upstay

== English == === Etymology === From up- +‎ stay. === Verb === upstay (third-person singular simple present upstays, present participle upstaying, simple past and past participle upstayed) (now rare) To sustain, support. 1820, The River Duddon A Series of Sonnets, XXVIII, Journey Renewed: Close to the vital seat of human clay; / Glad meetings, tender partings, that upstay 1910, The Aeneid of Virgil as translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor: 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, 1917, Henry Charles Beeching, The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse, 246, The Tree of Life Lighten, O sword divine, to clear my way, / And thou, O happy heart, upstay === Anagrams === stay up