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

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

Stick :: Stick (v. i.) To be prevented from going farther; to stop by reason of some obstacle; to be stayed.

Home-keeping :: Home-keeping (a.) Staying at home; not gadding.

Staysail :: Staynil (n.) The European starling.

Mainstay :: Mainstay (n.) Main support; principal dependence.

Stay :: Stay (n.) A corset stiffened with whalebone or other material, worn by women, and rarely by men..

Dead-eye :: Dead-eye (n.) A round, flattish, wooden block, encircled by a rope, or an iron band, and pierced with three holes to receive the lanyard; -- used to extend the shrouds and stays, and for other purposes. Called also deadman's eye..

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

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

Stead :: Stayship (n.) A remora, -- fabled to stop ships by attaching itself to them..

Bodice :: Bodice (n.) A kind of under waist stiffened with whalebone, etc., worn esp. by women; a corset; stays..

Bee :: Bee (n.) Pieces of hard wood bolted to the sides of the bowsprit, to reeve the fore-topmast stays through; -- called also bee blocks..

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

Leave :: Leave (v.) To let remain unremoved or undone; to let stay or continue, in distinction from what is removed or changed..

Optional :: Optional (a.) Involving an option; depending on the exercise of an option; left to one's discretion or choice; not compulsory; as, optional studies; it is optional with you to go or stay..

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

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..

Go :: Go (v. i.) To move from the person speaking, or from the point whence the action is contemplated; to pass away; to leave; to depart; -- in opposition to stay and come..

Gang :: Gang (v. i.) A set; all required for an outfit; as, a new gang of stays..

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