layer-on 
layer-on (la'c-v-on'), . One who lays on. Spe- 
cillcally (a) In printing, the operator who feeds sheets, 
etc. , to a printing-machine. [Eng.] (&) In mech. engin. , 
an automatic mechanism which in a coining-press, em- 
bossing-press, or other analogous machine feeds blanks 
to the dies of the press. 
layer-out (la'er-ouf), . One who expends 
money; a steward. [Rare.] 
layer-over (la'er-6'ver), . [Also lareover.] A 
whip; any instrument of chastisement. Halli- 
u-cll. [Prov. Eng. and U. S.]_ Layer-overs for 
meddlers, a punishment for meddlers ; hence, something 
not to be meddled with. 
layer-up (la'er-up'), n. One who lays or trea- 
sures up. 
Old age, that ill layer-up of beauty, can do no more spoil 
upon my face. Shak., Hen. V., v. 2. 248. 
layery (la'er-i), . [< layer + -y 1 .] Growing 
in layers. [Bare.] 
From hedge to layery beech. Leigh Hunt, Foliage. 
layette (la-yef), n. [F.] 1. A complete outfit 
for a new-born child, including garments, toilet 
articles, cradle or bassinet, and bedding. 2. 
A three-sided tray or box without a cover, used 
to carry powder from one mortar to another in 
powder-mills. Farrow, Mil. Encyc. 
lay-figure (la'fig"ur), n. [< lay- as in layman 2 
+ figure. Now appar. regarded as < layf, v. i., 
as if a figure that is Maid' or that 'lies' in a 
particular pose.] 1. A jointed figure used by 
painters, made of wood, cork, etc., in imitation 
of the human body. It can be placed in any position 
or attitude, and serves when clothed as a model for dra- 
peries, etc. Formerly also called layman. 
Hence 2. A living person or a character in 
fiction who lacks individuality, or who is treat- 
ed merely as a foil or puppet. 
laying (la'ing), n. [Verbal n. of layl, v.] 1. 
The act of one who or that which lays ; the act 
of depositing or dropping, as eggs: said of 
birds, etc. 2. The number of eggs laid, as by 
a flock of hens in one day or other period. 
3. In rope-making, the twisting of three or more 
yarns together to form a strand, or of three 
strands to form a rope. E, H. Knight. 4. In 
plaster-work, the first coat on lathing of two- 
coat work, the surface of which is usually 
roughed by sweeping it with a broom. Laying 
on of hands. See hand. 
laying-down (la'ing-doun'), n. In ship-build- 
ing, the delineation of the parts of a ship in their 
full size on the floor of the mold-loft. 
laying-hook (la'ing-huk), n. In rope-making, 
one of a series of iron hooks on the poles on 
which a rope is hung while it is twisted by the 
rope-maker. 
laying-in (la'ing-iu'), n. 1. The first painting 
upon any object which is to be decorated in 
color. 2. In seal-engraving, the drawing of the 
outline of a design to be cut. 
laying-machine (la'ing-ma-shen"), n. Inrope- 
making, a machine for " laying up " or twisting 
strands to form a rope. A variety of improved ma- 
chines are in use for this purpose. The general principles 
upon which they operate are the same as in spinning-, 
doubling-, and twisting-machines used in the textile arts, 
the parts, however, being stronger, and otherwise adapt- 
ed to the heavier work of rope-making. 
laying-on (la'ing-on'), n. In printing, same as 
feeding, 4. [Eng.] 
laying-press (la'ing-pres), n. In bookbinding, 
a small screw-press in which books are tightly 
held while their edges are cut by a plow-knife. 
laying-top (la'iug-top), . In rope-making, a 
wooden cone or top-shaped piece of wood 
placed between the strands in laying up or 
twisting a rope, to keep the twist well to the 
point at which the strands diverge, and prevent 
it from extending along the strands, which 
would produce what is called slack twist. As 
the twisting proceeds, the laying-top retreats 
toward the untwisted part of the strands. 
layket, . and . An obsolete form of lake"*. 
layland, n. See lealand. 
Soone he, with paine and lacke of bloud, 
Fell downe on that lay-land. 
Sir Cauline (Child's Ballads, III. 178). 
laylock (la'lok), n. A. provincial corruption of 
lilac. 
layman 1 (la'man), . ; pi. laymen (-men). [< 
ME. layman, lay man (= OFries. lekman = MLG. 
lekman = Icel. leikmadhr = Dan. laigmand = Sw. 
lekman); < lay* + man.'] An unprofessional 
man ; a man belonging to the laity or general 
mass of people, as distinguished from members 
of the professions of divinity, law, and medi- 
cine ; specifically, one who does not belong to 
the clerical profession; more particularly, a 
church-member who is not a clergyman : also 
sometimes applied to persons with reference to 
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any other profession or occupation in which 
they are not expert. 
There had been good store of Laymens Blood shed al- 
ready, and now the time is coming to have Clergymens 
shed. Baker, Chronicles, p. 321. 
