lyingn.¹

Brit.

/ˈlʌɪɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈlaɪɪŋ/

Forms: see lie v.¹

Etymology: < lie v.¹ + -ing suffix¹.

a. The action of lie v.¹ in various senses; resting, reclining, remaining in deposit, †being sick, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > [noun]

unhealc700

untrumnessc897

adleeOE

sicknessc967

cothec1000

unhealthc1000

woe?a1200

ail?c1225

lying?c1225

maladyc1275

unsoundc1275

feebless1297

languora1375

languishc1384

disease1393

aegritudea1400

lamea1400

maleasea1400

soughta1400

wilc1400

malefaction?a1425

firmityc1426

unwholesomenessc1449

ill1450

languenta1500

distemperancea1535

the valley of the shadow of death1535

affect?1537

affection?1541

distemperature1541

inability1547

sickliness1565

languishment1576

cause1578

unhealthfulness1589

crazedness1593

languorment1593

evilness1599

strickenness1599

craziness1602

distemper1604

unsoundness1605

invaletude1623

unhealthiness1634

achaque1647

unwellness1653

disailment1657

insalubrity1668

faintiness1683

queerness1687

invalidity1690

illness1692

ill health1698

ailment1708

illing1719

invalescence1724

peakingness1727

sickishness1727

valetudinariness1742

ailingness1776

brash1786

invalidism1794

poorliness1814

diseasement1826

invalidship1830

valetudinarianism1839

ailing1862

invalidhood1863

megrims1870

pourriture1890

immersement1903

bug1918

condition1920

the world > space > relative position > posture > action or fact of lying down or reclining > [noun]

lairc893

lying?c1225

reclination1556

discubation1641

discumbing1641

decumbence1646

decumbency1646

discumbency1646

recubation1646

recumbency1646

discumbiture1655

discubiture1656

discumbence1656

decubation1664

decumbiture1670

recumbence1670

decubitus1879

the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > bed related to sleep or rest > [noun] > action of going to bed or lying down

lying?c1225

bed-ganga1300

bed-gatec1440

down-lying1534

recourse1590

retirement1679

the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > lasting quality, permanence > [noun] > act of remaining

remaining1496

remansion1598

lyinga1616

perseverance1657

keeping1780

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > non-use > [noun] > condition or fact of being unused

lyinga1616

unusedness1865

inusitateness1888

the world > space > place > position or situation > [noun] > fact of being in

beingc1330

ubiation1624

lying1634

ubication1635

the world > movement > absence of movement > [noun] > condition of remaining in one place

fixure1603

stability1625

fixedness1647

lying1683

stationariness1727

fixation1894

staticness1940

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 5 Flesc for gan oðer fisch & alle oðere swiche þinges. of werunge. of liggunge. of hures. of oðere beoden.

c1380 Eng. Wycliffite Serm. in Sel. Wks. I. 141 For boþe Cristis liynge in þe sepulcre and his dwellinge here in erþe was litil tyme.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 6686 Þe smiter sal quite his lechyng, And þe scath of his liging.

a1425 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Galba) l. 29091 Þe thrid chastiyng..Sighing, wepeing, and ill liging.

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. BBBii Soft lyeng, soft weryng, or moche fedyng of delicate meates.

a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) i. i. 150 'Tis a commodity wil lose the glosse with lying: The longer kept, the lesse worth.

1634 Lease by R. Kenward to W. Deane verso (MS.) I..would never have bought it but for the convenient lying of it to my other ground.

1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 29 I us'd to make them of Sugar-Chest; That Stuff being commonly well-season'd, by the long lying of the Sugar in it.

1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture I. 34/1 Liquify'd by long lying in the Water.

1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VI. 574 This situation [of a bed sore] is determined..by the lying of the paralytic on that side.

†b. spec. The state of being buried; concrete place of sepulture. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > grave or burial-place > [noun]

buriels854

througheOE

burianOE

graveOE

lairc1000

lair-stowc1000

lich-restc1000

pitOE

grass-bedOE

buriness1175

earth housec1200

sepulchrec1200

tombc1300

lakec1320

buriala1325

monumenta1325

burying-place1382

resting placea1387

sepulturea1387

beda1400

earth-beda1400

longhousea1400

laystow1452

lying1480

delfa1500

worms' kitchen?a1500

bier1513

laystall1527

funeral?a1534

lay-bed1541

restall1557

cellarc1560

burying-grave1599

pit-hole1602

urn1607

cell1609

hearse1610

polyandrum1627

requietory1631

burial-place1633

mortuary1654

narrow cell1686

ground-sweat1699

sacred place1728

narrow house1792

plot1852

narrow bed1854

1480 W. Caxton Chron. Eng. ccxxx. 244 Kyng Edward chese his sepulture and his lyggyng at Westmynster.

a1676 S. Gunton Hist. Church Peterburgh (1686) 77 The Heralds..appointed..the place for the body to be Interred, which was devised over against the lying of Queen Katherine.

c. with adverb or adverbial phrase (see lie v.¹ Phrasal verbs). Also lying-in n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > posture > action or fact of lying down or reclining > [noun] > reclining posture

lying1647

recline1753

1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Rom. ix. 10 Rebecca, of o liggynge by hauynge tweye sones of Ysaac, our fadir.

