Definition of lay

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Lay (v. t.) 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..

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Rhetoricate :: Rhetoricate (v. i.) To play the orator.
Castrametation :: Castrametation (n.) The art or act of encamping; the making or laying out of a camp.
Protract :: Protract (v. t.) To draw to a scale; to lay down the lines and angles of, with scale and protractor; to plot..
Regal :: Regal (n.) A small portable organ, played with one hand, the bellows being worked with the other, -- used in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries..
Virtuoso :: Virtuoso (n.) A performer on some instrument, as the violin or the piano, who excels in the technical part of his art; a brilliant concert player..
Epidermis :: Epidermis (v. t.) The outermost layer of the cells, which covers both surfaces of leaves, and also the surface of stems, when they are first formed. As stems grow old this layer is lost, and never replaced..
Flirt :: Flirt (v. t.) To toss or throw about; to move playfully to and fro; as, to flirt a fan..
Heartwood :: Heartwood (n.) The hard, central part of the trunk of a tree, consisting of the old and matured wood, and usually differing in color from the outer layers. It is technically known as duramen, and distinguished from the softer sapwood or alburnum..
Foppish :: Foppish (a.) Foplike; characteristic of a top in dress or manners; making an ostentatious display of gay clothing; affected in manners.
Procedendo :: Procedendo (n.) In English practice, a writ issuing out of chancery in cases where the judges of subordinate courts delay giving judgment, commanding them to proceed to judgment..
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..
Relaying :: Relaying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rela.
Argillo-areenaceous :: Argillo-areenaceous (a.) Consisting of, or containing, clay and sand, as a soil..
Harlot :: Harlot (v. i.) To play the harlot; to practice lewdness.
Impose :: Impose (v. t.) To lay as a charge, burden, tax, duty, obligation, command, penalty, etc.; to enjoin; to levy; to inflict; as, to impose a toll or tribute..
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Play :: Play (n.) To act on the stage; to personate a character.
Daub :: Daub (v. i.) To smear; to play the flatterer.
Diazeutic :: Diazeutic (a.) Disjoining two fourths; as, the diazeutic tone, which, like that from F to G in modern music, lay between two fourths, and, being joined to either, made a fifth..
Sound :: Sound (v. t.) To causse to make a noise; to play on; as, to sound a trumpet or a horn..
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