Emily Dickinson Lexicon

STAND'EL, n.

A tree of long standing. [Not used.]

STAND'ER, n.

1. One who stands.
2. A tree that has stood long. [Not used.] – Ascham.

STAND'ER-BY, n.

One that stands near; one that is present; a mere spectator. – Hooker. Addison. [We now more generally use by-stander.]

STAND'ER-GRASS, n.

A plant. – Ainsworth.

STAND'ING, n.

1. Continuance; duration or existence; as, a custom of long standing.
2. Possession of an office, character or place; as; a patron or officer of long standing.
3. Station; place to stand in. I will provide you with a good standing to see his entry. – Bacon.
4. Power to stand. I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing. – Ps. lxix.
5. Rank; condition in society; as, a man of good standing or of high standing among his friends. Standing off, sailing from the land. Standing on, sailing to land. [Irving uses the nouns, standings off and standings on.]

STAND'ING, ppr.

1. Being on the feet; being erect. [See Stand.]
2. Moving in a certain direction to or from an object.
3. adj. Settled; established, either by law or by custom, &c.; continually existing; permanent; not temporary; as, a standing army. Money is the standing measure of the value of all other commodities. Legislative bodies have certain standing rules of proceeding. Courts of law are or ought to be governed by standing rules. There are standing rules of pleading. The Gospel furnishes us with standing rules of morality. The Jews by their dispersion and their present condition, are a standing evidence of the truth of revelation and of the prediction of Moses. Many fashionable vices and follies ought to be the standing objects of ridicule.
4. Lasting; not transitory; not liable to fade or vanish; as, a standing color.
5. Stagnant; not flowing; as, standing water.
6. Fixed; not movable; as, a standing bed; distinguished from a truckle bed. – Shak.
7. Remaining erect; not cut down; as, standing corn. Standing rigging, of a ship. This consists of the cordage or ropes which sustain the masts and remain fixed in their position. Such are the shrouds and stays.

STAND'ISH, n. [stand and dish.]

A case for pen and ink. I bequeath to Dean Swift my large silver standish. – Swift.

STAND'-STILL, n.

A standing without moving. – Blackwood.

STANE, n. [Sax. stan.]

A stone. [Local. See Stone.]

STANG, n. [Sax. stæng, steng, a pole or stick; Dan. stang; G. stange; Sw. stång; It. stanga, a bar; W. ystang, a pole or perch; allied to sting and stanchion; from shooting.]

1. A pole, rod or perch; a measure of land. [Not in use.] – Swift.
2. A long bar; a pole; a shaft. To ride the stang, is to be carried on men's shoulders, in derision. [Local.] – Todd.

STANG, v.i.

To shoot with pain. [Local.] – Grose.

STANK, a.

Weak; worn out. [Not in use.] – Spenser.

STANK, n. [W. ystanc. See Stanch.]

A dam or mound to stop water. [Local.]

STANK, v. [old pret. of Stink. Stunk is now used.]

STANK, v.i.

To sigh. [Not used.]

STAN'NA-RY, a. [from L. stannum, tin; Ir. stan; W. ystaen. See Tin.]

Relating to the tin works; as, stannary courts. – Blackstone.

STAN'NA-RY, n.

A tin mine.

STAN'NATE, n. [L. stannum, tin.]

A salt formed of stannic acid united with a base.

STAN'NEL, or STAN'YEL, n.

The kestrel, a species of hawk; called also stone-gall and wind-hover. – Ed. Encyc.

STAN'NIC, a. [L. stannum, tin.]

Pertaining to tin; procured from tin; as, the stannic acid. – Lavoisier.

STAN'NIC-AC-ID, n. [STAN'NIC AC-ID.]

The deutoxyd of tin, which performs the functions of an acid, uniting with bases and forming salts called stannates.

STAN'ZA, n. [It. stanza, an abode or lodging, a stanza, that is, a stop; Sp. and Port. estancia, from estancar, to stop; Fr. stance. See Stanch.]

In poetry, a number of lines or verses connected with each other, and ending in a full point or pause; a part of a poem, containing every variation of measure in that poem. A stanza may contain verses of a different length or number of syllables, and a different number of verses; or it may consist of verses of equal length. Stanzas are said to have been first introduced from the Italian into French poetry about the year 1580, and thence they were introduced into England. The versions of the Psalms present examples of various kinds of stanzas. Horace confines himself to one sort of verse or stanza in every ode. – Dryden.

STAN'ZA, n.²

In architecture, an apartment or division in a building.

STAN'ZA-IC, a.

Consisting in stanzas.

STAP'A-ZIN, n.

A bird, a species of warbler.