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Thus pass'd the night so foul, till morning fair Came forth with pilgrim steps in amice grey, Who with her radiant finger still'd the roar Of thunder, chas'd the clouds, and laid the winds. Milton.

After a tempest, when the winds are laid, The calm sea wonders at the wrecks it made. Waller.

I fear'd I should have found A tempest in your soul, and came to lay it. Denham. At once the wind was laid, the whisp'ring sound

Was dumb, a rising earthquake rock'd the ground. Dryden.

13. To prohibit a spirit to walk.

The husband found no charm to lay the devil in a petticoat, but the rattling of a bladder with

beans in it.

14. To set on the table.

I laid meat unto them.

L'Estrange.

Hosea.

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The sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest, for herself, where she may lay her young.

18. To exclude eggs.

Psalms.

After the egg is lay'd, there is no further growth or nourishment from the female.

Bacon's Natural History.

A hen mistakes a piece of chalk for an egg, and sits upon it; she is insensible of an increase or diminution in the number of those she lays. Spectator.

19. To apply with violence; as, to lay blows.

Lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it. Ezekiel. Never more shall my torn mind be heal'd, Nor taste the gentle comforts of repose! A dreadful band of gloomy cares surround me, And lay strong siege to my distracted soul.

20. To apply nearly.

Philips.

She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff.

Proverbs.

It is better to go to the house of mourning tien to go to the house of feasting; for that is the end of all men, and the living will lay it to his heart. Ecclesiastes.

The peacock laid it extremely to heart, that, being Juno's darling bird, he had not the nightingale's voice. L'Estrange.

He that really lays these two things to heart, the extreme necessity that he is in, and the small possibility of help, will never come coldly to a work of that concernment.

21. To add; to conjoin.

Duppa.

Wo unto them that lay field to field. Isaiah. 22. To put in a state; implying somewhat of disclosure.

If the sinus lie distant; lay it open first, and cure that apertion before you divide that in ano. Wiseman.

The wars have laid whole countries waste.

23. To scheme; to contrive.

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You rather must do, than what you should do, Made you against the grain to voice him consul, Lay the fault on us. Sbakspeare.

How shall this bloody deed be answered?

It will be laid to us, whose providence
Should have kept short, restrain'd, and out of

haunt,

This mad young man.

Shaksp. Hamlet.

We need not lay new matter to his charge. Shakspeare.

Men groan from out of the city, yet God Job.

layeth not folly to them.

Let us be glad of this, and all our fears Lay on his providence.

Paradise Regained.

The writers of those times lay the disgraces and ruins of their country upon the numbers and fierceness of those savage nations that invaded them. Temple.

They lay want of invention to his charge; a capital crime. Dryden's Eneid. You represented it to the queen as wholly innocent of those crimes which were laid un

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A prince who never disobey'd, Not when the most severe commands were laid, Nor want, nor exile with his duty weigh'd.

Dryden. You see what obligation the profession of Christianity lays upon us to holiness of life. Tillotson. Neglect the rules each verbal critick lays, For net to know some trifles is a praise. Pope. 28. To exhibit; to offer.

It is not the manner of the Romans to deliver any man to die, before that he which is accused have the accusers face to face, and have licence to answer for himself concerning the crime laid against him.

Acts.

Addison.

Till he lays his indictment in some certain country, we do not think ourselves bound to

answer.

Atterbury.

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The Tuscan king

Laid by the lance, and took him to the sling. Dryden.

Where Dædalus his borrow'd wings laid by, To that obscure retreat I chuse to fly. Dryden. My zeal for you must lay the father by, And plead my country's cause against my son. Dryden.

Fortune, conscious of your destiny,

E'en then took care to lay you softly by,
And wrapp'd your fate among her precious
things,
Kept fresh to be unfolded with your king's.
Dryden.
Dismiss your rage, and lay your weapons by,
Know I protect them, and they shall not die.
Dryden.

When their displeasure is once declared they ought not presently to lay by the severity of their brows, but restore their children to their former grace with some difficulty.

Locke.

37. To LAY down. To deposite as a pledge, equivalent, or satisfaction.

Jobn.

