'Stayed' definitions:
Definition of 'Stayed'
From: 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. [1913 Webster]
- Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side. --Ex. xvii. 12. [1913 Webster]
- Sallows and reeds . . . for vineyards useful found To stay thy vines. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To support from sinking; to sustain with strength; to satisfy in part or for the time. [1913 Webster]
- He has devoured a whole loaf of bread and butter, and it has not staid his stomach for a minute. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To bear up under; to endure; to support; to resist successfully. [1913 Webster]
- She will not stay the siege of loving terms, Nor bide the encounter of assailing eyes. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To hold from proceeding; to withhold; to restrain; to stop; to hold. [1913 Webster]
- Him backward overthrew and down him stayed With their rude hands and grisly grapplement. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- All that may stay their minds from thinking that true which they heartily wish were false. --Hooker. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To hinder; to delay; to detain; to keep back. [1913 Webster]
- Your ships are stayed at Venice. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- This business staid me in London almost a week. --Evelyn. [1913 Webster]
- I was willing to stay my reader on an argument that appeared to me new. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
- 6. To remain for the purpose of; to wait for. "I stay dinner there." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 7. To cause to cease; to put an end to. [1913 Webster]
- Stay your strife. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- For flattering planets seemed to say This child should ills of ages stay. --Emerson. [1913 Webster]
- 8. (Engin.) To fasten or secure with stays; as, to stay a flat sheet in a steam boiler. [1913 Webster]
- 9. (Naut.) To tack, as a vessel, so that the other side of the vessel shall be presented to the wind. [1913 Webster]
- To stay a mast (Naut.), to incline it forward or aft, or to one side, by the stays and backstays. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Stayed'
From: GCIDE
- Stayed \Stayed\ (st[=a]d), a. Staid; fixed; settled; sober; -- now written staid. See Staid. --Bacon. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
Words containing 'Stayed'
- In stays,
- Stay,
- Stayedly,
- Staying,
- stay at,
- stay off,
- stay on,
- stay over,
- stay up,
- stays,
- Funnel stay,
- Hove in stays,
- Preventer stay,
- Slack in stays,
- Spring stay,
- Stay bolt,
- Stay busk,
- Stay holes,
- Stay rod,
- Stay tackle,
- To heave in stays,
- To miss stays,
- To stay a mast,
- Triatic stay,
- stay away,
- stay fresh,
- stay in line,
- stay in place,
- stay of execution,
- stay put,
- stay together,
- staying power,
- stay-at-home