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Stay :: Stay (v. i.) To wait; to attend; to forbear to act.

Stay :: Stay (v. i.) To dwell; to tarry; to linger.

Stayedness :: Stayedly (adv.) Staidly. See Staidly.

Horse :: Horse (a.) A jackstay.

Sist :: Sist (n.) A stay or suspension of proceedings; an order for a stay of proceedings.

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

Stay :: Stay (v. i.) To rest; to depend; to rely; to stand; to insist.

Outdwell :: Outdwell (v. t.) To dwell or stay beyond.

Truant :: Truant (n.) One who stays away from business or any duty; especially, one who stays out of school without leave; an idler; a loiterer; a shirk..

Stay :: Stay (n.) Restraint of passion; moderation; caution; steadiness; sobriety.

Sist :: Sist (v. t.) To stay, as judicial proceedings; to delay or suspend; to stop..

Stayship :: Staysail (n.) Any sail extended on a stay.

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

Expect :: Expect (v. t.) To wait; to stay.

Stayedly :: Stayed (a.) Staid; fixed; settled; sober; -- now written staid. See Staid.

Stay :: Stay (v. i.) To cause to cease; to put an end to.

Stay :: Stay (n.) Continuance in a place; abode for a space of time; sojourn; as, you make a short stay in this city..

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

Lanyard :: Lanyard (n.) A short piece of rope or line for fastening something in ships; as, the lanyards of the gun ports, of the buoy, and the like; esp., pieces passing through the dead-eyes, and used to extend shrouds, stays, etc..

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

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