peise, peize, pease, peaze or peyse /pāz or pēz/ (obsolete)

1. Weight
2. A weight
3. A balance
4. A blow (Spenser)

1. To balance (Spenser, Shakespeare)
2. To poise (Spenser)
3. To put weights on, weigh down (Shakespeare)

To press or settle downwards

• stays
• staysail
• staysails
• stay shtoom
• stay someone's hand
• stay stitching
• stay-tackle
• stay tape
• stay tapes
• stay the course
• stay the pace
• stay up
• St Barbara's cress
• St Barnaby's thistle
• St Bernard
• St Bernards
• St Bernard's dog
• St Bernard's dogs
• St Crispin's Day
• St Cuthbert's beads
• St Cuthbert's duck
• std
• STD
• St Dabeoc's heath
• St David's Day