stay

To remain in a particular place, especially for a definite or short period of time; sojourn; abide.

We stayed in Hawaii for a week.  I can only stay for an hour.

She would commaund the hasty Sunne to stay, Or backward turne his course from heuen's hight,

To continue to have a particular quality.

Wear gloves so your hands stay warm.

Promise me you'll always stay/remain my little prince.

To prop; support; sustain; hold up; steady.

Lord Mayor of London. See, where he stands between two clergymen! Duke of Buckingham. Two props of virtue for a Christian prince, To stay him from the fall of vanity:

But Moses hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.

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, as fast as Phoebe could cut it, and it has not staid his stomach for a minute […]

To stop or delay something.

Your ships are stay’d at Venice.

1671, John Evelyn, Diary, entry dated 14 November, 1671, in The Diary of John Evelyn, London: Macmillan, 1906, Volume 2, p. 337, This business staid me in London almost a week […]

Continuance or a period of time spent in a place; abode for an indefinite time.

I hope you enjoyed your stay in Hawaii.

A postponement, especially of an execution or other punishment.

The governor granted a stay of execution.

Later that day, however, Judge O'Kelley signed a stay of execution when Mr. Potts authorized other attorneys to renew his appeals.

A stop; a halt; a break or cessation of action, motion, or progress.

stand at a stay

Made of ſphear-metal, never to decay / Untill his revolution was at ſtay.

A fixed state; fixedness; stability; permanence.

A station or fixed anchorage for vessels.

A prop; a support.

My onely strength and stay.

The trees themselves serve, at the same time, as so many stays for their Vines

A piece of stiff material, such as plastic or whalebone, used to stiffen a piece of clothing.

Where are the stays for my collar?

A corset.

Her figure was tall, yet not too tall; comely and well-developed, yet not fat; her head set on her shoulders with an easy, pliant firmness; her waist, perfection in the eyes of a man, for it occupied its natural place, it filled out its natural circle, it was visibly and delightfully undeformed by stays.

When Jenny's stays are newly laced.

A fastening for a garment; a hook; a clasp; anything to hang another thing on.