Lay (v. i.) To take a position; to come or go; as, to lay forward; to lay aloft.
Lay (v. i.) To lay a wager; to bet.
Lay (n.) That which lies or is laid or is conceived of as having been laid or placed in its position; a row; a stratum; a layer; as, a lay of stone or wood.
Lay (v. t.) A wager.
Lay (v. t.) A job, price, or profit.
Lay (v. t.) A share of the proceeds or profits of an enterprise; as, when a man ships for a whaling voyage, he agrees for a certain lay.
Lay (v. t.) A measure of yarn; a lea. See 1st Lea (a).
Lay (v. t.) The lathe of a loom. See Lathe, 3.
Lay (v. t.) A plan; a scheme.
Layer (n.) One who, or that which, lays.
Layer (n.) That which is laid; a stratum; a bed; one thickness, course, or fold laid over another; as, a layer of clay or of sand in the earth; a layer of bricks, or of plaster; the layers of an onion.
Layer (n.) A shoot or twig of a plant, not detached from the stock, laid under ground for growth or propagation.
Layer (n.) An artificial oyster bed.
Layering (n.) A propagating by layers.
Laying (n.) The act of one who, or that which, lays.
Laying (n.) The act or period of laying eggs; the eggs laid for one incubation; a clutch.
Laying (n.) The first coat on laths of plasterer's two-coat work.
Layland (n.) Land lying untilled; fallow ground.
Laymen (pl. ) of Layman
Layman (n.) One of the people, in distinction from the clergy; one of the laity; sometimes, a man not belonging to some particular profession, in distinction from those who do.
Layman (n.) A lay figure. See under Lay, n. (above).
Layner (n.) A whiplash.
Layship (n.) The condition of being a layman.
Laystall (n.) A place where rubbish, dung, etc., are laid or deposited.
Laystall (n.) A place where milch cows are kept, or cattle on the way to market are lodged.
Lazar (n.) A person infected with a filthy or pestilential disease; a leper.
Lazaret (n.) Alt. of Lazaretto
Lazaretto (n.) A public building, hospital, or pesthouse for the reception of diseased persons, particularly those affected with contagious diseases.
Lazarist (n.) Alt. of Lazarite
Lazarite (n.) One of the Congregation of the Priests of the Mission, a religious institute founded by Vincent de Paul in 1624, and popularly called Lazarists or Lazarites from the College of St. Lazare in Paris, which was occupied by them until 1792.
Lazarlike (a.) Alt. of Lazarly
Lazarly (a.) Full of sores; leprous.
Lazaroni (n. pl.) See Lazzaroni.
Lazarwort (n.) Laserwort.
Lazed (imp. & p. p.) of Laze
Lazing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Laze
Laze (v. i.) To be lazy or idle.
Laze (v. t.) To waste in sloth; to spend, as time, in idleness; as, to laze away whole days.
Lazily (adv.) In a lazy manner.
Laziness (n.) The state or quality of being lazy.
Lazuli (n.) A mineral of a fine azure-blue color, usually in small rounded masses. It is essentially a silicate of alumina, lime, and soda, with some sodium sulphide, is often marked by yellow spots or veins of sulphide of iron, and is much valued for ornamental work. Called also lapis lazuli, and Armenian stone.
Lazulite (n.) A mineral of a light indigo-blue color, occurring in small masses, or in monoclinic crystals; blue spar. It is a hydrous phosphate of alumina and magnesia.
Lazy (superl.) Disinclined to action or exertion; averse to labor; idle; shirking work.
Lazy (superl.) Inactive; slothful; slow; sluggish; as, a lazy stream.
Lazy (superl.) Wicked; vicious.
Lazyback (n.) A support for the back, attached to the seat of a carriage.
Lazybones (n.) A lazy person.
Lazzaroni (n. pl.) The homeless idlers of Naples who live by chance work or begging; -- so called from the Hospital of St. Lazarus, which serves as their refuge.
Lea (n.) A measure of yarn; for linen, 300 yards; for cotton, 120 yards; a lay.
Lea (n.) A set of warp threads carried by a loop of the heddle.
Lea (n.) A meadow or sward land; a grassy field.
Leach (n.) See 3d Leech.
Leach (n.) A quantity of wood ashes, through which water passes, and thus imbibes the alkali.
