Shak.
Ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and
stay thereon.
Isa. xxx. 12.
6. To come to an end; to cease; as, that day the storm stayed.
[Archaic]
Here my commission stays.
Shak.
7. To hold out in a race or other contest; as, a horse stays well.
[Colloq.]