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Be and remain in a particular state or condition
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lying
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Lying , also called recumbency or prostration , or decubitus in medicine (from the Latin verb decumbere ′to lie down′), is a type of human position in which the body is more or less horizontal and supported along its length by the surface underneath. Lying ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 13c., action of lie (v.2) "to recline." Lying-in "being in childbed" is attested from mid-15c.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lying \Ly"ing\, p. pr. & vb. n. of Lie , to be supported horizontally. Lying panel (Arch.), a panel in which the grain of the wood is horizontal. [R.] Lying to (Naut.), having the sails so disposed as to counteract each other.
Usage examples of lying.
Harry, is that if the orders were lying about for all to see, with sailors being the gossips they are then the men aboard any ship in the harbour would soon be appraised of their contents.
To her all the wreckage of the slums, all the woe lying beneath gilded life, all the abominations, all the tortures that remain unknown, were carried.
You got yourself down that mountain and you left Moon on her own, the way you left Aby lying there for the spooks!
The Abies girl was lying there dead and stinking and his face got tight, then he made a little fist as though he was going to yell.
Then I noticed the dust cover for the acuity tester lying on the bench.
Without irrigation, the highest adaptation, all things considered, is found in Washington and Oregon, west of the Cascades, except where shallow soils lying on gravels exist.
It is the same with all other sins, with adultery and whoredom, revenge and hatred, blasphemy and lying.
Thus if one acknowledges that revenge and hatred, adultery and fornication, fraud and deceit, blasphemy and lying are sins against God and yet commits them, he is therefore in the more grievous of this kind of profanation.
They answered that it was the enjoyment of committing adultery, stealing, defrauding and lying.
Was the unfortunate aeronaut slowly bleeding to death, lying there amidst the bushes on that tongue of land?
American bicycle-builders had surpassed the Royal Aeronautical Society, because they flew their crafts themselves, lying prone in their own creations, flying, as it was noted, by the seat of their pants.
The sky was heavy with drifting masses of cloud, aflare with red and gold and all the sunset colours, from the black line of coast, lying in the west, far into the east, where sea and sky were turning gray.
McDermitt was the first SEAL down the hatch of the aft escape trunk after Morris shot the Chinese guard who had been lying in ambush inside.
Ray asked Ake, the two of them sitting in the cockpit nursing drinks with Beowulf and Frodo lying at their feet.
We had turned northward in the night, rounding the lower tip of Alba, and I could see her green coastline lying off our starboard bow, hazy in the distance.