Verb

(en verb)

(nautical) To incline forward, aft, or to one side by means of stays.

stay a mast

(nautical) To tack; put on the other tack.

to stay ship

(nautical) To change; tack; go about; be in stays, as a ship.

Verb

(en verb)

To prop; support; sustain; hold up; steady.

To stop; detain; keep back; delay; hinder.

* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

Your ships are stay'd at Venice.

* (John Evelyn) (1620-1706)

This business staid me in London almost a week.

* (John Locke) (1632-1705)

I was willing to stay my reader on an argument that appeared to me new.

* (Bible), (w) xvii. 12

Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side.

* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)

Sallows and reedsfor vineyards useful found / To stay thy vines.

To restrain; withhold; check; stop.

* (Richard Hooker) (1554-1600)

all that may stay their minds from thinking that true which they heartily wish were false

To put off; defer; postpone; delay; keep back.

To hold the attention of.

To bear up under; to endure; to hold out against; to resist.

* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

She will not stay the siege of loving terms, / Nor bide the encounter of assailing eyes.

To wait for; await.

To rest; depend; rely.

* (w) 30:12, (w)

Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon.

* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

I stay here on my bond.

To stop; come to a stand or standstill.

To come to an end; cease.

That day the storm stayed .

* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

Here my commission stays .

To dwell; linger; tarry; wait.

* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)

I must stay a little on one action.

To make a stand; stand.

To hold out, as in a race or contest; last or persevere to the end.

That horse stays well.

To remain in a particular place, especially for an indefinite time; sojourn; abide.

* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)

She would command the hasty sun to stay .

* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)

Stay , I command you; stay and hear me first.

* (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) (1807-1882)

I stay a little longer, as one stays / To cover up the embers that still burn.

* , chapter=5

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To wait; rest in patience or expectation.

* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

I'll tell thee all my whole device / When I am in my coach, which stays for us.

* (John Locke) (1632-1705)

The father cannot stay any longer for the fortune.

To wait as an attendant; give ceremonious or submissive attendance.

To continue to have a particular quality.

* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)

The flames augment, and stay / At their full height, then languish to decay.

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To support from sinking; to sustain with strength; to satisfy in part or for the time.

* Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)

He has devoured a whole loaf of bread and butter, and it has not staid his stomach for a minute.

(obsolete) To remain for the purpose of; to wait for.

* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

I stay dinner there.

To cause to cease; to put an end to.

* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

Stay your strife.

* (Ralph Waldo Emerson) (1803-1882)

For flattering planets seemed to say / This child should ills of ages stay .

To fasten or secure with stays.

to stay a flat sheet in a steam boiler

Verb

(label) To obtain; to acquire.

(label) To receive.

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To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit.

* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

We mourn, France smiles; we lose, they daily get .

(label) To become.

* (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) (1772-1834)

His chariot wheels get hot by driving fast.

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(label) To cause to become; to bring about.

*

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(label) To fetch, bring, take.

* Bible, (w) xxxi. 13

Get thee out from this land.

* (Richard Knolles) (1545-1610)

Heto the strong town of Mega.

(label) To cause to do.

* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

Get him to say his prayers.

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To adopt, assume, arrive at, or progress towards (a certain position, location, state).

* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)

to get rid of fools and scoundrels

(label) To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.

to get a mile

(label) To cause to come or go or move.

(label) To cause to be in a certain status or position.

* (Dante Gabriel Rossetti), Retro me, Sathana , line 1

Get thee behind me.

(label) To begin (doing something).

(label) To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).

(label) To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).

To be able, permitted (to do something); to have the opportunity (to do something).

To be subjected to.

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Do you mind? Excuse me / I saw you over there / Can I just tell you ¶ Although there are millions of / Cephalophores that wander through this world / You've got something extra going on / I think you probably know ¶ You probably get that a lot / I'll bet that people say that a lot to you, girl

(label) To be.

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(label) To become ill with or catch (a disease).

To catch out, trick successfully.

To perplex, stump.

(label) To find as an answer.

To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution.

(label) To hear completely; catch.

(label) To .

To beget (of a father).

* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

I had rather to adopt a child than get it.

* 2009 , (Hilary Mantel), (Wolf Hall) , Fourth Estate 2010, p. 310:

Walter had said, dear God, Thomas, it was St fucking Felicity if I'm not mistaken, and her face was to the wall for sure the night I got you.

(label) To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with out .

* (1625-1686)

it being harder with him to get one sermon by heart, than to pen twenty

Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.

*2007 , Tom Dyckhoff, Let's move to ..., The Guardian :

Money's pouring in somewhere, because Churchgate's got lovely new stone setts, and a cultural quarter (ooh, get her) is promised.