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staying 音标拼音: [st'eɪŋ] 撑; 撑法 撑; 撑法 Stay \ Stay\ ( st[= a]), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Stayed} ( st[= a] d) or { Staid} ( st[= a] d); p. pr. & vb. n. { Staying}.] [ OF. estayer, F. [' e] tayer to prop, fr. OF. estai, F. [' e] tai, a prop, probably fr. OD. stade, staeye, a prop, akin to E. stead; or cf. stay a rope to support a mast. Cf. { Staid}, a., { Stay}, v. i.] 1. To stop from motion or falling; to prop; to fix firmly; to hold up; to support. [ 1913 Webster] Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side. -- Ex. xvii. 12. [ 1913 Webster] Sallows and reeds . . . for vineyards useful found To stay thy vines. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To support from sinking; to sustain with strength; to satisfy in part or for the time. [ 1913 Webster] He has devoured a whole loaf of bread and butter, and it has not staid his stomach for a minute. -- Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To bear up under; to endure; to support; to resist successfully. [ 1913 Webster] She will not stay the siege of loving terms, Nor bide the encounter of assailing eyes. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 4. To hold from proceeding; to withhold; to restrain; to stop; to hold. [ 1913 Webster] Him backward overthrew and down him stayed With their rude hands and grisly grapplement. -- Spenser. [ 1913 Webster] All that may stay their minds from thinking that true which they heartily wish were false. -- Hooker. [ 1913 Webster] 5. To hinder; to delay; to detain; to keep back. [ 1913 Webster] Your ships are stayed at Venice. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] This business staid me in London almost a week. -- Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster] I was willing to stay my reader on an argument that appeared to me new. -- Locke. [ 1913 Webster] 6. To remain for the purpose of; to wait for. " I stay dinner there." -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 7. To cause to cease; to put an end to. [ 1913 Webster] Stay your strife. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] For flattering planets seemed to say This child should ills of ages stay. -- Emerson. [ 1913 Webster] 8. ( Engin.) To fasten or secure with stays; as, to stay a flat sheet in a steam boiler. [ 1913 Webster] 9. ( Naut.) To tack, as a vessel, so that the other side of the vessel shall be presented to the wind. [ 1913 Webster] { To stay a mast} ( Naut.), to incline it forward or aft, or to one side, by the stays and backstays. [ 1913 Webster]
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