Lay-men have best interpreted the hard places in the 
Bible. Selden, Table Talk, p. 20. 
Outsiders, laymen, can always benefit experts by sug- 
gestions, if in no other way. 
J. F. Clarke, Self-Culture, p. 141. 
layman 2 ! (la'man), n. [< D. leeman, a layman, 
lay-figure, contr. of "ledenman (= G. glieder- 
mann), < leden, pi. of lid (= Q. glied = AS. lith, 
E. lifh), a joint, + man = G. mann = AS. mann, 
E. man. The name seems to have been intro- 
duced by or from Dutch artists in the 17th cen- 
tury.] Same as lay-figure, 1. 
You are to hare a layman almost as big as the life for 
every figure in particular, . . . besides the natural figure 
before you. 
Dryden, tr. of Dufresnoy's Art of Painting, 8220. 
layme, n. Same as lame 2 . 
laynert, layneret, Obsolete forms of lannier. 
lay-out (la out), n. and a. I. n. 1. A laying or 
spreading out ; plan; arrangement. [Rare.] 
Although the conception of its lay-out dates back nearly 
half a century, the tree planting that has added so much 
to Washington was begun only in 1872. 
Harper's May., LXXVII. 285. 
2. That which is laid or spread out; a collec- 
tion of things laid out ; an apparatus ; a dis- 
play; a spread: as, a lay-out for dinner, for 
gaming, or for operations of any kind. [Colloq.] 
His [a mine-owner's] necessities are appreciated by the 
other owners, who get up a most expensive lay-out for 
him. McClure, Rocky Mountains, p. 219. 
A whole opium lay-out, including pipe, fork, lamp, and 
spoon, can now be had for less than five dollars. 
Pop. Sri. Mo., XXXIII. 664. 
3. The space occupied or fished over by a haul- 
seine. Faro lay-out, the thirteen cards of a suit, which 
are fastened to the faro-table, and on or near which the 
stakes are placed. They are usually arranged in two rows 
of six cards each, ace to six in one, and eight to king in 
the other, in reversed order, and the seven at the end 
next to the six and eight. 
II. a. Laid out, stretched, or extended: as, 
a lay-out line (a long line buoyed at each end, 
from which baited hook-lines run into deep 
water). [New Jersey.] 
lay-rod (la'rod), . In a loom, one of the rods 
crossing the warp-threads from side to side, to 
separate the lays. 
laysert, laysourt, laysurt, n. Middle English 
variants of leisure. Chaucer. 
layshipt (la'ship), . [< lay* + -ship."] 1. The 
condition of being a layman. 2. A person 
ranked as a layman. 
The Priest esteems their lay-ships unhallow'd and un- 
clean. Milton, Church-Government, li. 3. 
laystallt, [Also leystall, lestall; < ME. lay- 
stall; < layl + stall."} A place where refuse or 
rubbish is deposited; hence, a heap of rubbish 
or refuse. Also laystow. 
The soil that late the owner did enrich, 
Him, his fair herds, and goodly flocks to feed, 
Lies now a leystall, or a common ditch. 
Drayton, Moses. 
Scarse could he footing find in that fowle way, 
For many corses, like a great Lay-stall, 
Of murdred men, which therein strowed lay. 
Spenser, F. Q., I. v. 53. 
laystowt, " [A var. of laystall, as if < lay* + 
stow, place.] Same as laystall. 
This place of Smythfeelde was at yt daye a laye stywe of 
all order of fylth. Fabyan, Chron., I. ccxxvi. 
In Cyclops kennel, thee laystow dirtye, the foule den. 
Stanihurst, vEneid, iii. 628. 
The ancient gardens were but dunghils and latetoweg. 
Harrison, p. 209. (Hattiwell.) 
laytt, See laifl. 
lazar (la'zar), n. [< ME. lazar, lazei; < OF. la- 
zar = Sp. Idzaro = It. lazzaro, < ML. lazarus, a 
leper, < L. Lazarus, < Gr. Adfapof, the name 
of the beggar in the parable, Luke xvi. 20, < 
Heb. EVazar (> E. Eleazar), a personal name, 
' he whom God helps.'] A leper ; also, a person 
infected with any loathsome disease ; especial- 
ly, a beggar so diseased. 
Unto such a worthi man as he 
Acordede not, as by his faculte, 
To have with sike lazars aqueyntaunce. 
Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. T., 1. 245. 
The lazar in his rags. Tennyson, In Memoriam, cxxvii. 
lazardt (la'ziird), n. [A var. of lazar, with ac- 
com. term. -ard.~\ Same as lazar. 
Did piteous lazards oft attend her door ? 
She gave farewell the parent of the poor. 
Savage, Epitaph on Mrs. Jones. 
lazaret (laz-a-ref), n. [< F. lazaret: see laza- 
retto.] Same as lazaretto. 
lazaretto (laz-a-ret'6), n. [< It. laszeretto (= 
F. lazaret = Pg. Sp. lazareto, a plague-hospi- 
tal), (. lazzaro, a leper: see lazar.] 1. A hos- 
pital or pest-house for the reception of dis- 
eased persons, particularly of those affected 
with contagious diseases ; also, a prison hospi- 
tal. At seaports the name is often given to 
a vessel used for this purpose. 2. A building 
or vessel where ships crews, passengers, and 
goods are detained during quarantine. 
