Dr. J. Campbell (E. Brown's Travels).
6. A series of verses so disposed that, when it is concluded, the same
order begins again; a stanza; a stave.
Cowley found out that no kind of staff is proper for an heroic
poem, as being all too lyrical.
Dryden.
7. (Mus.) The five lines and the spaces on which music is written; --
formerly called stave.