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1876) VI. 93 Bote wiþ som manere rouschelynge þat he made in ligynge adoun his felowe awook.

1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 333/2 He hadde Subtylytee for teschewe the lyggynge in a wayte of his enemyes.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 239/2 Lying in wayte, aguaytance.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 423 I am upon my lieng downe, as a woman that is nere her tyme.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 87 From thence to the lying out of the mountaine Pyrenæus, Aquitania.

1611 Bible (King James) Psalms cxxxix. 3 Thou compassest my path, and my lying downe.

1611 Bible (King James) Acts xx. 19 Many teares, and temptations, which befell me by the lying in wait [ Tindale layinges awayte] of the Iewes.

1624 P. Massinger Bond-man ii. i. sig. D2 There's a sport too Nam'd lying Perdieu..Which you must learne to play at.

1647 T. Fuller Good Thoughts in Worse Times i. vi. 12 This lying along is an improper posture for piety.

1711 W. Sutherland Ship-builders Assistant 115 B. is the Fore-top-sail braced back, which is done..to stop her way, term'd Lying-by.

1711 London Gaz. No. 4910/2 The Admiral thought it proper..to make the Signal for lying by.

1792 C. Smith Desmond II. 121 You have accused me of lying by in Company.

attributive.c1834 N. P. Willis in G. Paston Little Mem. 19th C. (1902) 176 His [Disraeli's] eye..has the most mocking lying-in-wait expression conceivable.1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VII. 460 If a change from the lying-down to the sitting-up position is rapidly made.

2. concrete. With qualification (as dry, soft, warm, etc., lying): Accommodation for repose.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > by habitat > habitat > [noun] > dwelling place or shelter

houseOE

denOE

holdc1275

lying-placea1382

coucha1398

homea1398

logis1477

starting-hole1530

cabbage1567

lodge1567

lair1575

lay1590

squat1590

hover1602

denning1622

start-holea1641

bed1694

niche1725

shed1821

lying1834

basking-hole1856

lie1869

homesite1882

holt1890

lying-ground1895

1834 T. De Quincey Travelling in Eng. in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Suppl. No. 798/2 It was a subject of gratitude..to dwell upon the soft lying which was to be found in that..morass.

1868 J. T. Nettleship Ess. Browning's Poetry vii. 262 A poet from his birth, nursed in Nature's softest lying.

1886 Weekly Times 6 Aug. 13/3 There is no finer feeding or warmer lying in Scotland.

1898 Westm. Gaz. 20 May 10/2 Dry lying—a dry bed at night—is..essential to the welfare of deer.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

lying-ground n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > by habitat > habitat > [noun] > dwelling place or shelter

houseOE

denOE

holdc1275

lying-placea1382

coucha1398

homea1398

logis1477

starting-hole1530

cabbage1567

lodge1567

lair1575

lay1590

squat1590

hover1602

denning1622

start-holea1641

bed1694

niche1725

shed1821

lying1834

basking-hole1856

lie1869

homesite1882

holt1890

lying-ground1895

1895 C. J. Cornish Wild Eng. Today 122 The paddock is a favourite lying ground for hares.

lying-place n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > by habitat > habitat > [noun] > dwelling place or shelter

houseOE

denOE

holdc1275

lying-placea1382

coucha1398

homea1398

logis1477

starting-hole1530

cabbage1567

lodge1567

lair1575

lay1590

squat1590

hover1602

denning1622

start-holea1641

bed1694

niche1725

shed1821

lying1834

basking-hole1856

lie1869

homesite1882

holt1890

lying-ground1895

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Prov. vii. 17 I ha sprengd my ligging place with myrre, and aloes.

1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Desbauger vn sanglier, to raise a wilde Bore from his lying place.

C2.

† lying-house n. Obsolete (see quot. c1593).

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [noun]

quarternOE

prisona1200

jailc1275

lodgec1290

galleya1300

chartrea1325

ward1338

keepingc1384

prison-house1419

lying-house1423

javel1483

tollbooth1488

kidcotec1515

clinkc1530

warding-place1571

the hangman's budget1589

Newgate1592

gehenna1594

Lob's pound1597

caperdewsie1599

footman's inn1604

cappadochio1607

pena1640

marshalsea1652

log-house1662

bastille1663

naskin1673

state prison1684

tronk1693

stone-doublet1694

iron or stone doublet1698

college1699

nask1699

quod1699

shop1699

black hole1707

start1735

coop1785

blockhouse1796

stone jug1796

calaboose1797

factory1806

bull-pen1809

steel1811

jigger1812

jug1815

kitty1825

rock pile1830

bughouse1842

zindan1844

model1845

black house1846

tench1850

mill1851

stir1851

hoppet1855

booby hatch1859

caboose1865

cooler1872

skookum house1873

chokey1874

gib1877

nick1882

choker1884

logs1888

booby house1894

big house1905

hoosegow1911

can1912

detention camp1916

pokey1919

slammer1952

joint1953

slam1960

1423–4 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 271 Pro ligatur' pro hostio vocato trapdure supra lynghouse, 4d.; et pro seris et clavibus pro lynghouse, 20d.

