Term: stay: a thin strip of metal or bone that is used to stiffen a garment (e.g. a corset)
Candidate hypernym: strip: artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material → 1
Candidate hypernym: swallow-tailed kite: graceful North American black-and-white kite → 0
Candidate hypernym: ectopistes: a genus of Columbidae → 0
Candidate hypernym: church: a place for public (especially Christian) worship → 0
Candidate hypernym: costiasis: a fatal disease of freshwater fish caused by a flagellated protozoan invading the skin → 0
Candidate hypernym: feed: food for domestic livestock → 0
Candidate hypernym: novel: a printed and bound book that is an extended work of fiction → 0
Candidate hypernym: personality: a person of considerable prominence → 0
Candidate hypernym: lexeme: a minimal unit (as a word or stem) in the lexicon of a language; `go' and `went' and `gone' and `going' are all members of the English lexeme `go' → 0
Candidate hypernym: troy pound: an apothecary weight equal to 12 ounces or 373.242 grams → 0
Candidate hypernym: graveness: a manner that is serious and solemn → 0