lays

• accredits
• adventures
• affixes
• airs
• anchors
• anoints
• anthems
• applies
• appointments
• arias
• arie
• arms
• arranges
• arrays
• art songs
• arts
• ascribes
• assembles
• assesses
• assignments
• assigns
• associates
• attaches
• attributes
• ballads
• barcaroles
• barcarolles
• battens
• bedaubs
• berths
• besmears
• bets
• bids
• billets
• blames
• blankets
• bleeds
• blues
• braces
• buries
• businesses
• cadences
• callings
• calls
• cantatas
• canticles
• carols
• carpets
• carries
• chalks up
• chances
• chansons
• chanteys
• chanties
• chants
• charges
• chorales
• choruses
• claps
• clarifies
• clears
• cloaks
• coats
• coerces
• coffins
• collects
• compels
• conceals
• connects
• covers
• crafts
• credits
• croons
• curtains
• dabs
• daubs
• deposes
• deposits
• descants
• dirges
• discants
• disposes
• ditties
• docks
• drafts
• draws up
• drinking songs
• duties
• educates
• emplaces
• employments
• endangers
• engagements
• ensconces
• enshrines
• enshrouds
• enterprises
• entombs
• equips
• establishes
• exacts
• excises
• extorts
• fields
• fight songs
• filters
• fines
• fits
• fixes
• fleeces
• flops
• folk songs
• forces
• forearms
• fortifies
• frames
• functions
• furnishes
• gambles
• games
• gathers
• gears up
• gigs
• girds
• glees
• goes
• gouges
• grooms
• hallelujahs
• handcrafts
• handicrafts
• hazards
• hearses
• hides
• hymns
• immures
• imperils
• imposes
• imputes
• inclines
• indoctrinates
• inflicts
• inhumes
• instructs
• inters
• inurns
• jeopardizes
• jingles
• jobs
• laments
• layers
• lays on
• lays out
• levies
• lifeworks
• lines
• lines up
• links
• livelihoods
• livings
• loads
• locates
• locks
• lodges
• lullabies
• lyrics
• madrigals
• mantles
• measures
• medleys
• melodies
• meters
• metiers
• milks
• missions
• motets
• mounts
• moves
• mulcts
• niches
• noels
• obscures
• occupations
• offers
• offices
• orients
• outfits
• overlays
• overlies
• overspreads
• paeans
• parks
• part-songs
• penalizes
• places
• planks
• plants
• plasters
• plays
• plonks
• plops
• plumps
• plunks
• plunks down
• pops
• positions
• posts
• predisposes
• prepares
• preps
• primes
• professions
• provides
• psalms
• puts
• puts away
• puts down
• queues
• rackets
• ranks
• readies
• reapplies
• rearranges
• reburies
• refers
• reimposes
• reinters
• relays
• remixes
• reorders
• requiems
• resettles
• rhythms
• rockers
• roundelays
• rounds
• schools
• screens
• sediments
• serenades
• sets
• sets down
• sets up
• settles
• shades
• shakes down
• shanties
• sheets
• shields
• shifts
• shrouds
• sieves
• sifts
• situates
• situations
• skins
• slaps
• slathers
• smears
• songs
• speculates
• spirituals
• spreads
• squeezes
• stakes
• standards
• steels
• sticks
• strains
• supplies
• surfaces
• tasks
• taxes
• threnodies
• tombs
• torch songs
• trades
• trains
• tunes
• tutors
• ventures
• vocals
• vocations
• wagers
• warbles
• wedges
• workloads
• works
• wreaks
• wrests
• wrings

• abates
• agitates
• avocations
• banishes
• bares
• burns
• condones
• cremates
• diminishes
• discloses
• discovers
• disinters
• dislodges
• displaces
• displays
• disregards
• disturbs
• excuses
• exhibits
• exhumes
• exposes
• forgives
• hobbies
• ignores
• lessens
• mixes
• pardons
• peels
• pursuits
• raises
• releases
• relocates
• remits
• removes
• replaces
• reveals
• shows
• stirs
• strips
• supersedes
• supplants
• takes
• uncoffins
• uncovers
• unearths

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

• She carefully lays the table before every meal.
• The hen lays an egg almost every day.
• He lays his tools out in order before starting work.
• The artist lays down each brushstroke with precision.
• As the sun sets, it lays a golden glow across the fields.

dabs

naps

narcotizes

wagers

eclogues

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