Difference between revisions of "Stay"

<p> STAY, pret. staid, for stayed. L., to stand. </p> 1. To remain to continue in a place to abide for any indefinite time. Do you stay here, while I go to the next house. [[Stay]] here a week. We staid at the Hotel Montmorenci. <p> Stay, I command you stay and hear me first. </p> 2. To continue in a state. <p> The flames augment, and stay at their full highth, then languish to decay. </p> 3. To wait to attend to forbear to act. <p> I stay for Turnus. </p> <p> Would ye stay for them from having husbands? &nbsp;Ruth 1 . </p> 4. To stop to stand still. <p> She would command the hasty sun to stay. </p> 5. To dwell. <p> I must stay a little on one action. </p> 6. To rest to rely to confide in to trust. <p> Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression, and stay thereon--&nbsp;Isaiah 30 . </p> <p> STAY, pret. and pp. staid, for stayed. </p> 1. To stop to hold from proceeding to withhold to restrain. <p> All that may stay the mind from thinking that true which they heartily wish were false. </p> <p> To stay these sudden gusts of passion. </p> 2. To delay to obstruct to hinder from proceeding. <p> Your ships are staid at Venice. </p> <p> I was willing to stay my reader on an argument that appeared to me to be new. </p> 3. To keep from departure as, you might have staid me here. 4. To stop from motion or falling to prop to hold up to support. <p> Aaron and [[Hur]] stayed up his hands. &nbsp;Exodus 17 . </p> <p> Sallows and reeds for vineyards useful found to stay thy vines. </p> 5. To support from sinking to sustain with strength as, to take a luncheon to stay the stomach. <p> STAY, n. </p> 1. [[Continuance]] in a place abode for a time indefinite as, you make a short stay in this city. <p> [[Embrace]] the hero, and his stay implore. </p> 2. [[Stand]] stop cessation of motion or progression. <p> Affairs of state seemd rather to stand at a stay. </p> <p> But in this sense, we now use stand to be at a stand. </p> 3. [[Stop]] obstruction hinderance from progress. <p> Grievd with each step, tormented with each stay. </p> 4. [[Restraint]] of passion moderation caution steadiness sobriety. <p> With prudent stay, he long deferrd the rough contention. </p> 5. A fixed state. <p> Alas, what stay is there in human state! </p> 6. [[Prop]] support. <p> [[Trees]] serve as so many stays for their vines. </p> <p> My only strength and stay! </p> <p> The Lord is my stay. &nbsp;Psalms 18 . </p> <p> The stay and the staff, the means of supporting and preserving life. &nbsp;Isaiah 3 . </p> 7. Steadiness of conduct. 8. In the rigging of a ship, a large strong rope employed to support the mast, by being extended from its upper end to the stem of the ship. The fore-stay reaches from the foremast head towards the bowsprit end the main-stay extends to the ships stem the mizen-stay is stretched to a collar on the main-mast, above the quarter deck, &c. <p> Stays, in seamanship, implies the operation of going about or changing the course of a ship, with a shifting of the sails. To be in stays, is to lie with the head to the wind, and the sails so arranged as to check her progress. </p> <p> To miss stays, to fail in the attempt to go about. </p>

<p> '''(1):''' ''' (''' v. i.) To support from sinking; to sustain with strength; to satisfy in part or for the time. </p> <p> '''(2):''' ''' (''' v. i.) To stop from motion or falling; to prop; to fix firmly; to hold up; to support. </p> <p> '''(3):''' ''' (''' n.) A large, strong rope, employed to support a mast, by being extended from the head of one mast down to some other, or to some part of the vessel. Those which lead forward are called fore-and-aft stays; those which lead to the vessel's side are called backstays. See Illust. of Ship. </p> <p> '''(4):''' ''' (''' v. i.) To bear up under; to endure; to support; to resist successfully. </p> <p> '''(5):''' ''' (''' v. i.) To hold from proceeding; to withhold; to restrain; to stop; to hold. </p> <p> '''(6):''' ''' (''' v. i.) To hinde/; to delay; to detain; to keep back. </p> <p> '''(7):''' ''' (''' v. i.) To remain for the purpose of; to wait for. </p> <p> '''(8):''' ''' (''' v. i.) To cause to cease; to put an end to. </p> <p> '''(9):''' ''' (''' v. i.) To fasten or secure with stays; as, to stay a flat sheet in a steam boiler. </p> <p> '''(10):''' ''' (''' v. i.) To tack, as a vessel, so that the other side of the vessel shall be presented to the wind. </p> <p> '''(11):''' ''' (''' v. i.) To remain; to continue in a place; to abide fixed for a space of time; to stop; to stand still. </p> <p> '''(12):''' ''' (''' v. i.) To continue in a state. </p> <p> '''(13):''' ''' (''' v. i.) To wait; to attend; to forbear to act. </p> <p> '''(14):''' ''' (''' v. i.) To dwell; to tarry; to linger. </p> <p> '''(15):''' ''' (''' v. i.) To rest; to depend; to rely; to stand; to insist. </p> <p> '''(16):''' ''' (''' v. i.) To come to an end; to cease; as, that day the storm stayed. </p> <p> '''(17):''' ''' (''' v. i.) To hold out in a race or other contest; as, a horse stays well. </p> <p> '''(18):''' ''' (''' v. i.) To change tack; as a ship. </p> <p> '''(19):''' ''' (''' n.) That which serves as a prop; a support. </p> <p> '''(20):''' ''' (''' n.) A corset stiffened with whalebone or other material, worn by women, and rarely by men. </p> <p> '''(21):''' ''' (''' n.) Continuance in a place; abode for a space of time; sojourn; as, you make a short stay in this city. </p> <p> '''(22):''' ''' (''' n.) [[Cessation]] of motion or progression; stand; stop. </p> <p> '''(23):''' ''' (''' n.) Hindrance; let; check. </p> <p> '''(24):''' ''' (''' n.) Restraint of passion; moderation; caution; steadiness; sobriety. </p> <p> '''(25):''' ''' (''' n.) Strictly, a part in tension to hold the parts together, or stiffen them. </p>

<div> '''1: '''''Κατέχω''''' ''' (Strong'S #2722 — Verb — katecho — kat-ekh'-o ) </div> <p> "to hold fast, hold back," is used in the sense of detaining in &nbsp;Luke 4:42 , "would have stayed (Him)," RV. See Hold. </p> <div> '''2: '''''Ἐπέχω''''' ''' (Strong'S #1907 — Verb — epecho — ep-ekh'-o ) </div> <p> has the meaning "to wait in a place, to stay," in &nbsp;Acts 19:22 . See [[Heed]] , [[Hold]] , Mark. </p> <div> '''3: '''''Κωλύω''''' ''' (Strong'S #2967 — Verb — koluo — ko-loo'-o ) </div> <p> "to hinder," is rendered "stayed" in &nbsp;Acts 27:43 , RV (AV, "kept"); so in &nbsp;2—Peter 2:16 , RV (AV, "forbad"). See Hinder. </p>