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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



... live in the northwestern part of Minnesota, in the town of Detroit. I think I must be one of the most northern subscribers to YOUNG PEOPLE in the United States. This winter has been very severe. The snow staid on the ground nearly five months. We have no spring here, only a winter and a summer, with a very short autumn. Two years ago I saw a flock of Bohemian wax-wings, which are very rare in the United States. I ...
— Harper's Young People, June 29, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various
... looking at a sham battle. Even when the bullets started in to rattle on the iron-covered sheds above our heads there was nothing terrifying about it. After the effect of the first few shots had worn off I felt as if I were watching a play. That quiet, staid Penang with her shaded streets and sampan covered harbor should be the scene of a naval engagement such as I witnessed today is almost unbelievable. Yet the sordid aftereffects are ...
— Current History, A Monthly Magazine - The European War, March 1915 • New York Times
... that sometimes, when a police-magistrate failed to appear in a goldfields' court through some accident of road or river, his clerk would calmly hear cases and impose fines, or a police-sergeant remand the accused without authority and without resistance. In the staid Westland of to-day it is so impossible to find offenders enough to make a show of filling the Hokitika prison that the Premier, who sits for Hokitika, is upbraided in Parliament for sinful extravagance in not ...
— The Long White Cloud • William Pember Reeves
... staid, stiff—rumped, wall—eyed, old first lieutenantish—looking veteran, with his coat of a regular Rodney cut, broad skirts, long waist, and standup collar, over which dangled either a queue, or a marlinspike with a tuft of oakum at the end ...
— Tom Cringle's Log • Michael Scott
... found its first modest home in Worthington on a side street. As the business grew, the staid tenement which housed it expanded and drew to itself neighboring buildings, until it eventually gave way to the largest, finest, and most up-to-date office edifice in the city. None too large, fine, or modern was this last word in architecture for the triumphant ...
— The Clarion • Samuel Hopkins Adams


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