Adjective

(-)

Not stayed or held back.

*{{quote-book, year=1903, author=Ambrose Bierce, title=Shapes of Clay, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=In vain: your turbulence is unallayed, My flame unquenched; your rioting unstayed ; My life so wretched from your strife to save it That death were welcome did I dare to brave it. }}

*{{quote-book, year=1908, author=Sophie Jewett, title=The Pearl, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=No niggard churl our High Chieftain, But lavishly His gifts are made, Like streams from a moat that flow amain, Or rushing waves that rise unstayed . }}

Not wearing stays.

*{{quote-book, year=1921, author=Frederick O'Brien, title=Mystic Isles of the South Seas., chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=A little while later, when I came to the dining-room for the first breakfast, I met Lovaina in a blue-figured aahu of muslin and lace, a close-fitting, sweeping nightgown, the single garment that Tahitians wear all day and take off at night, a tunic, or Mother Hubbard, which reveals their figures without disguise, unstayed , unpetticoated. }}