Definition of stay

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Stay (v. i.) To stop from motion or falling; to prop; to fix firmly; to hold up; to support.

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Persistent :: Persistent (a.) Inclined to persist; having staying qualities; tenacious of position or purpose.
Stanchion :: Stanchion (n.) A prop or support; a piece of timber in the form of a stake or post, used for a support or stay..
Staysail :: Staynil (n.) The European starling.
Stayed :: Stay (n.) Strictly, a part in tension to hold the parts together, or stiffen them..
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..
Triatic :: Triatic (a.) A term used in the phrase triatic stay. See under Stay.
Stayer :: Stayedness (n.) Solidity; weight.
Anchorless :: Anchorless (a.) Without an anchor or stay. Hence: Drifting; unsettled.
Astay :: Astay (adv.) An anchor is said to be astay, when, in heaving it, an acute angle is formed between the cable and the surface of the water..
Stay :: Stay (n.) A corset stiffened with whalebone or other material, worn by women, and rarely by men..
Outsit :: Outsit (v. t.) To remain sitting, or in session, longer than, or beyond the time of; to outstay..
Throat :: Throat (n.) The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail..
Suspension :: Suspension (n.) A stay or postponement of execution of a sentence condemnatory by means of letters of suspension granted on application to the lord ordinary.
Stay :: Stay (v. i.) To bear up under; to endure; to support; to resist successfully.
Stay :: Staw (v. i.) To be fixed or set; to stay.
Stay :: Stay (v. i.) To change tack; as a ship.
Avast :: Avast (a.) Cease; stop; stay.
Stick :: Stick (v. i.) To be prevented from going farther; to stop by reason of some obstacle; to be stayed.
Leave :: Leave (v.) To let remain unremoved or undone; to let stay or continue, in distinction from what is removed or changed..
Sist :: Sist (v. t.) To stay, as judicial proceedings; to delay or suspend; to stop..
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