Layname

• 1

  A river in western France.

• 2

  A surname.

layverb詞源 1/leɪ/

• 1

  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
  • A shower of rain lays the dust.
• 2

  archaicTo 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 […]
  • But how upon the winds being laid, doth the ship cease to move?
• 3

  To compel a supernatural entity to cease haunting a place, often by ritual or prayer; to exorcise or banish (a spirit or ghost).

  • They were resolved to banish him if they could, and the spirit, who seemed to have an inkling of their design, was often heard singing in a melancholy tone: Wae's me! wae's me! The acorn is not yet Fallen from the tree, That's to grow the wood, That's to make the cradle, That's to rock the bairn, That's to grow to a man, That's to lay me.
• 4

  To prepare (a plan, project etc.); to set out, establish (a law, principle).

  • Even when I lay a long plan, it is never in the expectation that I will live to see it fulfilled.
• 5

  To install certain building materials, laying one thing on top of another.

  • lay brick; lay flooring
• 6

  To produce and deposit (an egg or eggs).

  • The hen laid an egg.
  • Did dinosaurs lay their eggs in a nest?
• 7

  To bet (that something is or is not the case).

  • I'll lay that he doesn't turn up on Monday.
• 8

  To deposit (a stake) as a wager; to stake; to risk.

  • I dare lay mine honour / He will remain so.
  • He laid a hundred guineas with the laird of Slofferfield that he would drive four horses through the Slofferfield loch, and in the prank he had his bit chariot dung to pieces and a good mare killed.

laynoun詞源 1/leɪ/

• 1

  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.
  • the lay of the land
• 2

  A share of the profits in a business.

  • While the Pequod lay at Nantucket, Peleg put Ishmael down for the three hundredth lay.
  • I was already aware that in the whaling business they paid no wages; but all hands, including the captain, received certain shares of the profits called lays, and that these lays were proportioned to the degree of importance pertaining to the respective duties of the ship’s company.
• 3

  The direction a rope is twisted.

  • Worm and parcel with the lay; turn and serve the other way.
• 4

  A casual sexual partner.

  • Over the years she'd tried to tell himself that his uptown girl was just another lay.
  • To find a place like that and be discreet about it, Jones figured he needed help, so he went to see his favorite lay, Juan Carillo's woman, Carmen.
• 5

  An act of sexual intercourse.

  • Listening to this dismissal of his work, [Tennessee] Williams thought to himself of Wilder, “This character has never had a good lay.”
  • Does his make-up in his room Douse himself with cheap perfume Eyeholes in a paper bag Greatest lay I ever had
• 6

  archaicslangA place or activity where someone spends a significant portion of their time.

  • I shall be on that lay nae mair
  • Since our people have moved this boy on, and he's not to be found on his old lay
• 7

  The laying of eggs.

  • The hens are off the lay at present.
• 8

  obsoleteA layer.

  • […] lay in the bottom of an earthen pot some dried vine leaves, and so make a lay of Pears, and leaves till the pot is filled up, laying betwixt each lay some sliced Ginger […]
  • […] the whole Body of the Church is chequer’d with different Lays of White and Black Marble […]

laynoun詞源 2/leɪ/

• 1

  A lake.

layadj詞源 3/leɪ/

• 1

  Not belonging to the clergy, but associated with them.

  • They seemed more lay than clerical.
  • a lay preacher; a lay brother
• 2

  Non-professional; not being a member of an organized institution.

  • It is true that in adopting the short view many of the younger economists have not merely taken over the lay notions bodily.
  • He hasn't caught a mouse since he was a slip of a kitten. Except when eating, he does nothing but sleep. […] It's a sort of disease. There's a scientific name for it. Trau- something. Traumatic symplegia, that's it. This cat has traumatic symplegia. In other words, putting it in simple language adapted to the lay mind, where other cats are content to get their eight hours, Augustus wants his twenty-four.
• 3

  card-gamesgamesNot trumps.

  • a lay suit
• 4

  obsoleteNot educated or cultivated; ignorant.

laynoun詞源 5/leɪ/

• 1

  A ballad or sung poem; a short poem or narrative, usually intended to be sung.

  • I strive, with wakeful melody, to cheer The sullen gloom, sweet Philomel! like thee, And call the stars to listen: every star Is deaf to mine, enamour'd of thy lay.
  • If these brief lays, of Sorrow born, ⁠Were taken to be such as closed ⁠Grave doubts and answers here proposed, Then these were such as men might scorn: […]
• 2

  A lyrical, narrative poem written in octosyllabic couplets that often deals with tales of adventure and romance.

  • 1945: "The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun" by JRR Tolkien Sad is the note and sad the lay, but mirth we meet not every day.

laynoun詞源 6/leɪ/

• 1

  obsoleteA meadow; a lea.

  • Having destroyed all old lays, I have no other hay than clover.

laynoun詞源 7/leɪ/

• 1

  obsoleteA law.

  • A woman worthy of immortall prayse, / Which for this Realme found many goodly layes
• 2

  obsoleteAn obligation; a vow.

  • they bound themselues by a sacred lay and oth to fight it out to the last man

layverb詞源 8/leɪ/

• 1

  To don or put on (tefillin (phylacteries)).

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• lie