I lay down my life for the sheep. For her, my lord, I dare my life lay down, and will do't, Sir, Please you t'accept it, that the queen is spot

less

I' th' eyes of Heaven. Sbakspeare. 38. To LAY down. To quit; to resign. The soldier being once brought in for the service, I will not have him lay dorun his arms any more. Spenser's Ireland. Ambitious conquerors, in their mad career, Check'd by thy voice, lay down the sword and Blackmore's Creation. The story of the tragedy is purely fiction; for I take it up where the history has laid it Dryden.

dorun.

spear.

39. To LAY down. To commit to repose. I will lay me dorun in peace and sleep. Psal. And they lay themselves down upon cloths laid Ames. to pledge, by every altar. We lay us dorun, to sleep away our cares; night shuts up the senses. Glanville's Scepsis.

Some god conduct me to the sacred shades, Or lift me high to Hamus' hilly crown, Or in the plains of Tempe lay me down. Dryd. 40. To LAY down. To advance as a proposition.

I have laid down, in some measure, the Abbot. description of the old known world.

Kircher lays it down as a certain principle, that there never was any people so rude, which did not acknowledge and worship one supreme deity. Stilling fleet.

I must lay down this for your encouragement, that we are no lenger now under the heavy yoke Wake. of a perfect unsinning obedience.

Plato lays it dovun as a principle, that whatever is permitted to befal a just man, whether poverty or sickness, shall, either in life or death, conduce to his good.

Addison.

From the maxims laia dovun many may conclude, that there had been abuses. Swift. 41. To LAY for. To attempt by ambush, or insidious practices.

He embarked, being hardly laid for at sea by Cortug-ogli, a famous pirate.

Knolles.

42. To LAY forth. To diffuse; to expatiate.

the raven.

O bird! the delight of gods and of men! and so he lays himself forth upon the grace ulness of L'Estrange. 43. To LAY forth. To place when dead in a decent posture.

Embalm me,

Then lay me forth; although unqueen'd, yet like A queen, and daughter to a king, inter me. Shakspeare. 44. To LAY bold of. To seize; to catch. Then shall his father and his mother lay bold him, and bring him out. Deuteronomy. Favourable seasons of aptitude and inclination, be heedfully laid bold of. Locke.

45. To LAY in. To store; to treasure.

Let the main part of the ground employed to gardens or corn be to a common stock; and laid is, and stored up, and then delivered out in proportion.

Á vessel and provisions laid in large

For man and beast.

An equal stock of wit and valour

Bacon.

Milton.

He had laid in, by birth a taylor. Hudibras. They saw the happiness of a private life, but they thought they had not enough make

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50. To LAY out. To display; to discover.
He was dangerous, and takes occasion to lay
out bigotry, and also false confidence in all its
colours.
Atterbury,

51. To LAY out. To dispose; to plan.
The garden is laid out into a grove for fruits,
a vineyard, and an allotment for olives and
herbs.
Notes on the Odyssey.
52. TO LAY out. With the reciprocal
pronoun, to exert; to put forth.

No selfish man will be concerned to lay out himself for the good of his country. Smalridge. 53. To LAY to. To charge upon.

When we began, in courteous manner, to lay his unkindness unto him, he, seeing himself confronted by so many, like a resolute orator, went not to denial, but to justify his cruel falsehood. Sidney.

them happy, they would have more, and laid 54. To LAY to. To apply with vigour.

in to make their solitude luxurious.

Dryden. Readers, who are in the flower of their youth should labour at those accomplishments which may set off their persons when their bloom is gone, and to lay in timely provisions for manhood and old age. Addison's Guardian.

46. To LAY on.

Let children be hired lay to their bones, From fallow as needeth, to gather up stones. Tusser. We should now lay to our hands to root them up, and cannot tell for what.

Oxford against the Covenant

To apply with violence. 55. To LAY to. To harass; to attack.

We make no excuses for the obstinate: blows are the proper remedies; but blows laid on in a way different from the ordinary.

Locke. 47. To LAY open. To show; to expose. Teach me, dear creature, how to think and

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43. To LAY over. To incrust; to cover; to decorate superficially.