Leach (n.) A tub or vat for leaching ashes, bark, etc.
Leached (imp. & p. p.) of Leach
Leaching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Leach
Leach (v. t.) To remove the soluble constituents from by subjecting to the action of percolating water or other liquid; as, to leach ashes or coffee.
Leach (v. t.) To dissolve out; -- often used with out; as, to leach out alkali from ashes.
Leach (v. i.) To part with soluble constituents by percolation.
Leach (n.) See Leech, a physician.
Leachy (a.) Permitting liquids to pass by percolation; not capable of retaining water; porous; pervious; -- said of gravelly or sandy soils, and the like.
Lead (n.) One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity, and is used for tubes, sheets, bullets, etc. Its specific gravity is 11.37. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic weight, 206.4. Symbol Pb (L. Plumbum). It is chiefly obtained from the mineral galena, lead sulphide.
Lead (n.) An article made of lead or an alloy of lead
Lead (n.) A plummet or mass of lead, used in sounding at sea.
Lead (n.) A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing.
Lead (n.) Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs; hence, pl., a roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates.
Lead (n.) A small cylinder of black lead or plumbago, used in pencils.
Leaded (imp. & p. p.) of Lead
Leading (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lead
Lead (v. t.) To cover, fill, or affect with lead; as, continuous firing leads the grooves of a rifle.
Lead (v. t.) To place leads between the lines of; as, to lead a page; leaded matter.
Led (imp. & p. p.) of Lead
Leading (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lead
Lead (v. t.) To guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some physical contact connection; as, a father leads a child; a jockey leads a horse with a halter; a dog leads a blind man.
Lead (v. t.) To guide or conduct in a certain course, or to a certain place or end, by making the way known; to show the way, esp. by going with or going in advance of. Hence, figuratively: To direct; to counsel; to instruct; as, to lead a traveler; to lead a pupil.
Lead (v. t.) To conduct or direct with authority; to have direction or charge of; as, to lead an army, an exploring party, or a search; to lead a political party.
Lead (v. t.) To go or to be in advance of; to precede; hence, to be foremost or chief among; as, the big sloop led the fleet of yachts; the Guards led the attack; Demosthenes leads the orators of all ages.
Lead (v. t.) To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice; to allure; as, to lead one to espouse a righteous cause.
Lead (v. t.) To guide or conduct one's self in, through, or along (a certain course); hence, to proceed in the way of; to follow the path or course of; to pass; to spend. Also, to cause (one) to proceed or follow in (a certain course).
Lead (v. t.) To begin a game, round, or trick, with; as, to lead trumps; the double five was led.
Lead (v. i.) To guide or conduct, as by accompanying, going before, showing, influencing, directing with authority, etc.; to have precedence or preeminence; to be first or chief; -- used in most of the senses of lead, v. t.
Lead (v. t.) To tend or reach in a certain direction, or to a certain place; as, the path leads to the mill; gambling leads to other vices.
Lead (n.) The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction; as, to take the lead; to be under the lead of another.
Lead (n.) precedence; advance position; also, the measure of precedence; as, the white horse had the lead; a lead of a boat's length, or of half a second.
Lead (n.) The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit, or piece, so played; as, your partner has the lead.
Lead (n.) An open way in an ice field.
Lead (n.) A lode.
Lead (n.) The course of a rope from end to end.
Lead (n.) The width of port opening which is uncovered by the valve, for the admission or release of steam, at the instant when the piston is at end of its stroke.
Lead (n.) the distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment.
Lead (n.) The action of a tooth, as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet.
Leaded (a.) Fitted with lead; set in lead; as, leaded windows.
Leaded (a.) Separated by leads, as the lines of a page.
Leaden (a.) Made of lead; of the nature of lead; as, a leaden ball.
Leaden (a.) Like lead in color, etc. ; as, a leaden sky.
Leaden (a.) Heavy; dull; sluggish.
Leader (n.) One who, or that which, leads or conducts; a guide; a conductor.
Leader (n.) One who goes first.
Leader (n.) One having authority to direct; a chief; a commander.
Leader (n.) A performer who leads a band or choir in music; also, in an orchestra, the principal violinist; the one who plays at the head of the first violins.