What does unstayed mean?
Unstayed means Not stayed or held back..
Unstayed
Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Meaning
Not stayed or held back..
Definitions by Sense
- Not stayed or held back.
- Not wearing stays.
- (nautical) Without stays.
Example Sentences
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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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.
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