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A place or post where one stands; a place where one may stand while observing or waiting for something. I have found you out a stand most fit, Where you may have such vantage on the duke, He shall not pass you. Shak.

The act or practice of observing the stars with attention; contemplation of the stars as connected with astrology or astronomy. Swift.

Governed or governing by exact rules; observing exact rules; severe; rigorous; as, very strict in observing the Sabbath. "Through the strict senteries." Milton.

An instrument for studying or observing the successive phases of a periodic or varying motion by means of light which is periodically interrupted.

An instrument of such focal length that it may be used as an observing telescope for objects close at hand or as a long-focused microscope.

To discern so as to report; to ascertain by observing; to find out; to discover; as, I can not tell where one color ends and the other begins.

That after act vacating the authority of the precedent. Eikon Basilike. The necessity of observing the Jewish Sabbath was Vacated by the apostolical institution of the Lord's Day. R. Nelson.

e more, of the divisions of the instrument, so that parts of a division are determined by observing what line on the vernier coincides with a line on the instrument. Vernier calipers, Vernier gauge, a gauge with a graduated bar and a sliding jaw bearing a vernier, used for accurate measurements. -- Vernier compass, a…

An instrument for observing or tracing vibrations.

Attentively; observingly. [Obs.] Shak.