Noun | 1. | ![]() Synonyms: ballad |
2. | lay - a narrative poem of popular origin Synonyms: ballad | |
Verb | 1. | lay - put into a certain place or abstract location; "Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point" |
2. | lay - put in a horizontal position; "lay the books on the table"; "lay the patient carefully onto the bed" | |
3. | lay - prepare or position for action or operation; "lay a fire"; "lay the foundation for a new health care plan" | |
4. | lay - lay eggs; "This hen doesn't lay" | |
5. | lay - impose as a duty, burden, or punishment; "lay a responsibility on someone" | |
Adj. | 1. | lay - concerning those not members of the clergy; "set his collar in laic rather than clerical position"; "the lay ministry"; "the choir sings both sacred and secular music" |
2. | lay - not of or from a profession; "a lay opinion as to the cause of the disease" |
LAY, English law. That which relates to persons or things not ecclesiastical. In the United States the people are not, by law, divided, as in England, into ecclesiastical and lay. The law makes no distinction between them.
TO LAY, pleading. To state or to allege. The place from whence a jury are to be summoned, is called the venue, and the allegation in the declaration, of the place where the jury is to be summoned, is in technical language, said to lay the venue. 3 Steph. Com. 574; 3 Bouv. Inst. n. 2826.
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