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The position or standing of a sizar.

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  • STANDARD
    The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established by authority. By the present standard of the coinage, sixty-two shillings is coined out of one pound weight of silver. Arbuthnot. (more info) extendere to spread out, extend,
  • STANDPOINT
    A fixed point or station; a basis or fundamental principle; a position from which objects or principles are viewed, and according to which they are compared and judged.
  • STANDPIPE
    A vertical pipe, open at the top, between a hydrant and a reservoir, to equalize the flow of water; also, a large vertical pipe, near a pumping engine, into which water is forced up, so as to give it sufficient head to rise to the required level
  • STANDAGE
    A reservior in which water accumulates at the bottom of a mine.
  • STANDER-BY
    One who stands near; one who is present; a bystander.
  • STANDERGRASS
    A plant ; -- called also standerwort, and long purple. See Long purple, under Long.
  • STAND
    OS. standan, stan, G. stehen, Icel. standa, Dan. staae, Sw. stå, Goth. standan, Russ. stoiate, L. stare, Gr. stha. *163. Cf. Assist, Constant, Contrast, Desist, Destine, Ecstasy, Exist, Interstice, Obstacle, Obstinate, Prest, n., Rest remainder,
  • SIZAR
    One of a body of students in the universities of Cambridge and Dublin, who, having passed a certain examination, are exempted from paying college fees and charges. A sizar corresponded to a servitor at Oxford. The sizar paid nothing for food and
  • SIZARSHIP
    The position or standing of a sizar.
  • STANDISH
    A stand, or case, for pen and ink. I bequeath to Dean Swift, Esq., my large silver standish. Swift.
  • STANDARD-WING
    A curious paradise bird which has two long special feathers standing erect on each wing.
  • STANDARDIZE
    To reduce to a normal standard; to calculate or adjust the strength of, by means of, and for uses in, analysis.
  • POSITION
    A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; -- called also the rule of trial and error. Angle of position , the angle which any line makes with another fixed line, specifically with a circle of declination. -- Double position ,
  • POSITIONAL
    Of or pertaining to position. Ascribing unto plants positional operations. Sir T. Browne.
  • STANDARD-BRED
    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.
  • STAND-BY
    One who, or that which, stands by one in need; something upon which one relies for constant use or in an emergency.
  • STANDSTILL
    A standing without moving forward or backward; a stop; a state or rest.
  • STANDGALE
    See STANNEL
  • STANDER
    1. One who stands. 2. Same as Standel. Ascham.
  • STANDEL
    A young tree, especially one reserved when others are cut. Fuller.
  • BYSTANDER
    One who stands near; a spectator; one who has no concern with the business transacting. He addressed the bystanders and scattered pamphlets among them. Palfrey. Syn. -- Looker on; spectator; beholder; observer.
  • APPOSITION
    The state of two nouns or pronouns, put in the same case, without a connecting word between them; as, I admire Cicero, the orator. Here, the second noun explains or characterizes the first. Growth by apposition , a mode of growth characteristic
  • AGAINSTAND
    To withstand.
  • OPPOSITIONIST
    One who belongs to the opposition party. Praed.
  • UNDERSTANDINGLY
    In an understanding manner; intelligibly; with full knowledge or comprehension; intelligently; as, to vote upon a question understandingly; to act or judge understandingly. The gospel may be neglected, but in can not be understandingly disbelieved.
  • STILLSTAND
    A standstill. Shak.
  • EXPOSITION
    1. The act of exposing or laying open; a setting out or displaying to public view. 2. The act of expounding or of laying open the sense or meaning of an author, or a passage; explanation; interpretation; the sense put upon a passage; a law, or
  • DECOMPOSITION
    1. The act or process of resolving the constituent parts of a compound body or substance into its elementary parts; separation into constituent part; analysis; the decay or dissolution consequent on the removal or alteration of some of
  • BOOKSTAND
    1. A place or stand for the sale of books in the streets; a bookstall. 2. A stand to hold books for reading or reference.
  • SEPOSITION
    The act of setting aside, or of giving up. Jer. Taylor.
  • WASHSTAND
    A piece of furniture holding the ewer or pitcher, basin, and other requisites for washing the person.
  • CIRCUMPOSITION
    The act of placing in a circle, or round about, or the state of being so placed. Evelyn.
  • SUBSIZAR
    An under sizar; a student of lower rank than a sizar. Bid my subsizar carry my hackney to the buttery and give him his bever. J. Fletcher.
  • ANTEPOSITION
    The placing of a before another, which, by ordinary rules, ought to follow it.
  • PRESUPPOSITION
    1. The act of presupposing; an antecedent implication; presumption. 2. That which is presupposed; a previous supposition or surmise.
  • UNCIRCUMSTANDTIAL
    1. Not circumstantial; not entering into minute particulars. 2. Not important; not pertinent; trivial.
  • DEPOSITION
    The act of laying down one's testimony in writing; also, testimony laid or taken down in writting, under oath or affirmation, befor some competent officer, and in reply to interrogatories and cross-interrogatories. Syn. -- Deposition, Affidavit.

 

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