lie 
5t. To be confined or imprisoned. 
Well, your imprisonment nhall not be long; 
I will deliver you, or else, lie for you. 
Shall., Kith. III., I. 1. lUi. 
6. To rest or remain in a state or condition : 
continue inactive or unchanged: us. '" U< in 
soak; tlio land lies fallow. 
All that Winter King Edward Inn ivilln.ni any Molesta- 
tion by the French King. Baker, chronicles, p. 122. 
I feel agrud|,'ii>K 
Of bounty, and I would licit Inn;; (//, fallow. 
U. Jontun, Staple of News, i. 2. 
A Bow that lien :i while imlient, and a Held that re- 
mains fallow for a time, grow never the worse. 
llfirrll. Letters, I. V. 2. 
I have been told, too, there 1s a lnw of Charles the Fifth 
something like our statute of Mortmain, which has lain 
dormant ever since his time. 
Atldiiiin, Remarks on Italy (ed. Holm), L 430. 
As she lay, on that day, 
In the Bay of Biscay, o. 
A. Cherry, The Bay of Biscay (song). 
7. To be in a certain direction ; be present in 
a particular place or thing ; be found; exist. 
O Regan, Goneril ! . . . 
0, that way madness liei; let me shun that. 
Shalt., Lear, ui. 4. 21. 
He that thinks that diversion may not lie in hard labour 
forgets the early rising of the huntsman. Locke. 
Only In thy virtue liei 
The saving of our Thebes. Tennyson, Tlreslas. 
8. To lodge ; pass the night ; sleep. 
And Kay and Arthur hadde made her bedde atte the 
chamber dore of kynge Loot, in a corner, like as a squyre 
sholde ly. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), IL 180. 
Look ! here comes a pilgrim. I know she will lie at my 
house. Shak., All's Well, ill. 5. 84. 
We lay at St. Dlzier the first night, and at Langres the 
second. Gray, Letters, I. 31. 
9. To rest; bear; press; weigh: with on or 
upon. 
All the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon 
him. Deut. \ \ i \ 20. 
Though it should sleep for ever to the world, 
It Is a simple sin to hide myself, 
Which will for ever on my conscience lie. 
Beau, and /'/., Phuaster, li. 2. 
The reason on their parts why she [the ship] stayed so 
long, was ye neceasltie and danger that lay upon them. 
Bradford, Plymouth Plantation, p. 99. 
10. In law, to be sustainable; be capable of 
being maintained : as, an action lies against the 
tenant for waste. 
An appeal lies In this case. Panons, C. J. 
To lie along, (a) To be extended at full length. 
As he lay along 
Under an oak. 
Shale., As you Like It, ii. 1. 30. 
(6) Xinii., to careen with the wind abeam, as a ship. 
To lie along the land (naut.\ to coast, keeping the land 
In sight. To lie att, to importune ; urge. 
She /" '/ at me hard to turn aside with her, promising me 
all manner of content. I; mi mm. Pilgrim's Progress, p. 138. 
His mother and brother had fain at htm, ever since he 
came Into his master's service, to help him to money. 
Kjcam. of Joan Perry (1676). (llarl. Misc., ILL 549.) 
To lie at anchor. See oncAori . To lie at one's door. 
See door. To lie at one's heart, to be an object of affec- 
tion, desire, or solicitude to one. 
The Spaniards have but one temptation to quarrel with 
us. the recovering of Jamaica, for that has ever lien at 
their hearts. Sir W. Temple. 
To lie by. (a) [By, adv.) (1) To be laid aside, out of 
present use. (2) To rest; Intermit labor; knock off: as, 
we lay by in the heat of the day. 
Every thing that heard him play, 
Even the billows of the sea, 
1 1 mi- their heads, and then lay by. 
Shak., Hen. VIII., 111. 1 (song). 
(3t) Naut., same as to lie to. 
We arrived at Righah that night, where we staid; it 
being the custom going up always to lie by at night, as 
there are many shoals In the Nile. 
Pococke, Description of the East, I. 70. 
