What is the meaning of LAY. Phrases containing LAY
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v. t.
To impose, as a burden, suffering, or punishment; to assess, as a tax; as, to lay a tax on land.
n.
The act of one who, or that which, lays.
v. i.
To take a position; to come or go; as, to lay forward; to lay aloft.
v. t.
To spread on a surface; as, to lay plaster or paint.
n.
One who, or that which, lays.
n.
That which lies or is laid or is conceived of as having been laid or placed in its position; a row; a stratum; a layer; as, a lay of stone or wood.
v. t.
To impose, as a command or a duty; as, to lay commands on one.
v. t.
To put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite them; as, to lay a cable or rope.
n.
A propagating by layers.
v. t.
A share of the proceeds or profits of an enterprise; as, when a man ships for a whaling voyage, he agrees for a certain lay.
v. t.
To point; to aim; as, to lay a gun.
n.
The act or period of laying eggs; the eggs laid for one incubation; a clutch.
v. i.
To lay a wager; to bet.
n.
The condition of being a layman.
v. t.
To present or offer; as, to lay an indictment in a particular county; to lay a scheme before one.
pl.
of Layman
v. t.
To state; to allege; as, to lay the venue.
n.
A lay figure. See under Lay, n. (above).
n.
That which is laid; a stratum; a bed; one thickness, course, or fold laid over another; as, a layer of clay or of sand in the earth; a layer of bricks, or of plaster; the layers of an onion.
v. t.
To bring forth and deposit; as, to lay eggs.
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