"upstay" meaning in All languages combined

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        "1": "en",
        "2": "up",
        "3": "stay"
      },
      "expansion": "up- + stay",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From up- + stay.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "upstays",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "upstaying",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "upstayed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "upstayed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "upstay (third-person singular simple present upstays, present participle upstaying, simple past and past participle upstayed)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
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            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w"
        },
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:",
          "text": "those two villeins, which her steps vpstayd, / When her weake feete could scarcely her sustaine, / And fading vitall powers gan to fade, / Her forward still with torture did constraine […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1820, The River Duddon A Series of Sonnets, XXVIII, Journey Renewed",
          "text": "Close to the vital seat of human clay; / Glad meetings, tender partings, that upstay"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1910, The Aeneid of Virgil as translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor",
          "text": "In front, a massive gateway threats the sky, / And posts of solid adamant upstay / An iron tower, firm-planted to defy / All force, divine or human. Night and day,"
        },
        {
          "text": "1917, Henry Charles Beeching, The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse, 246, The Tree of Life\nLighten, O sword divine, to clear my way, / And thou, O happy heart, upstay"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To sustain, support."
      ],
      "id": "en-upstay-en-verb-DalPdAdY",
      "links": [
        [
          "sustain",
          "sustain"
        ],
        [
          "support",
          "support"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(now rare) To sustain, support."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "upstay"
}

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    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "up",
        "3": "stay"
      },
      "expansion": "up- + stay",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From up- + stay.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "upstays",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "upstaying",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "upstayed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "upstayed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "upstay (third-person singular simple present upstays, present participle upstaying, simple past and past participle upstayed)",
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    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        "English lemmas",
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        "Pages with 1 entry",
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      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:",
          "text": "those two villeins, which her steps vpstayd, / When her weake feete could scarcely her sustaine, / And fading vitall powers gan to fade, / Her forward still with torture did constraine […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1820, The River Duddon A Series of Sonnets, XXVIII, Journey Renewed",
          "text": "Close to the vital seat of human clay; / Glad meetings, tender partings, that upstay"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1910, The Aeneid of Virgil as translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor",
          "text": "In front, a massive gateway threats the sky, / And posts of solid adamant upstay / An iron tower, firm-planted to defy / All force, divine or human. Night and day,"
        },
        {
          "text": "1917, Henry Charles Beeching, The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse, 246, The Tree of Life\nLighten, O sword divine, to clear my way, / And thou, O happy heart, upstay"
        }
      ],
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        "To sustain, support."
      ],
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        [
          "sustain",
          "sustain"
        ],
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          "support",
          "support"
        ]
      ],
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        "(now rare) To sustain, support."
      ],
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        "archaic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "upstay"
}