(6) [By, prep. ] (1) To remain with ; be accessible to, or be 
in the keeping of : as, he has the documents lying by him. 
'Twas n commodity lay fretting by you. 
Twill bring you gain, or perish on the seas. 
Shak., T. of the S, li. 1. 380. 
(2) Naut., to remain near, as one ship to another at sea. 
To lie down, to be brought to bed ; lie in. Compare 
Scotch downlying. (Obsolete or dialectal.] 
There is In one of |the chesU] ... a rundlet of honey, 
which she desires may be sent to her against she lie down.' 
ninthrop. Hist. New England, I. 465. 
To lie for, to lie in wait for ; keen watch upon for a sin- 
ister purpose. See to lay for, under ioyi, r. i. 
At this Corfona we were adnertysed of certayne Turkes 
Kustis that lay for us in onre wave. 
Sir R. Ouyfyorde, Pylgrymage, p. 11. 
To lie hard or heavy on, upon, or (formerly) to, to op- 
press; burden. 
Thy wrath lieth hard upon me. Ps. I\\M iii. 7. 
Could I meet Vin 
But once a day, it would unclog my heart 
Of what lit* heavy to 't. Shale., Cor., iv. 2. 4s. 
3439 
To lie In, t be In childbed. 
Val. Come, you must go visit the good lady that liet in. 
Vir. I will wish her speedy strength, and visit her with 
my prayers. Shak., Cor., i. 8. 86. 
To lie In a nutshell See nuuhell. To lie In any one, 
to be in the power of; depend on: frequently lu such 
phrase-forms as at much or at far at liet in one. 
t , no. no," the sheriff said, 
"Thou shalt on gallows dye . . . 
If ever in me It lye." 
JIMi, /I V.<*u% (Child's Ballads, V. 287). 
Imitate him as much as in thee liet. 
Burton, Anat. of Mel., p. 368. 
Nature, so far as in her liet, 
Imitates God. Tennymn, On a Mourner. 
To lie In the or one's way. (a) To be ready at hand. 
Kinij. You have not sought it ! how comes it, then? 
Fal. Rebellion lay in his way, and he found it. 
Shak., 1 Hen. IV., v. 1. 88. 
(6) To be an obstacle or Impediment : as, objections that 
(/ in Hi. way of adjustment 
That is a step 
On which I must fall down, or else o'erleap, 
For in my tray it lien. Shot., Macbeth, L 4. 50. 
To lie In wait (formerly alao In await), to wait for in 
concealment with hostile Intent ; lie in ambush. 
These homicides alle 
That in awayte lyjgrn to mordre men. 
Chaucer, Nun's Priest's Tale, L 404. 
To lie low. (a) To avoid observation ; conceal one's self. 
(6) To conceal one's views or Intentions. [Slang.] To 
lie Off. Same as (oK fry (a) (2). To lie on or upon, (a) 
See def. 9. (ft) To be incumbent upon, as an obligation or 
a duty: as, It liei on the plaintiff to maintain his action. 
This ceremonie lay on me, which I performed with all 
the decency I could. Evelyn, Wary, June 2, 1672. 
After the people were gone out of the chamber, it lay 
upon me from the Lord to speak to those two, the princess 
and the countess. renn. Travels In Holland, etc. 
(c) To depend on. 
It nothing steads us 
To chide him from our eaves; for he persists, 
As If his life lay on t. Shak., All's Well, Hi. 7. 43. 
(dt) To importune ; urge. 
The old dotard, he that so instantly doth lie upon my 
father for me. Oatcoigne, Supposes, L 1. 
Dame Tullia lay ever upon him, and pricked forward his 
distempered and troubled mind. 
Holland, tr. of Uvy, p. 27. 
TO lie on hand, to be or remain in possession ; remain 
unsold or undisposed of : as, goods that have lain long "it 
hand. To lie on One's hands, (a) To remain unsold, 
(ft) To be unspent or remain unemployed ; hence, of unoc- 
cupied time, with a qualifying word, as heavy, to cause 
ennui ; be tedious : an, the hours lay heavy on my handt. 
