Hypertext Webster Gateway: "stayed"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Stay \Stay\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Stayed}or {Staid}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Staying}.] [OF. estayer, F. ['e]tayer to prop, fr.
OF. estai, F. ['e]tai, a prop, probably fr. OD. stade,
staeye, a prop, akin to E. stead; or cf. stay a rope to
support a mast. Cf. {Staid}, a., {Stay}, v. i.]
1. To stop from motion or falling; to prop; to fix firmly; to
hold up; to support.

Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the
one side, and the other on the other side. --Ex.
xvii. 12.

Sallows and reeds . . . for vineyards useful found
To stay thy vines. --Dryden.

2. To support from sinking; to sustain with strength; to
satisfy in part or for the time.

He has devoured a whole loaf of bread and butter,
and it has not staid his stomach for a minute. --Sir
W. Scott.

3. To bear up under; to endure; to support; to resist
successfully.

She will not stay the siege of loving terms, Nor
bide the encounter of assailing eyes. --Shak.

4. To hold from proceeding; to withhold; to restrain; to
stop; to hold.

Him backward overthrew and down him stayed With
their rude hands grisly grapplement. --Spenser.

All that may stay their minds from thinking that
true which they heartly wish were false. --Hooker.

5. To hinde?; to delay; to detain; to keep back.

Your ships are stayed at Venice. --Shak.

This business staid me in London almost a week.
--Evelyn.

I was willing to stay my reader on an argument that
appeared to me new. --Locke.

6. To remain for the purpose of; to wait for. ``I stay dinner
there.'' --Shak.

7. To cause to cease; to put an end to.

Stay your strife. --Shak.

For flattering planets seemed to say This child
should ills of ages stay. --Emerson.

8. (Engin.) To fasten or secure with stays; as, to stay a
flat sheet in a steam boiler.

9. (Naut.) To tack, as a vessel, so that the other side of
the vessel shall be presented to the wind.

{To stay a mast} (Naut.), to incline it forward or aft, or to
one side, by the stays and backstays.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Stayed \Stayed\, a.
Staid; fixed; settled; sober; -- now written staid. See
{Staid}. --Bacon. Pope.


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