paint,
And a weak heart in time destroy:
She has a stump, and prints the boy.
'Tis gold so pure,

fixed upon any thing.

The persons here reflected upon are of such a pecuilar stamp of impiety, that they seem formed into a kind of diabolical society for the finding out new experiments in vice. South. Where reason or scripture is expressed for any opinion, we may receive it as of divine authority; but it is not the strength of our own persuasions which can give it that stamp. Locke

7. Authority; currency; value derived from any suffrage or attestation.

Of the same stamp is that which is obtruded upon us, that an adamant suspends the attraction of the loadstone. Brown's Vulgar Errours The common people do not judge of vice or virtue by the morality or the immorality, so much as by the stamp that is set upon it by men of figure. L'Estrange.

8. Make; cast; form.

If speaking truth

In this fine age were not thought flatt'ry,
Such attribution should this Douglas have,
As not a soldier of this season's stamp,
Should go so general current through the world.
Shakesp.

When one man of an exemplary improbity charges another of the same stamp in a court of justice, he lies under the disadvantage of a strong suspicion. L'Estrange.

Let a friend to the government relate to him a matter of fact, he gives him the lye in every look ; but if one of his own stamp should tell him that the king of Sweden would be suddenly at Perth, he hugs himself at the good news.

Addison.

A king of heav'n's own stamp, not vulgar make; Blessed in giving, and averse to take, Harte. STAMPER. n. s. [from stamp.] An instrument of pounding.

A woman touched the hem of his garment, and immediately her issue stanched. Luke, viii. 44. STANCH. adj. [This seems to come from the verb.]

1. Sound; such as will not run out.

Boyle.

What we endeavoured in vain may be performed by some virtuoso, that shall have stancher vessels, and more sunny days. 2. Firm; sound of principle; trusty; hearty; determined.

The standing absurdity, without the belief of which no man is reckoned a stanch churchman, is, that there is a calf's-head club. Addison.

In politicks, I hear, you're stanch,
Directly bent against the French.

Prior.

They mean to convince, not the grovelling herd, or giddy populace, but the grave and stanch men, men of sobriety and firmness.

Waterland.

Each staunch polemick stubborn as a rock, Each fierce logician still expelling Locke, Came whip and spur.

Pope.

3. In this sense is used a stanch hound, a dog that follows the scent without errour or remissness.

Shakesp. Macbeth. She unto Scythia sent, for hunger him to gnaw, And thrust her down his throat, into his stanchless Drayton. To STAND. v. n. preterit I stood, I have stood. [rrandan, Goth. and Sax. staen, Dut. stare, Ital. estar, Span. stare, Lat.] 1. To be upon the feet; not to sit, kneel, or lie down.

The absolution to be pronounced by the priest alone standing, the people still kneeling. Common Prayer.

From the stamping mill it passeth through the crazing-mill; but of late times they mostly use wet stampers. Carew. 3. STAN, amongst our forefathers, was the termination of the superlative degree: so Athelstan most noble; Betstan the 4. best; Leofstan the dearest; Wistin the wisest; Dunstan the highest.

Gibson's Camden. To STANCH. v. a. [estancher, Fr. stagnare, Ital.] To stop blood; to hinder from running.

To remain erect; not to fall.

To stand or fall,

Milton

Free in thine own arbitrement it lies.
Chariot and charioteer lay overturn'd,
And fiery foaming steeds: what stood, recoil'd
O'erwearied through the faint Satanick host,
Defensive scarce; or, with pale fear surpris'd,
Fled ignominious.
Milton's Par. Lost

5.

To become erect.

Iron or a stone, laid to the neck, doth stanch the Mute, and amaz'd, my hair with horror stood; bleeding of the nose. Bacon's Nat. Hist. Fear shrunk my senses, and congeal'd my blood. Of veins of earth medicinal are terra lemnia, Dryden. terra sigillata communis, and bolus armenus; Her hair stood up; convulsive rage possess'd whereof terra lemia is the chief: the virtues of Her trembling limbs. Dryden's Eneid. them are for curing of wounds, stanching of blood, and stopping of fluxes and rheums. Bacon. 6. To stop; to halt; not to go forward. Leeches, inwardly taken, fasten upon the veins, The leaders, having charge from you to stand; and occasion an effusion of blood, which cannot Will not go off until they hear you speak. be easily starched. Brown's Vulg. Err. Shakesp. Henry VI. He fought to hinder fighting, and assay d To stanch the blood by breathing of the vein. Dry.

My mind on its own centre stands unmov'd, And stable as the fabrick of the world, Propt on itself.

Dryden.

