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Definition of Stayless
1. a. Without stop or delay.
Definition of Stayless
1. Adjective. (archaic) Without stop or delay. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stayless
1. without stays [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stayless
Literary usage of Stayless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Modern Locomotive by Clarence Edgar Allen (1912)
"stayless Boiler. A number of attempts have been made in Europe to dispense
altogether with the fire-box. Herr Lenz in Germany some years ago introduced a ..."
2. Locomotive Dictionary: An Illustrated Vocabulary of Terms which Designate by George Little Fowler (1906)
"... Tube- sheet 68 Tube Opening in Front Tube- sheet 89 Steam Pipe Opening in From
Tubesheet 70 Corrugated Flue Firebox 71 Back Course of stayless Boiler 72 ..."
3. The Magazine of Poetry and Literary Review (1892)
"The stayless river winding round 'Mid granite crags, all halo-crowned, ( iray
Titan heights on either side, With sunset splendor glorified, Or cliffs, ..."
4. Southern Literary Messenger (1838)
"... grave at last,— How sadly, to the bosom, swells Thy voice upon the silent air;
For every tone, prophetic, tells Fate's stayless step is echoed there. ..."
5. The Poems of Sir Walter Raleigh: Collected and Authenticated, with Those of by Walter Raleigh, Henry Wotton (1892)
"... And Pleasure mourn, and Sorrow smile, Before I talk of any guile. First Time
shall stay his stayless race, And Winter bless his brows with corn, ..."
6. Two Centuries of Costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX by Alice Morse Earle (1903)
"The other, who weighed three hundred, was stayless — and really you cannot be a
fashion leader without stays. Four very dull courts ; and a century of dull ..."
7. Two Centuries of Costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX by Alice Morse Earle (1903)
"The other, who weighed three hundred, was stayless — and really you cannot be a
fashion leader without stays. P'our very dull courts ; and a century of dull ..."
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