lay

• accredit
• address
• adduce
• adventure
• affix
• aim
• air
• allay
• allege
• alleviate
• allot
• anchor
• anoint
• anthem
• appease
• apply
• appointment
• aria
• arm
• arrange
• array
• art
• art song
• ascribe
• assemble
• assess
• assign
• assignment
• associate
• assuage
• atheistic
• attach
• attribute
• ballad
• barcarole
• barcarolle
• batten
• bear
• bedaub
• berth
• besmear
• bet
• bid
• billet
• blame
• blanket
• blasphemous
• bleed
• blues
• bodily
• brace
• bring forth
• bring forward
• burden
• bury
• business
• cadence
• call
• calling
• calm
• cantata
• canticle
• carnal
• carol
• carpet
• carry
• cast
• chalk up
• chance
• chanson
• chant
• chantey
• chanty
• charge
• chorale
• chorus
• cite
• clap
• clarify
• clear
• cloak
• coat
• coerce
• coffin
• collect
• compel
• conceal
• concoct
• connect
• contrive
• corporal
• cover
• craft
• credit
• croon
• curtain
• dab
• daub
• depose
• deposit
• descant
• devise
• direct
• dirge
• discant
• dispose
• ditty
• dock
• draft
• draw up
• drinking song
• duty
• earthly
• educate
• emplace
• employment
• encumber
• endanger
• engagement
• ensconce
• enshrine
• enshroud
• enterprise
• entomb
• equip
• establish
• even
• exact
• excise
• extort
• field
• fight song
• filter
• fine
• fit
• fix
• flatten
• fleece
• fleshly
• flop
• flush
• folk song
• force
• forearm
• fortify
• frame
• function
• furnish
• gamble
• game
• gather
• gear up
• generate
• gig
• gird
• give odds
• glee
• go
• godless
• gouge
• groom
• hallelujah
• handcraft
• handicraft
• hatch
• hazard
• hearse
• hide
• hymn
• immure
• imperil
• impious
• impose
• impute
• incline
• indoctrinate
• inexpert
• inflict
• inhume
• instruct
• inter
• inurn
• iron
• irreligious
• irreverent
• jeopardize
• jingle
• job
• laic
• laical
• lament
• lay on
• lay out
• layer
• leave
• level
• levy
• lifework
• line
• line up
• link
• livelihood
• living
• load
• locate
• lock
• lodge
• lullaby
• lyric
• madrigal
• mantle
• material
• measure
• medley
• melody
• meter
• metier
• milk
• mission
• motet
• mount
• move
• mulct
• mundane
• niche
• noel
• nonclerical
• nondenominational
• nonprofessional
• nonreligious
• nonsectarian
• nonspecialist
• obscure
• occupation
• offer
• office
• order
• ordinary
• organize
• orient
• outfit
• overlay
• overlie
• overspread
• paean
• pagan
• paganish
• park
• part-song
• penalize
• physical
• place
• plane
• plank
• plant
• plaster
• play
• plonk
• plop
• plot
• plump
• plunk
• plunk down
• poem
• point
• pop
• posit
• position
• post
• predispose
• prep
• prepare
• present
• press
• prime
• profane
• profession
• provide
• psalm
• put
• put away
• put down
• put forward
• queue
• quiet
• racket
• rank
• ready
• reapply
• rearrange
• rebury
• refer
• reimpose
• reinter
• relay
• relieve
• religionless
• remix
• reorder
• repose
• requiem
• resettle
• rest
• rhythm
• risk
• rocker
• round
• roundelay
• sacrilegious
• school
• screen
• secular
• sediment
• serenade
• set
• set down
• set out
• set up
• settle
• shade
• shake down
• shanty
• sheet
• shield
• shift
• shroud
• sieve
• sift
• situate
• situation
• skin
• slap
• slather
• smear
• song
• speculate
• spiritual
• spread
• squeeze
• stake
• standard
• steam
• steel
• stick
• still
• strain
• submit
• substantial
• supply
• suppress
• surface
• systematize
• task
• tax
• temporal
• terrene
• terrestrial
• threnody
• tomb
• torch song
• trade
• train
• tune
• turn
• tutor
• unconsecrated
• unhallowed
• unsacred
• venture
• vocal
• vocation
• wager
• warble
• wedge
• work
• work out
• workload
• worldly
• wreak
• wrest
• wring
• yield
• zero in

