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Stant

Stant \Stant\ (st[aum]nt), Stont \Stont\ (st[o^]nt), obs. 3d pers. sing. pres. of Stand, for standeth. Stands.
--Chaucer.

Usage examples of "stant".

While Stant was being sworn in, a bailiff had removed the standard chair from the witness stand and replaced it with another Tosok one.

Now, please, Stant, tell us what your relationship is to the defendant, Hask?

Hask is his half brother, they have the same Tosok blood type, and that the evidence would incriminate Stant as well as Hask.

Kelkad and Stant came immediately over to Hask and began peering at the wound.

The ambulance took off, a police car carrying Stant providing an escort.

The other doctors watching with Frank seemed amused by the way Stant operated: he held the X ray up to his rear pair of eyes with his back hand, and watched the operation with his front eyes, wielding the scalpel with his front hand.

It took about eight minutes to complete the extraction of the bullet, which Stant pulled out with tongs and dropped into a stainless-steel pan Hernandez was holding.

Across the room, Stant had brought his back hand around to the front side of his body, and was now using both arms to nelp widen the gap.

Judge Pringle should never have allowed the jury to watch Stant shed his skin.

Hask and Stant were half brothers, and their regular shedding should have been closely synchronized.

Tosoks on the witness list, if what Hernandez is going to say might influence their testimony, but that only applies to Kelkad, Stant, Ged, and Dodnaskak.

Another Tosok named Stant performed the surgery, and it was my privilege to provide assistance to Stant while this was being done.

And it was revealed that, as was required by the peculiarities of Tosok biology, Hask and Stant must have been born within days of each other, and that their shedding schedules should have been closely synchronized.

Carla Hernandez, the human surgeon who aided the Tosok named Stant in removing the bullet from Hask.

But I favor the first interpretation, that Stant feels Hask is guilty, but knew the blood evidence could as easily point to Stant himself as to Hask.