Clues for the word "LAY"
We've had 218 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 679 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New York Times crossword on April 24, 2024.
Definition of lay
- imp. - of Lie, to recline.
- a. - Of or pertaining to the laity, as distinct from the clergy; as, a lay person; a lay preacher; a lay brother.
- a. - Not educated or cultivated; ignorant.
- a. - Not belonging to, or emanating from, a particular profession; unprofessional; as, a lay opinion regarding the nature of a disease.
- n. - The laity; the common people.
- n. - A meadow. See Lea.
- n. - Faith; creed; religious profession.
- n. - A law.
- n. - An obligation; a vow.
- a. - A song; a simple lyrical poem; a ballad.
- a. - A melody; any musical utterance.
- v. t. - To cause to lie down, to be prostrate, or to lie against something; to put or set down; to deposit; as, to lay a book on the table; to lay a body in the grave; a shower lays the dust.
- v. t. - To place in position; to establish firmly; to arrange with regularity; to dispose in ranks or tiers; as, to lay a corner stone; to lay bricks in a wall; to lay the covers on a table.
- v. t. - To prepare; to make ready; to contrive; to provide; as, to lay a snare, an ambush, or a plan.
- v. t. - To spread on a surface; as, to lay plaster or paint.
- v. t. - To cause to be still; to calm; to allay; to suppress; to exorcise, as an evil spirit.
- v. t. - To cause to lie dead or dying.
- v. t. - To deposit, as a wager; to stake; to risk.
- v. t. - To bring forth and deposit; as, to lay eggs.
- v. t. - To apply; to put.
- v. t. - To impose, as a burden, suffering, or punishment; to assess, as a tax; as, to lay a tax on land.
- v. t. - To impute; to charge; to allege.
- v. t. - To impose, as a command or a duty; as, to lay commands on one.
- v. t. - To present or offer; as, to lay an indictment in a particular county; to lay a scheme before one.
- v. t. - To state; to allege; as, to lay the venue.
- v. t. - To point; to aim; as, to lay a gun.
- v. t. - 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.
- v. t. - To place and arrange (pages) for a form upon the imposing stone.
- v. t. - To place (new type) properly in the cases.
- v. i. - To produce and deposit eggs.
- v. i. - To take a position; to come or go; as, to lay forward; to lay aloft.
- v. i. - To lay a wager; to bet.
- n. - That which lies or is laid or is conceived of as having been laid or placed in its position; a row; a stratum; a layer; as, a lay of stone or wood.
- v. t. - A wager.
- v. t. - A job, price, or profit.
- v. t. - A share of the proceeds or profits of an enterprise; as, when a man ships for a whaling voyage, he agrees for a certain lay.
- v. t. - A measure of yarn; a lea. See 1st Lea (a).
- v. t. - The lathe of a loom. See Lathe, 3.
- v. t. - A plan; a scheme.
- imp. - of Lie
Referring Clues
- Place, as a bet
- Minstrel's song
- Put
- Ballad
- Nonprofessional
- Not in the profession
- Song played on a mandolin
- Of the congregation
- Set down
- Like some sermons
- Put down
- Not of the cloth
- Nonclerical
- Assign, as responsibility
- Place
- Put in position
- Reclined
- Give, as odds
- Not clerical
- ___ of the land
- Stock (up)
- Make, as a wager
- Be productive, as chickens
- Romantic narrative
- Spend, with "out"
- Set (down)
- Deliver, hen-style
- "Now I ___ me down to sleep..."
- Install, as carpeting
- Set up, as a foundation
- Place (a bet)
- Produce a clutch
- Assemble, as bricks
- Install, as carpet
- Word before off, on, up, down, in or out
- Place, as tiles
- What hens do
- Was prone
- Hens do it
- Nonexpert
- Bet
- Troubadour offering
- Wager
- "Now I ___ me down to sleep ..."
- Hit a short golf shot to be safe, with "up"
- Place at the track?
- Of the people
- Not professional
- Not in the clergy
- Nonexpert, as an opinion
- Explain, with "out"
- Get the ___ of the land
- Offer, as odds
- Put (down)
- Place, as tracks
- "Now I ___ me down to sleep ..."
