unstayed

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8

Definition of unstayed

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (not-comparable)Not stayed or held back.
    “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.”
    “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.”
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adj

  1. (not-comparable)Not stayed or held back.
    “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.”
    “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.”
  2. (not-comparable)Not wearing stays.
    “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.”
  3. (not-comparable)Without stays.
    “Wingsails are typically mounted on an unstayed spar.”

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Etymology

From un- + stayed.

Anagrams of unstayed

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