Wo unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach: behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it. Habakkuk.

49. To LAY out. To expend.

Fathers are wont to lay up for their sons, Thou for thy son art bent to lay out all. Milton. Tycho Brahe laid out, besides his time and industry, much greater sums of money on instruments than any man we ever heard of.

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The great master having a careful eye over every part of the city, went himself unto the station, which was then hardly laid to by the Bassa Mustapha. Knolles.

Whilst he this, and that, and each man's
blow,

Doth eye, defend, and shift, being laid to sore;
Backwards he bears.
Daniel's Civil War.

56. To LAY together. To collect; to bring
into one view.

If we lay all these things together, and consider the parts, rise, and degrees of his sin, we shall find that it was not for nothing. South. Many people apprehend danger for want of taking the true measure of things, and laying matters rightly together. L'Estrange.

My readers will be very well pleased, to see so many useful hints upon this subject laid toge ther in so clear and concise a manner.

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out intermission.

His heart laid on, as if it try'd

To force a passage through his side. Hudibras. Answer, or answer not, 'tis all the same, He lays me on, and makes me bear the blame. Dryden.

7. To LAY on. To act with vehemence : used of expences.

My father has made her mistress Of the feast, and she lays it on. Shakspeare. 8. TO LAY out. To take measures.

I made strict enquiry wherever I came, and laid out for intelligence of all places, where the intrails of the earth were laid open. Woodw.

9. To LAY upon. To importune; to request with earnestness and incessantly. Obsolete.

All the people laid so earnestly upon him to take that war in hand, that they said they would never hear arms more against the Turks, if he omitted that occasion.

LAY. n. s. [from the verb.]

Knolles.

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LAY.

N. S.

[ley, leaz, Saxon; ley, Scottish.] Grassy ground; meadow; ground unplowed, and kept for cattle: more frequently, and more properly, written lea.

A tuft of daisies on a flow'ry lay They saw.

Dryden's Floruer and Leaf.

The plowing of layes is the first plowing up of grass ground for corn. Mortimer's Hase.

LAY. n. s. [lay, French. It is said originally to signify sorrow or complaint, and then to have been transferred to poems written to express sorrow. It is derived by the French from lessus, Latin, a funeral song; but it is found likewise in the Teutonick dialect: ley, leoð, Sax. leey, Danish.] A song; a poem. It is scarcely used but in poetry.

To the maiden's sounding timbrels sung, In well attuned notes, a joyous lay. Fairy Qu. Soon he slumber'd, fearing not be harm'd The whiles with a loud lay, she thus him Fairy Queen.

sweetly charm'd.

This is a most majestick vision, and Harmonious charming lays. Shaksp. Tempest.

Nor then the solemn nightingale Ceas'd warbling, but all night tun'd her soft lays. Milton.

If Jove's will Have link'd that amorous power to thy soft lay, Now timely sing. Milton.

He reach'd the nymph with his harmonious lay, Whom all his charms could not incline to stay. Waller.

On Ceres let him call, and Ceres praise With uncouth dances, and with country lays. Dryden.

Dennis.

Ev'n gods incline their ravish'd ears, And tune their own harmonious spheres To his immortal lays. LAY. adj. [laicus, Latin; λάθ.] Not clerical; regarding or belonging to the people as distinct from the clergy.

All this they had by law, and none repin'd, The pref'rence was but due to Levi's kind: But when some lay preferment fell by chance, The Gourmands made it their inheritance.

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Der as any earthy sediment, settling down from LA'ZILY. adv. [from lazy.] Idly; slugFoed in great quantity, will naturally be.

3. A sprig of a plane.

Woodward.

Many trees may be propagated by layers: this is to be performed by slitting the branches a battle way, and laying them under the mould about half a foot; the ground should be first cade very light, and, after they are laid, they should have a little water given them: if they do not comply well in the laying of them down, they must be pegged down with a hook or two; nit they have taken sufficient root by the next winter, they must be cut off from the main plass, and planted in the nursery: some twist the tranch, or bare the rind; and if it be out of the reach of the ground, they fasten å tub or basket rear the branch, which they fill with good would, and lay the branch in it, Miller. Transplant also carnation seedlings, give your Leyn, fresh earth, and set them in the shade for a week. Evelyn.