c1593 in J. Raine Descr. Anc. Monuments Church of Durham (1842) 75 A strong prysonne call the Lynghouse [MS. Cos., Lyinge house].

lying-in-state n. (of the corpse of a public figure) being on display for public tribute before burial.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > obsequies > [noun] > lying in state

lying-in-state1923

1923 W. de la Mare Riddle 241 Positive constellations of candles as if for a Prince's..lying-in-state.

1947 M. Field Boys' & Girls' Film Bk. 67 When he died thousands of people went to his lying-in-state.

1972 Whitaker's Almanack 565/2 The Duke of Windsor's lying-in-state took place in St. George's Chapel, Windsor.

lying-press n. Printing = laying-press n. at laying n. Compounds 2.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > bookbinding equipment > [noun] > other equipment

backing-board1741

runner1818

sewing-frame1818

trindle1818

laying-press1835

gathering-table1841

gathering-board1874

pressing board1875

lying-press1876

1876 Encycl. Brit. IV. 43/1 By screwing the volume up in the lying-press.

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lyingn.²

Brit.

/ˈlʌɪɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈlaɪɪŋ/

Forms: see lie v.²

Etymology: < lie v.² + -ing suffix¹.

a. The action of lie v.²; the telling of lies. †In 16–17th centuries sometimes in plural.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > [noun] > telling of falsehoods, lying

leasingc950

fablinga1300

lyinga1300

menteryc1450

blanching1581

forgery1582

whetstone-leasing1598

Creticism1614

mentition1656

falsehood1662

storytelling1681

mendaciloquencec1710

fibbing1749

economy of truth1796

fibbery1857

a1300 Early Compl. Eng. Prose Psalter v. 7 (Egerton) Þou leses alle þat speke liyhinge.

1340 Ayenbite (1866) 143 Him hit þingþ þet hit is al wynd and metinge and lyeȝynge.

1426 J. Lydgate tr. G. de Guileville Pilgrimage Life Man 13302 My condicioun ys to lye;..With lyyng I shal deceyue the.

?1577 J. Northbrooke Spiritus est Vicarius Christi: Treat. Dicing 44 If for ydle wordes, what for hurtfull wordes? what for lyings?

1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies v. xxviii. 412 The Divell..did steale all that he could from the trueth, to imploy it in his lyings and deceits.

1656 E. Reyner Rules Govt. Tongue 16 Lying is an ungodly, devilish and damnable practice.

1827 A. Opie (title) Illustrations of Lying in All its Branches.

1863 C. E. L. Riddell World in Church III. 41 Lying is the employment of the lower orders, and the recreation of the higher.

personified.1606 T. Dekker Seuen Deadly Sinnes London ii. sig. C3^v Lying is Father to Falshood, and Grandsire to Periury.

b. Alleged name for a ‘company’ of pardoners.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > other clergy > [noun] > pardoner > company of

lying1486

1486 Bk. St. Albans F vij A Lyeng of perdeneris.

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lyingadj.¹

Brit.

/ˈlʌɪɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈlaɪɪŋ/

Etymology: < lie v.¹ + -ing suffix².

a. That lies, or rests in a recumbent, extended, stationary or inert position; also, †absol. (Old English) dead.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > posture > action or fact of lying down or reclining > [adjective]

lyingc1000

couchant1601

prone1610

jacent1611

decumbent1656

cumbentc1660

recumbent1664

recline1667

procumbent1668

discumbent1693

reclining1748

couched1807

Récamier1904

Madame Récamier1913

the world > space > relative position > horizontal position or condition > [adjective] > lying flat

flatc1440

lyinga1450

prostrate1560

jacent1611

prone1785

c1000 Leg. St. Swithun etc. (Earle) (1861) 110 Þæt mægn þæs licgendan.

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Jer. xxxiii. 12 A dwelling place of shepperdus, of liggende flockus.

a1450 Fysshynge wyth Angle (1883) 16 The lying ground lyne with ovte floyte.

a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 224 The angry man Is wonyt to be of..a semely chyne and accordynge to the visage, and liggyne here.

1842 Ld. Tennyson Vision of Sin in Poems (new ed.) II. 213 Sitting, lying, languid shapes.

1862 R. Chambers Few Rambling Remarks Golf 14 The Short-spoon..is used for playing either good-lying or bad-lying balls.

1880 W. Carnegie Pract. Trapping 16 That most annoying eventuality, a ‘lying’ ferret.

b. Scottish. Of money, goods, etc.: Put by.

