stand rest (stand rest)

A stool, bracket, or the like serving to support a person in an almost upright position, as the miserere in medieval stalls: applied especially to a contrivance like a high stool, but with the top or seat sloping instead of horizontal. standstill (stand's til), n. and a. [ In consequence of this fancy the whole busine was at a stand - still . Greville, Memoirs, Nov. 29, 1823. II. a. Deficient in progre or advancement; unprogre ive: as, a standstill policy. stand-up (stand'up), a . 1. Standing; erect; upright; high. He was a tall youth now;... he wore his tail-coat and his stand - up collars, and watched the down on his lip with eager impatience. George Eliot , Mill on the Flo , ii. 7. 2. Specifically, in pugilism , noting a fair boxing-match, where the combatants stand manfully to each other, without false falls: as, a fair stand - up fight. His face marked with strong manly furrows, records of 6. W. Holmes, Poet at the Breakfast Table, i. hard thinking and square stand - up fights with life.