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

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..

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

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

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

Stay :: Stay (v. i.) To support from sinking; to sustain with strength; to satisfy in part or for the time.

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

Prop :: Prop (v.) That which sustains an incumbent weight; that on which anything rests or leans for support; a support; a stay; as, a prop for a building..

Strut :: Strut (n.) Any part of a machine or structure, of which the principal function is to hold things apart; a brace subjected to compressive stress; -- the opposite of stay, and tie..

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..

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

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

Gobline :: Gobline (n.) One of the ropes or chains serving as stays for the dolphin striker or the bowsprit; -- called also gobrope and gaubline.

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

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

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

Post :: Post (n.) A piece of timber, metal, or other solid substance, fixed, or to be fixed, firmly in an upright position, especially when intended as a stay or support to something else; a pillar; as, a hitching post; a fence post; the posts of a house..

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

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

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

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