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Haunt :: Haunt (v. i.) To persist in staying or visiting.

Stay :: Stay (n.) Hindrance; let; check.

Stayer :: Stayedness (n.) Solidity; weight.

Stay :: Stay (v. i.) To fasten or secure with stays; as, to stay a flat sheet in a steam boiler..

Sloop :: Sloop (n.) A vessel having one mast and fore-and-aft rig, consisting of a boom-and-gaff mainsail, jibs, staysail, and gaff topsail. The typical sloop has a fixed bowsprit, topmast, and standing rigging, while those of a cutter are capable of being readily shifted. The sloop usually carries a centerboard, and depends for stability upon breadth of beam rather than depth of keel. The two types have rapidly approximated since 1880. One radical distinction is that a slop may carry a centerboard. See

Shroud :: Shroud (n.) A set of ropes serving as stays to support the masts. The lower shrouds are secured to the sides of vessels by heavy iron bolts and are passed around the head of the lower masts.

Demur :: Demur (v. i.) To linger; to stay; to tarry.

Mainstay :: Mainstay (n.) The stay extending from the foot of the foremast to the maintop.

Upstay :: Upstay (v. t.) To sustain; to support.

Stay :: Stay (v. i.) To hold from proceeding; to withhold; to restrain; to stop; to hold.

Backstay :: Backstay (n.) A rope or strap used to prevent excessive forward motion.

Leave :: Leave (v.) To let remain unremoved or undone; to let stay or continue, in distinction from what is removed or changed..

Overstaying :: Overstaying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Oversta.

Staid :: Stayed (imp. & p. p.) of Sta.

Subventaneous :: Subvene (v. i.) To come under, as a support or stay; to happen..

Strait-laced :: Strait-laced (a.) Bound with stays.

Sist :: Sist (v. t.) To stay, as judicial proceedings; to delay or suspend; to stop..

Stay :: Staying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sta.

Stay :: Stay (v. i.) To dwell; to tarry; to linger.

Stay :: Stay (v. i.) To change tack; as a ship.

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