ΚΠ

1722 A. Ramsay Tale Three Bonnets i. 9 Your Claiths, your Lands, and lying Pelf.

1799 J. Robertson Gen. View Agric. Perth 386 We are not informed, what lying stock they have, what donations they have received [etc.].

Compounds

lying-dog n. a setter.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > other types of dog > [noun] > setter

setter1576

lying-dog1818

1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian xi, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 317 As if a penalty was inflicted by statute for any man who suld hunt or hawk, or use lying-dogs.

lying-panel n. †(a) a panel which occupies the lowest place in a series; (b) a panel whose longest dimension, or one whose grain, lies horizontally.

ΚΠ

1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. vi. 106 The Lying Pannel, above the Base.

1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 226 Lying Panel, a Panel with the fibres of the wood disposed horizontally.

1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. Gloss. 995 Lying Panels, those wherein the fibres of the wood, or the grain of it, lie in an horizontal direction.

lying pipe n. (see quots.).

ΚΠ

1861 W. Fairbairn Iron 57 Calder Heating Apparatus... The apparatus consists of two parallel horizontal pipes..called technically the ‘lying pipes’.

1886 J. Barrowman Gloss. Sc. Mining Terms 43 Lying-pipes, the horizontal pipes in a lodgment.

lying shaft n. (see quot.).

ΚΠ

1886 J. Barrowman Gloss. Sc. Mining Terms 43 Lying-shaft, the shaft of an engine on the end of which the tumbling crank is fixed.

† lying-stone n. Obsolete the nether millstone.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > milling or grinding > [noun] > corn-mill > millstone > lower

ledger1533

ledger-millstone1548

lying-stone1674

1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 151 As certain a cause as is that, by which the runner in a Mill does not sink through the Lyingstone.

lying-storm n. Scottish a snowstorm when the snow lies.

ΚΠ

1787 J. Beattie Scoticisms 79 We use the word storm to signify a storm of snow, or snowy weather. We even speak of a lying storm.

1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm I. 298 Should the flakes be spicular and fall very thick and fast, then a heavy fall, or a ‘lying storm’..may be expected.

lying-wall n. Mining = footwall n. at foot n. and int. Compounds 3. (Raymond Mining Gloss.).

ΚΠ

1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 153 Lying-wall, see Foot-wall.

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lyingadj.²

Brit.

/ˈlʌɪɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈlaɪɪŋ/

Forms: see lie v.²

Etymology: < lie v.² + -ing suffix².

1. Of a person, his lips, etc.: That tells lies.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > [adjective]

leasea900

liec975

false?c1225

unsoothfasta1300

untruefulc1380

trothlessa1393

fickle-tongue1393

truthlessa1522

lying1535

fabling1548

forging1593

mendacious1616

soothless1803

storytelling1839

unveracious1845

fabricatory1855

untruthful1858

falsidical1866

leasing1873

inveracious1885

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms cxix. 2 Deliuer my soule (o Lorde) from lyenge lippes.

1594 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 ii. i. 130 Then Sander sit there, the lyingest knaue in Christendom.

1611 Bible (King James) Prov. x. 18 Hee that hideth hatred with lying lippes..is a foole.

1612 B. Jonson Alchemist iv. vii. sig. K4 Doe not beleeue him, Sir: He is the lying'st Swabber.

a1758 A. Ramsay Eagle & Robin 44 With a wickit lieand tung.

1886 W. J. Tucker Life E. Europe 158 A canting, lying, hypocritical set.

2. Of impersonal things: Untruthful, mendacious; hence, deceitful, false.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > [adjective] > of statement, etc.: untrue

falsec1175

lyinga1225

truthless1568

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > deception by illusion, delusion > [adjective]

lyinga1225

deceptoryc1430

mockinga1529

sleight1533

prestigious?1534

illudinga1547

fallible1552

delusory1588

prestigiatory1588

illusory1599

delusive1607

deceptiousa1616

deludinga1616

flatteringa1616

delusorious1625

fallacious1626

ludificatorya1677

illusive1679

will-o'-the-wisp1682

prestigiating1716

shama1721

false1768

deceptitious1827

deceptional1830

phantasm1834

will-o'-the-wispish1842

will-o'-the-wispy1857

illusionistic1911

illusional1942

a1225 Juliana 2 Ant of þis lihinde lif leade us..into þe eche of heouene.

a1340 R. Rolle Psalter i. 4 His worde sall noght..dissayuabile ne leghynge.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Jer. vii. 4 Trust not in false lyenge wordes.

1611 Bible (King James) Psalms xxxi. 6 I haue hated them that regard lying vanities.

1718 M. Prior Solomon on Vanity ii, in Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) 456 And slavish bards our mutual loves rehearse In lying strains.

1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xix. 322 It was much easier..to put forth a lying prospectus.

