To produce and deposit (an egg). Also absol. Often in figurative contexts. Also figurative phrase to lay an egg, used in various colloquial senses…

dialect. To lay (eggs). Also absol.

To give birth to, bear (young); to lay (eggs), deposit (spawn). Obsolete or dialect.

To produce or generate as spawn or in large numbers; also, in contemptuous use, to give birth to (a person).

With forth, upon.

To lay (eggs).

transitive. To deposit or lay (an egg).

To extrude or lay (eggs or spawn).