Definition of lay

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Lay (v. t.) To present or offer; as, to lay an indictment in a particular county; to lay a scheme before one..

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Display :: Display (v. t.) To make conspicuous by large or prominent type.
Flaky :: Flaky (a.) Consisting of flakes or of small, loose masses; lying, or cleaving off, in flakes or layers; flakelike..
Interplay :: Interplay (n.) Mutual action or influence; interaction; as, the interplay of affection..
Baseball :: Baseball (n.) A game of ball, so called from the bases or bounds ( four in number) which designate the circuit which each player must endeavor to make after striking the ball..
Mum-chance :: Mum-chance (n.) A game of hazard played with cards in silence.
Endoderm :: Endoderm (n.) The innermost layer of the blastoderm and the structures derived from it; the hypoblast; the entoblast. See Illust. of Ectoderm.
Zither :: Zither (n.) 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.].
Playgoing :: Playgoing (n.) The practice of going to plays.
Mesoblastic :: Mesoblastic (a.) Relating to the mesoblast; as, the mesoblastic layer..
Truant :: Truant (v. i.) To idle away time; to loiter, or wander; to play the truant..
Better :: Better (n.) One who bets or lays a wager.
Sawfly :: Sawfly (n.) Any one of numerous species of hymenopterous insects belonging to the family Tenthredinidae. The female usually has an ovipositor containing a pair of sawlike organs with which she makes incisions in the leaves or stems of plants in which to lay the eggs. The larvae resemble those of Lepidoptera.
Bed :: Bed (v. t.) To lay flat; to lay in order; to place in a horizontal or recumbent position.
Rule :: Rule (v. i.) To lay down and settle a rule or order of court; to decide an incidental point; to enter a rule.
Wanton :: Wanton (v. i.) To rove and ramble without restraint, rule, or limit; to revel; to play loosely; to frolic..
Dice :: Dice (n.) Small cubes used in gaming or in determining by chance; also, the game played with dice. See Die, n..
Manifest :: Manifest (v. t.) To show plainly; to make to appear distinctly, -- usually to the mind; to put beyond question or doubt; to display; to exhibit..
Layner :: Layner (n.) A whiplash.
Byplay :: Byplay (n.) Action carried on aside, and commonly in dumb show, while the main action proceeds..
Significavit :: Significavit (n.) Formerly, a writ issuing out of chancery, upon certificate given by the ordinary, of a man's standing excommunicate by the space of forty days, for the laying him up in prison till he submit himself to the authority of the church..
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