Crossword clues for staying
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.
Wiktionary
n. A stay or visit. vb. (present participle of stay English)
Usage examples of "staying".
To the painter I wrote that I felt that I had deserved the shameful insult he had given me by my great mistake in acceding to his request to honour him by staying in his house.
While I was staying with him I became acquainted with some of his weak points, and endeavoured to correct them, at which he took great offence.
Without staying for those preliminary dallyings which are so sweet when one is at ease, we undressed ourselves, and began with all seriousness to play our part, which we did to perfection.
The Abbe Winckelmann went out with my brother and myself, and as he came with me to my hotel he did me the honour of staying to supper.
We could not continue this pleasant interview, as my mistress had with her a lady from Aix-la-Chapelle, who was staying with her for a few days.
She much preferred staying in Milan with Triulzi, who did not let her lack for anything.
He had been staying at the same hotel for a couple of days, and he was in mourning.
I should have paid my addresses to her if I had been staying long in the so-called capital of Switzerland.
I intended staying at Avignon only as long as might be necessary to see the Fountain or Fall of Vaucluse, and so I had not got any letters of introduction, and had not the pretext of acquaintance that I might stay and enjoy her fine eyes.
He told me plainly that he thought I had made a mistake in returning to Florence, and that he would be compromised by my staying with him.
I thought of staying in Brussels to get cured, but Daturi told me that he had heard from a rope-dancer that his father and mother and the whole family were at Brunswick, and he persuaded me to go there, assuring me that I should be carefully looked after.
Nevertheless I felt sure that the bill had been honoured at Amsterdam, and that the duke knew that I had been staying at Wolfenbuttel.
We were staying with the Countess Lowenwald, to whom I had a letter from the Princess Dolgorouki.
The Princess of Aremberg had arrived from Vienna, and was staying at the same hotel as myself.
Medini, penniless as usual, had taken up his abode in the hotel where I was staying, bringing with him his mistress, her sister, and her mother, but with only one servant.