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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 (n.) That which serves as a prop; a support.

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

Jippo :: Jippo (n.) A waistcoat or kind of stays for women.

Corset :: Corset (n.) An article of dress inclosing the chest and waist worn (chiefly by women) to support the body or to modify its shape; stays.

Avast :: Avast (a.) Cease; stop; stay.

Turn-buckle :: Turn-buckle (n.) A loop or sleeve with a screw thread at one end and a swivel at the other, -- used for tightening a rod, stay, etc..

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

Suspend :: Suspend (n.) To cause to cease for a time; to hinder from proceeding; to interrupt; to delay; to stay.

Aiglet :: Aiglet (n.) A round white staylace.

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

Outside :: Outside (adv.) or prep. On or to the outside (of); without; on the exterior; as, to ride outside the coach; he stayed outside..

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

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

Overstay :: Overstay (v. t.) To stay beyond the time or the limits of; as, to overstay the appointed time..

Stool :: Stool (n.) A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the dead-eyes of the backstays..

Await :: Await (v. t.) To wait for; to stay for; to expect. See Expect.

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

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

Bobstay :: Bobstay (n.) A rope or chain to confine the bowsprit of a ship downward to the stem or cutwater; -- usually in the pl.

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