To rest in a recumbent or prostrate position; remain or be held flatwise, lengthwise, or inclined on a supporting surface; recline or be prone or supine on something.To be in a quiescent state; be or become quiet or inactive; remain passive or expectant.To lay or place one's self in a recumbent or prostrate position; take a reclining posture: often followed by down when entire prostration is intended: as, to lie back in a chair; to lie down on the ground.To have place, position, or direction; be situated, set, or settled; stay or abide: as, the Azores lie in the Atlantic ocean; the army lay in a fortified camp.To be confined or imprisoned.To rest or remain in a state or condition; continue inactive or unchanged: as, to lie in soak; the land lies fallow.To be in a certain direction; be present in a particular place or thing; be found; exist.To lodge; pass the night; sleep.To rest; bear; press; weigh: with on or upon.In law, to be sustainable; be capable of being maintained: as, an action lies against the tenant for waste.Nautical, to careen with the wind abeam, as a ship.To rest; intermit labor; knock off: as, we lay by in the heat of the day.Nautical, same as to lie to.[By, prep.] To remain with; be accessible to, or be in the keeping of: as, he has the documents lying by him.Nautical, to remain near, as one ship to another at sea.To be an obstacle or impediment: as, objections that lie in the way of adjustment.To conceal one's views or intentions.To be incumbent upon, as an obligation or a duty: as, it lies on the plaintiff to maintain his action.To depend on.To importune; urge.To be unspent or remain unemployed; hence, of unoccupied time, with a qualifying word, as heavy, to cause ennui; be tedious: as, the hours lay heavy on my hands.To be deferred to some future occasion, as a motion or resolution in a deliberative assembly.To have carnal knowledge of.To belong to: as, it lies with you to make amends.Synonyms Lie, Lay. “Lay is a transitive verb, and has for its preterit laid: as, he told me to lay it down, and I laid it down. Lie is intransitive, and has for its preterit lay: as, he told me to lie down, and I lay down. Some persons blunder by using laid for the preterit of lie: as, he told me to lie down, and I laid down. So persons often say, the ship laid at anchor; they laid by during the storm; the book laid on the shelf, etc. It is only necessary to remember, in all such cases, that laid is the preterit of lay and not of lie. This would save many respectable writers from a gross error which seems to be increasing among us.” (Goodrich.) Similarly, laid is often erroneously used for lain: as, I had laid down; and lain is sometimes used for laid.n. Manner of lying; relative direction, position, arrangement, etc. See lay, n., 4.n. The place where a bird, beast, or fish is accustomed to lie or lurk; haunt.n. In railroading, a siding or short offset from the main line, into which trucks may be run for the purpose of loading and unloading; one of the different sets of rails at a terminus on which trucks stand while being loaded or unloaded.To speak falsely; utter untruth for the purpose of misleading; make a misrepresentation consciously: followed by about, etc., and formerly (and still sometimes colloquially) by on.To make a false impression, either consciously or unconsciously; hold forth a misleading or deceitful appearance; act or manifest an untruth: used of both persons and things.n. A false statement made with the purpose of deceiving; an intentional untruth; a falsehood; the utterance by speech or act of that which is false, with intent to mislead or delude.n. That which is intended or serves to deceive or mislead; anything designed or adapted to produce false conclusions or expectations: as, this epitaph is a lie.n. Synonyms Untruth, deception. Compare fib.n. An obsolete spelling of lye.n. An obsolete form of lee.n. An obsolete form of lee.In heraldry, same as stringed.n. In golf:n. The angle which the shaft of a club makes with the head. A club has a flat lie when the angle is very obtuse, and an upright lie when it is less obtuse.n. The position of a ball at rest on the course.
