Definition of lying

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Lying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lie, to be supported horizontally..

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Venerable :: Venerable (a.) Capable of being venerated; worthy of veneration or reverence; deserving of honor and respect; -- generally implying an advanced age; as, a venerable magistrate; a venerable parent..
Batfish :: Batfish (n.) A name given to several species of fishes: (a) The Malthe vespertilio of the Atlantic coast. (b) The flying gurnard of the Atlantic (Cephalacanthus spinarella). (c) The California batfish or sting ray (Myliobatis Californicus..
Suppliance :: Supplial (n.) The act of supplying; a supply.
Territory :: Territory (n.) The extent of land belonging to, or under the dominion of, a prince, state, or other form of government; often, a tract of land lying at a distance from the parent country or from the seat of government; as, the territory of a State; the territories of the East India Company..
Connotative :: Connotative (a.) Implying something additional; illative.
Lamina :: Lamina (n.) A thin plate or scale; a layer or coat lying over another; -- said of thin plates or platelike substances, as of bone or minerals..
Outpart :: Outpart (n.) An outlying part.
Transvolation :: Transvolation (n.) The act of flying beyond or across.
Self-applying :: Self-applying (a.) Applying to or by one's self.
Succedanea :: Succedaneous (a.) Pertaining to, or acting as, a succedaneum; supplying the place of something else; being, or employed as, a substitute for another..
Serpentarius :: Serpentarius (n.) A constellation on the equator, lying between Scorpio and Hercules; -- called also Ophiuchus..
Decubation :: Decubation (n.) Act of lying down; decumbence.
Censorious :: Censorious (a.) Implying or expressing censure; as, censorious remarks..
Suppositor :: Suppositive (n.) A word denoting or implying supposition, as the words if, granting, provided, etc..
Smile :: Smile (v. i.) To express slight contempt by a look implying sarcasm or pity; to sneer.
Splice :: Splice (v. t.) To unite, as spars, timbers, rails, etc., by lapping the two ends together, or by applying a piece which laps upon the two ends, and then binding, or in any way making fast..
Tramontane :: Tramontane (a.) Lying or being beyond the mountains; coming from the other side of the mountains; hence, foreign; barbarous..
Suburb :: Suburb (n.) An outlying part of a city or town; a smaller place immediately adjacent to a city; in the plural, the region which is on the confines of any city or large town; as, a house stands in the suburbs; a garden situated in the suburbs of Paris..
Anchorage :: Anchorage (n.) The act of anchoring, or the condition of lying at anchor..
Flysch :: Flysch (n.) A name given to the series of sandstones and schists overlying the true nummulitic formation in the Alps, and included in the Eocene Tertiary..
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