STAY, STAYING
NOUNS
► ABODE a temporary remaining; a stay → c1384 obs.
► MANSION the act of remaining, abiding, dwelling, or staying in a place → a1340 obs.
NOUNS – PERSON
► TARRIER one who tarries or delays; a lingerer, a procrastinator; one who stays or remains → 1382 arch.
VERBS
► BELEAVE to remain for the time being in a place; to stay, to abide, to continue, to dwell with a person → c1175 obs.
► BIDE A WEE to stay a while → 1918 Sc.
► FALL IN to join; to stay → 1952 US sl.
► FALL INTO to stay → 1940s US sl.
► GAFF to stay where one is for too long → 1920s US tramps’ sl.
► HAVE ONE’S SITTING BREECHES ON to stay late in company → 1785
► HOVE to wait, to tarry, to linger, to stay, to remain → 1220 obs.
► LEAVE to remain; to remain behind; to continue or stay in one place → c1000 obs.
► LEND to tarry, to remain, to stay; to dwell, to abide → a1300 obs.
► OFSTAND to remain standing; to remain, to stay → c1000 obs.
► ONBIDE to abide, to remain, to stay on → c1440 obs.
► PERENDINATE to stay from day to day, to make an indefinite stay → 1656
► STUT ► STUTTE to stop, to cease; to stay, to remain → 1225 obs.
► TARRY to remain, to stay, to abide, to continue in some state or condition → c1450 obs.
► TARRY OUT to stay till the end of → 1654 obs.
► THOLE to wait, to stay, to hold out; to defer or deny oneself of a requirement → 1691 Sc. & Eng. dial.
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