Definition of lay

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Lay (v. t.) To impose, as a burden, suffering, or punishment; to assess, as a tax; as, to lay a tax on land..

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Try-square :: Try-square (n.) An instrument used by carpenters, joiners, etc., for laying off right angles off right angles, and testing whether work is square..
Double :: Double (n.) A player or singer who prepares to take the part of another player in his absence; a substitute.
Desolation :: Desolation (n.) The act of desolating or laying waste; destruction of inhabitants; depopulation.
Peel :: Peel (v. t.) To strip off the skin, bark, or rind of; to strip by drawing or tearing off the skin, bark, husks, etc.; to flay; to decorticate; as, to peel an orange..
Hold :: Hold (n.) The act of holding, as in or with the hands or arms; the manner of holding, whether firm or loose; seizure; grasp; clasp; gripe; possession; -- often used with the verbs take and lay..
Troupe :: Troupe (n.) A company or troop, especially the company pf performers in a play or an opera..
Straught :: Stratus (n.) A form of clouds in which they are arranged in a horizontal band or layer. See Cloud.
Ensign :: Ensign (n.) A signal displayed like a standard, to give notice..
Unroll :: Unroll (v. t.) To display; to reveal.
Tutti :: Tutti (n. pl.) All; -- a direction for all the singers or players to perform together.
Podophyllum :: Podophyllum (n.) A genus of herbs of the Barberry family, having large palmately lobed peltate leaves and solitary flower. There are two species, the American Podohyllum peltatum, or May apple, the Himalayan P. Emodi..
Outgo :: Outgo (n.) That which goes out, or is paid out; outlay; expenditure; -- the opposite of income..
Polychromate :: Polychromate (n.) A compound which exhibits, or from which may be prepared, a variety of colors, as certain solutions derived from vegetables, which display colors by fluorescence..
Blending :: Blending (n.) The method of laying on different tints so that they may mingle together while wet, and shade into each other insensibly..
Allay :: Allay (v. t.) To alleviate; to abate; to mitigate; as, to allay the severity of affliction or the bitterness of adversity..
Floor :: Floor (v. t.) To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down; hence, to silence by a conclusive answer or retort; as, to floor an opponent..
Couch :: Couch (v. t.) To lay or deposit in a bed or layer; to bed.
Displayed :: Displayed (a.) Unfolded; expanded; exhibited conspicuously or ostentatiously.
Ledge :: Ledge (n.) A layer or stratum.
Hand :: Hand (v. t.) To seize; to lay hands on.
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