10. To impose, as a burden, suffering, or punishment; to assess, as a tax; as, to lay a tax on land.
The Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Is. liii. 6. 11. To impute; to charge; to allege.
God layeth not folly to them.
Job xxiv. 12.
Lay the fault on us.
Shak. 12. To impose, as a command or a duty; as, to lay commands on one.
13. To present or offer; as, to lay an indictment in a particular county; to lay a scheme before one.
14. (Law) To state; to allege; as, to lay the venue. Bouvier.
15. (Mil.) To point; to aim; as, to lay a gun.
16. (Rope Making) To put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite
them; as, to lay a cable or rope.
17. (Print.) (a) To place and arrange (pages) for a form upon the imposing stone. (b) To place (new
type) properly in the cases.
To lay asleep, to put sleep; to make unobservant or careless. Bacon. — To lay bare, to make bare; to
strip.
And laid those proud roofs bare to summer's rain.
Byron. —
To lay before, to present to; to submit for consideration; as, the papers are laid before Congress. —
To lay by. (a) To save. (b) To discard.
Let brave spirits . . . not be laid by.
Bacon. —
To lay by the heels, to put in the stocks. Shak. — To lay down. (a) To stake as a wager. (b)
To yield; to relinquish; to surrender; as, to lay down one's life; to lay down one's arms. (c) To assert or
advance, as a proposition or principle. — To lay forth. (a) To extend at length; (reflexively) to exert
one's self; to expatiate. [Obs.] (b) To lay out [Obs.] Shak. — To lay hands on, to seize. — To lay
hands on one's self, or To lay violent hands on one's self, to injure one's self; specif., to commit
suicide. — To lay heads together, to consult. — To lay hold of, or To lay hold on, to seize; to
catch. — To lay in, to store; to provide. — To lay it on, to apply without stint. Shak. — To lay on,
to apply with force; to inflict; as, to lay on blows. — To lay on load, to lay on blows; to strike violently.
[Obs. or Archaic] — To lay one's self out, to strive earnestly.
No selfish man will be concerned to lay out himself for the good of his country.
Smalridge. —
To lay one's self open to, to expose one's self to, as to an accusation. — To lay open, to open; to
uncover; to expose; to reveal. - - To lay over, to spread over; to cover. - - To lay out. (a) To expend.
Macaulay. (b) To display; to discover. (c) To plan in detail; to arrange; as, to lay out a garden. (d) To
prepare for burial; as, to lay out a corpse. (e) To exert; as, to lay out all one's strength. — To lay
siege to. (a) To besiege; to encompass with an army. (b) To beset pertinaciously. — To lay the
course (Naut.), to sail toward the port intended without jibing. — To lay the land (Naut.), to cause
it to disappear below the horizon, by sailing away from it. — To lay to (a) To charge upon; to impute.
(b) To apply with vigor. (c) To attack or harass. [Obs.] Knolles. (d) (Naut.) To check the motion of
(a vessel) and cause it to be stationary. — To lay to heart, to feel deeply; to consider earnestly. —
To lay under, to subject to; as, to lay under obligation or restraint. — To lay unto. (a) Same as To
