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s of a door, walk, or boundary. I threw open the door of my chamber, and found the family standing on the outside. Spectator.

To stand out, or project, from a surface or mass; hence, to remain standing out.

Above, implying superiority after a contest; in spite of; notwithstanding; as, he triumphed over difficulties; the bill was passed over the veto.

boat, etc. As the men were paddling for their lives. L'Estrange. While paddling ducks the standing lake desire. Gay.

At Harvard College, the officers resident within the college walls constitute a permanent standing committee, called the Parietal Committee. B. H. Hall (1856).

ining together their money, goods, labor, and skill, or any or all of them, under an understanding that there shall be a communion of profit between them, and for the purpose of carrying on a legal trade, business, or adventure. Kent. Story.

cerely. Shak. Till we ourselves see it with our own eyes, and perceive it by our own understandings, we are still in the dark. Locke.

as thought obscure, perplexed, and too hard for our weak parts, will lie open to the understanding in a fair view. Locke.

istinguished from the ground plane, which is that on which the objects are represented as standing. When this plane is oblique to the principal face of the object, the perspective is called oblique perspective; when parallel to that face, parallel perspective. -- Perspective shell (Zoöl.), any shell of the genus Solar…

The quality of being perspicuous to the understanding; clearness of expression or thought.

Clear to the understanding; capable of being clearly understood; clear in thought or in expression; not obscure or ambiguous; as, a perspicuous writer; perspicuous statements. "The purpose is perspicuous." Shak. -- Per*spic"u*ous*ly, adv. -- Per*spic"u*ous*ness, n.

A small pool of standing water; a puddle. Bacon. "These shallow plashes." Barrow.

r portion of a floor; a landing; a dais; a stage, for speakers, performers, or workmen; a standing place.

A small body of standing or stagnant water; a puddle. "The filthy mantled pool beyond your cell." Shak.

Standing still, with all the feet on the ground; -- said of the attitude of a lion, horse, or other beast.

Relative place or standing; social or official rank; as, a person of position; hence, office; post; as, to lose one's position.

in distinction from ideal or theoretical; as, practical chemistry. "Man's practical understanding." South. "For all practical purposes." Macaulay.

oductory to the main subject; to offer previously, as something to explain or aid in understanding what follows; especially, to lay down premises or first propositions, on which rest the subsequent reasonings. I premise these particulars that the reader may know that I enter upon it as a very ungrateful task. Addison.…

ffle; to quibble; as, he prevaricates in his statement. He prevaricates with his own understanding. South.

Going before; preceding. [Obs.] Any previous counsel or preventive understanding. Cudworth.