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Trousers or overalls of thick cloth or leather, buttoned on the outside of each leg, and generally worn to protect other trousers when riding on horseback. [Local, U.S.] Bartlett.

A kind of wide loose drawers or trousers worn by women in Mohammedan countries.

Coverings for the legs of men or boys, consisting of trousers which reach only to the knees, -- worn with long stockings.

A kind of large, coarse, short trousers formerly worn. [Local, U. S.] Bartlett.

ing; to be on the feet. (b) To arise in order to speak or act. "Against whom, when the accusers stood up, they brought none accusation of such things as I supposed." Acts xxv. 18. (c) To rise and stand on end, as the hair. (d) To put one's self in opposition; to contend. "Once we stood up about the corn." Shak. -- To…

worship of a false god or gods; false religion; religious veneration for objects. [The accusers] had certain questions against him of their own superstition. Acts xxv. 19.

s; esp., one of a pair of straps or braces worn over the shoulders, for holding up the trousers.

To aggravate; to heighten. It is low ebb with his accuser when such peccadilloes are put to swell the charge. Atterbury.

Trousers. [Obs.] Shak.

Trousers. [Obs.] Spenser.

Wearing trousers. [Obs.]

Same as Trousers.

ad on which turnpikes, or tollgates, are established by law, in order to collect from the users tolls to defray the cost of building, repairing, etc.

The breeches; trousers. [Jocose]

The band which encompasses the waist; esp., one on the upper part of breeches, trousers, pantaloons, skirts, or the like.

n, the front of which came above the knee; also, a similar shorter boot worn under the trousers.

A kind of canvaslike cotton fabric, used to stiffen and protect the lower part of trousers and of the skirts of women's dresses, etc.; -- so called from Wigan, the name of a town in Lancashire, England.