Verb

(pledg)

To make a solemn promise (to do something).

To deposit something as a security; to pawn.

To give assurance of friendship by the act of drinking; to drink to one's health.

* 1773 ,

HARDCASTLE [Taking the cup.] I hope you'll find it to your mind. I have prepared it with my own hands, and I believe you'll own the ingredients are tolerable. Will you be so good as to pledge me, sir? Here, Mr. Marlow, here is to our better acquaintance. [Drinks.]

* 1852 , Matthew Arnold, Tristram and Iseult

Reach me my golden cup that stands by thee,

And pledge me in it first for courtesy.

Verb

(lb) To or be positioned physically.

#(lb) To support oneself on the feet in an erect position.

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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps,

#(lb) To rise to one’s feet; to stand up.

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# To remain motionless.

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#*Bible, (w) ii, 9

#*:The star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was.

#*, chapter=23

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=The slightest effort made the patient cough. He would stand leaning on a stick and holding a hand to his side, and when the paroxysm had passed it left him shaking.}}

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#*:Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.

#(lb) To be placed in an upright or vertical orientation.

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#*:They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect.

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#*:He seized the gun which always stood in a corner of his bedroom.

#(lb) To place in an upright or standing position.

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#(lb) To occupy or hold a place; to be situated or located.

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#(lb) To measure when erect on the feet.

#* (1809-1892)

#*:Six feet two, as I think, he stands .

(lb) To or be positioned mentally.

# To be positioned to gain or lose.

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# To tolerate.

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#*, chapter=7

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=“[…] if you call my duds a ‘livery’ again there'll be trouble. It's bad enough to go around togged out like a life saver on a drill day, but I can stand' that 'cause I'm paid for it. What I won't ' stand is to have them togs called a livery.

#(lb) To maintain one's ground; to be acquitted; not to fail or yield; to be safe.

#*Spectator

#*:readers by whose judgment I would stand or fall

#(lb) To maintain an invincible or permanent attitude; to be fixed, steady, or firm; to take a position in resistance or opposition.

#*Bible, (w) viii. 11

#*:The king granted the Jewsto gather themselves together, and to stand for their life.

#*(Robert South) (1634–1716)

#*:the standing pattern of their imitation

# To be in some particular state; to have essence or being; to be; to consist.

#*Bible, (w) ix. 10

#*:sacrificeswhich stood only in meats and drinks

#*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)

#*:Accomplish what your signs foreshow; / I stand resigned, and am prepared to go.

#*Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)

#*:Thou seest how it stands with me, and that I may not tarry.

(lb) To or be positioned socially.

# To act as an umpire.

#(lb) To undergo; withstand; hold up.

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#*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)

#*:Love stood the siege.

#*(Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)

#*:Bid him disband his legions,/ And stand the judgment of a Roman senate.

#*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)

#*:He stood the furious foe.

# To seek election.

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#*(Izaak Walton) (c.1594-1683)

#*:He stood to be elected one of the proctors of the university.

#(lb) To be valid.

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#(lb) To oppose, usually as a team, in competition.

#*1957 , (Matt Christopher), Basketball Sparkplug , Ch.7:

#*:"Kim, Jack, and I will stand you guys," Jimmie Burdette said. ¶ "We'll smear you!" laughed Ron.

#* R. J. Childerhose, Hockey Fever in Goganne Falls , p.95:

#*:The game stopped while sides were sorted out. Andy did the sorting. "Okay," he said. "Jimmy is coming out. He and Gaston and Ike and me will stand you guys."

#*1978 , (Louis Sachar), Sideways Stories from Wayside School , Ch.21:

#*:"Hey, Louis," Dameon shouted. "Do you want to play kickball?" ¶ ""All right," said Louis. "Ron and I will both play."¶ "Ron and I will stand everybody!" Louis announced.

#To cover the expense of; to pay for.

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#(lb) To have or maintain a position, order, or rank; to be in a particular relation.

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#(lb) To be consistent; to agree; to accord.

#*(Philip Massinger) (1583-1640)

#*:Doubt me not; by heaven, I will do nothing / But what may stand with honour.

#(lb) To appear in court.

#:(Burrill)

Of a ship or its captain, to steer, sail (in a specified direction, for a specified destination etc.).

*1630 , John Smith, True Travels , in Kupperman 1988, p.40:

*:To repaire his defects, hee stood for the coast of Calabria, but hearing there was six or seven Galleyes at Mesina hee departed thence for Malta.

(lb) To remain without ruin or injury.

*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)

*:My mind on its own centre stands unmoved.

*(Lord Byron) (1788-1824)

*:The ruin'd wall / Stands when its wind-worn battlements are gone.

(lb) To stop asking for more cards.