Crossword clues for stayed
stayed
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stay \Stay\ (st[=a]), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stayed (st[=a]d) or Staid (st[=a]d); 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.]
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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.
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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.
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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.
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To hold from proceeding; to withhold; to restrain; to stop; to hold.
Him backward overthrew and down him stayed With their rude hands and grisly grapplement.
--Spenser.All that may stay their minds from thinking that true which they heartily wish were false.
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To hinder; 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. To remain for the purpose of; to wait for. ``I stay dinner there.''
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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. (Engin.) To fasten or secure with stays; as, to stay a flat sheet in a steam boiler.
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(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.
Stayed \Stayed\ (st[=a]d), a.
Staid; fixed; settled; sober; -- now written staid. See
Staid.
--Bacon.
--Pope.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: stay)
Usage examples of "stayed".
I did not leave her for a moment, and in the morning, feeling quite recovered, her gratitude finished what my love had begun twenty-six years before, and our amorous commerce lasted while I stayed at Berlin.
I accosted her, apologizing for not having stayed to breakfast, but she said I had done quite right, adding that if I had not chosen a country house she hoped I would take one her husband would probably mention to me that evening.
After coffee had been served, we went into another parlour and stayed there till night came on.
During my sleep the divine Horosmadis came down from the sun and stayed with me till I awoke.
As long as I stayed at Rome the nine piastres a month came in regularly, but after my departure he returned to Rome, went to another convent, and died there suddenly thirteen or fourteen years ago.
Whenever I visited Padua, to complete my study of the law, I stayed at the house of the kind doctor, but I was always grieved at seeing near Bettina the brute to whom she was engaged, and who did not appear to me deserving of such a wife.
It did not make the slightest impression on me, and I stayed a fortnight longer in Turin without its causing me the slightest annoyance.
Nearly everyone went, and those who stayed only did so because lodgings were not to be had at Spa.
Lost in these thoughts which enhanced the pleasure of any tears, I should have stayed for a long tune in the garden if Dubois had not come out to look for me.
Next day I stayed out till after midnight, and the cook told me that the wedded couple had made a good supper and had gone to bed.
I wished to regain what I had lost, so I stayed to supper, and afterwards, with better luck, won back my money.
While I stayed with him he shewed me a number of letters from Morgagni and Pontedera, a professor of botany, a science of which Haller had an extensive knowledge.
I have come too late, but if I had not stayed at Genoa I should not have been more fortunate.
We should have stayed at Bale some time, if it had not been for an incident which made me hasten our departure.
This monk had stayed at home far from the world, or else he would not have asked me such a question.