We glided into the smaller harbour of Malta, and cast 
anchor off the lazaretto. W. H. Russell, Diary in India, 1. 11. 
3. In some large merchant ships, a place near 
the stern where provisions and stores for the 
voyage are kept, 
lazar-house (la'zar-hous), . A lazaretto. 
A lazar-house it seem'd ; wherein were laid 
Numbers of all diseased. Milton, P. L., xi. 479. 
Lazarist (laz'ar-ist), n. [= F. lazariste; < Laz- 
arus (see def .)' + -ist.] A member of the Con- 
gregation of the Mission, a religious order in 
the Roman Catholic Church, founded by St. 
Vincent de Paul in 1624, and so called from the 
priory of St. Lazare, near Paris, which was 
given to the society in 1632. The primary object 
was to dispense religious comfort and instruction among 
the poor of the rural districts of France, and to establish 
seminaries ; but its members, officially called priests of 
the mission, now have houses in most parts of the world. 
Lazarite (laz'ar-H), n. [< Lazarus (see Laz- 
arist) + -ite 2 .] Same as Lazarist. 
lazar-like (la'zar-lik), . Like a lazar; full of 
sores; leprous. Shak., Hamlet, i. 5. 72. 
lazarly (la'zar-li), a. [< lazar + -ly 1 .] Same 
as lazar-like. " 
lazarman (la'zar-man), . ; pi. lazarmen (-men). 
A sick beggar; a lazar. 
William Jakson, Lazarman, who of late hath wrechedly 
& falsely spoken certein slaunderous wordes against sir 
Marten Bowes, knyght, maister Barne, Aldreman, & other 
men of worshype. Quoted in N. and Q., 7th ser., V. 445. 
lazaroni, n. pi. A variant of lazzaroni, plural 
of lazzarone. 
lazaroust (laz'a-rus), a. [< lazar + -ous.] Lep- 
rous; full of disease. Rev. T. Adams, Works, 
III. 299. 
lazarous-clappert, . [For Lazarus-clapper or 
lazar's clapper.] A clapper carried by a lazar 
or leper in his begging-rounds; hence, a door- 
knocker. Hollyband, 1593. (Halliioell.) 
lazarwortt (la'zar-wert), n. An erroneous 
spelling of laserwijrt. 
laze (laz), i*. ; pret. and pp. lazed, ppr. lazing. 
[< lazy, on the supposed analogy of hazy, < 
haze.] I. intrans. To act, move, or rest idly or 
lazily ; be lazy. [Rare.] 
You stand still lazing, and have nought to do ? 
Greene, Alphonsus, i. 
II. trans. To waste in sloth; spend in idle- 
ness: generallywitharoa)/: &s,tolaze away one's 
life: sometimes used reflexively. [Colloq.] 
Endormir [F. ). . . . To laze it when he hath most need to 
looke about him. Cotgraw. 
He that takes liberty to laze himself, and dull his spirits 
for lack of use, shall find the more he sleeps, the more he 
shall be drowsy. 
W. Whately, Redemption of Time (1634), p. 23. 
laze (laz), n. [< laze, .] Laziness; inaction. 
Davies. 
Thus folded in a hard and mournful laze, 
Distress'd sate he. Greene, Radagon's Sonnet. 
lazily (la'zi-li), adv. In a lazy manner; slug- 
gishly. 
laziness (la'zi-nes), . The state or quality of 
being lazy; aversion or indisposition to action 
or exertion; indolence; sluggishness; habitual 
sloth. 
lazuli (laz'u-li), n. Short for lapis lazuli (which 
see, under 'lapis) Lazuli-flnch, the Cyanosjtiza or 
Passerina amoma, a beautiful bird of the western United 
States, resembling the indigo-bird, but having, in the 
male, brown and white on the under parts. 
lazulite (laz'u-lit), . [< lazuli + -ite*.] A 
mineral of a light- or indigo-blue color, crys- 
tallizing in the monoclinic system. It is a hy- 
drous phosphate of aluminium, magnesium, and iron. 
Also called azurite (true azurite is the blue carbonate of 
copper), We spar, and Mue/eldsjjar. 
lazulite-blue (laz'u-lit-blo), . Same as the 
genuine ultramarine. 
lazy (la'zi), a. [Early mod. E. also lazie, laesie, 
laysy; also dial, lass: appar. an orig.dial. corrup- 
tion (with added adj. suffix -y l ) of a form *lase 
or *laishe of ME. lasche, lache, < OF. lasche, 
loose, lax, sluggish, slow, lazy: see lash 2 .] 1. 
Disinclined to action or exertion ; naturally or 
habitually slothful; sluggish; indolent; averse 
to labor. 
