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A rope to haul down, or to assist in hauling down, a sail; as, a staysail downhaul; a trysail downhaul.

In plain terms; without ceremony. We shall chide downright, id I longer stay. Shak.

rs hesitate to use either in what is called a triple alternative; such as, We must either stay where we are, proceed, or recede. Latham.

rity; also, one who separates himself from his home. Thou art in exile, and thou must not stay. Shak.

To wait; to stay. [Obs.] Sandys.

A journey; a passage. [Obs.] That nought might stay his fare. Spenser.

), not rigged with square sails attached to yards, but with sails bent to gaffs or set on stays in the midship line of the vessel. See Schooner, Sloop, Cutter.

To quit; to relinquish; to leave. Stay at the third cup, or forego the place. Herbert.

To shoot ahead, especially when going in stays. R. H. Dana, Jr.

The fore staysail of a sloop, being the triangular sail next forward of the mast.

x (Mining), an apparatus for collecting finely crushed ore from water. Knight. -- Funnel stay (Naut.), one of the ropes or rods steadying a steamer's funnel.

To draw up or gather into close compass; to wrap or roll, as a sail, close to the yard, stay, or mast, or, as a flag, close to or around its staff, securing it there by a gasket or line. Totten.

the bowsprit of a vessel is secured to the stem to opposite the lifting action of the forestays. Gammoning fashion, in the style of gammoning lashing, that is, having the turns of rope crossed. -- Gammoning hole (Naut.), a hole cut through the knee of the head of a vessel for the purpose of gammoning the bowsprit.…

A set; all required for an outfit; as, a new gang of stays.

whence the action is contemplated; to pass away; to leave; to depart; -- in opposition to stay and come. I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice to the Lord your God; . . . only ye shall not go very far away. Ex. viii. 28.

One of the ropes or chains serving as stays for the dolphin striker or the bowsprit; -- called also gobrope and gaubline.

se or at one's table; a visitor entertained without pay. To cheer his gueste, whom he had stayed that night. Spenser. True friendship's laws are by this rule exprest. Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest. Pope.

me elevated point without support from below; to dangle; to float; to rest; to remain; to stay.

A ring or eye of rope, wood, or iron, attached to the edge of a sail and running on a stay.

To persist in staying or visiting. I've charged thee not to haunt about my doors. Shak.