Definition of laying

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Laying (n.) The act or period of laying eggs; the eggs laid for one incubation; a clutch.

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Tulipwood :: Tulipwood (n.) The beautiful rose-colored striped wood of a Brazilian tree (Physocalymna floribunda), much used by cabinetmakers for inlaying..
Emphatical :: Emphatical (a.) Uttered with emphasis; made prominent and impressive by a peculiar stress of voice; laying stress; deserving of stress or emphasis; forcible; impressive; strong; as, to remonstrate in am emphatic manner; an emphatic word; an emphatic tone; emphatic reasoning..
Detection :: Detection (n.) The act of detecting; the laying open what was concealed or hidden; discovery; as, the detection of a thief; the detection of fraud, forgery, or a plot..
Measure :: Measure (n.) To pass throught or over in journeying, as if laying off and determining the distance..
Finger :: Finger (n.) Skill in the use of the fingers, as in playing upon a musical instrument..
Histrionicism :: Histrionicism (n.) The histronic art; stageplaying.
Rendering :: Rendering (n.) The act of laying the first coat of plaster on brickwork or stonework.
Grounding :: Grounding (n.) The act, method, or process of laying a groundwork or foundation; hence, elementary instruction; the act or process of applying a ground, as of color, to wall paper, cotton cloth, etc.; a basis..
Plucky :: Plucky (superl.) Having pluck or courage; characterized by pluck; displaying pluck; courageous; spirited; as, a plucky race..
Allayment :: Allayment (n.) An allaying; that which allays; mitigation.
Double-tonguing :: Double-tonguing (n.) A peculiar action of the tongue by flute players in articulating staccato notes; also, the rapid repetition of notes in cornet playing..
Exposition :: Exposition (n.) The act of exposing or laying open; a setting out or displaying to public view.
Ablaqueation :: Ablaqueation (n.) The act or process of laying bare the roots of trees to expose them to the air and water.
Spleenish :: Spleenful (a.) Displaying, or affected with, spleen; angry; fretful; melancholy..
Tarsiatura :: Tarsiatura (n.) A kind of mosaic in woodwork, much employed in Italy in the fifteenth century and later, in which scrolls and arabesques, and sometimes architectural scenes, landscapes, fruits, flowers, and the like, were produced by inlaying pieces of wood of different colors and shades into panels usually of walnut wood..
Rack :: Rack (a.) An instrument or frame used for stretching, extending, retaining, or displaying, something..
Spilikin :: Spilikin (n.) One of a number of small pieces or pegs of wood, ivory, bone, or other material, for playing a game, or for counting the score in a game, as in cribbage. In the plural (spilikins.
Guilding :: Guilding (n.) The art or practice of overlaying or covering with gold leaf; also, a thin coating or wash of gold, or of that which resembles gold..
Confirmation :: Confirmation (n.) A rite supplemental to baptism, by which a person is admitted, through the laying on of the hands of a bishop, to the full privileges of the church, as in the Roman Catholic, the Episcopal Church, etc..
Boating :: Boating (n.) In Persia, a punishment of capital offenders, by laying them on the back in a covered boat, where they are left to perish..
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