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One who stands near; a spectator; one who has no concern with the business transacting. He addressed the bystanders and scattered pamphlets among them. Palfrey.

Resistance; opposition; a stand against. Making counterstand to Robert Guiscard. Longfellow.

To withstand; to resist. [Obs.] Durst . . . gainstand the force of so many enraged desires. Sir P. Sidney.

A stand of wood or iron, with hooks or pegs upon which to hang hats, etc.

A small vessel for holding ink, to dip the pen into; also, a device for holding ink and writing materials.

Void of understanding. [Obs.] Bp. Pearson.

To misconceive; to mistake; to miscomprehend; to take in a wrong sense.

One who misunderstands. Sir T. More.

Disagreement; difference of opinion; dissension; quarrel. "Misunderstandings among friends." Swift.

truction from or by; in spite of. We gentil women bee Loth to displease any wight, Notwithstanding our great right. Chaucer's Dream. Those on whom Christ bestowed miraculous cures were so transported that their gratitude made them, notwithstanding his prohibition, proclaim the wonders he had done. Dr. H. More.…

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

That stands out; undischarged; uncollected; not paid; as, outstanding obligations. Revenues . . . as well outstanding as collected. A. Hamilton.

To stand on the price or conditions of, so as to lose a sale; to lose by an extravagant price or hard conditions. [Obs.] What madman would o'erstand his market twice Dryden.

Two or more metals coined without any attempt by the government to regulate their values.

A free city of the former German empire.

A flooring or framework on which a rick is made.

The position of a man who is found at his standing in the forest, with a crossbow or a longbow bent, ready to shoot at a deer, or close by a tree with greyhounds in a leash ready to slip; -- one of the four presumptions that a man intends stealing the king's deer. Wharton.

A staging for supporting a stack of hay or grain; a rickstand.

A standstill. [R.] Shak.

Not circumstantial; not entering into minute particulars.