3. A hen that lays eggs.

The oldest are always reckoned the best sitters, and the youngest the best layers.

Mortimer.

LAYMAN. n. 5. [lay and man.]
1. One of the people distinct from the
clergy.

2.

Layman will neither admonish one another
themselves, nor suffer ministers to do it.
Gov. of the Tongue.

Sice a trust must be, she thought it best
To put it out of laymen's pow'r at least,
And for their solemn vows prepar'd a priest.
Dryden.

Where can be the grievance, that an ecclesiastical landlord should expect a third part value for his lands, his title as antient, and as legal, as that of a Leyman, who is seldom guilty of giving such beneficial bargains?

An image used

ing attitudes.

by painters in

Swift. contriv

You are to have a layman almost as big as the life for every figure in particular, besides the natural figure before you.

Dryden.

LAYSTALL. N. s. A heap of dung.
Scarce could he footing find in that foul way,
For many corses, like a great lay-stall
Of murdered men, which therein strewed
lay.
Spenser.

LAZAR. n.5. [from Lazarus in the gos-
pel.] One deformed and nauseous with
filthy and pestilential diseases.

They ever after in most wretched case, Like loathsome lazars, by the hedges lay.

Spenser.

I'll be sworn, and sworn upon 't, she never shrowded any but lazars. Shakspeare. I am weary with drawing the deformities of Ife, and lazors of the people, where every igare of imperfection more resembles me.

n. s.

Dryden.

Life he labours to refine
Daily, nor of his little stock denies
Fit alins to lazars merciful and meek. Philips.
LA'ZAR-HOUSE.
[lazaret, Fr. laz-
LAZARETTO. Szaretto, Italian; from
lazar.] A house for the reception of
the diseased; a hospital.
A place

Before his eyes appear'd, sad, noisome, dark,
A laxar-bouse it seem'd, wherein were laid
Numbers of all diseas'd.

Milton.

LAZARWORT. n. s. [laserpitium.] A plant,

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South.

My fortune you have rescued, not only from the power of others, but from my own modesty and laziness. Dryden.

LAZING. adj. [from lazy.] Sluggish; idle.

The hands and the feet mutinied against the belly: they knew no reason, why the one should be lazing, and pampering itself with the fruit of the other's labour. L'Estrange.

The sot cried, Utinam hoc esset laborare, while he lay lazing and lolling upon his couch. South. LAZULI. n. S.

The ground of this stone is blue, veined and spotted with white, and a glistering or metallick yellow: it appears to be composed of, first, a white sparry, or crystalline matter; secondly, flakes of the golden or yellow talc; thirdly, a shining yellow substance; this fumes off in the calcination of the stone, and casts a sulphureous smell; fourthly, a bright blue substance, of great use among the painters, under the name of ultramarine; and when rich, is found, upon trial, to yield about one sixth of copper, with a very little silver. Woodrvard.

LAZY. adj. (This word is derived by a correspondent, with great probability, from a l' aise, French; but it is however Teutonick; lijser in Danish, and losigh in Dutch, have the same meaning; and Spelman gives this account of the word: Dividebantur antiqui Saxones, ut testatur Nithardus, in tres ordines; Edhilingos, Frilingos & Lazzos; hoc est nobiles, ingenuos & serviles: quam & nos distinctionem diu retinuimus. Sed Ricardo autem secundo pars servorum maxima se in libertatem vindicavit, sic ut hodie apud Anglos rarior inveniatur servus, qui mancipium dicitur. Restat nihilominus antiquæ appellationis commemoratio. Ignavos enim hodie lazie dicimus.]

1. Idle; sluggish; unwilling to work.

Our soldiers, like the night-owl's lazy flight,
Or like a lazy thrasher with a flail,
Fall gently down as if they struck their friends.
Shakspeare.
Wicked condemned men will ever live like
rogues, and not fall to work, but be lazy, and
spend victuals.
Bacon.
Whose lazy waters without motion lay.

The lazy glutton safe at
Roscommon,
home will keep,
will Indulge his sloth, and batten with his sleep.

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