Meaning of unstayed | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Not stayed or held back.
   not-comparable
2. Not wearing stays.
   not-comparable
3. Without stays.
   not-comparable

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“Wingsails are typically mounted on an unstayed spar.”

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