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Stay :: Staw (v. i.) To be fixed or set; to stay.

Continue :: Continue (v. i.) To remain in a given place or condition; to remain in connection with; to abide; to stay.

Stay :: Stay (v. i.) To continue in a state.

Stay :: Stay (n.) Hindrance; let; check.

Home-keeping :: Home-keeping (n.) A staying at home.

Bone :: Bone (v. t.) To put whalebone into; as, to bone stays..

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..

Jump :: Jump (n.) A bodice worn instead of stays by women in the 18th century.

Unbend :: Unbend (v. t.) To unfasten, as sails, from the spars or stays to which they are attached for use..

Lag :: Lag (v. i.) To walk or more slowly; to stay or fall behind; to linger or loiter.

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..

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..

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.

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

Appui :: Appui (n.) A support or supporter; a stay; a prop.

Stayedness :: Stayedness (n.) Staidness.

Brace :: Brace (n.) A piece of material used to transmit, or change the direction of, weight or pressure; any one of the pieces, in a frame or truss, which divide the structure into triangular parts. It may act as a tie, or as a strut, and serves to prevent distortion of the structure, and transverse strains in its members. A boiler brace is a diagonal stay, connecting the head with the shell..

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

Tongue :: Tongue (n.) A short piece of rope spliced into the upper part of standing backstays, etc.; also. the upper main piece of a mast composed of several pieces..

Attend :: Attend (v. i.) To wait; to stay; to delay.

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