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Laid

adjective

Set down according to a plan:. Synonym: set. "Stones laid in a pattern"

Lay

verb

(past & past part. laid; pres. part. laying)

Put into a certain place or abstract location. Synonyms: place, pose, position, put, set. "Set the tray down" , "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children" , "Place emphasis on a certain point"

Put in a horizontal position. Synonyms: put down, repose. "Lay the patient carefully onto the bed"

Prepare or position for action or operation. "Lay the foundation for a new health care plan"

Lay eggs.

Impose as a duty, burden, or punishment.

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"Laid" Quotes from Famous Books

... wharf, after the shouts of welcome had died away, Roddy inquired anxiously: "As you made the harbor, Peter, did you notice any red and black buoys? Those are my buoys. I put them there—myself. And I laid out that entire channel you came in ...

— The White Mice • Richard Harding Davis

... laid in a quince plantation, and the quinces of the chorus are discovered at curtain rise picking the luscious fruit. There is a naval vessel in the harbor. This was put in so the tenor could wear his ...

— The Sorrows of a Show Girl • Kenneth McGaffey

... sort of forest home. It is made by erecting two poles, six to seven feet in height, and about six to eight feet apart. In back of these, at a distance of some six feet, are placed two more poles about one-half the height of the first pair. Four poles are laid on the tops of these, secured by cutting a cleft in the tops, and laid so as to form the frame work for the roof of the lean-to. The next step in the building of such a habitation is to lay poles at an interval of a foot or a foot and a half along the roof part ...

— The Ranger Boys and the Border Smugglers • Claude A. Labelle

... specimens of curious works in arts and manufacture have already been laid before the committee of this establishment; the opening of which will take ...

— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. - Volume 13, No. 359, Saturday, March 7, 1829. • Various

... well contrived that there are probably not many boys who would not, under such circumstances, have fallen into the snare so adroitly laid for them and been ruined; but Peter escaped it. Whether it was from the influence of the counsels and instructions of his former governor, or from his own native good sense, or from both combined, he resisted the temptations that were laid before him, and, instead ...

— Peter the Great • Jacob Abbott

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