9. To be in any posture of resistance or defence.

Seeing how lothly opposite I stood

To his unnatʼral purpose, in fell motion With his prepared sword he charges home My unprovided body. Shakesp. King Lear. From enemies heav'n keep your majesty; And when they stand against you, may they fall. Shakespeare. 10. To be in a state of hostility; to keep the ground.

If he would presently yield, Barbarossa promised to let him go free; but if he should stand upon his defence, he threatened to make him repent his foolish hardiness. Knolles.

The king granted the Jews to gather themselves together, and stand for their life. Esth. viii. 11. We are often constrained to stand alone against the strength of opinion Brown's Pref to Vulg Errs. It was by the sword they should die, if they stood upon defence; and by the halter, if they should yield. Hayward. 21. Not to yield; not to fly; not to give

way.

Who before him stood so to it? for the Lord brought his enemies unto him. Ecclus xlvi. 3. Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

Eph. vi. 11. Their lives and fortunes were put in safety, whether they stood to it or ran away. Bacon's Hen. VII. 12. To stay; not to fly.

Then the lightning-loving Deity cast A foule flight on my soldiers: nor stood fast One man of all.

Chapman.

At the soldierly word stand, the flyers halted a ittle. Clarendon.

3. To be placed with regard to rank or order.

Amongst liquids endued with this quality of re.axing, warm water stands first. Arbuthnot on Alim

Theology would truly enlarge the mind, were it studied with that freedom and that sacred charity which it teaches: let this therefore stand always chief. Watts.

4. To remain in the present state.

Accomplish what your signs foreshow. I stand resign'd, and am prepar'd to go. Dryd. Æn. He struck the snakes, and stood again New sex'd, and straight recover'd into man. Addis. They expect to be favoured, who stand not possessed of any one of those qualifications that belonged to him. Atterbury.

Some middle prices shew us in what proportion the value of their lands stood, in regard to those of our own country. Arbuthnot.

God, who sees all things intuitively, does not want these helps, he neither stands in need of lock, nor uses it. Baker.

Persians and Greeks like turns of nature found, And the world's victor stood subdued by sound. Pope

Narrow capacities, imagining the great capable of being disconcerted by little occasions, frame their malignant fables accordingly, and stund detected by it, as by an evident mark of ignorance. Pope's Essay on Homer. 16. Not to become void; to remain in force.

God was not ignorant that the judges, whose sentence in matters of controversy he ordained should stand, oftentimeswould be deceived. Hooker. | A thing within my bosom tells me, That no conditions of our peace can stand. Shakesp. Henry VI. I will punish you, that ye may know that my words shall surely stand against you for evil.

Jer. xliv. 29. My mercy will I keep for him, and my covenant shall stand fast with him. Psalm lxxxiv. 28.

17. To consist; to have its being or essence.

That could not make him, that did the service, perfect, as pertaining to the conscience, which stood only in meats and drinks. Heb. ix. 10. 18. To be, with respect to terms of a con

Within the eye of honour, be assured
My purse, my person, my extremest means,
Lie all unlock'd to your occasions.

Shakespeare's Merch. of Venice. My very enemy's dog, Though he had bit me, should have stood that night Against my fire. Shakesp. King Lear. This excellent man,who stood not upon the advantage ground before, provoked men of all qualities. Clarendon. Chariots wing'd From th' armoury of God, where stand of old Myriads. Miltom. 20. To be in any state at the time present. Opprest nature sleeps:

This rest might yet have balm'd thy broken senses
Which stand in hard cure. Shakesp. King Lear.
So it stands: and this I fear at last,
Hume's knavery will be the duchess' wreck.
Shakesp. Henry VI.
All which grace

I now will amplify, and tell what case
Thy household stands in.
Chapman.
Our company assembled, I said, Mydear friends,
let us know ourselves, and how it standeth with us.
Bacon.

Gardiner was made king's solicitor, and the patent, formerly granted to Saint John, stood revoked. Clarendon.

22. To be, with regard to condition or fortune.

I stand in need of one whose glories may Redeem iny crimes, ally me to his fame. Dryden. 23. To have any particular respect.

Here stood he in the dark, his sharp sword out, Mumbling of wicked charms, conj ring the moon To stand's auspicious mistress. Sakesp. King Lear. An utter unsuitableness disobedience has to the relation which man necessarily stands in towards his Maker. South.

24. To be without action.

A philosopherdisputed with Adrian the emperor,

and did it but weakly one of his friends, that stood by, said, Methinks you were not like yourself last day in argument with the emperor; I could have answered better myself. Why, said the phi- | losopher, would you have me contend with him that commands thirty legions?

Bacon.

25. To depend; to rest; to be supported This reply standeth all by conjectures. Whitne The presbyterians of the kirk, less forwar declare their opinion in the former point, sax Sanderun upon the latter only.

