Word Meanings - BESTRIDE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To stand or sit with anything between the legs, or with the legs astride; to stand over
- Stander-by
One who stands near; one who is present; a bystander. - Standergrass
A plant (Orchis mascula); -- called also standerwort, and long purple. See Long purple, under Long. - Standgale
See Stannel. - Anythingarian
One who holds to no particular creed or dogma. - Standpipe
A vertical pipe, open at the top, between a hydrant and a reservoir, to equalize the flow of water; also, a large vertical pipe, near a pumping engine, into which water is forced up, so as to give it sufficient head to rise to the required level a - Standpoint
A fixed point or station; a basis or fundamental principle; a position from which objects or principles are viewed, and according to which they are compared and judged. - Standstill
A standing without moving forward or backward; a stop; a state or rest. - STANDARDBRED
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.] - STANDARDWING
A curious paradise bird (Semioptera Wallacii) which has two long special feathers standing erect on each wing. - STANDERATHSTANDERAT
See Legislature, above. - Standard-bred
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.
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