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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..

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

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

Staynil :: Staymaker (n.) One whose occupation is to make stays.

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

Stayed :: Stay (n.) A large, strong rope, employed to support a mast, by being extended from the head of one mast down to some other, or to some part of the vessel. Those which lead forward are called fore-and-aft stays; those which lead to the vessel's side are called backstays. See Illust. of Ship..

Stop :: Stop (v. i.) To spend a short time; to reside temporarily; to stay; to tarry; as, to stop with a friend..

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..

Stay :: Stay (v. i.) To rest; to depend; to rely; to stand; to insist.

Truant :: Truant (n.) One who stays away from business or any duty; especially, one who stays out of school without leave; an idler; a loiterer; a shirk..

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..

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

Reposit :: Reposit (v. t.) To cause to rest or stay; to lay away; to lodge, as for safety or preservation; to place; to store..

Outdwell :: Outdwell (v. t.) To dwell or stay beyond.

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

Stay :: Stay (n.) Hindrance; let; check.

Forestay :: Forestay (n.) A large, strong rope, reaching from the foremast head to the bowsprit, to support the mast. See Illust. under Ship..

Stayless :: Staylace (n.) A lace for fastening stays.

Horse :: Horse (a.) A jackstay.

Hank :: Hank (n.) A ring or eye of rope, wood, or iron, attached to the edge of a sail and running on a stay..

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