- Stay
- Stay Stay (st[=a]), v. i. [[root]163. See {Stay} to hold up,
prop.]
1. To remain; to continue in a place; to abide fixed for a
space of time; to stop; to stand still.
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She would command the hasty sun to stay. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
Stay, I command you; stay and hear me first. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
I stay a little longer, as one stays To cover up the embers that still burn. --Longfellow. [1913 Webster]
2. To continue in a state. [1913 Webster]
The flames augment, and stay At their full height, then languish to decay. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
3. To wait; to attend; to forbear to act. [1913 Webster]
I 'll tell thee all my whole device When I am in my coach, which stays for us. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
The father can not stay any longer for the fortune. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
4. To dwell; to tarry; to linger. [1913 Webster]
I must stay a little on one action. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
5. To rest; to depend; to rely; to stand; to insist. [1913 Webster]
I stay here on my bond. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon. --Isa. xxx. 12. [1913 Webster]
6. To come to an end; to cease; as, that day the storm stayed. [Archaic] [1913 Webster]
Here my commission stays. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
7. To hold out in a race or other contest; as, a horse stays well. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
8. (Naut.) To change tack, as a ship. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
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