- Put down, as a track
- ___ low (hide out)
- Install, as tile
- Word with about or away
- Not ordained
- Surrender, with "down"
- Troubadour's song
- Produce, as eggs
- ___ an egg (bomb)
- Deposit
- Place, as bricks
- Was supine
- Frito follower
- Not ecclesiastical
- Explain, with "out"
- Get the ___ of the land
- Casual sexual partner, as it were
- Old ballad
- Song
- Tune
- Produce, as an egg
- Install, as a carpet
- Deposit, as an egg
- Deposit
- Bring forth, as 59-Acrosses
- Install, as tiles
- ___ an egg (fail publicly)
- Place down
- Minstrel song
- Do brickwork
- Frito- ___
- 'Now I ___ me down ...'
- Nonclergy
- Work with bricks
- 'Now I ___ me down...'
- ___ siege to
- Metal band As I ___ Dying
- "Now I ___ me down ..."
- ___ an egg (flop)
- "Now I ___ me down to sleep"
- Store (up)
- Word before or after "Lady" in a Dylan title
- Secular
- ___ aside (abandon)
- Air
- "Now I ___ me ..."
- Be a productive chicken
- Sexual partner
- ___ down the law
- Do a hen's job
- Install, as linoleum
- Cease, with "off"
- Place at the track
- Hen's task
- Put down, as track
- Kind of preacher
- Frito go-with?
- "Now I ___ me down to ..."
- Narrative poem or song
- Put in position, as bricks
- Word with odds or bricks
- Non-clerical
- Spread over surface
- Frito's partner
- Place (down)
- Produce eggs
- Produce an egg
- Enron indictee
- Poem set to music
- Assail, with "into"
- Place, as a wager
- Install, as a tile floor
- Produce hen fruit
- Was idle
- Often-misused irregular verb
- Establish
- ___ an egg
- Put down, as railroad track
- Put down, as floor tile
- Put down, as floor tiles
- ___ an egg (what a hen may do)
- Produce eggs, like a hen
- Opposite of stand up (with "down")
- Put down, as carpeting
- Be a productive hen
- Word before and after "Lady," in song
- Make eggs
- Install carpet
- Non-professional
- Amateur
- Install, a floor tile
- Put down, as tile
- Deposit eggs
- "___ Your Hands On Me" (Bon Jovi)
- Repeated word in Dylan hit about a lady?
- Rockers As I ___ Dying
- As I ___ Dying
- Bon Jovi "___ Your Hands On Me"
- Rest of the song!
- Song of Malaya
- What the chickens do in Malaya
- What a cackling female may do
- Put "unprofessional"
- Put those eggs down!
- No ecclesiastical letter from lady
- Being unprofessional, got rested
- Put down a deposit (on a nest?)
- Amateur song
- Uninitiated
- Set (table)
- Produce (egg)
- See 16
- Arrange song
- Song of the once penniless lady
- Dismiss from work temporarily, with "off"
- ___ a finger on (touch)
- "As I ___ Dying" (Faulkner novel)
- Position
- Impute, as blame
- Song of a once penniless lady
- Put down as a poem
- NOFX "El ___"
- Early potato chip marketer
- Big name in chips
- ___ down the law (be firm)
- Song birds do
- Put down, as carpet
- Install, as bricks
- Drop an egg
- Install, as sod
- Unordained
- Place down, as tile
- Set (a table)
- Put "To execute, behead"
- Fill an empty nest?
- Place horizontally
- Put down as unprofessional
- Put down some things to sit on, perhaps
- ___ it on the line
- Set
- Word often misused in place of "lie"
- Put in place, as bricks
- ___ down the law (get tough)
- Song or melody to perform without piano
- ___ it on thick
- Word sometimes confused with "lie"
- Place on the floor
- Place down, as marble tiles
- "(___ Your Head on My) Pillow"
- Gently place
- Song of the broody hen?
- ___ it all on the line
- Hens do this
- "___ it on me!"
- Frito-___ snacks
- Word often confused with "lie"
- One sung in Los Angeles on the Fourth of July?
- "Chickens ___ eggs"
- Sam Smith's "___ Me Down"
- Put down a deposit (on a nest?)
- Produce, like an egg
- Install, as brick
Last Seen In
- New York Times - April 24, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - April 23, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 15, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - April 11, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - March 27, 2024
- Your Life Choices - March 25, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - March 18, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - March 13, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 11, 2024
- Your Life Choices - March 09, 2024
- LA Times - March 03, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - March 02, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - February 26, 2024
- USA Today - February 24, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - February 05, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - January 26, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - January 23, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - January 17, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - January 11, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - December 29, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - December 28, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - December 25, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - December 24, 2023
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - December 16, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - December 13, 2023
- Mirror Daily - December 09, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - December 07, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - November 27, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - November 24, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 23, 2023
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