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STA'VESACRE, $. Larkspur. A plant. See Delphi¬ 
nium. 
STAUFEN, a small town in the south-west of Germrny, 
in Baden, and the Brisgan; 24 miles north of Bale, and 9 
south-south-west of Freyburg. It has 1500 inhabitants, and 
in the neighbourhood a lead and silver mine. 
STAUFENBERG, a small town of the west of Germany, 
in Hesse-Darmstadt, on the Lahn: 5 miles north-north-east 
of Giessen, and 10 east-north-east of Wetzlar. 
STAUGHTON, Great, a parish of England, in Bedford¬ 
shire; 10| miles north-north-east of Bedford. 
STAUGHTON, Little, a parish of England, in Hun¬ 
tingdonshire; 3 miles south-east of Kimbolton. Population 
960. 
STAVIGRAD, a small town of the Austrian states, in 
Military Croatia, on the coast of the Adriatic; 55 miles south- 
south-east of Fiume. 
STAVLOS. See Stagira. 
STAUNCH. See Stanch. 
STAUNTON, a hamlet of England, in Northampton¬ 
shire; 10 miles south-west of Daventry. 
STAUNTON, a post town of the United States, and 
capital of Augusta county, Virginia. It is delightfully situ¬ 
ated in a healthy part of the country, regularly laid out, and 
contains 2 court-houses, a jail, an academy, 3 churches, and 
had in 1818, about 1500 inhabitants. About 12 miles 
north-west of the town there is a sulphur spring, which was 
discovered in 1815, and is now much visited; 40 miles west- 
north-west of Charlottesville, and 120 west north-west of 
Richmond. 
STAUNTON, a post township of the United States, 
in Miami county, Ohio, on the Miami; 1 mile east of 
Troy. 
STAUNTON, a principal branch of the Roanoke, Vir¬ 
ginia, in the United States. It rises on the west side of the 
Blue Ridge, and there has the name of Roanoke, but after 
its passage through the Blue Ridge, it takes the name of 
Staunton, which it retains to its junction with the Dan, on 
the west border of Mecklenburg county. After the junction, 
it resumes the name of Roanoke. It might be made navi¬ 
gable at a small expence, 100 miles above the junction. 
STAUNTON HARROLD, a township of England, in 
Leicestershire; 3| miles north-north-east of Ashby-de-la- 
Zouch 
STAUNTON WYVIL, a parish of England, in Leices¬ 
tershire; 5 miles north-by-east of Market Harborough. 
STAUNTON IN THE VALE, a parish of England, in 
Nottinghamshire; 6! miles south of Newark. 
STAUNTON WHITE, a parish of England, in Somer¬ 
setshire ; 4 miles from Chard. 
STAVRES HOVED, a cape of Denmark, on the east 
coast of the island of Fyen. Lat. 55. 29. N. long. 10. 46. E. 
STAURO KORAK1 (signifying the Raven Cross), a 
mountain of Greece, in Attica, near the plain of Marathon. 
STAUROPHORI [2r -avpirpopoi, Gr., compounded of 
e-raupo?, a cross , and tpeoa, I carry], in Church History, 
certain ecclesiastics, whose business it was to carry the cross 
in processions. 
STAUROP1IYLAX [SraypoptAaf, Gr., derived from 
o-raypo?, a cross, and <pvXa<rcra, I keep], a dignified officer 
in the church of Constantinople, to whose care the keeping 
of the cross, founded by St. Helena, was committed. 
STAVROPOL, a small town of the south-east of European 
Russia, on a branch of the Wolga, in the government of 
Simbirsk. It contains 2400 inhabitants, has a fort, and is 
agreeably situated in the midst of eminences covered with 
wood. The environs are inhabited by Calmucks, who, to 
the number of about 14,000, have been converted to 
Christianity, and have here their own court of justice and 
a school. 
STAWELL, a parish of England, in Somersetshire; 
4 miles east-by-north of Bridgewater. 
STAWICZYN, a small town of the west of Poland ; 11 
ypiles north of Kalisch. Population 1000. 
STAWISZKEN, a small town in the north of Poland ; 
92 miles north-north-east of Warsaw, and 15 northof Lomza, 
Population 1250. 
STAWLEY, a parish of England, in Somersetshire; 5 
miles west-by-north of Wellington. 
STAXIGOE, a small village of Scotland, in Caithness. 
It has a harbour near the town of Wick. 
STAXIS, a word used by the ancient physicians to ex¬ 
press a distillation of the blood in drops from the nose. 
STAXTON, a hamlet of England, East Riding of York¬ 
shire ; 6§ miles south-south-west of Scarborough. 
To STAY, 0.71. [ staa , Su. Goth.; staen, Dutch.] To 
continue in a place; to forbear departure.— Stay, I com¬ 
mand you, stay and hear me first. Dryden. —Nor must he 
stay at home, because he must be back again by one-and- 
twenty. Locke. —To continue in a state. 
The flames augment and stay 
At their full height, then languish to decay. Dryden. 
To wait; to attend; to forbear to act. 
I’ll tell thee my whole device 
When I am in my coach, which stays for us. Shakspeart. 
Would ye tarry for them till they were grown ? would ye 
stay for them from having husbands? Ruth. —To stop; to 
stand still. 
When she list, pour out her larger spright. 
She would command the hasty sun to stay, 
Or backward turn his course. Spenser. 
To dwell; to be long. 
Nor will I stay 
On Amphix, or what deaths he dealt that day. Dryden. 
To rest confidently: with upon. —They call themselves of 
the holy city, and stay themselves upon God. Isa. —To 
wait; to give ceremonious or submissive attendance: with 
upon. —Worthy Macbeth, we stay upon your leisure. 
ShaJcspeare. 
To STAY, v. a. To stop; to withhold; to repress.-— 
The Syrens sang to allure them into danger; but Orpheus 
sang so well that he staid them. Ralegh. —He took nothing 
but a bit of bread to stay his stomach. Locke. 
To stay these sudden gusts of passion. 
That hurry you from reason, rest assur’d 
The secret of your love-lies with me only. Rowe, 
To delay ; to obstruct; to hinder from progression. 
The joyous time will not be stay'd 
Unless she do him by the forelock take.. Spenser. 
I was willing to stay my reader on an argument that ap¬ 
pears to me new. Locke. —To keep from departure.—The 
people— stayed him that he should not depart from them. 
St. Luke. 
If as a prisoner I were here, you might 
Have then insisted on a conqueror’s right, 
And stay'd me here. Dryden. 
To wait for ; to stay for.-— [Estaycr, Fr.] To prop; tc 
support; to hold up.—On this determination, we might 
stay ourselves without further proceeding herein. Hooker. 
—Aaron and Hurr stayed up his hands, the one on the one 
side and ihe other on the other. Exod. 
STAY, s. [ estaye , Fr.] Continuance in a place; for¬ 
bearance of departure. 
Determine, 
Or for her stay or going; the affair cries haste. Shakspeare. 
Should judges make a longer stay in a place than usually 
they do, a day in a county would be a very good addition. 
Bacon. 
So long a stay will make 
The jealous king suspect we have been plotting. Denham. 
Stand; cessation of progression.—Bones, after full growth, 
continue at a stay; teeth stand at a stay, except their wear¬ 
ing. Bacon. —Affairs of state seemed rather to stand at a 
stay, than to advance or decline. Hayward.—A stop ; an 
obstruction; a hindrance from progress. 
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