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a national or other ensign. His armies, in the following day, On those fair plains their standards proud display. Fairfax.

Bred in conformity to a standard. Specif., applied to a registered trotting horse which comes up to the standard adopted by the National Association of Trotting-horse Breeders. [U. S.]

A curious paradise bird (Semioptera Wallacii) which has two long special feathers standing erect on each wing.

To reduce to a normal standard; to calculate or adjust the strength of, by means of, and for uses in, analysis.

Two or more metals coined without any attempt by the government to regulate their values.

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.

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

The imperial standard of the Turkish Empire.

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

units, or the practical equivalent of the unvarying current which, when passed through a standard solution of nitrate of silver in water, deposits silver at the rate of 0.001118 grams per second. Called also the international ampère.

e largest capacity and the most noble dispositions are but an approximation to the proper standard and true symmetry of human nature. I. Taylor.

The standard weight or coin by which others are adjusted.

A small standard weight used in assaying bullion, etc., sometimes equaling 0.5 gram, but varying with the assayer.

old in the market; as, the assize of bread and other provisions; (2) A statute fixing the standard of weights and measures.

The standard atmospheric pressure used in certain physical measurements calculations; conventionally, that pressure under which the barometer stands at 760 millimeters, at a temperature of 0º Centigrade, at the level of the sea, and in the latitude of Paris. Sir W. Thomson.

of the atom of an element as compared with the weight of the atom of hydrogen, taken as a standard.

ommon avocations of women. Richardson. In a few hours, above thirty thousand men left his standard, and returned to their ordinary avocations. Macaulay. An irregularity and instability of purpose, which makes them choose the wandering avocations of a shepherd, rather than the more fixed pursuits of agriculture. Buckle.…

A knight who had no standard of his own, but fought under the standard of another in the field; often, a young knight.

A kind of flag attached to a spear or pike by a crosspiece, and used by a chief as his standard in battle. Hang out our banners on the outward walls. Shak.

A large drinking cup, with a wide mouth, supported on a foot or standard.