laye

present singular third person layes · participle present laying · participle past layed · past layed

1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of lay.

   Aftir that, my seid lord retournyng to the campe, wold in nowise bee lodged in the same, but where he laye the furst nyght.

   1806, Walter Scott, Minstrelsy of the Scottish border (3rd ed) (1 of 3)

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   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.

   1597, King James I, Daemonologie.

   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.

   1775, Various, Continental Monthly, Vol. I, No. V, May, 1862

plural layes

1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of lay (“a song”).

plural Layes

1. A surname.