To lie on one's oars. See oar. To lie over, (o) To re- 
main unpaid after the time when the payment Is due, as a 
note In bank. (6) To be deferred to some future occasion, 
as a motion or resolution in a deliberative assembly. To 
lie to (naut.), to come to a comparatively stationary posi- 
tion at sea ; lie with the head as near the wind as possible, 
for safety in a gale, as a ship. A ship is said to lie to when 
her progress is checked by keeping the helm a-lee ami 
counterbracing the yards or taking in sail, or, if a steamer, 
by slowing down the engines in all cases with the head 
to the wind. 
About ten o'clock we got underway, but lay to for break- 
fast Lady Braaey, Voyage of Sunbeam, I. i. 
On the 10th of June the vessel lay to oft Madras. 
Trmfyan, Macanlay, L 321. 
To lie to One's work, to exert all one's strength or pow- 
ers in the performance of one's task. 
So many workers; and no mercenary mock workers, but 
real ones that lie freely to it ; each patriot stretches him- 
self against the stubborn glebe ; hews and wheels with 
the whole weight that Is in him. Carltjle. 
TO lie under, to be subject to ; suffer ; be oppressed by. 
They lie under the disadvantage of living like foreigners 
in their own country. Swtft, Gulliver's Travels, ill. 10. 
I lay under greater difficulties, as, in this Journey, for 
certain reasons, I did not take my interpreter with me. 
Poeocke, Description of the East, II. i. ft. 
To lie UP, to lie at rest ; abstain from work or usual ac- 
tivity ; go into retirement or retreat. 
There they (ships) must lye up, or be 3 or 4 Years in their 
return from a place which may be sailed in 6 Weeks. 
Dampier, Voyages, II. ill. 24. 
He has a bad cold rheumatism he must lie t/p for a 
day or two. Dickens, Household Words. 
The black bear liet up during the day in caves and 
amongst rocks. W. W. Greener, The Gun, p. 696. 
To lie upon the lurch. SeeJurcAi. To lie with, (a) 
To lodge or sleep with. 
I lay mth Cassio lately, 
And, being troubled with a raging tooth, 
I could not sleep. Shale., Othello, 11L 3. 413. 
(ft) To have carnal knowledge of. [Archaic.] 
Master Brook, thou shalt know I will predominate over 
the peasant, and thou shalt li:- >rith his wife. 
Shak., M. W. of W., li. 2. 886. 
(c) To belong to : as, it liet trith you to make amends. 
= Syn. Lie. Lay. "Lay is a transitive verb, and has for its 
Sreterit laid : as, he told me to lay It down, and I laid it 
own. 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 laiil for the preterit of lie : as, he told 
me to lie down, and I laid down. So persons often say, 
the ship/mW at anchor; theylotVf by during the storm ; 
the book laid on the shelf, etc. It is only necessary to re- 
ini'inber. in all such cases that laid is the preterit of lay 
and not of lie. This would save many respectable writers 
lie 
from * grots error which teem* to be Increasing among u>. " 
(il'iidrich.) Similarly, laid U often erroneously used for 
Iain: ai, I had laid duwu ; aiidfaiu It sometimes used for 
Wl 
lie l (li), w. [</iei, . Cf. fay 1 , n.] 1. Manner 
of lying; relative direction, position, arrange- 
ment, etc. See fay 1 , ., 4. 
We shall be able, by a study of the position and lit of 
the earth In her orbit, to determine from what put of 
pace these regular meteors . . . come. 
J. N. Lockyer, Harper's Mag., LXXVIH. SSS. 
The lie of the city [BriDdiail and Its haven Is truly a 
sight to be stu. lie ,1. K. A. freeman, Venice, p. 312. 
Mrs. Penton . . . went on with her darning. She had 
filled up all those great holes, doing them all the more 
quickly because ahu had studied the lu of them, and how 
the threads went, before. 
Mr*. OKphant, Poor Gentleman, il. 
