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ortuitous effects produced by luminous rays falling on certain objects so that some parts stand forth in abnormal brightness and other parts are cast into a deep shadow.

An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment. "To stand high in your account." Shak.

In exact or careful conformity to truth, or to some standard of requirement, the result of care or pains; free from failure, error, or defect; exact; as, an accurate calculator; an accurate measure; accurate expression, knowledge, etc.

(often with of or on), to acknowledge; to confess. [Obs.] We say of a stubborn body that standeth still in the denying of his fault, This man will not acknowledge his fault, or, He will not be acknown of his fault. Sir T. More.

eption; acumen; keenness; sharpness; sensitiveness; -- applied to the senses, or the understanding. By acuteness of feeling, we perceive small objects or slight impressions: by acuteness of intellect, we discern nice distinctions. Perhaps, also, he felt his professional acuteness interested in bringing it to a successf…

Not standing by itself; dependent. Adjective color, a color which requires to be fixed by some mordant or base to give it permanency.

able; to bring into proper relations; as, to adjust a garment to the body, or things to a standard.

Inclined; disposed; attached. How stand you affected his wish Shak.

To incur, stand, or bear without serious detriment, as an act which might under other circumstances be injurious; -- with an auxiliary, as can, could, might, etc.; to be able or rich enough. The merchant can afford to trade for smaller profits. Hamilton. He could afford to suffer With those whom he saw suffer. Wordswor…

entment; marked disrespect; a purposed indignity; insult. Offering an affront to our understanding. Addison.

Subsequent to and notwithstanding; as, after all our advice, you took that course.

engagement that something shall be done or omitted; an exchange of promises; mutual understanding, arrangement, or stipulation; a contract.

Slightly turned or opened; as, the door was standing ajar.

Even though; although; notwithstanding. Chaucer. Albeit so masked, Madam, I love the truth. Tennyson.

The imperial standard of the Turkish Empire.

More commonly, inability, due to brain disease, to understand written or printed symbols although they can be seen, as in case of word blindness.

An ensign; a standard bearer. [Obs.] J. Fletcher.

Notwithstanding; yet. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The act of turning into allegory, or of understanding in an allegorical sense.

To treat as allegorical; to understand in an allegorical sense; as, when a passage in a writer may understood literally or figuratively, he who gives it a figurative sense is said to allegorize it.