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n.¹?c1225

n.²a1300

adj.¹c1000

adj.²a1225

单词	lying
释义	lyingn.¹ Brit. /ˈlʌɪɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈlaɪɪŋ/ Forms: see lie v.¹ Etymology: < lie v.¹ + -ing suffix¹. 1. a. The action of lie v.¹ in various senses; resting, reclining, remaining in deposit, †being sick, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > [noun] unhealc700 untrumnessc897 adleeOE sicknessc967 cothec1000 unhealthc1000 woe?a1200 ail?c1225 lying?c1225 maladyc1275 unsoundc1275 feebless1297 languora1375 languishc1384 disease1393 aegritudea1400 lamea1400 maleasea1400 soughta1400 wilc1400 malefaction?a1425 firmityc1426 unwholesomenessc1449 ill1450 languenta1500 distemperancea1535 the valley of the shadow of death1535 affect?1537 affection?1541 distemperature1541 inability1547 sickliness1565 languishment1576 cause1578 unhealthfulness1589 crazedness1593 languorment1593 evilness1599 strickenness1599 craziness1602 distemper1604 unsoundness1605 invaletude1623 unhealthiness1634 achaque1647 unwellness1653 disailment1657 insalubrity1668 faintiness1683 queerness1687 invalidity1690 illness1692 ill health1698 ailment1708 illing1719 invalescence1724 peakingness1727 sickishness1727 valetudinariness1742 ailingness1776 brash1786 invalidism1794 poorliness1814 diseasement1826 invalidship1830 valetudinarianism1839 ailing1862 invalidhood1863 megrims1870 pourriture1890 immersement1903 bug1918 condition1920 the world > space > relative position > posture > action or fact of lying down or reclining > [noun] lairc893 lying?c1225 reclination1556 discubation1641 discumbing1641 decumbence1646 decumbency1646 discumbency1646 recubation1646 recumbency1646 discumbiture1655 discubiture1656 discumbence1656 decubation1664 decumbiture1670 recumbence1670 decubitus1879 the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > bed related to sleep or rest > [noun] > action of going to bed or lying down lying?c1225 bed-ganga1300 bed-gatec1440 down-lying1534 recourse1590 retirement1679 the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > lasting quality, permanence > [noun] > act of remaining remaining1496 remansion1598 lyinga1616 perseverance1657 keeping1780 the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > non-use > [noun] > condition or fact of being unused lyinga1616 unusedness1865 inusitateness1888 the world > space > place > position or situation > [noun] > fact of being in beingc1330 ubiation1624 lying1634 ubication1635 the world > movement > absence of movement > [noun] > condition of remaining in one place fixure1603 stability1625 fixedness1647 lying1683 stationariness1727 fixation1894 staticness1940 ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 5 Flesc for gan oðer fisch & alle oðere swiche þinges. of werunge. of liggunge. of hures. of oðere beoden. c1380 Eng. Wycliffite Serm. in Sel. Wks. I. 141 For boþe Cristis liynge in þe sepulcre and his dwellinge here in erþe was litil tyme. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 6686 Þe smiter sal quite his lechyng, And þe scath of his liging. a1425 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Galba) l. 29091 Þe thrid chastiyng..Sighing, wepeing, and ill liging. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. BBBii Soft lyeng, soft weryng, or moche fedyng of delicate meates. a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) i. i. 150 'Tis a commodity wil lose the glosse with lying: The longer kept, the lesse worth. View more context for this quotation 1634 Lease by R. Kenward to W. Deane verso (MS.) I..would never have bought it but for the convenient lying of it to my other ground. 1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 29 I us'd to make them of Sugar-Chest; That Stuff being commonly well-season'd, by the long lying of the Sugar in it. 1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture I. 34/1 Liquify'd by long lying in the Water. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VI. 574 This situation [of a bed sore] is determined..by the lying of the paralytic on that side. †b. spec. The state of being buried; concrete place of sepulture. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > grave or burial-place > [noun] buriels854 througheOE burianOE graveOE lairc1000 lair-stowc1000 lich-restc1000 pitOE grass-bedOE buriness1175 earth housec1200 sepulchrec1200 tombc1300 lakec1320 buriala1325 monumenta1325 burying-place1382 resting placea1387 sepulturea1387 beda1400 earth-beda1400 longhousea1400 laystow1452 lying1480 delfa1500 worms' kitchen?a1500 bier1513 laystall1527 funeral?a1534 lay-bed1541 restall1557 cellarc1560 burying-grave1599 pit-hole1602 urn1607 cell1609 hearse1610 polyandrum1627 requietory1631 burial-place1633 mortuary1654 narrow cell1686 ground-sweat1699 sacred place1728 narrow house1792 plot1852 narrow bed1854 1480 W. Caxton Chron. Eng. ccxxx. 244 Kyng Edward chese his sepulture and his lyggyng at Westmynster. a1676 S. Gunton Hist. Church Peterburgh (1686) 77 The Heralds..appointed..the place for the body to be Interred, which was devised over against the lying of Queen Katherine. c. with adverb or adverbial phrase (see lie v.