How to pronounce“lay”in English
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Definitions of “lay”
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”
To cause to subside or abate.
“The cloudes, as things affrayd, before him flye; / But all so soone as his outrageous powre / Is layd, they fiercely then begin to shoure […]”
Arrangement or relationship; layout.
“He spoke of a flower or tree in each of the fifteen poems. A simple shape, a color, the design of a hedge, the lay of a limb inspired him in these songs to and about his loves.”
A share of the profits in a business.
“While the Pequod lay at Nantucket, Peleg put Ishmael down for the three hundredth lay.”
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