He that will know, must by the commess! the proofs see the truth and the ground it starts, Loc & 26. To be with regard to state of mind. Stand in awe and sin not: commune with va own heart upon your bed, and be still. Psalm 13.4 I desire to be present, and change my voice, is I stand in doubt of you. Gal jv. S 27. To succeed; to be acquitted; to be safe.

Readers, by whose judgment I would stand a fall, would not be such as are acquainted only wi the French and Italian criticks. Addison's Spectuar, To be, with respect to any particular.

28.

Cæsar entreats

one,

Chilon said that kings friends and favourites were like casting counters, that sometimes stood fr sometimes for ten. Baco I will not trouble myself, whether these names stand for the same thing, or really include one as other. Locke

Their language being scanty, had no words in t to stand for a thousand. Locks

31. To remain; to be fixed.

Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong. 1 Cor. xvi. 13. How soon hath thy prediction, seer blest! Measur'd this transient world, the race of time, Till time stand fix'd.

32. To hold a course at sea.

Milton.

Behold on Latian shores a foreign prince! From the same parts of heav'n his wavy stands, To the same parts on earth his army lands. Dryden Full for the port the Ithacensians stand, And furl their sails, and issue on the land. Pope's Odisse 33. To have direction towards any local point.

The wand did not really stand to the metals, when placed under it,or the metalline veins. Boy. 34. To offer as a candidate.

He stood to be elected one of the proctors for the university. Sanderson's Lis 35. To place himself; to be placed. The fool bath planted in his memory An army of good words; and I do know A many fools that stand in better place, Garnish'd like him, that for a tricky word Defy the matter. Shakesp. Merchant of Venice. He was commanded by the duke to stand aside and expect his answer. Knolles's Hist- of the Turks. I stood between the Lord and you, to shew you the Lord's word. Deut v. 5.

36. To stagnate; not to flow. Stand by when he is going.

Swift

Where Ufens glides along the lowly lands, Or the black water of Pomptina stands. Dryden

37.

To be with respect to chance. Yourself, renowned prince, then stood as fair As any comer I have looked on, For my affection. Shakesp. Merchant of Venice. Each thinks he stands fairest for the great lot, and that he is possessed of the golden number. Addison's Spectator

. To remain satisfied. Though Page be a secure fool, and stand so irmly on his wife's frailty, yet I cannot put off my pinion so easily. Shakesp.

To be without motion.

52. To stand for. To maintain; to profess to support.

When the accusers stood up, they brought none accusation of such things as I supposed.

To make delay.

Shakesp

They will suspect they shall make but small progress, if, in the books they read, they must stand o examine and unravel every argument. Locke. ". To insist; to dwell with many words, or much pertinacity.

To stand upon every point, and be curious in particulars, belongeth to the first author of the story. 2 Maccab. ii. 30. It is so plain that it needeth not to be stood upon. Bacon.

.To be exposed.

1 Have I lived to stand in the taunt of one that makes fritters of English? Shakesp. Merry Wives. 3. To persist; to persevere,

Never stand in a lye when thou art accused, but ask pardon and make amends.

Taylor's Rule of Living Holy. The emperor, standing upon the advantage he had got by the seizure of their fleet, obliged them to deliver. Gulliver's Travels.

Hath the prince a full commission, To hear, and absolutely to determine Of what conditions we shall stand upon?Shak. H.IV. 4. To persist in a claim.

5. To adhere; to abide.

Despair would stand to the sword,

To try what friends would do, or fate afford. Dan. 6. To be consistent.

His faithful people, whatsoever they rightly ask. the same shall they receive, so far as may stand with the glory of God and their own everlasting good; unto either of which it is no virtuous man's purpose to seek any thing prejudicial. Hooker.

Some instances of fortune cannot stand with

some others; but if you desire this you must lose

that.

Taylor.

7. To be put aside with disregard. We make all our addresses to the promises, hug and caress them, and in the interim let the commands stand by neglected. Decay of Piety. 8. To stand by. To support; to defend; not to desert.

The ass hoped the dog would stand by him, if set upon by the wolf. L'Estrange If we meet with a repulse, we must throw off the fox's skin, and put on the lion's come, gentlemen, you'll stand by me. Dryden's Span. Fryar. Our good works will attend and stand by us at the hour of death. Calamy.

49. To stand by. To be present, without being an actor.

Margaret's curse is fall'n upon our heads, For standing by when Richard kill'd her son. Shak. 50. To stand by. To repose on; to rest in The world is inclined to stand by the Arundelian marble. Pope's Essay on Homer. 51. To stand for. To propose one's self a

candidate.

