lay

laatia, asettaa

munia

maallikko-

laulu puhekieltä To place down in a position of rest, or in a horizontal position.

to lay a book on the table;   to lay a body in the grave

A shower of rain lays the dust.

A stone was brought, and laid upon the mouth of the den.

Now I lay me down to sleep, / I pray the Lord my Soul to keep. / If I should die before I ’wake, / I pray the Lord my Soul to take.

An indulgent playmate, Grannie would lay aside the long scratchy-looking letter she was writing (heavily crossed ‘to save notepaper’) and enter into the delightful pastime of ‘a chicken from Mr Whiteley's’.

A corresponding intransitive version of this word is lieEtymology_1 lie.

The cloudes, as things affrayd, before him flye; / But all so soone as his outrageous powre / Is layd, they fiercely then begin to shoure (..)

But how upon the winds being laid, doth the ship cease to move?

Even when I lay a long plan, it is never in the expectation that I will live to see it fulfilled.

lay brick;  lay flooring

Ill lay that he doesn't turn up on Monday.''

I dare lay mine honour / He will remain so.

‘It's because he's a no-good son of a bitch who thinks it is smart to lay his friends' wives and brag about it.’

to lay forward;  to lay aloft

to lay the venue

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to lay a gun

to lay a cable or rope

She layeth her hands to the spindle.

to lay a tax on land

The Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

God layeth not folly to them.

Lay the fault on us.

to lay an indictment in a particular county;   to lay a scheme before one

the lay of the land

I was already aware that in the whaling business they paid no wages; but all hands, including the captain, received certain shares of the profits called lays, and that these lays were proportioned to the degree of importance pertaining to the respective duties of the ship’s company.

Worm and parcel with the lay; turn and serve the other way.

Over the years she'd tried to tell himself that his uptown girl was just another lay.

To find a place like that and be discreet about it, Jones figured he needed help, so he went to see his favorite lay, Juan Carillo's woman, Carmen.

“Because I don't want William to be just another lay. I did the slut thing, T, and it got me into a lot of trouble years ago. (�)

What was I, just another lay you can toss aside as you go on to your next conquest?

Listening to this dismissal of his work, Tennessee Williams thought to himself of Wilder, “This character has never had a good lay.”

(�) She didn't become this germ freak until Thomas died. I wonder if she just needs a good lay, you know, an all-nighter?" Toots said thoughtfully.

“What she needs is a good lay. If she had someone to rock her world on a regular basis, she wouldn't be such a raging bit—”

The hens are off the lay at present.

They seemed more lay than clerical.

a lay preacher; a lay brother

The baby lay in its crib and slept silently.

Lay, lady, lay. / Lay across my big brass bed.

Laying low, seeking out the poorer quarters / Where the ragged people go

Let me lay down beside you. / Let me always be with you.

I strive, with wakeful melody, to cheer

The sullen gloom, sweet Philomel! like thee,

And call the stars to listen: every star

Is deaf to mine, enamour’d of thy lay.

many goodly lays

They bound themselves by a sacred lay and oath.