¹ Phrasal verbs). Also lying-in n. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > posture > action or fact of lying down or reclining > [noun] > reclining posture lying1647 recline1753 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Rom. ix. 10 Rebecca, of o liggynge by hauynge tweye sones of Ysaac, our fadir. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1876) VI. 93 Bote wiþ som manere rouschelynge þat he made in ligynge adoun his felowe awook. 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 333/2 He hadde Subtylytee for teschewe the lyggynge in a wayte of his enemyes. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 239/2 Lying in wayte, aguaytance. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 423 I am upon my lieng downe, as a woman that is nere her tyme. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 87 From thence to the lying out of the mountaine Pyrenæus, Aquitania. 1611 Bible (King James) Psalms cxxxix. 3 Thou compassest my path, and my lying downe. View more context for this quotation 1611 Bible (King James) Acts xx. 19 Many teares, and temptations, which befell me by the lying in wait [ Tindale layinges awayte] of the Iewes. View more context for this quotation 1624 P. Massinger Bond-man ii. i. sig. D2 There's a sport too Nam'd lying Perdieu..Which you must learne to play at. 1647 T. Fuller Good Thoughts in Worse Times i. vi. 12 This lying along is an improper posture for piety. 1711 W. Sutherland Ship-builders Assistant 115 B. is the Fore-top-sail braced back, which is done..to stop her way, term'd Lying-by. 1711 London Gaz. No. 4910/2 The Admiral thought it proper..to make the Signal for lying by. 1792 C. Smith Desmond II. 121 You have accused me of lying by in Company. attributive.c1834 N. P. Willis in G. Paston Little Mem. 19th C. (1902) 176 His [Disraeli's] eye..has the most mocking lying-in-wait expression conceivable.1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VII. 460 If a change from the lying-down to the sitting-up position is rapidly made. 2. concrete. With qualification (as dry, soft, warm, etc., lying): Accommodation for repose. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by habitat > habitat > [noun] > dwelling place or shelter houseOE denOE holdc1275 lying-placea1382 coucha1398 homea1398 logis1477 starting-hole1530 cabbage1567 lodge1567 lair1575 lay1590 squat1590 hover1602 denning1622 start-holea1641 bed1694 niche1725 shed1821 lying1834 basking-hole1856 lie1869 homesite1882 holt1890 lying-ground1895 1834 T. De Quincey Travelling in Eng. in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Suppl. No. 798/2 It was a subject of gratitude..to dwell upon the soft lying which was to be found in that..morass. 1868 J. T. Nettleship Ess. Browning's Poetry vii. 262 A poet from his birth, nursed in Nature's softest lying. 1886 Weekly Times 6 Aug. 13/3 There is no finer feeding or warmer lying in Scotland. 1898 Westm. Gaz. 20 May 10/2 Dry lying—a dry bed at night—is..essential to the welfare of deer. Compounds C1. General attributive. lying-ground n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by habitat > habitat > [noun] > dwelling place or shelter houseOE denOE holdc1275 lying-placea1382 coucha1398 homea1398 logis1477 starting-hole1530 cabbage1567 lodge1567 lair1575 lay1590 squat1590 hover1602 denning1622 start-holea1641 bed1694 niche1725 shed1821 lying1834 basking-hole1856 lie1869 homesite1882 holt1890 lying-ground1895 1895 C. J. Cornish Wild Eng. Today 122 The paddock is a favourite lying ground for hares. lying-place n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by habitat > habitat > [noun] > dwelling place or shelter houseOE denOE holdc1275 lying-placea1382 coucha1398 homea1398 logis1477 starting-hole1530 cabbage1567 lodge1567 lair1575 lay1590 squat1590 hover1602 denning1622 start-holea1641 bed1694 niche1725 shed1821 lying1834 basking-hole1856 lie1869 homesite1882 holt1890 lying-ground1895 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Prov. vii. 17 I ha sprengd my ligging place with myrre, and aloes. 1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Desbauger vn sanglier, to raise a wilde Bore from his lying place. C2. † lying-house n. Obsolete (see quot. c1593). ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [noun] quarternOE prisona1200 jailc1275 lodgec1290 galleya1300 chartrea1325 ward1338 keepingc1384 prison-house1419 lying-house1423 javel1483 tollbooth1488 kidcotec1515 clinkc1530 warding-place1571 the hangman's budget1589 Newgate1592 gehenna1594 Lob's pound1597 caperdewsie1599 footman's inn1604 cappadochio1607 pena1640 marshalsea1652 log-house1662 bastille1663 naskin1673 state prison1684 tronk1693 stone-doublet1694 iron or stone doublet1698 college1699 nask1699 quod1699 shop1699 black hole1707 start1735 coop1785 blockhouse1796 stone jug1796 calaboose1797 factory1806 bull-pen1809 steel1811 jigger1812 jug1815 kitty1825 rock pile1830 bughouse1842 zindan1844 model1845 black house1846 tench1850 mill1851 stir1851 hoppet1855 booby hatch1859 caboose1865 cooler1872 skookum house1873 chokey1874 gib1877 nick1882 choker1884 logs1888 booby house1894 big house1905 hoosegow1911 can1912 detention camp1916 pokey1919 slammer1952 joint1953 slam1960 1423–4 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 271 Pro ligatur' pro hostio vocato trapdure supra lynghouse, 4d.; et pro seris et clavibus pro lynghouse, 20d. c1593 in J. Raine Descr. Anc. Monuments Church of Durham (1842) 75 A strong prysonne call the Lynghouse [MS. Cos., Lyinge house]. lying-in-state n. (of the corpse of a public figure) being on display for public tribute before burial. