Definition of lays

"lays" in the noun sense

1. ballad, lay

a narrative song with a recurrent refrain

2. ballad, lay

a narrative poem of popular origin

"lays" 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 lays

Emulation lays up a grudge. [ Proverb ]

Small rain lays a great dust. [ Proverb ]

Death lays his icy hand on kings. [ Shirley ]

Light is the burden love lays on;
Content and love brings peace and joy,
What mair hae queens upon a throne? [ Burns ]

Every one lays his faults upon the times. [ Proverb ]

Alas for him who never sees
The stars shine through his cypress-trees!
Who, hopeless, lays his dead away,
Nor looks to see the breaking day
Across the mournful marbles play! [ Whittier ]

Blessings be with them, and eternal praise.
Who gave us nobler loves and nobler cares,
The poets, who on earth have made us heirs
Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays. [ Wordsworth ]

He that dines and leaves lays the cloth twice. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Happiness never lays its fingers on its pulse. [ A. Smith ]

Trade hardly deems the busy day begun,
Till his keen eye along the sheet has run;
The blooming daughter throws her needle by.
And reads her schoolmate's marriage with a sigh;
While the grave mother puts her glasses on.
And gives a tear to some old crony gone.
The preacher, too, his Sunday theme lays down,
To know what last new folly fills the town;
Lively or sad, life's meanest, mightiest things.
The fate of fighting cocks, or fighting kings. [ Sprague ]

Scripture, like Nature, lays down no definitions. [ Spinoza ]

Prate is prate, but it is the duck that lays the egg. [ Proverb ]

A fool resents good counsel, but a wise man lays it to heart. [ Confucius ]

He makes a feint at the lungs, but lays his stroke on the head. [ Proverb ]

No burden is really heavy to a man which necessity lays on him.

It is no good hen that cackles in your house, and lays in another's. [ Proverb ]

Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment. [ Charles Lamb ]

Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse. If we attempt to steal a glimpse of its features it disappears. [ Alexander Smith ]

The man that lays his hand on woman, Save in the way of kindness, is a wretch Whom 'twere gross flattery to name a coward. [ Tobin ]

He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations. [ Seneca ]

There is but one misfortune for a man, when some idea lays hold of him which exerts no influence upon his active life, or still more, which withdraws him from it. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

The iron hand of necessity commands, and her stern decree is supreme law, to which the gods even must submit. In deep silence rules the uncounselled sister of eternal fate. Whatever she lays upon thee, endure; perform whatever she commands. [ Goethe ]

Luck is ever waiting for something to turn up. Labor, with keen eyes and strong will, will turn up something. Luck lies in bed, and wishes the postman would bring him the news of a legacy. Labor turns out at six o'clock, and with busy pen or ringing hammer lays the foundation of a competence. Luck whines. Labor whistles. Luck relies on chance. Labor on character. [ Cobden ]

lays in Scrabble®

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

Scrabble® Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters lays:

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All Scrabble® Plays For The Word lays

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lays in Words With Friends™

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

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters lays:

SLAY
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Word Growth involving lays

Shorter words in lays

ay ays

ay lay

la lay

Longer words containing lays

allays

belays

clays claysize claysized

clays claystone claystones

clays fireclays

clays nanoclays

delays

flays

inlays

layshaft layshafts

laystall laystalls

outlays

overlays

parlays

pipelays

plays afterplays

plays airplays

plays byplays

plays counterplays

plays downplays

plays endplays

plays gameplays

plays handplays

plays horseplays

plays interplays

plays nonplays

plays outplays

plays overplays

plays photoplays

plays playschool playschools

plays playscript playscripts

plays playsome playsomely

plays playsome playsomeness

plays playsuit playsuits

plays powerplays

plays replays foreplays

plays roleplays

plays screenplays

plays splays displays redisplays predisplays

plays splays displays undisplays

plays splays misplays

plays stageplays

plays underplays

plays unplays gunplays

plays wordplays swordplays

relays forelays

relays photorelays

slays mislays

underlays

waylays