2. The place where a bird, beast, or fish is 
accustomed to lie or lark ; haunt. 
A salmon Is said to be swimming when he Is moving up 
the river from pool to pool. At other times he Is usually 
resting In his " stand " or lie, or at most shifting from one 
stand In a pool to another. 
Quarterly net., CXXVI. 360, note. 
On our way home there lay a long narrow spinney which 
was a very favorite lie for woodcock, and generally held a 
pheasant or two as well. Uarper't Mag., LXXVIL 181. 
3. In /(///., 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. 
lie 2 (li), ; pret. and pp. lied, ppr. lying. 
[Early mod. E. also lye; < ME. lien, lyen, figen, 
tygen, legen (pret. loice, also weak, lygede, pp. 
loicen, i-loge), < AS. leogan (pret. Wan, pi. Ivgon, 
pp. logen) = OS. liogan = OFries. liaga = D. 
lief/en = MLG. legen, leigen = OHG. liogan, 
MHG. liegen, G. liigen, dial, liegen = Icel. Ijiga 
= Dan. lyve = Sw. \juga = Goth, liugan, he, 
tell a falsehood, = OBulg. lugati = Russ. luigatf, 
lie. Not found in L., Gr., or Skt. Hence K 2 , 
.. and ult. fain 3 , r. and .] 1 . To speak false- 
ly ; utter untruth for the purpose of misleading ; 
make a misrepresentation consciously: follow- 
ed by about, etc., and formerly (and still some- 
times colloquially) by on. 
If they on hire /.-/. 
Ywts hemself sholde ban the vlleyny. 
Chaucer, Troilus, IT. 20. 
2. To make a false impression, either con- 
sciously or unconsciously; hold forth a mis- 
leading or deceitful appearance ; act or mani- 
fest an untruth: used of both persons and 
things. 
I trowe that countenance cannot lie 
Whose thoughts are legible in the eie. 
JT. Roydon, Elegy, L 107. 
When London's column, pointing at the skies, 
Like a tall bully, lifts the head and liet. 
Pope, Moral Essays, ill. S4U. 
To lie In one's teeth or in one's throat, to lie flagrant- 
ly and basely. 
He will on Musgrave's body prove 
H* Nw most foully in hi* throat. 
Scott, L. of L. M., T. 20. 
lie 2 (15), . [Early mod. E. also lye; < ME. lie, 
lye, life, < AS. lyge, lige = OHG. lugt, MHG. 
luge, I in-. G. liige, lug = Icel. l>iui. a lie ; also, 
with (lift, suffix, OS. lugina = D. leugen, logen = 
MLG. logen = OHG. lugina = Dan. Sw. logn = 
Goth, liuijn. a lie (cf. lain 3 ) ; from the verb: see 
''-'. v.] 1. A false statement made with the 
purpose of deceiving; an intentional untnith: 
a falsehood ; the utterance by speech or act of 
that which isWalse, with intent to mislead or de- 
lude. 
Tell them that I will not come to-day : 
Cannot, Is false. . . . Shall Cesar send a Kef 
Shot., J. C., IL 2. 65. 
It Is the wilful deceit that makes the lie; ... a man 
may act a lie, as by pointing his finger In a wrong direc- 
tion, when a traveller inquires of him his road. 
I'aley, Moral Phllos., III. L 16. 
Quldo pronounced the story one long lie. 
Browning, King and Book, I. 118. 
A lie which Is half a truth Is ever the blackest of lies. 
Tennyton, The Grandmother. 
2. 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 lit: 
Sepulchral lie*, our holy walls to grace. 
Pope, Dunciad, L 43. 
Wishing this lie of life were o'er. Trench. 
A lie out Of whole Cloth, a story or statement wholly 
fabricated : a tissue of falsehood, without any founda- 
tion In fact. To give one the He In his throatt. See 
ffire\. To give the lie to. See piwL White lie, a 
well-meant falsehood : a lie uttered without evil Intent, 
or without expectation of harm, and so supposed to be 
excusable: a polite or conventional phrase not strictly in 
