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staying
(encz) | staying,zůstávající adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Staying
(gcide) | 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.]
1. 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. --Ex.
xvii. 12.
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Sallows and reeds . . . for vineyards useful found
To stay thy vines. --Dryden.
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2. 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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3. 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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4. 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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5. To hinder; to delay; to detain; to keep back.
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Your ships are stayed at Venice. --Shak.
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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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6. To remain for the purpose of; to wait for. "I stay dinner
there." --Shak.
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7. 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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8. (Engin.) To fasten or secure with stays; as, to stay a
flat sheet in a steam boiler.
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9. (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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staying
(encz) | staying,zůstávající adj: Zdeněk Brož |
staying power
(encz) | staying power, |
Overstaying
(gcide) | Overstay \O`ver*stay"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Overstayedor
Overstaid; p. pr. & vb. n. Overstaying.]
To stay beyond the time or the limits of; as, to overstay the
appointed time; to overstay one's welcome. --Bp. Hall.
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staying power
(wn) | staying power
n 1: enduring strength and energy [syn: stamina, {staying
power}, toughness] |
STAYING PROCEEDINGS
(bouvier) | STAYING PROCEEDINGS. The suspension of an action.
2. Proceedings are stayed absolutely or conditionally.
3.-1. They are peremptorily stayed when the plaintiff is wholly
incapacitated from suing; as, for example, when the plaintiff is not the
holder, nor beneficially interested in a bill on which he has brought his
action; 2 Cr, & M. 416; 2 Dowl. 336; Chitty on Bills, 335; 3 Chitty, Pr.
628; or when the plaintiff admits in writing, that he has no cause of
action; 3 Chit. Prac. 370, 630; or when an action is brought contrary to
good faith. Tidd's Prac. 515, 529, 1134; 3 Chit. Pr. 633.
4.-2. Proceedings are sometimes stayed until some order of the court
shall have been complied with; as, when the plaintiff resides in a foreign
country, or in another estate, or is insolvent, and he has been ruled to
give security for costs, the proceedings are stayed until such security
shall be given; see Security for Costs; 3 Chit. Pr, 633, 635; or until the
payment of costs in a, former action. 1 Chit. R. 195; 18 E. C. L. R. 64.
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