Stay your strife.
Shak.
For flattering planets seemed to say This child should ills of ages
stay.
Emerson.
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. [√163. See Stay to hold up, prop.] 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.
Spenser.
Stay, I command you; stay and hear me first.
Dryden.
I stay a little longer, as one stays To cover up the embers that
still burn.
Longfellow.