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

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

Supersede :: Supersede (v. t.) To make void, inefficacious, or useless, by superior power, or by coming in the place of; to set aside; to render unnecessary; to suspend; to stay..

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

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

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

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..

Transient :: Transient (a.) Staying for a short time; not regular or permanent; as, a transient guest; transient boarders..

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

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

Gammoning :: Gammoning (n.) The lashing or iron band by which the bowsprit of a vessel is secured to the stem to opposite the lifting action of the forestays.

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..

Bend :: Bend (v. t.) To fasten, as one rope to another, or as a sail to its yard or stay; or as a cable to the ring of an anchor..

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.

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

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

Sloop :: Sloop (n.) A vessel having one mast and fore-and-aft rig, consisting of a boom-and-gaff mainsail, jibs, staysail, and gaff topsail. The typical sloop has a fixed bowsprit, topmast, and standing rigging, while those of a cutter are capable of being readily shifted. The sloop usually carries a centerboard, and depends for stability upon breadth of beam rather than depth of keel. The two types have rapidly approximated since 1880. One radical distinction is that a slop may carry a centerboard. See

Bide :: Bide (v. t.) To dwell; to inhabit; to abide; to stay.

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

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

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