![]() Who with her radiant finger still’d the roar Thus pass’d the night so foul, till morning fairĬame forth with pilgrim steps in amice grey, With half the easiness that they are rais’d. They bragged, that they doubted not but to abuse, and lay asleep, the queen and council of England.įrancis Bacon. The pictures drawn in our minds are laid in fading colours and, if not sometimes refreshed, vanish and disappear. The colouring upon those maps should be laid on so thin, as not to obscure or conceal any part of the lines. Lay not wait, O! wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous. Lay thee an ambush for the city behind thee. ![]() To bury to interr.ĭavid fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption.Īcts xiii. We to thy name our annual rites will pay,Īnd on thy altars sacrifices lay. They, who so state a question, do no more but separate and disentangle the parts of it, one from another, and lay them, when so disentangled, in their due order. They shall lay hands on the sick, and recover. Then he offered it to him again then he put it by again but, to my thinking, he was very loth to lay his fingers on it. Men will be apt to call it pulling up the old foundations of knowledge I persuade myself, that the way I have pursued lays those fouudations surer. Schismaticks, outlaws, or criminal persons, are not fit to lay the foundation of a new colony. It was a sandy soil, and the way had been full of dust but an hour or two before a refreshing fragrant shower of rain had laid the dust. To keep from rising to settle to still.Īnd lay the summer’s dust with showers of blood. Nor frisking kids the flowery meadows lay. Seek not to be judge, being not able to take away iniquity, lest at any time thou fear the person of the mighty, and lay a stumbling-block in the way of thy uprightness.Īnother ill accident is laying of corn with great rains in harvest. The presbyterians argued, that if the pretender should invade those parts where the numbers and estates of the dissenters chiefly lay, they would sit still.Įtymology: lecgan, Saxon leggen, Dutch. How could he have the retiredness of the cloister, to perform all those acts of devotion in, when the burthen of the reformation lay upon his shoulders? Leaving Rome, in my way to Sienna, I lay the first night at a village in the territories of the antient Veii. When Ahab had heard those words he fasted, and lay in sackcloth. He was familiarly acquainted with him at such time as he lay embassador at Constantinople. John Dryden, Virg.Īnd that no man might draw short breath to day, With uncouth dances, and with country lays. Whom all his charms could not incline to stay. He reach’d the nymph with his harmonious lay, Have link’d that amorous power to thy soft lay, ![]() William Shakespeare, Tempest.Ĭeas’d warbling, but all night tun’d her soft lays. The whiles with a loud lay, she thus him sweetly charm’d. Soon he slumber’d, fearing not be harm’d, It is derived by the French from lessus, Latin, a funeral song but it is found likewise in the Teutonick dialect: ley, leoð, Saxon leey, Danish. It is said originally to signify sorrow or complaint, and then to have been transferred to poems written to expresss sorrow. The plowing of layes is the first plowing up of grass ground for corn.Įtymology: lay, French. ![]() Grassy ground meadow ground unplowed, and kept for cattle: more frequently, and more properly, written lea. It is esteemed an even lay, whether any man lives ten years longer: I suppose it is the same, that one of any ten might die within one year. Upon this they lay a layer of stone, and upon that a lay of wood. A row a stratum.Ī viol should have a lay of wire-strings below, as close to the belly as the lute, and then the strings of guts mounted upon a bridge as in ordinary viols, that the upper strings strucken might make the lower resound. John Ayliffe, Parerg.Įtymology: from the verb. Lay persons, married or unmarried, being doctors of the civil law, may be chancellors, officials, &c. The pref’rence was but due to Levi’s kind:īut when some lay preferment fell by chance, Not clerical regarding or belonging to the people as distinct from the clergy.Īll this they had by law, and none repin’d, Samuel Johnson's Dictionary (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition: "lay a fire" "lay the foundation for a new health care plan" Prepare or position for action or operation "lay the books on the table" "lay the patient carefully onto the bed" "Put your things here" "Set the tray down" "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children" "Place emphasis on a certain point" Put into a certain place or abstract location Put, set, place, pose, position, lay verb "a lay opinion as to the cause of the disease" "set his collar in laic rather than clerical position" "the lay ministry" Princeton's WordNet (3.00 / 1 vote) Rate this definition:Ī narrative song with a recurrent refrainĬharacteristic of those who are not members of the clergy
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