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- English Word Lay Definition To take a position; to come or go; as, to lay forward; to lay aloft.
- English Word Lay Definition To lay a wager; to bet.
- English Word Lay Definition 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.
- English Word Lay Definition A wager.
- English Word Lay Definition A job, price, or profit.
- English Word Lay Definition 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.
- English Word Lay Definition A measure of yarn; a lea. See 1st Lea (a).
- English Word Lay Definition The lathe of a loom. See Lathe, 3.
- English Word Lay Definition A plan; a scheme.
- English Word Lay Definition of Lie
- English Word Layer Definition One who, or that which, lays.
- English Word Layer Definition 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.
- English Word Layer Definition A shoot or twig of a plant, not detached from the stock, laid under ground for growth or propagation.
- English Word Layer Definition An artificial oyster bed.
- English Word Layering Definition A propagating by layers.
- English Word Laying Definition The act of one who, or that which, lays.
- English Word Laying Definition The act or period of laying eggs; the eggs laid for one incubation; a clutch.
- English Word Laying Definition The first coat on laths of plasterer's two-coat work.
- English Word Laying Definition of Lay
- English Word Layland Definition Land lying untilled; fallow ground.
- English Word Layman Definition One of the people, in distinction from the clergy; one of the laity; sometimes, a man not belonging to some particular profession, in distinction from those who do.
- English Word Layman Definition A lay figure. See under Lay, n. (above).
- English Word Laymen Definition of Layman
- English Word Layner Definition A whiplash.
- English Word Layship Definition The condition of being a layman.
- English Word Laystall Definition A place where rubbish, dung, etc., are laid or deposited.
- English Word Laystall Definition A place where milch cows are kept, or cattle on the way to market are lodged.
- English Word Lazar Definition A person infected with a filthy or pestilential disease; a leper.
- English Word Lazaret Definition Alt. of Lazaretto
- English Word Lazaretto Definition A public building, hospital, or pesthouse for the reception of diseased persons, particularly those affected with contagious diseases.