• abate
• aggravate
• agitate
• avocation
• banish
• bare
• bodiless
• break
• burn
• churchly
• condone
• consecrated
• cremate
• deny
• devout
• diminish
• disclose
• discover
• disinter
• dislodge
• displace
• display
• disregard
• disturb
• divine
• ethereal
• excuse
• exhibit
• exhume
• expose
• forgive
• godly
• hallowed
• hobby
• holy
• ignore
• immaterial
• incorporeal
• insubstantial
• intensify
• irritate
• keep
• lessen
• lift
• metaphysical
• mix
• move
• neglect
• nonphysical
• ordained
• pardon
• peel
• pious
• prayerful
• professional
• provoke
• pursuit
• raise
• release
• religious
• relocate
• remit
• remove
• replace
• reveal
• reverent
• rough
• sacred
• sacrosanct
• sanctified
• show
• spiritual
• stir
• strip
• supersede
• supplant
• take
• uncoffin
• uncover
• unearth
• unsubstantial
• upset
• withhold
• worry
• worshipful

• noun
  1. Arrangement or relationship; layout.
  2. A share of the profits in a business.
  3. A lyrical, narrative poem written in octosyllabic couplets that often deals with tales of adventure and romance.
  4. The direction a rope is twisted.
  5. A casual sexual partner.
  6. An act of sexual intercourse.
  7. A plan; a scheme.
  8. (uncountable) the laying of eggs.
  9. A layer.
  10. A lake.
  11. A ballad or sung poem; a short poem or narrative, usually intended to be sung.
  12. A meadow; a lea.
  13. A law.
  14. An obligation; a vow.
• verb
  1. To place down in a position of rest, or in a horizontal position.
  2. To cause to subside or abate.
  3. To prepare (a plan, project etc.); to set out, establish (a law, principle).
  4. To install certain building materials, laying one thing on top of another.
  5. To produce and deposit an egg.
  6. To bet (that something is or is not the case).
  7. To deposit (a stake) as a wager; to stake; to risk.
  8. To have sex with.
  9. To take a position; to come or go.
  10. To state; to allege.
  11. To point; to aim.
  12. (ropemaking) To put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite them.
  13. To place and arrange (pages) for a form upon the imposing stone.
  14. To place (new type) properly in the cases.
  15. To apply; to put.
  16. To impose (a burden, punishment, command, tax, etc.).
  17. To impute; to charge; to allege.
  18. To present or offer.
  19. To rest in a horizontal position on a surface.
  20. To be placed or situated.
  21. To abide; to remain for a longer or shorter time; to be in a certain state or condition.
  22. Used with in: to be or exist; to belong or pertain; to have an abiding place; to consist.
  23. Used with with: to have sexual relations with.
  24. Used with on/upon: to be incumbent (on); to be the responsibility of a person.
  25. To lodge; to sleep.
  26. To be still or quiet, like one lying down to rest.
  27. To be sustainable; to be capable of being maintained.
  28. To don or put on (tefillin (phylacteries)).
• adjective
  1. Not belonging to the clergy, but associated with them.
  2. Non-professional; not being a member of an organized institution.
  3. Not educated or cultivated; ignorant.

• She lay the book gently on the table.
• They lay in the grass, watching the clouds drift by.
• He plans to lay the foundation for the new building next week.
• The workers began to lay bricks early in the morning.
• I will lay your coat on the bed.

dab

nap

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