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > obsequies > [noun] > lying in state lying-in-state1923 1923 W. de la Mare Riddle 241 Positive constellations of candles as if for a Prince's..lying-in-state. 1947 M. Field Boys' & Girls' Film Bk. 67 When he died thousands of people went to his lying-in-state. 1972 Whitaker's Almanack 565/2 The Duke of Windsor's lying-in-state took place in St. George's Chapel, Windsor. lying-press n. Printing = laying-press n. at laying n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > bookbinding equipment > [noun] > other equipment backing-board1741 runner1818 sewing-frame1818 trindle1818 laying-press1835 gathering-table1841 gathering-board1874 pressing board1875 lying-press1876 1876 Encycl. Brit. IV. 43/1 By screwing the volume up in the lying-press. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022). lyingn.² Brit. /ˈlʌɪɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈlaɪɪŋ/ Forms: see lie v.² Etymology: < lie v.² + -ing suffix¹. a. The action of lie v.²; the telling of lies. †In 16–17th centuries sometimes in plural. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > [noun] > telling of falsehoods, lying leasingc950 fablinga1300 lyinga1300 menteryc1450 blanching1581 forgery1582 whetstone-leasing1598 Creticism1614 mentition1656 falsehood1662 storytelling1681 mendaciloquencec1710 fibbing1749 economy of truth1796 fibbery1857 a1300 Early Compl. Eng. Prose Psalter v. 7 (Egerton) Þou leses alle þat speke liyhinge. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 143 Him hit þingþ þet hit is al wynd and metinge and lyeȝynge. 1426 J. Lydgate tr. G. de Guileville Pilgrimage Life Man 13302 My condicioun ys to lye;..With lyyng I shal deceyue the. ?1577 J. Northbrooke Spiritus est Vicarius Christi: Treat. Dicing 44 If for ydle wordes, what for hurtfull wordes? what for lyings? 1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies v. xxviii. 412 The Divell..did steale all that he could from the trueth, to imploy it in his lyings and deceits. 1656 E. Reyner Rules Govt. Tongue 16 Lying is an ungodly, devilish and damnable practice. 1827 A. Opie (title) Illustrations of Lying in All its Branches. 1863 C. E. L. Riddell World in Church III. 41 Lying is the employment of the lower orders, and the recreation of the higher. personified.1606 T. Dekker Seuen Deadly Sinnes London ii. sig. C3^v Lying is Father to Falshood, and Grandsire to Periury. b. Alleged name for a ‘company’ of pardoners. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > other clergy > [noun] > pardoner > company of lying1486 1486 Bk. St. Albans F vij A Lyeng of perdeneris. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022). lyingadj.¹ Brit. /ˈlʌɪɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈlaɪɪŋ/ Etymology: < lie v.¹ + -ing suffix². a. That lies, or rests in a recumbent, extended, stationary or inert position; also, †absol. (Old English) dead. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > posture > action or fact of lying down or reclining > [adjective] lyingc1000 couchant1601 prone1610 jacent1611 decumbent1656 cumbentc1660 recumbent1664 recline1667 procumbent1668 discumbent1693 reclining1748 couched1807 Récamier1904 Madame Récamier1913 the world > space > relative position > horizontal position or condition > [adjective] > lying flat flatc1440 lyinga1450 prostrate1560 jacent1611 prone1785 c1000 Leg. St. Swithun etc. (Earle) (1861) 110 Þæt mægn þæs licgendan. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Jer. xxxiii. 12 A dwelling place of shepperdus, of liggende flockus. a1450 Fysshynge wyth Angle (1883) 16 The lying ground lyne with ovte floyte. a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 224 The angry man Is wonyt to be of..a semely chyne and accordynge to the visage, and liggyne here. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Vision of Sin in Poems (new ed.) II. 213 Sitting, lying, languid shapes. 1862 R. Chambers Few Rambling Remarks Golf 14 The Short-spoon..is used for playing either good-lying or bad-lying balls. 1880 W. Carnegie Pract. Trapping 16 That most annoying eventuality, a ‘lying’ ferret. b. Scottish. Of money, goods, etc.: Put by. ΚΠ 1722 A. Ramsay Tale Three Bonnets i. 9 Your Claiths, your Lands, and lying Pelf. 1799 J. Robertson Gen. View Agric. Perth 386 We are not informed, what lying stock they have, what donations they have received [etc.]