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Definition
verb (English)
1. (transitive)Examples: "to lay a book on the table; to lay a body in the grave"; "A shower of rain lays the dust."; "A stone was brought, and laid upon the mouth of the den."transitive
2. (transitive)Examples: "The cloudes, as things affrayd, before him flye; / But all so soone as his outrageous powre / Is layd, they fiercely then begin to shoure […]"; "But how upon the winds being laid, doth the ship cease to move?"; "He faced the spectres of the mind And laid them: thus he came at length To find a stronger faith his own; And Power was with him in the night, Which makes the darkness and the light, And dwells not in the light alone, But in the darkness and the cloud"Synonyms: becalm, settle downarchaictransitive
3. (transitive)Examples: "Even when I lay a long plan, it is never in the expectation that I will live to see it fulfilled."transitive
4. (transitive)Examples: "lay brick; lay flooring"transitive
5. (transitive)Examples: "The hen laid an egg."; "Did dinosaurs lay their eggs in a nest?"transitive
6. (transitive)Examples: "I'll lay that he doesn't turn up on Monday."transitive
noun (English)
1. (colloquial) A casual sexual partner.Examples: "Over the years she'd tried to tell himself that his uptown girl was just another lay."; "To find a place like that and be discreet about it, Jones figured he needed help, so he went to see his favorite lay, Juan Carillo's woman, Carmen."; "“Because I don't want William to be just another lay. I did the slut thing, T, and it got me into a lot of trouble years ago. […]"Synonyms: casual sexual partnercolloquialcountableuncountable
2. (colloquial) An act of sexual intercourse.Examples: "Listening to this dismissal of his work, [Tennessee] Williams thought to himself of Wilder, “This character has never had a good lay.”"; "Does his make-up in his room Douse himself with cheap perfume Eyeholes in a paper bag Greatest lay I ever had"; "[…] She didn't become this germ freak until Thomas died. I wonder if she just needs a good lay, you know, an all-nighter?" Toots said thoughtfully."colloquialcountableuncountable
3. (slang, archaic) A place or activity where someone spends a significant portion of their time.Examples: "I shall be on that lay nae mair"; "Since our people have moved this boy on, and he's not to be found on his old lay"; ""Well, you see, son," Kitcell had explained to Wilbur, "os-ten-siblee we are after shark-liver oil— and so we are; but also we are on any lay that turns up; ready for any game, from wrecking to barratry."archaiccountableslanguncountable
4. (obsolete) A layer.Examples: "[…] lay in the bottom of an earthen pot some dried vine leaves, and so make a lay of Pears, and leaves till the pot is filled up, laying betwixt each lay some sliced Ginger […]"; "[…] the whole Body of the Church is chequer’d with different Lays of White and Black Marble […]"; "[…] when we examine the Scarf-Skin with a Microscope, it appears to be made up of several Lays of exceeding small Scales, which cover one another more or less […]"countableobsoleteuncountable
5. (obsolete) A basis or ground.Examples: "On this lay or ground we should also add the finishing colours."; "In the first MacColl patent the pattern chain and engaging rod were carried on the swinging lay on which the needle bars are mounted."countableobsoleteuncountable
6. (thieves' cant, obsolete) A pursuit or practice; a dodge.Examples: "FIDLAM BENS. Thieves who have no particular lay, whose every finger is a fish-hook; fellows that will steal any thing they can remove."; "Because I've finished, missus. Finished with the thieving lay now and forever."countableobsoleteuncountable
adj (English)
1. (card games) Not trumps.Examples: "a lay suit"
2. (obsolete) Not educated or cultivated; ignorant.obsolete
noun (English)
1. (obsolete) A meadow; a lea.Examples: "Having destroyed all old lays, I have no other hay than clover."obsolete
noun (English)
1. (obsolete) A law.Examples: "A woman worthy of immortall prayse, / Which for this Realme found many goodly layes"obsolete
2. (obsolete) An obligation; a vow.Examples: "they bound themselues by a sacred lay and oth to fight it out to the last man"obsolete
verb (English)
1. (Judaism, transitive) To don or put on (tefillin (phylacteries)).Judaismtransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary