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Desert :: Desert (v. t.) To leave (especially something which one should stay by and support); to leave in the lurch; to abandon; to forsake; -- implying blame, except sometimes when used of localities; as, to desert a friend, a principle, a cause, one's country..

Stake :: Stake (v. t.) A piece of wood, usually long and slender, pointed at one end so as to be easily driven into the ground as a support or stay; as, a stake to support vines, fences, hedges, etc..

Tarry :: Tarry (v. t.) To wait for; to stay or stop for.

Outside :: Outside (adv.) or prep. On or to the outside (of); without; on the exterior; as, to ride outside the coach; he stayed outside..

Throat :: Throat (n.) The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail..

Tarry :: Tarry (v. i.) To stay or remain behind; to wait.

Stayedness :: Stayedness (n.) Staidness.

Stay :: Stay (n.) A corset stiffened with whalebone or other material, worn by women, and rarely by men..

Stay :: Stay (v. i.) To come to an end; to cease; as, that day the storm stayed..

Attend :: Attend (v. t.) To go or stay with, as a companion, nurse, or servant; to visit professionally, as a physician; to accompany or follow in order to do service; to escort; to wait on; to serve..

Stay :: Stay (n.) Cessation of motion or progression; stand; stop.

Stay :: Stay (v. i.) To tack, as a vessel, so that the other side of the vessel shall be presented to the wind..

Aiglet :: Aiglet (n.) A round white staylace.

Misstayed :: Misstayed (a.) Having missed stays; -- said of a ship.

Overstaying :: Overstaying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Oversta.

Hoist :: Hoist (n.) The height of a fore-and-aft sail next the mast or stay.

Sloop :: Sloop (n.) A vessel having one mast and fore-and-aft rig, consisting of a boom-and-gaff mainsail, jibs, staysail, and gaff topsail. The typical sloop has a fixed bowsprit, topmast, and standing rigging, while those of a cutter are capable of being readily shifted. The sloop usually carries a centerboard, and depends for stability upon breadth of beam rather than depth of keel. The two types have rapidly approximated since 1880. One radical distinction is that a slop may carry a centerboard. See

Stead :: Stayship (n.) A remora, -- fabled to stop ships by attaching itself to them..

Wait :: Wait (v. t.) To stay for; to rest or remain stationary in expectation of; to await; as, to wait orders..

Reposit :: Reposit (v. t.) To cause to rest or stay; to lay away; to lodge, as for safety or preservation; to place; to store..

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