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osition; -- it may be done reclining, for relaxation, or momentarily, as an exhibitionary maneuver in a sport.

To contend for superiority in an unseemly maner; to scuffle; to struggle; to wrangle; to quarrel.

To settle permanently in a state; to make firm; to establish; to fix. [Obs.] 2 Sam. vii. 13.

ain without ruin or injury; to hold good against tendencies to impair or injure; to be permanent; to endure; to last; hence, to find endurance, strength, or resources. My mind on its own center stands unmoved. Dryden.

Hence: Having a recognized and permanent value; as, standard works in history; standard authors.

Established by law, custom, or the like; settled; continually existing; permanent; not temporary; as, a standing army; legislative bodies have standing rules of proceeding and standing committees.

dynamics. Social statics, the study of the conditions which concern the existence and permanence of the social state.

not leave the lungs in respiration. -- Stationary engine. (a) A steam engine thet is permanently placed, in distinction from a portable engine, locomotive, marine engine, etc. Specifically: (b) A factory engine, in distinction from a blowing, pumping, or other kind of engine which is also permanently placed.…

An act of a corporation or of its founder, intended as a permanent rule or law; as, the statutes of a university.

To place or fix firmly or permanently. [Obs.] Shak.

A style of painting on plastered walls or stone, in which the colors are rendered permanent by sprinklings of water, in which is mixed a proportion of soluble glass (a silicate of soda).

Fig.: To make firm or permanent; to fix. Powerful causes tending to stereotype and aggravate the poverty of old conditions. Duke of Argyll (1887).

A race, or a fixed and permanent variety.

at is, to supply it with cattle and tools; to stock land, that is, to occupy it with a permanent growth, especially of grass.

the link of a chain cable. Stud bolt, a bolt with threads on both ends, to be screwed permanently into a fixed part at one end and receive a nut upon the other; -- called also standing bolt.

To bring under; to conquer by force or the exertion of superior power, and bring into permanent subjection; to reduce under dominion; to vanquish. I will subdue all thine enemies. 1 Chron. xvii. 10.

That which underlies all outward manifestations; substratum; the permanent subject or cause of phenomena, whether material or spiritual; that in which properties inhere; that which is real, in distinction from that which is apparent; the abiding part of any existence, in distinction from any accident; that which consti…

The permanent subject of qualities or cause of phenomena; substance.

y to be depended on; certain not to fail or disappoint expectation; unfailing; strong; permanent; enduring. "His sure word." Keble. The Lord will certainly make my lord a sure house; because my lord fighteth the battles of the Lord. 1 Sam. xxv. 28. The testimony of the Lord is sure. Ps. xix. 7. Which put in good sure l…

nce, and seek new lodgings under the direction of a queen; a like body of bees settled permanently in a hive. "A swarm of bees." Chaucer.