stayless

English

Etymology

From stay +‎ -less.

Adjective

stayless (comparative more stayless, superlative most stayless)

1. Without stays (the item of clothing).
2. (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

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “stayless”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)