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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.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Staid" Quotes from Famous Books



... where she had found refuge she remained to the end of her life, without a home of her own, but always in a room or two with her boy in some poor person's cottage. Her life was hard but not unpeaceful, and the old people, all dead and gone now, remembered Ellen as a very quiet, staid woman who worked hard for a living, sometimes at the wash-tub, but mostly in the fields, haymaking and harvesting and at other times weeding, or collecting flints, or with a spud or sickle extirpating thistles in the pasture-land. She worked alone or with other poor women, ...
— A Shepherd's Life • W. H. Hudson
... three heads, and will fight five hundred men, and make them fly before him." "Alas!" replied the king's son, "we had better never have been born than meet with such a monster." "My lord, leave me to manage him, and wait here in quiet till I return." The prince now staid behind, while Jack rode on full speed. And when he came to the gates of the castle, he gave a loud knock. The giant, with a voice like thunder, roared out: "Who is there?" And Jack made answer, and said: "No one but your poor cousin Jack." "Well," said the giant, "what news, cousin Jack?" ...
— Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know • Various
... at the parade in front of the Fort. Some of the aristocracy of the place were out also, staid middle-aged men with powdered queues and velvet coats, elegant ladies in crimson silk petticoats and skirts drawn back, the train fastened up with a ribbon or chain which they carried on their arms as they minced along on their high heeled slippers, ...
— A Little Girl in Old Detroit • Amanda Minnie Douglas
... gallivanting, like the rest," he observed with coarse pleasantry. "I'd thought you were a staid and sober-minded woman for your years, but it seems that you are of a bunch ...
— The Deliverance; A Romance of the Virginia Tobacco Fields • Ellen Glasgow
... Liddesdale has ridden a raid, But I wat they had better hae staid at hame; For Michael o' Winfield he is dead, And Jock o' the Side is ...
— Northumberland Yesterday and To-day • Jean F. Terry


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