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verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To remain in a particular place, especially for a definite or short period of time; sojourn; abide.Examples: "We stayed in Hawaii for a week. I can only stay for an hour."; "She would commaund the hasty Sunne to stay, Or backward turne his course from heuen's hight,"; "Stay, I command you; stay and hear me first,"Synonyms: abideintransitive
2. (intransitive, copulative) To continue to have a particular quality.Examples: "Wear gloves so your hands stay warm."; "Promise me you'll always stay/remain my little prince."; "For as the Flames augment, and as they stay / At their full Height, then languish to decay, / They rise, and sink by Fits […]"Synonyms: continuecopulativeintransitive
3. (transitive) To prop; support; sustain; hold up; steady.Examples: "Lord Mayor of London. See, where he stands between two clergymen! Duke of Buckingham. Two props of virtue for a Christian prince, To stay him from the fall of vanity:"; "But Moses hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun."; "Draw in your right elbow, turn your hand outward and bear it lightly, gripe not the pen too hard, with your left hand stay the paper."Synonyms: bear, prop up, upholdtransitive
4. (transitive) To support from sinking; to sustain with strength; to satisfy in part or for the time.Examples: "[…] he has devoured a whole loaf of bread and butter, as fast as Phoebe could cut it, and it has not staid his stomach for a minute […]"transitive
5. (transitive) To stop or delay something.Examples: "Your ships are stay’d at Venice."; "1671, John Evelyn, Diary, entry dated 14 November, 1671, in The Diary of John Evelyn, London: Macmillan, 1906, Volume 2, p. 337, This business staid me in London almost a week […]"; "[…] I was willing to stay my Reader on an Argument, that appears to me new […]"transitive
6. (transitive) To stop or delay something.Examples: "1597, Richard Hooker, Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, Book 5, in The Works of Mr. Richard Hooker, London: Andrew Crook, 1666, p. , […] all that may but with any the least shew of possibility stay their mindes from thinking that true, which they heartily wish were false, but cannot think it so […]"; "So David stayed his servants with these words, and suffered them not to rise against Saul."; "1852, Charlotte Brontë, letter cited in Elizabeth Gaskell, The Life of Charlotte Brontë, 1857, Volume 2, Chapter 10, […] you must follow the impulse of your own inspiration. If THAT commands the slaying of the victim, no bystander has a right to put out his hand to stay the sacrificial knife: but I hold you a stern priestess in these matters."Synonyms: curbtransitive
noun (English)
1. (law) A postponement, especially of an execution or other punishment.Examples: "The governor granted a stay of execution."; "Later that day, however, Judge O'Kelley signed a stay of execution when Mr. Potts authorized other attorneys to renew his appeals."; "Just before the deadline Donald Kowalski's attorney, Jack Fena, was able to obtain a stay in order to give him time to file a motion to overturn the testing order."
2. (archaic) A stop; a halt; a break or cessation of action, motion, or progress.Examples: "stand at a stay"; "Made of ſphear-metal, never to decay / Untill his revolution was at ſtay."; "Affaires of state […] seemed rather to stand at a stay."archaic
3. (nautical) A station or fixed anchorage for vessels.
4. (obsolete) Hindrance; let; check.Examples: "They were able to read good authors without any stay, if the book were not false."obsolete
noun (English)
1. (in the plural) A corset.Examples: "Her figure was tall, yet not too tall; comely and well-developed, yet not fat; her head set on her shoulders with an easy, pliant firmness; her waist, perfection in the eyes of a man, for it occupied its natural place, it filled out its natural circle, it was visibly and delightfully undeformed by stays."; "When Jenny's stays are newly laced."in-plural
2. (archaic) A fastening for a garment; a hook; a clasp; anything to hang another thing on.archaic
noun (English)
1. (nautical) A strong rope or wire supporting a mast, and leading from one masthead down to some other, or other part of the vessel.
verb (English)
1. (transitive, nautical) To incline forward, aft, or to one side by means of stays.transitive
2. (transitive, nautical) To tack; put on the other tack.Examples: "to stay ship"transitive
3. (intransitive, nautical) To change; tack; go about; be in stays, as a ship.intransitive
adj (English)
1. (UK dialectal) Steep; ascending.Examples: "The Castle of Edr. is naturally a great strenth situate upon the top of a high Rock perpendicular on all sides, except on the entry from the burgh, which is a stay ascent and is well fortified with strong Walls, three gates each one within another, with Drawbridges, and all necessary fortifications."UKdialectal
2. (UK dialectal) (of a roof) Steeply pitched.UKdialectal
3. (UK dialectal) Difficult to negotiate; not easy to access; sheer.UKdialectal
4. (UK dialectal) Stiff; upright; unbending; reserved; haughty; proud.UKdialectal
Definition source: Wiktionary