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terrors, (baking Olympus; Virgil, like the fame power in 
his benevolence, counfelling with the gods. Laying plans 
for empires. Pope. 
Every bread the did with fpirit inflame, 
Yet ftili frefh projects lay'd the grey-ey’d dame. Chapman. 
To charge as a payment.—A tax laid ' upon land feems 
hard to the land-holder, becaufe it is fo much money go¬ 
ing out of his pocket. Locke. —To impute ; to charge.— 
There was eagernefs on both (ides ; but this is far from 
laying a plot upon Luther. Atterbury. 
Let us be glad of this, and all our fears 
Lay on his providence. Paradife Regain'd. 
To impofe, as evil or punifliment.—The Lord fliall lay 
the fear of you, and the dread of you, upon all the land. 
Deut. xi. 25.—Thefe words were not fpoken to Adam ; 
neither, indeed, was there any grant in them made to 
Adam ; but a punifliment laid upon Eve. Locke. 
The wearied and mod loathed life 
That age, ach, penury, imprifonment. 
Can lay on nature, is a paradife 
To what we fear of death. Shakefpearc's Meaf. for Meaf. 
To enjoin as a duty, ora rule of aftion.—You fee what 
obligation the profeflion of Chriflianity lays upon us to 
holinefs of life. Tillotfon. 
Negleifs the rules each verbal critic lays , 
For not to know fome trifles is a praife. Pope. 
To exhibit ; to offer.—It is not the manner of the Ro¬ 
mans to deliver any man to die, before that he which is 
accufed have the accufers face to face, and have licence 
to anfwer for himfelf concerning the crime laid againd 
him. ABs xxv. 16.— To throw by violence.—He bringeth 
down them that dwell on high ; the lofty city he layeth it 
low, even to the ground, lfa. xxvi. 5. 
Brave Casneus/azkF Ortygius on the plain ; 
The viftor Casneus was by Turnus flain. Dryden. 
To place in comparifon.— Lay down by thofe pleafures the 
fearful and dangerous thunders and lightnings, and then 
there will be found no comparifon. Raleigh. 
To Lay apart. To reject; to put away. — Lay apart all 
filthinefs. James i. 21. 
To Lay afde. To put away; not to retain.—Reten¬ 
tion is the power to revive again in our minds thofe ideas 
which, after imprinting, have difappeared, or have been 
laid afde out of fight. Locke. 
When by juft vengeance guilty mortals perifli, 
The gods behold their punifliment with pleafure, 
And lay the uplifted thunder-bolt afde. Addifon. 
To Lay away. To put from one ; not fo keep.—Queen 
Edher laid away her glorious apparel, and put on the gar¬ 
ments of anguifli. Efhcr xiv. 2. 
To Lay before. To expofe to view ; to fliow ; to dif- 
play.—I cannot better fatisfy your piety, than by laying 
before you a profpefl of your labours. Wake. 
To Lay by. To referve for fome future time.—Let 
every one lay by him in ftore, as God hath profpered him. 
1 Cor. xvi. 2.—To put from one ; to difmifs.—When their 
difpleafure is once declared, they ought not prefently to 
lay by the feverity of their brows, but reftore their chil¬ 
dren to their former grace with fome difficulty. Locke, 
Darknefs, which faireft nymphs difarms, 
Defends us ill from Mira’s charms ; 
Mira can lay her beauty by, 
Take no advantage of the eye. 
Quit all that Lely's art can take, 
And yet a thoufand captives make. Waller. 
To Lay down. To depofite as a pledge, equivalent, or 
fatisfa£lion,— I lay down my life for the fheep. John x. 15. 
For her, my lord, 
I dare my life lay down, and will do’t, fir. 
LAY 
Pleafe you t’ accept it, that the queen is fpotlefs 
I’ th’ eyes of Heaven. Shakcfpeare. 
To quit; to refign.—The ftory of the tragedy is purely 
fiftion ; for I take it up where the hiftory has laid it down, 
Dryden. 
Ambitious conquerors, in their mad career, 
Check’d by thy voice, laydown the fword and fpear. Blackm. 
To commit ; to repofe. — We lay us down to fteep away 
our cares; night (huts up the fenfes. Glanville's Scepfs, 
Some god conduct me to the facred (hades. 
Or lift me high to Htemus’ hilly crown, 
Or in the plains of Tempe lay me down. Dryden. 
To advance as a propofition.—Kircher lays it down as a 
certain principle, that there never was any people fo rude, 
which did not acknowledge and worfliip one fupreme 
Deity. Sulhngfeet. —Plato lays it down as a principle, that 
whatever is permitted to befal a juft man, whether poverty 
or ficknefs, fliall, either in life or death, conduce to his 
good. Addifon. 
To Lay for. To attempt by ambufti, orinfidious prac¬ 
tices.—He embarked, being hardly laid for at fea by Cor- 
tug-ogli, a famous pirate. Knolles. 
To Lay forth. To diffufe ; to expatiate.—O bird F the 
delight of gods and of men ! and fo he lays himfelf forth 
upon the gracefulnefs of the raven. VEf range. —To place 
when dead in a decent pofture : 
Embalm me, 
Then lay me forth ; although unqueen’d, yet like 
A queen, and daughter to a king, inter me. Shakefpeare. 
To Lay hold of, or on. To feize ; to catch.—Then fliall 
his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him 
out. Deut. xxi. 19.—Favourable feafons of aptitude and 
inclination, be heedfully laid hold of. Locke. 
To Lay in. To ftore ; to treafure.—Readers, who are 
in the flower of their youth, fliould labour at thofe accom- 
plifliments which may fet off their perfons when their 
bloom is gone, and to lay in timely provifions for manhood 
and old age. Addifon's Guardian. 
An equal (lock of wdt and valour 
He had laid in, by birth a taylor. Hudibras. 
To Lay on. To apply with violence.—We make no exr 
cufes for the obftinate ; blows are the proper remedies, 
but blow's laid on in a way different from the ordinary. 
Locke on Education. 
To Lay open. To fliow ; to expofe.—A fool layeth open 
his folly. Prov. xiii. 16. 
Teach me, dear creature, how to think and fpeak: 
Lay open to my earthy grofs conceit. 
Smother’d in errors, feeble, (hallow, weak, 
The folded meaning of your word’s deceit. Shakefpeart. 
To Lay over. To incruft ; to cover ; fo decorate fu- 
perficially.—Wo unto him that faith to the wood, awake ; 
to the dumb Hone, arife, it fliall teach : behold, it is laid 
over with gold and filver, and there is no breath at all in 
the niidft of it. Hab. ii. 19. 
To Lay out. To expend. — Tycho Brahe laid out , be- 
fides his time and induftry, much greater fums of money 
on inftruments than any man we ever heard of. Boyle _If 
you can get a good tutor, you will never repent the charge; 
but will always have the fatisfaftion to think it the money, 
of all other, the belt laid out. Locke. — Nature has laid out 
all her art in beautifying the face ; (he has touched it 
with vermilion, planted in it a double row of ivory, and 
made it the feat of fmiles and bluflies, Addifon. 
My father never at a time like this 
Would lay out his great foul in words, and wafte 
Such precious moments. Addifon's Cato. 
To difplay ; to difcover.—He was dangerous, and takes 
occafion to lay out bigotry, and falfe confidence, in all its 
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