What is to resist, without yielding or receding; to withstand. "Love stood the siege." Dryden. He stood the furious foe. Pope called?
stand — To resist, without yielding or receding; to withstand. "Love stood the siege." Dryden. He stood the furious foe. Pope. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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