Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To store; to put by. 2 (context transitive English) To disable. 3 (context transitive English) To take out of active service. 4 (context intransitive English) To go out of active service. 5 (context transitive basketball English) To make a layup with (a basketball)
WordNet
v. disable or confine, as with an illness; "She was laid up with pneumonia for six weeks"
Usage examples of "lay up".
It was a humane act, placed, as it were, to the account of his brother, one of the little stock of good works which he determined to lay up for him beforehand, in case the young rogue should some day run short of that kind of coin, the only one taken at the toll-gate of Paradise.
For they do not deserve even the healing medicine of purgatory, who in their hardness of heart and impenitence are beyond the reach of any earthly correction, and lay up to themselves anger and vengeance in that day of wrath and revelation of the Just Judgement, when their worm shall not die.
In your day, men were bound to lay up goods and money against coming failure of the means of support and for their children.
Moses, Thy servant, Thy great and especial friend, made an ark of incorruptible wood, which also he covered with purest gold, that he might lay up in it the tables of the law, and I, a corruptible creature, shall I dare thus easily to receive Thee, the Maker of the Law and the Giver of life?
I will lay up a little money, and then I will deal with these gentlemen as if they were so many Cerberi.
Now most persons in this category supply themselves with information, as peddlers do with goods, for the benefit of others, and lay up stores in order to diffuse them abroad for the benefit of society in general.
Whether her body lay up or down or sideways from her, she did not know —.
I've used the demonstrator to lay up a huge supply of cigarettes for him.
If they did, he would have time to finish his book, and Susy to lay up a little interest on their wedding cheques.