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• 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.
• He used to drop into my chambers once in a while to smoke, and was first-rate company. When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him.
• 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 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
• I'll 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
• 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—”
• He hasn't caught a mouse since he was a slip of a kitten. Except when eating, he does nothing but sleep. [...] It's a sort of disease. There's a scientific name for it. Trau- something. Traumatic symplegia, that's it. This cat has traumatic symplegia. In other words, putting it in simple language adapted to the lay mind, where other cats are content to get their eight hours, Augustus wants his twenty-four.
• 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.
• 1805 The Lay of the Last Minstrel, Sir Walter Scott.
• many goodly lays
• They bound themselves by a sacred lay and oath.
• the lay of the land (plutôt que le standard the lie of the land)
• Lay the plates down on the table.
• The Lay of the Last Minstrel
• The clever politician was laying the groundwork for a trap.
• The hens are laying eggs.
• ~ eggs munia
• He was a lay minister on Sundays, while he had a regular job the rest of the week.
• The book was well received by experts and the lay public alike.