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Remaining erect; not cut down; as, standing corn.

The quality or state of being steady. Steadiness is a point of prudence as well as of courage. L'Estrange.

The brans, stables, cattle-yards, etc., of a farm; -- called also onstead, farmstead, farm offices, or farmery. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

Wound by mechanism connected with the stem; as, a stem-winding watch.

Material for strouds; a kind of coarse cloth used in trade with the North American Indians.

Material for studs, or joists; studs, or joists, collectively; studs.

ee winds, to increase her speed. Its head is bent to a small spar which is called the studding-sail boom. See Illust. of Sail. Toten.

Quality of being sturdy.

The quality or state of being subordinate, or subject to control; subordination, as, to bring the imagination to act in subordinacy to reason. Spectator.

Subordinacy; subordination. [Obs.] Dr. H. More. Sir W. Temple.

One of several heraldic bearings somewhat less common than an ordinary. See Ordinary.

Placed in a lower order, class, or rank; holding a lower or inferior position. The several kinds and subordinate species of each are easily distinguished. Woodward.

The act of subordinating, placing in a lower order, or subjecting.

Tending to subordinate; expressing subordination; used to introduce a subordinate sentence; as, a subordinative conjunction.

The act of one who, or that which, succeeds; also, that which succeeds, or follows after; consequence. Shak.

The ordination of a person to fill a station already occupied; especially, the ordination by an ecclesiastical official, during his lifetime, of his successor. Fuller.

A sardine. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

The weight supported per square unit of surface; the quotient obtained by dividing the gross weight, in pounds, of a fully loaded flying machine, by the total area, in square feet, of its supporting surface.

The things which surround or environ; external or attending circumstances or conditions.

Slashing with a sword. Tennyson.