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The track or trail of any wild animal; as, the spoor of an elephant; -- used originally by travelers in South Africa.

A landing place; an elevated staging upon a wharf for discharging coal, etc., as from railway cars, into vessels.

Any upright post or beam used as a support, as for the deck, the quarter rails, awnings, etc.

sfied or convinced of. "Though Page be a secure fool, and stands so firmly on his wife's frailty." Shak. -- To stand for. (a) To side with; to espouse the cause of; to support; to maintain, or to profess or attempt to maintain; to defend. "I stand wholly for you." Shak. (b) To be in the place of; to be the substitute…

To cause to move or act; to set going, running, or flowing; as, to start a railway train; to start a mill; to start a stream of water; to start a rumor; to start a business. I was engaged in conversation upon a subject which the people love to start in discourse. Addison.

eeping in the cabin, or on the deck, of a vessel; also, a somewhat similar apartment in a railway sleeping car.

A contrivance for recording the speed of a railway train. Knight.

A regular stopping place in a stage road or route; a place where railroad trains regularly come to a stand, for the convenience of passengers, taking in fuel, moving freight, etc.

tint. Then would he weep, he might not be stent. Chaucer. Yet n'ould she stent Her bitter railing and foul revilement. Spenser.

umulation or contribution, the other side showing the amounts withdrawn. -- Stock car, a railway car for carrying cattle. -- Stock company (Com.), an incorporated company the capital of which is represented by marketable shares having a certain equal par value. -- Stock duck (Zoöl.), the mallard. -- Stock exchange.…

A trailing branch which is disposed to take root at the end or at the joints; a stole.

h the purpose of continuing one's journey on a subsequent train; to break one's journey. [Railroad Cant, U.S.] stopover

g one to stop over; as, a stop-over check or ticket. See To stop over, under Stop, v. i. [Railroad Cant, U.S.]

One who conceals himself board of a vessel about to leave port, or on a railway train, in order to obtain a free passage.

p hinge, a hinge with long flaps by which it is fastened, as to a door or wall. -- Strap rail (Railroads), a flat rail formerly used.

The state of being streamy; a trailing. R. A. Proctor.

To trail along; to saunter or be drawn along, carelessly, swaying in a kind of zigzag motion. [Colloq.] Thackeray.

it upon, or light upon, suddenly; as, my eye struck a strange word; they soon struck the trail.

To be fitted to; to accord with; to become; to befit. Ill suits his cloth the praise of railing well. Dryden. Raise her notes to that sublime degree Which suits song of piety and thee. Prior.

or the part in which the hinge is situated. Summit level, the highest level of a canal, a railroad, or the like, in surmounting an ascent.