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n.
That which lies dormant, as a law.
a.
Transcending, or reaching beyond, the limits of human knowledge; -- applied to affirmations and speculations concerning what lies beyond the reach of the human intellect.
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The distance, reckoned toward the west, between the two meridians passing through the extremities of a course, or portion of a ship's path; the departure of a course which lies to the west of north.
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The bottom stone of an arch, which lies on the impost. The skew back is one form of springer.
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A slanting direction or plane; a slope; as, it lies on a slant.
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A system of working in ore, etc., when it lies not in strata or veins, but in solid masses, so as to be worked in chambers or stories.
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The coast of the sea; the land that lies adjacent to the sea or ocean.
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An instrument of music used in Austria and Germany. It has from thirty to forty wires strung across a shallow sounding-board, which lies horizontally on a table before the performer, who uses both hands in playing on it. [Not to be confounded with the old lute-shaped cittern, or cithern.]
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An inner cellular layer which lies beneath the chitinous cuticle of arthropods, annelids, and some other invertebrates.
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An inverted knee timber placed upon the deck instead of beneath it, with its vertical branch turned upward from that which lies horizontally.
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A bed of earth or rock of one kind, formed by natural causes, and consisting usually of a series of layers, which form a rock as it lies between beds of other kinds. Also used figuratively.
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The plank, stone, or piece of timber, which lies under a door, especially of a dwelling house, church, temple, or the like; the doorsill; hence, entrance; gate; door.
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A condition, often simulating death, in which there is a total suspension of the power of voluntary movement, with abolition of all evidences of mental activity and the reduction to a minimum of all the vital functions so that the patient lies still and apparently unconscious of surrounding objects, while the pulsation of the heart and the breathing, although still present, are almost or altogether imperceptible.
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The floor of a furnace, on which the material to be heated lies, or the lowest part of a melting furnace, into which the melted material settles.
v. t.
To utter with a grimace or contemptuous expression; to utter with a sneer; to say sneeringly; as, to sneer fulsome lies at a person.
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To involve; to insnare; to entrap; as, to be tangled in lies.
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The bed, or stratum, of earth which lies immediately beneath the surface soil.
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Close and warm; as, an infant lies snug.
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That which is unformed or undeveloped; the principle which lies at the bottom of any development; an unfinished beginning.
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An action to recover damages against one who found goods, and would not deliver them to the owner on demand; an action which lies in any case to recover the value of goods wrongfully converted by another to his own use. In this case the finding, though alleged, is an immaterial fact; the injury lies in the conversion.
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