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• Still

  ·adv Constant; continual. II. Still ·noun A steep hill or ascent. III. Still ·vt To cause to fall ...

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• Stand

  ·noun To appear in court. II. Stand ·vi Rank; post; station; standing. III. Stand ·noun To measure...

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• Still-burn

  ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. To burn in the process of distillation; as, to still-burn brandy. ...

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• Still-closing

  ·adj Ever closing. ...

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• Still-hunt

  ·noun A hunting for game in a quiet and cautious manner, or under cover; stalking; hence, colloquial...

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• Stock-still

  ·adj Still as a stock, or fixed post; perfectly still. ...

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• Stone-still

  ·adj As still as a stone. ...

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• Still Alley

  1) East out of Houndsditch at No, 104. On the boundary of Portsoken and Bishopsgate Wards (O. and M....

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• Still Yard

  On Tower Hill (W. Stow, 1722-P. Clerks, 1732). Not named in the maps. ...

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• still-house

  A common term in the United States for a distillery. Despise it not, ye Bards to terror steel'd, W...

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• still water

  Another name for slack-tide; it is also used for water under the lee of headlands, or where there is...

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• Stable stand

  ·- The position of a man who is found at his standing in the forest, with a crossbow or a longbow be...

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• Stand-by

  ·noun One who, or that which, stands by one in need; something upon which one relies for constant us...

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• Wash stand

  ·add. ·- In a stable or garage, a place in the floor prepared so that carriages or automobiles may b...

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• to stand in

  To cost. 'This horse stands me in two hundred dollars.' ...

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• stand-point

  (Germ. stand-punkt.) Place of standing; point of view. An expression lately introduced from the Germ...

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• stand, to

  The movement by which a ship advances towards a certain object, or departs from it; as, "The enemy s...

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• stand by!

  The order to be prepared; to look out to fire when directed. To stand by a rope, is to take hold o...

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• The Hand and Still

  In Houndesditch at the boundary of Bishopsgate Ward (Strype, ed. 1720, I. ii. 94, and in 1755 ed.). ...

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• Saxton's Still House

  On the west side of Dung Wharf, in Farringdom Ward Without (Rocque, 1746). Site now occupied by the...

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• Stilliarde, Still Yard

  See The Steelyard. ...

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• Three Still Court

  East out of Bishopsgate Street. In Bishopsgate Ward Without (Hatton, 1708-Boyle, 1799). Rents from ...

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• to stand in hand

  To concern; to behoove.--Holloway, Prov. Dict. This phrase is a colloquial one in New England. Ex. '...

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• stand from under!

  A notice given to those below to keep out of the way of anything being lowered down, or let fall fro...

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• stand of arms

  A complete set for one man; now-a-days, simply a musket and bayonet. Also, an arm-stand holding the ...

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• stand right under!

  Jocularly, "Get out of the way." ...

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• stand square, to

  To stand or be at right angles relatively to some object. ...

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• ease, to stand at

  To remain at rest. ...

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• fill and stand on

  A signal made after "lying by" to direct the fleet to resume their course. ...

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• stand in shore, to

  To sail directly for the land. ...

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• to stand up to the rack

  A metaphorical expression of the same meaning as the like choice phrases, 'to come to the scratch;' ...

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• stand clear of the cable!

  A precautionary order when about to let go the anchor, that nothing may obstruct it in running out o...

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