How many stand for consulships?-Three: but 'tis thought of every one Coriolanus will carry it. Shakesp. If they were jealous that Coriolanus had a deeign on their liberties when he stood for the conVOL. II.

Stand no more off,

Shakesp.

But give thyself unto my sick desires. 55. To stand off. To forbear friendship or intimacy.

Our bloods pour'd altogether Would quite confound distinction; yet stand off In differences so mighty. Shakesp. Such behaviour frights away friendship, and makes it stand off in dislike and aversion. Collier of Friendship. Though nothing can be more honourable than an acquaintance with God, we stand off from it, and will not be tempted to embrace it. Atterbury, 56. To stand off. To have relief; to appear protuberant or prominent.

Picture is best when it standeth off as if it were carved; and sculpture is best when it appeareth so tender as if it were painted, when there is such a softness in the limbs as if not a chissel had hewed them out of stone, but a pencil had drawn and stroaked them in oil. Wotton's Architecture. 57. To stand out. To hold resolution; to hold a post; not to yield a point. King John hath reconcil'd

Himself to Rome; his spirit is come in,
That so stood out against the holy church. Shakesp.
Pontinius knows not you,

While you stand out upon these traiterous terms.
Ben Jonson.

Let not men flatter themselves, that though they find it difficult at present to combat and stand out against an ill practice, yet that old age will do that for them, which they in their youth could never find in their hearts to do for themselves. South.

Acts xxv. 18.

To stand up. To make a party. When we stood up about the corn, he himself stuck not to call us the many-headed monster. Coriolanus.

67. To stand upon. To concern; to interest. An impersonal sense.

Does it not stand me now upon? Shak. Hamlet The king knowing well that it stood hin upon, by how much the more he had hitherto protracted the time, by so much the sooner to dispatch with the rebels. Bacon. It stands me much upon

Hudibras.

T' enervate this objection. Does it not stand them upon, to examine upon what grounds they presume it to be a revelation from God? Locke.

68. To stand upon. To value; to take pride.

Men stand very much upon the reputation of their understandings, and of all things hate to be accounted fools; the best way to avoid this imputation is to be religious. Tillotson.

We highly esteem and stand much upon our birth, though we derive nothing from our ancestors but our bodies; and it is useful to improve this ad vantage, to imitate their good examples.

69. To stand upon. To insist.

What, art thou stiff? stand'st out?

Shakesp

If the ladies will stand out, let them remember that the jury is not all agreed. Dryden. 59. To stand out. To be prominent or protuberant.

3.

Their eyes stand out with fatness. Psal. lxxiii. 7 60. To stand to. To ply; to persevere. Palinurus cried aloud,

What gusts of weather from that gathering cloud My thoughts presage! ere that the tempest roars, Stand to your tackles, mates, and stretch your oars. Dryden. 61. To stand to. To remain fixed in a purpose.

He that will pass his land,

As I have mine, may set his hand
And heart unto this deed, when he hath read;
And make the purchase spread

To both our goods, if he to it will stand. Herbert. I will stand to it, that this is his sense, as will appear from the design of his words. Stillingfleet. 62. To stand to. To abide by a contract or assertion.

As I have no reason to stand to the award of my enemies, so neither dare 1 trust the partiality of my friends. Dryden. 63. To stand under. To undergo; to sustain.

Smith.

Pope.

Bid him disband the legions, Submit bis actions to the publick censure, And stand the judgment of a Roman senate. Addison's Cato.

To keep; to maintain: with ground, Turning at the length, he stood his ground, And miss'd his friend.

STAND. n. s. [from the verb.]

Dryden.

1. A station; a place where one waits standing.

I have found you out a stand most fit, Where you may have such 'vantage on the duke, He shall not pass you. Shakesp. Meas. for Measure In this covert will we make a stand, Culling the principal of all the deer. Then from his lofty stand on that high tree Down he alights among the sportful herds. Milton. The princely hierarch

Shakesp.

In their bright stand there left his pow'rs to seize
Possession of the garden.
Milton's Par. Lost.

The male bird, whilst the hen is covering her eggs, generally takes his stand upon a neighbouring bough, and diverts her with his songs during her sitting. Addison's Spectator.'

I took my stand upon an eminence which was appointed for a general rendezvous of these female carriers, to look into their several ladings. Addison's Spectată.

Three persons entered into a conspiracy to assassinate Timoleon, as he was offering up his devo. tions in a certain temple: in order to it they took If you unite in your complaints, their several stands in the most convenient places. And force them with a constancy, the cardinal Addison. Cannot stand under them. Shakesp. Hen. VIII. When just as by her stand Arsaces past, 64. To stand The window by design or chance fell down, To erect one's self; to up. And to his view expos'd her blushing beauties. rise from sitting.