a. Obs. rare. [f. STAIR sb. + -Y.] Ascending or mounting like a flight of stairs.
1599. Nashe, Lenten Stuffe, 13. With wooden galleries in the Church that they haue, and stayry degrees of seates in them.
1602. [see CLIMACTERICAL a. 1].
a. Obs. rare. [f. STAIR sb. + -Y.] Ascending or mounting like a flight of stairs.
1599. Nashe, Lenten Stuffe, 13. With wooden galleries in the Church that they haue, and stayry degrees of seates in them.
1602. [see CLIMACTERICAL a. 1].