Definition of lay

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Lay (v. t.) To deposit, as a wager; to stake; to risk..

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Critic :: Critic (v. i.) To criticise; to play the critic.
Playday :: Playday (n.) A day given to play or diversion; a holiday.
Expose :: Expose (v. t.) To deprive of concealment; to discover; to lay open to public inspection, or bring to public notice, as a thing that shuns publicity, something criminal, shameful, or the like; as, to expose the faults of a neighbor..
Cimolite :: Cimolite (n.) A soft, earthy, clayey mineral, of whitish or grayish color..
Ley :: Ley (v. t. & i.) To lay; to wager.
Nosed :: Nosed (a.) Having a nose, or such a nose; -- chieflay used in composition; as, pug-nosed..
Pomp :: Pomp (v. i.) To make a pompons display; to conduct.
Lay :: Lay (v. t.) A plan; a scheme.
Radical :: Radical (n.) Specifically, a group of two or more atoms, not completely saturated, which are so linked that their union implies certain properties, and are conveniently regarded as playing the part of a single atom; a residue; -- called also a compound radical. Cf. Residue..
Tragical :: Tragical (a.) Of or pertaining to tragedy; of the nature or character of tragedy; as, a tragic poem; a tragic play or representation..
Camphor :: Camphor (n.) A gum resembling ordinary camphor, obtained from a tree (Dryobalanops camphora) growing in Sumatra and Borneo; -- called also Malay camphor, camphor of Borneo, or borneol. See Borneol..
Nepenthes :: Nepenthes (n.) A genus of climbing plants found in India, Malaya, etc., which have the leaves prolonged into a kind of stout tendril terminating in a pitcherlike appendage, whence the plants are often called pitcher plants and monkey-cups. There are about thirty species, of which the best known is Nepenthes distillatoria. See Pitcher plant..
Roll :: Roll (n.) To wrap round on itself; to form into a spherical or cylindrical body by causing to turn over and over; as, to roll a sheet of paper; to roll parchment; to roll clay or putty into a ball..
Mislaying :: Mislaying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Misla.
Underlayer :: Underlayer (n.) A perpendicular shaft sunk to cut the lode at any required depth.
Lay :: Lay (a.) A melody; any musical utterance.
Pandora :: Pandora (n.) A beautiful woman (all-gifted), whom Jupiter caused Vulcan to make out of clay in order to punish the human race, because Prometheus had stolen the fire from heaven. Jupiter gave Pandora a box containing all human ills, which, when the box was opened, escaped and spread over the earth. Hope alone remained in the box. Another version makes the box contain all the blessings of the gods, which were lost to men when Pandora opened it..
Criticise :: Criticise (v. i.) To act as a critic; to pass literary or artistic judgment; to play the critic; -- formerly used with on or upon.
Damasken :: Damasken (v.) To decorate, as iron, steel, etc., with a peculiar marking or water produced in the process of manufacture, or with designs produced by inlaying or incrusting with another metal, as silver or gold, or by etching, etc., to damask..
Mat :: Mat (v. t.) To cover or lay with mats.
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