The wind is loud and will not lie.
Shak.
7. (Law) To be sustainable; to be capable of being maintained. "An
appeal lies in this case." Parsons.
Through ignorance or carelessness speakers and writers often confuse
the forms of the two distinct verbs lay and lie. Lay is a transitive
verb, and has for its preterit laid; as, he told me to lay it down, and
I laid it down. Lie is intransitive, and has for its preterit lay; as,
he told me to lie down, and I lay down. Some persons blunder by using
laid for the preterit of lie; as, he told me to lie down, and I laid
down. So persons often say incorrectly, the ship laid at anchor; they
laid by during the storm; the book was laying on the shelf, etc. It is
only necessary to remember, in all such cases, that laid is the
preterit of lay, and not of lie.
To lie along the shore (Naut.), to coast, keeping land in sight. -- To
lie at the door of, to be imputable to; as, the sin, blame, etc., lies
at your door. -- To lie at the heart, to be an object of affection,
desire, or anxiety. Sir W. Temple. -- To lie at the mercy of, to be in
the power of. -- To lie by. (a) To remain with; to be at hand; as, he
has the manuscript lying by him. (b) To rest; to intermit labor; as, we
lay by during the heat of the day. -- To lie hard or heavy, to press or
weigh; to bear hard. -- To lie in, to be in childbed; to bring forth
young. -- To lie in one, to be in the power of; to belong to. "As much
as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men." Rom. xii. 18. -- To lie
in the way, to be an obstacle or impediment. -- To lie in wait , to
wait in concealment; to lie in ambush. -- To lie on or upon. (a) To
depend on; as, his life lies on the result. (b) To bear, rest, press,
or weigh on. -- To lie low, to remain in concealment or inactive.
[Slang] -- To lie on hand, To lie on one's hands, to remain unsold or
unused; as, the goods are still lying on his hands; they have too much
time lying on their hands. -- To lie on the head of, to be imputed to.
What he gets more of her than sharp words, let it lie on my head.
Shak.
-- To lie over. (a) To remain unpaid after the time when payment is
due, as a note in bank. (b) To be deferred to some future occasion, as
a resolution in a public deliberative body. -- To lie to (Naut.), to
stop or delay; especially, to head as near the wind as possible as
being the position of greatest safety in a gale; -- said of a ship. Cf.
To bring to, under Bring. -- To lie under, to be subject to; to suffer;
to be oppressed by. -- To lie with. (a) To lodge or sleep with. (b) To
have sexual intercourse with. (c) To belong to; as, it lies with you to
make amends.
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Lie (l), n. The position or way in which anything lies; the lay, as of
land or country. J. H. Newman.
He surveyed with his own eyes . . . the lie of the country on the
side towards Thrace.
Jowett (Thucyd.).
Lie"ber*kühn (l"br*kn), n. [Named after a German physician and
instrument maker, J. N. Lieberkühn.] (Optics) A concave metallic mirror
attached to the object-glass end of a microscope, to throw down light
on opaque objects; a reflector.
Lie"ber*kühn's glands` (l"br*knz glndz`). [See Lieberkühn.] (Anat.) The
simple tubular glands of the small intestines; -- called also crypts of
Lieberkühn.
||Lied (lt), n.; pl. Lieder (l"dr). [G.] (Mus.) A lay; a German song.
||It differs from the French chanson, and the Italian canzone, all
||three being national.
||
The German Lied is perhaps the most faithful reflection of the
national sentiment.
Grove.
||Lie"der*ta`fel (l"dr*tä`f'l), n. [G., lit., a song table.] (Mus.) A
||popular name for any society or club which meets for the practice of
||male part songs.
||
Lief (lf), n. Same as Lif.
Lief (lf), a. [Written also lieve.] [OE. leef, lef, leof, AS. leóf;
akin to OS. liof, OFries. liaf, D. lief, G. lieb, OHG. liob, Icel.
ljfr, Sw. ljuf, Goth. liubs, and E. love. √124. See Love, and cf.
Believe, Leave, n., Furlough, Libidinous.] 1. Dear; beloved. [Obs.,
except in poetry.] "My liefe mother." Chaucer. "My liefest liege."
Shak.
As thou art lief and dear.
Tennyson.
2. (Used with a form of the verb to be, and the dative of the personal
pronoun.) Pleasing; agreeable; acceptable; preferable. [Obs.] See Lief,
adv., and Had as lief, under Had.
Full lief me were this counsel for to hide.
Chaucer.
Death me liefer were than such despite.
Spenser.