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Keep :: Keep (v. i.) To remain in any position or state; to continue; to abide; to stay; as, to keep at a distance; to keep aloft; to keep near; to keep in the house; to keep before or behind; to keep in favor; to keep out of company, or out reach..

Wait :: Wait (v. i.) To stay or rest in expectation; to stop or remain stationary till the arrival of some person or event; to rest in patience; to stay; not to depart.

Parceling :: Parceling (n.) Long, narrow slips of canvas daubed with tar and wound about a rope like a bandage, before it is served; used, also, in mousing on the stayes, etc..

Strait-laced :: Strait-laced (a.) Bound with stays.

Detain :: Detain (v. t.) To restrain from proceeding; to stay or stop; to delay; as, we were detained by an accident..

Lodge :: Lodge (v. i.) To rest or remain a lodge house, or other shelter; to rest; to stay; to abide; esp., to sleep at night; as, to lodge in York Street..

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

Whisker :: Whisker (n.) Iron rods extending on either side of the bowsprit, to spread, or guy out, the stays, etc..

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

Stay :: Stay (v. i.) To hinde/; to delay; to detain; to keep back.

Staid :: Stayed (imp. & p. p.) of Sta.

Stayed :: Stay (n.) Strictly, a part in tension to hold the parts together, or stiffen them..

Remain :: Remain (v. i.) To continue unchanged in place, form, or condition, or undiminished in quantity; to abide; to stay; to endure; to last..

Relent :: Relent (n.) Stay; stop; delay.

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

Anchorless :: Anchorless (a.) Without an anchor or stay. Hence: Drifting; unsettled.

Await :: Await (v. i.) To wait; to stay in waiting.

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..

Martingal :: Martingal (n.) A lower stay of rope or chain for the jib boom or flying jib boom, fastened to, or reeved through, the dolphin striker. Also, the dolphin striker itself..

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

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