stayless
English
Etymology
Adjective
stayless (comparative more stayless, superlative most stayless)
- Without stays (the item of clothing).
- Without stays (nautical)
- Without stays (e.g. on a boiler)
- (archaic) Without stop or delay.
- 1559, William Baldwin (attributed) " […] Richard Neuill of Earle of Warwicke […] ", in The Mirror for Magistrates
- Among the heauy heape of happy knightes,
Whome fortune stald vpon her staylesse stage
- Among the heauy heape of happy knightes,
- 1559, William Baldwin (attributed) " […] Richard Neuill of Earle of Warwicke […] ", in The Mirror for Magistrates
References
- “stayless”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.