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   Staid , imp. & p. p. of Stay.
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   Staid, a. [From Stay to stop.] Sober; grave; steady; sedate; composed; regular; not wild, volatile, flighty, or fanciful. “Sober and staid persons.” 
   Addison.
   
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   O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue.
   Milton.
   
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   Syn. -- Sober; grave; steady; steadfast; composed; regular; sedate.
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   Stay , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stayed  or Staid ; p. pr. & vb. n. Staying.] [OF. estayer, F. étayer to prop, fr. OF. estai, F. étai, 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.]
    To stop from motion or falling; to prop; to fix firmly; to hold up; to support.
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   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.
   
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   To support from sinking; to sustain with strength; to satisfy in part or for the time.
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   He has devoured a whole loaf of bread and butter, and it has not staid his stomach for a minute.
   Sir W. Scott.
   
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   To bear up under; to endure; to support; to resist successfully.
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   She will not stay the siege of loving terms,
   Nor bide the encounter of assailing eyes.
   Shak.
   
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   To hold from proceeding; to withhold; to restrain; to stop; to hold.
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   Him backward overthrew and down him stayed
   With their rude hands and grisly grapplement.
   Spenser.
   
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   All that may stay their minds from thinking that true which they heartily wish were false.
   Hooker.
   
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   To hinder; to delay; to detain; to keep back.
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   Your ships are stayed at Venice.
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   This business staid me in London almost a week.
   Evelyn.
   
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   I was willing to stay my reader on an argument that appeared to me new.
   Locke.
   
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   To remain for the purpose of; to wait for. “I stay dinner there.”
   Shak.
   
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   To cause to cease; to put an end to.
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   Stay your strife.
   Shak.
   
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   For flattering planets seemed to say
   This child should ills of ages stay.
   Emerson.
   
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   (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.
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   To stay a mast (Naut.), to incline it forward or aft, or to one side, by the stays and backstays.
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