Definition of lay

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Lay (v. i.) To take a position; to come or go; as, to lay forward; to lay aloft..

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Playbook :: Playbook (n.) A book of dramatic compositions; a book of the play.
Allay :: Allay (v. t.) To mix (metals); to mix with a baser metal; to alloy; to deteriorate.
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..
Pillage :: Pillage (v. i.) To strip of money or goods by open violence; to plunder; to spoil; to lay waste; as, to pillage the camp of an enemy..
Monarchize :: Monarchize (v. i.) To play the sovereign; to act the monarch.
Expand :: Expand (v. t.) To lay open by extending; to open wide; to spread out; to diffuse; as, a flower expands its leaves..
Quibble :: Quibble (v. i.) To evade the point in question by artifice, play upon words, caviling, or by raising any insignificant or impertinent question or point; to trifle in argument or discourse; to equivocate..
Malleolus :: Malleolus (n.) A layer, a shoot partly buried in the ground, and there cut halfway through..
Exciteful :: Exciteful (n.) Full of exciting qualities; as, an exciteful story; exciteful players..
Phelloderm :: Phelloderm (n.) A layer of green parenchimatous cells formed on the inner side of the phellogen.
Humstrum :: Humstrum (n.) An instrument out of tune or rudely constructed; music badly played.
Parade :: Parade (v. t.) An assembly and orderly arrangement or display of troops, in full equipments, for inspection or evolutions before some superior officer; a review of troops. Parades are general, regimental, or private (troop, battery, or company), according to the force assembled..
Impropriate :: Impropriate (a.) Put into the hands of a layman; impropriated.
Fourhanded :: Fourhanded (a.) Requiring four hands or players; as, a fourhanded game at cards..
Unmask :: Unmask (v. t.) To strip of a mask or disguise; to lay open; to expose.
Paronomasia :: Paronomasia (n.) A play upon words; a figure by which the same word is used in different senses, or words similar in sound are set in opposition to each other, so as to give antithetical force to the sentence; punning..
Playgame :: Playgame (n.) Play of children.
Italianize :: Italianize (v. i.) To play the Italian; to speak Italian.
Pacify :: Pacify (v. t.) To make to be at peace; to appease; to calm; to still; to quiet; to allay the agitation, excitement, or resentment of; to tranquillize; as, to pacify a man when angry; to pacify pride, appetite, or importunity..
Ovipara :: Ovipara (n. pl.) An artifical division of vertebrates, including those that lay eggs; -- opposed to Vivipara..
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