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Staid   /steɪd/   Listen
verb
Stay  v. t.  (past & past part. stayed or staid; pres. part. staying)  
1.
To stop from motion or falling; to prop; to fix firmly; to hold up; to support. "Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side." "Sallows and reeds... for vineyards useful found To stay thy vines."
2.
To support from sinking; to sustain with strength; to satisfy in part or for the time. "He has devoured a whole loaf of bread and butter, and it has not staid his stomach for a minute."
3.
To bear up under; to endure; to support; to resist successfully. "She will not stay the siege of loving terms, Nor bide the encounter of assailing eyes."
4.
To hold from proceeding; to withhold; to restrain; to stop; to hold. "Him backward overthrew and down him stayed With their rude hands and grisly grapplement." "All that may stay their minds from thinking that true which they heartily wish were false."
5.
To hinder; to delay; to detain; to keep back. "Your ships are stayed at Venice." "This business staid me in London almost a week." "I was willing to stay my reader on an argument that appeared to me new."
6.
To remain for the purpose of; to wait for. "I stay dinner there."
7.
To cause to cease; to put an end to. "Stay your strife." "For flattering planets seemed to say This child should ills of ages stay."
8.
(Engin.) To fasten or secure with stays; as, to stay a flat sheet in a steam boiler.
9.
(Naut.) To tack, as a vessel, so that the other side of the vessel shall be presented to the wind.
To stay a mast (Naut.), to incline it forward or aft, or to one side, by the stays and backstays.


Stay  v. i.  
1.
To remain; to continue in a place; to abide fixed for a space of time; to stop; to stand still. "She would command the hasty sun to stay." "Stay, I command you; stay and hear me first." "I stay a little longer, as one stays To cover up the embers that still burn."
2.
To continue in a state. "The flames augment, and stay At their full height, then languish to decay."
3.
To wait; to attend; to forbear to act. "I 'll tell thee all my whole device When I am in my coach, which stays for us." "The father can not stay any longer for the fortune."
4.
To dwell; to tarry; to linger. "I must stay a little on one action."
5.
To rest; to depend; to rely; to stand; to insist. "I stay here on my bond." "Ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon."
6.
To come to an end; to cease; as, that day the storm stayed. (Archaic) "Here my commission stays."
7.
To hold out in a race or other contest; as, a horse stays well. (Colloq.)
8.
(Naut.) To change tack, as a ship.


Staid  v.  Imp. & p. p. of Stay.


adjective
Staid  adj.  Sober; grave; steady; sedate; composed; regular; not wild, volatile, flighty, or fanciful. "Sober and staid persons." "O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue."
Synonyms: Sober; grave; steady; steadfast; composed; regular; sedate.





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"Staid" Quotes from Famous Books



... prettiest dancing girls that ever could be found,— Them girls' feet was like rubber balls and they never staid ...
— Cowboy Songs - and Other Frontier Ballads • Various
... the main road, and to Hamilton's surprise he found the two staid gentlemen regarding it when the party came up. They were regarding it from a high bank behind the wall—a bank which commanded a view of the road. One of them observed the camera and said something in a low tone to the other; then the speaker walked down ...
— Bones in London • Edgar Wallace
... them bow the knee to Robespierre. Vivier has 'scap'd me. Curse his coward heart— This fate-fraught tube of Justice in my hand, I rush'd into the hall. He mark'd mine eye, That beam'd its patriot anger, and flash'd full With death-denouncing meaning. 'Mid the throng He mingled. I pursued—but staid my hand, Lest haply I might shed ...
— Literary Remains (1) • Coleridge
... in battle slept out of doors Many a frozen night, and merrily Answered staid drinkers, good bedmen, and all bores: "At Mrs. Greenland's Hawthorn Bush," said he, "I slept." None knew which bush. Above the town, Beyond "The Drover," a hundred spot the down In Wiltshire. And where now at last he sleeps More sound ...
— Last Poems • Edward Thomas
... nobler sons of Temperance and Truth! I see attendant Ariels circling there, Light-hearted Innocence, and Prudence fair, Sweet Chastity, young Hope, and Reason bright, And modest Love, in heaven's own hues bedight, Staid Diligence, and Health, and holy Grace, And gentle Happiness with smiling face,— All, all are there; and Sorrow speeds away, And Melancholy flees the sons of day; Dull Care is gladden'd with reflected light, And wounded Sin flies sickening at ...
— My Life as an Author • Martin Farquhar Tupper


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