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An anagram for anil
Answer for the clue "An anagram for anil ", 4 letters:
lain
Alternative clues for the word lain
Word definitions for lain in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
past participle of lie (v.2).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lie \Lie\, v. i. [imp. Lay (l[=a]); p. p. Lain (l[=a]n), ( Lien (l[imac]"[e^]n), Obs.); p. pr. & vb. n. Lying .] [OE. lien, liggen, AS. licgan; akin to D. liggen, OHG. ligen, licken, G. liegen, Icel. liggja, Sw. ligga, Dan. ligge, Goth. ligan, Russ. lejate, ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB down ▪ He would have lain down and been rolled over and that is why he must never be Prime Minister. ▪ She had passed out there-or perhaps just lain down and drifted into sleep. ▪ He had come in at the door, he had lain ...
Usage examples of lain.
The dog had found the rumored spring beneath the tower and had lain beside it, lapping at the cool water to stay alive.
Diamonique earrings the size of caramels, plus the gold chains Uant Lain is going to buy us to make up for not being first with the rings.
I have always considered Deirdre my spouse though I have not lain with her until tonight.
I wanted Curyll more now than the day we had lain together by the faery pool.
Soli had taught him the art of counting, but he could not count the number of Old Ones who had lain here before him because it would be unseemly to count the spirits of dead men as one did pebbles or shells by the sea.
Twelve times before he had lain thus, with his belly trembling beneath the water, waiting for the computer to fire his quiescent nerves with information.
He might have lain back and floated in his tank, waiting for hours or moments or days, waiting endlessly as Haidar and Three-Fingered Soli and the other men of the Devaki tribe had once taught him to wait.
It brought to him the memory of his passage into manhood when he had lain beneath the stars and learned to go beyond pain and death.
And she, the hussy, had lain with him in the hay, given herself to him, made him think it mattered to her.
Beardsley had lain was empty, with no more than a patch of flattened grass to testify that she had ever been there.
He had lain flat on the floor with the baby and the cat, grinning up at her, which made it easier for her to look down her nose at him.
Jeannie that had kept lain from fighting when the redcoats had taken them.
Wentworth had used the threat of the gallows to coerce him into fighting this bloody war, the MacKinnon name had lain under a shadow, and the farm had languished in neglect.
And as she drifted to sleep, she realized lain had somehow managed to bear her on his back all day yesterday and row a boat all through the night.
Abenaki in particular hate and fear lain MacKinnon like the Romans hated and feared Hannibal.