Six feet two, as I think, he stands.
Tennyson.
15. (Law) (a) To be or remain as it is; to continue in force; to have
efficacy or validity; to abide. Bouvier. (b) To appear in court.
Burrill.
Stand by (Naut.), a preparatory order, equivalent to Be ready. -- To
stand against, to opposite; to resist. -- To stand by. (a) To be near;
to be a spectator; to be present. (b) To be aside; to be aside with
disregard. "In the interim [we] let the commands stand by neglected."
Dr. H. More. (c) To maintain; to defend; to support; not to desert; as,
to stand by one's principles or party. (d) To rest on for support; to
be supported by. Whitgift. -- To stand corrected, to be set right, as
after an error in a statement of fact. Wycherley. -- To stand fast, to
be fixed; to be unshaken or immovable. -- To stand firmly on, to be
satisfied or convinced of. "Though Page be a secure fool, and stands so
firmly on his wife's frailty." Shak. -- To stand for. (a) To side with;
to espouse the cause of; to support; to maintain, or to profess or
attempt to maintain; to defend. "I stand wholly for you." Shak. (b) To
be in the place of; to be the substitute or to represent; as, a cipher
at the left hand of a figure stands for nothing. "I will not trouble
myself, whether these names stand for the same thing, or really include
one another." Locke. -- To stand in, to cost. "The same standeth them
in much less cost." Robynson (More's Utopia).
The Punic wars could not have stood the human race in less than
three millions of the species.
Burke.
-- To stand in hand, to conduce to one's interest; to be serviceable or
advantageous. -- To stand off. (a) To keep at a distance. (b) Not to
comply. (c) To keep at a distance in friendship, social intercourse, or
acquaintance. (d) To appear prominent; to have relief. "Picture is best
when it standeth off, as if it were carved." Sir H. Wotton. -- To stand
off and on (Naut.), to remain near a coast by sailing toward land and
then from it. -- To stand on (Naut.), to continue on the same tack or
course. -- To stand out. (a) To project; to be prominent. "Their eyes
stand out with fatness." Psalm lxxiii. 7. (b) To persist in opposition
or resistance; not to yield or comply; not to give way or recede.
His spirit is come in, That so stood out against the holy church.
Shak.
-- To stand to. (a) To ply; to urge; to persevere in using. "Stand to
your tackles, mates, and stretch your oars." Dryden. (b) To remain
fixed in a purpose or opinion. "I will stand to it, that this is his
sense." Bp. Stillingfleet. (c) To abide by; to adhere to; as to a
contrast, assertion, promise, etc.; as, to stand to an award; to stand
to one's word. (d) Not to yield; not to fly; to maintain, as one's
ground. "Their lives and fortunes were put in safety, whether they
stood to it or ran away." Bacon. (e) To be consistent with; to agree
with; as, it stands to reason that he could not have done so. (f) To
support; to uphold. "Stand to me in this cause." Shak. -- To stand
together, to be consistent; to agree. -- To stand to sea (Naut.), to
direct the course from land. -- To stand under, to undergo; to
withstand. Shak. -- To stand up. (a) To rise from sitting; 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 stand up for, to defend; to justify; to
support, or attempt to support; as, to stand up for the administration.
-- To stand upon. (a) To concern; to interest. (b) To value; to esteem.
"We highly esteem and stand much upon our birth." Ray. (c) To insist
on; to attach much importance to; as, to stand upon security; to stand
upon ceremony. (d) To attack; to assault. [A Hebraism] "So I stood upon
him, and slew him." 2 Sam. i. 10. -- To stand with, to be consistent
with. "It stands with reason that they should be rewarded liberally."
Sir J. Davies.
Stand (?), v. t. 1. To endure; to sustain; to bear; as, I can not stand
the cold or the heat.
2. To resist, without yielding or receding; to withstand. "Love stood
the siege." Dryden.
He stood the furious foe.
Pope.