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Mud or fine earth deposited from running or standing water.

One who favors the use or establishment of silver as a monetary standard; -- so called by those who favor the gold standard. [Colloq. or Cant]

uplicity; undesigning; sincere; true. Full many fine men go upon my score, as simple as I stand here, and I trust them. Marston. Must thou trust Tradition's simple tongue Byron. To be simple is to be great. Emerson.

Standing by itself; out of the ordinary course; unusual; uncommon; strange; as, a singular phenomenon. So singular a sadness Must have a cause as strange as the effect. Denham.

The position or standing of a sizar.

To fix the standard of. "To size weights and measures." [R.] Bacon.

An instrument or contrivance to size articles, or to determine their size by a standard, or to separate and distribute them according to size.

To slip when walking or standing; to fall. Their foot shall slide in due time. Deut. xxxii. 35.

Liable to slip; not standing firm. Shak.

l, jibs, staysail, and gaff topsail. The typical sloop has a fixed bowsprit, topmast, and standing rigging, while those of a cutter are capable of being readily shifted. The sloop usually carries a centerboard, and depends for stability upon breadth of beam rather than depth of keel. The two types have rapidly approxim…

Severe, pungent pain of mind; pungent grief; as, the smart of affliction. To stand 'twixt us and our deserved smart. Milton. Counsel mitigates the greatest smart. Spenser.

hery; a stithy. [Written also smiddy.] Under a spreading chestnut tree The village smithy stands. Lonfellow.

Obscene language; ribaldry; obscenity. He does not stand upon decency . . . but will talk smut, though a priest and his mother be in the room. Addison. Smut mill, a machine for cleansing grain from smut.

tructions in navigable streams. [U.S.] -- Snag tooth. Same as Snag, 2. How thy snag teeth stand orderly, Like stakes which strut by the water side. J. Cotgrave.

h one is entangled and brought into trouble. If thou retire, the Dauphin, well appointed, Stands with the snares of war to tangle thee. Shak.

s malicious and unmanly to snarl at the little lapses of a pen, from which Virgil himself stands not exempted. Dryden.

a knobstick. Those who work for lower wages during a strike are called snobs, the men who stand out being "nobs" De Quincey.

Be as you are; stand still; stop; that will do; right as you are; -- a word used esp. to cows; also used by sailors.

med by millers of grrinding all the corn used within the manor or township which the mill stands. [Eng.] Soc and sac (O. Eng. Law), the full right of administering justice in a manor or lordship.

The bottom or lower part of anything, or that on which anything rests in standing. Specifially: (a) (Agric.)