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▪ I. stey, a. Sc.|steɪ|
Forms: 4– stay, 6– stey, 9 erron. steigh.
[? repr. OE. *stǽᵹe (:—prehistoric *staiᵹjo-), f. OTeut. *staiᵹ-: *stī̆ᵹ- to climb: see sty v. Cf. OE. stǽᵹel steep.]
1. Of a mountain, cliff, etc.: Approaching the perpendicular, difficult of ascent, steep.
1375Barbour Bruce x. 25 On the owthir half ane montane was So cumrouss, and ek so stay, That it wes hard to pas that way. c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xvi. (Magdalene) 813 Þat roche hey & stay. 1513Douglas æneis iii. viii. 56 A port thair is,..With rochis set forgane the streme full stay. 1533Bellenden Livy II. 214/24 Þai mycht þe more eselie be dung doun agane be þe stay brayis þareof. c1590J. Stewart Poems (S.T.S.) II. 208 The entres is so strait and stay, Quhilk leeds to lyf. 1597Montgomerie Cherrie & Slae 357 The craige was vgly, stay and dreich. 1710Ruddiman Gloss. Douglas' æneis, Stay,..steep: As we say Scot. a stay brae. 1721Kelly Sc. Prov. 287 Set a stout Heart to a stay Brea. 1786Burns To Auld Mare xiv, The steyest brae thou wad hae fac't it. 1826J. Wilson Noct. Ambr. Wks. 1855 I. 250 They gang swinging up the stey streets without sweetin. 1893Stevenson Catriona xv. 168 There was he hingin' by a line an' speldering on the craig face, whaur it's hieest and steighest.
†2. transf. Unbending, upright. Also of a person: Reserved, haughty. Obs.
a1586Sat. Poems Reform. xxxvii. 47 Gif ȝe beir strange, þai ȝow esteme our stay. a1605Montgomerie Misc. Poems xxvii. 36 Nou I must rot, vha some tym stoud so stay. a1605― Sonn. xxxii. 2, I love the lillie as the first of flours, Vhose staitly stalk so streight vp is and stay. 1632Lithgow Trav. x. 503 This Patrones Crescent stands so stay.
▪ II. stey(e
obs. forms of stay, sty. |