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Demur :: Demur (v. i.) To linger; to stay; to tarry.

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

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

Outstand :: Outstand (v. t.) To 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..

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..

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

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

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

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..

Forereach :: Forereach (v. i.) To shoot ahead, especially when going in stays..

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

Mainstay :: Mainstay (n.) The stay extending from the foot of the foremast to the maintop.

Stayless :: Staylace (n.) A lace for fastening stays.

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

Shroud :: Shroud (n.) A set of ropes serving as stays to support the masts. The lower shrouds are secured to the sides of vessels by heavy iron bolts and are passed around the head of the lower masts.

After-sails :: After-sails (n.) The sails on the mizzenmast, or on the stays between the mainmast and mizzenmast..

Visit :: Visit (v. t.) The act of visiting, or going to see a person or thing; a brief stay of business, friendship, ceremony, curiosity, or the like, usually longer than a call; as, a visit of civility or respect; a visit to Saratoga; the visit of a physician..

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

Upstay :: Upstay (v. t.) To sustain; to support.

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