laye

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laye (third-person singular simple present layes, present participle laying, simple past and past participle layed)

  1. Obsolete spelling of lay.
    • 1597, King James I, Daemonologie.[1]:
      Ye must first remember to laye the ground, that I tould you before: which is, that it is no power inherent in the circles, or in the holines of the names of God blasphemouslie vsed: nor in whatsoeuer rites or ceremonies at that time vsed, that either can raise any infernall spirit, or yet limitat him perforce within or without these circles.
    • 1775, Various, Continental Monthly, Vol. I, No. V, May, 1862[2]:
      He was a wight of grisly fronte, And muckle berd ther was upon 't, His lockes farre down did laye: Ful wel he setten on his hors, Thatte fony felaws called Mors, For len it was and grai.
    • 1806, Walter Scott, Minstrelsy of the Scottish border (3rd ed) (1 of 3)[3]:
      Aftir that, my seid lord retournyng to the campe, wold in nowise bee lodged in the same, but where he laye the furst nyght.

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laye (plural layes)

  1. Obsolete spelling of lay (a song).

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laye m

  1. inflection of laya (a brief measure of time):
    1. locative singular
    2. accusative plural