. Compounds lying-dog n. a setter. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > other types of dog > [noun] > setter setter1576 lying-dog1818 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian xi, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 317 As if a penalty was inflicted by statute for any man who suld hunt or hawk, or use lying-dogs. lying-panel n. †(a) a panel which occupies the lowest place in a series; (b) a panel whose longest dimension, or one whose grain, lies horizontally. ΚΠ 1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. vi. 106 The Lying Pannel, above the Base. 1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 226 Lying Panel, a Panel with the fibres of the wood disposed horizontally. 1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. Gloss. 995 Lying Panels, those wherein the fibres of the wood, or the grain of it, lie in an horizontal direction. lying pipe n. (see quots.). ΚΠ 1861 W. Fairbairn Iron 57 Calder Heating Apparatus... The apparatus consists of two parallel horizontal pipes..called technically the ‘lying pipes’. 1886 J. Barrowman Gloss. Sc. Mining Terms 43 Lying-pipes, the horizontal pipes in a lodgment. lying shaft n. (see quot.). ΚΠ 1886 J. Barrowman Gloss. Sc. Mining Terms 43 Lying-shaft, the shaft of an engine on the end of which the tumbling crank is fixed. † lying-stone n. Obsolete the nether millstone. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > milling or grinding > [noun] > corn-mill > millstone > lower ledger1533 ledger-millstone1548 lying-stone1674 1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 151 As certain a cause as is that, by which the runner in a Mill does not sink through the Lyingstone. lying-storm n. Scottish a snowstorm when the snow lies. ΚΠ 1787 J. Beattie Scoticisms 79 We use the word storm to signify a storm of snow, or snowy weather. We even speak of a lying storm. 1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm I. 298 Should the flakes be spicular and fall very thick and fast, then a heavy fall, or a ‘lying storm’..may be expected. lying-wall n. Mining = footwall n. at foot n. and int. Compounds 3. (Raymond Mining Gloss.). ΚΠ 1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 153 Lying-wall, see Foot-wall. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022). lyingadj.² Brit. /ˈlʌɪɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈlaɪɪŋ/ Forms: see lie v.² Etymology: < lie v.² + -ing suffix². 1. Of a person, his lips, etc.: That tells lies. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > [adjective] leasea900 liec975 false?c1225 unsoothfasta1300 untruefulc1380 trothlessa1393 fickle-tongue1393 truthlessa1522 lying1535 fabling1548 forging1593 mendacious1616 soothless1803 storytelling1839 unveracious1845 fabricatory1855 untruthful1858 falsidical1866 leasing1873 inveracious1885 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms cxix. 2 Deliuer my soule (o Lorde) from lyenge lippes. 1594 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 ii. i. 130 Then Sander sit there, the lyingest knaue in Christendom. 1611 Bible (King James) Prov. x. 18 Hee that hideth hatred with lying lippes..is a foole. View more context for this quotation 1612 B. Jonson Alchemist iv. vii. sig. K4 Doe not beleeue him, Sir: He is the lying'st Swabber. View more context for this quotation a1758 A. Ramsay Eagle & Robin 44 With a wickit lieand tung. 1886 W. J. Tucker Life E. Europe 158 A canting, lying, hypocritical set. 2. Of impersonal things: Untruthful, mendacious; hence, deceitful, false. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > [adjective] > of statement, etc.: untrue falsec1175 lyinga1225 truthless1568 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > deception by illusion, delusion > [adjective] lyinga1225 deceptoryc1430 mockinga1529 sleight1533 prestigious?1534 illudinga1547 fallible1552 delusory1588 prestigiatory1588 illusory1599 delusive1607 deceptiousa1616 deludinga1616 flatteringa1616 delusorious1625 fallacious1626 ludificatorya1677 illusive1679 will-o'-the-wisp1682 prestigiating1716 shama1721 false1768 deceptitious1827 deceptional1830 phantasm1834 will-o'-the-wispish1842 will-o'-the-wispy1857 illusionistic1911 illusional1942 a1225 Juliana 2 Ant of þis lihinde lif leade us..into þe eche of heouene. a1340 R. Rolle Psalter i. 4 His worde sall noght..dissayuabile ne leghynge. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Jer. vii. 4 Trust not in false lyenge wordes. 1611 Bible (King James) Psalms xxxi. 6 I haue hated them that regard lying vanities. View more context for this quotation 1718 M. Prior Solomon on Vanity ii, in Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) 456 And slavish bards our mutual loves rehearse In lying strains. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xix. 322 It was much easier..to put forth a lying prospectus. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹?c1225n.²a1300adj.¹c1000adj.²a1225
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