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Stay :: Stay (v. i.) To bear up under; to endure; to support; to resist successfully.

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

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

Remain :: Remain (n.) State of remaining; stay.

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.

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

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

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..

Stay :: Stay (v. i.) To hold from proceeding; to withhold; to restrain; to stop; to hold.

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

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

Persistent :: Persistent (a.) Inclined to persist; having staying qualities; tenacious of position or purpose.

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..

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..

Outsit :: Outsit (v. t.) To remain sitting, or in session, longer than, or beyond the time of; to outstay..

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

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

Whalebone :: Whalebone (n.) A firm, elastic substance resembling horn, taken from the upper jaw of the right whale; baleen. It is used as a stiffening in stays, fans, screens, and for various other purposes. See Baleen..

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

Stayer :: Stayedness (n.) Solidity; weight.

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