Definition of laying

"laying" in the noun sense

1. laying, egg laying

the production of eggs (especially in birds)

"laying" in the verb sense

1. put, set, place, pose, position, lay

put into a certain place or abstract location

"Put your things here"

"Set the tray down"

"Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"

"Place emphasis on a certain point"

2. lay, put down, repose

put in a horizontal position

"lay the books on the table"

"lay the patient carefully onto the bed"

3. lay

prepare or position for action or operation

"lay a fire"

"lay the foundation for a new health care plan"

4. lay

lay eggs

"This hen doesn't lay"

5. lay

impose as a duty, burden, or punishment

"lay a responsibility on someone"

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Quotations for laying

And, as she looked around, she saw how Death, the consoler,
Laying his hand upon many a heart, had healed it forever. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

It is a foolish bird that stays the laying salt upon her tail. [ Proverb ]

It is the work of a philosopher to be every day subduing his passions and laying aside his prejudices. [ Addison ]

There are but two ways of paying debt: increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out. [ Carlyle ]

Truth is a stronghold, and diligence is laying siege to it; so that it must observe all the avenues and passes to it. [ South ]

There is one way whereby we may secure our riches, and make sure friends to ourselves of them, - by laying them out in charity. [ Tillotson ]

Seamen have a custom when they meet a whale to fling out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert him from laying violent hands upon the ship. [ Swift ]

Talking is like playing the harp. There is as much in laying the hand on the strings to stop their vibrations as in twanging them to bring out the music. [ Holmes ]

Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment placing its victim naked on a bed of briars and bristles, thinly covered with rose-leaves, adorning his brow with a crown of gold, which burns into his brain; teasing, and fretting, and riddling him through and through with incessant discharges of hot shot from a masked battery; laying bare the most sensitive and shrinking nerves of his mind, and then blandly touching them with ice, or smilingly pricking them with needles. [ E. P. Whipple ]

laying in Scrabble®

The word laying is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters laying:

LAYING
(42)
GAINLY
(42)
 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word laying

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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In laying

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laying in Words With Friends™

The word laying is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 12

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters laying:

LAYING
(66)
GAINLY
(66)
 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word laying

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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In laying

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Words within the letters of laying

2 letter words in laying (7 words)

3 letter words in laying (11 words)

4 letter words in laying (9 words)

5 letter words in laying (4 words)

6 letter words in laying (Anagrams) (2 words)

Word Growth involving laying

Shorter words in laying

ay ayin

in yin ayin

ay lay

la lay

Longer words containing laying

allaying

belaying

blocklaying

bricklaying

delaying nondelaying

egglaying

flaying

inlaying inlayings

minelaying

nonlaying

outlaying

overlaying overlayings

parlaying

pipelaying

playing cardplaying

playing counterplaying

playing downplaying

playing endplaying

playing interplaying

playing nonplaying

playing outplaying

playing overplaying

playing playingly

playing playings

playing replaying

playing roleplaying

playing splaying displaying redisplaying predisplaying

playing splaying displaying undisplaying

playing splaying misplaying

playing underplaying

playing unplaying

relaying forelaying

ropelaying

slaying manslaying

slaying mislaying

slaying slayings

stonelaying

tracklaying tracklayings

underlaying

waylaying