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fixed in a purpose or opinion. "I will stand to it, that this is his sense." Bp. Stillingfleet. (c) To abide by; to adhere to; as to a contrast, assertion, promise, etc.; as, to stand to an award; to stand to one's word. (d) Not to yield; not to fly; to maintain, as one's ground. "Their lives and fortunes were put in…

cause to move suddenly; to disturb suddenly; to startle; to alarm; to rouse; to cause to flee or fly; as, the hounds started a fox. Upon malicious bravery dost thou come To start my quiet Shak. Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Cæsar. Shak.

A place or region to which a government ship or fleet is assigned for duty.

A vessel used to carry naval stores for a fleet, garrison, or the like.

ried halls, invade. Pope. Can storied urn, or animated bust, Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath Gray.

Having great military or naval force; powerful; as, a strong army or fleet; a nation strong at sea.

the things had subsistence, but the very images were of some creatures existing. Stillingfleet.

Loss; damage; injury. [Obs.] A grievous . . . sufferance on most part of their fleet. Shak.

Moving a great distance in a short time; moving with celerity or velocity; fleet; rapid; quick; speedy; prompt. My beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath. James i. 19. Swift of dispatch and easy of access. Dryden. And bring upon themselves swift destruction. 2 Pet. ii. 1.…

Nimble; fleet. Mir. for Mag.

In a swift manner; with quick motion or velocity; fleetly. Wyclif.

rized by, a synod; as, synodical proceedings or forms. "A synodical epistle." Bp. Stillingfleet.

lstock of a turning lathe; -- called also dead spindle. -- To turn tail, to run away; to flee. Would she turn tail to the heron, and fly quite out another way; but all was to return in a higher pitch. Sir P. Sidney.

To deal unfairly; to practice secretly; to use bribery. Others tampered For Fleetwood, Desborough, and Lambert. Hudibras.

A contrivance for the conveyance of vehicles or loads by means of electricity. Fleeming Jenkin. Telpher line, or Telpher road, an electric line or road over which vehicles for carrying loads are moved by electric engines actuated by a current conveyed by the line.

The conveyance of vehicles or loads by means of electricity. Fleeming Jenkin.

pods roughened with minute hooked hairs by which the joints adhere to clothing and to the fleece of sheep.

ilting one at other's breast. Shak. But in this tournament can no man tilt. Tennyson. The fleet, swift tilting, o'er the Pope.

A sheep's fleece.

Lit., the golden fleece; specif., the order of the Golden Fleece, or its jewel.