layst

Verb

lie (third-person singular simple present lies, present participle lying, simple past lay or (colloquial) laid, past participle lain or (colloquial) laid or (obsolete) lien)

1. (intransitive) To rest in a horizontal position on a surface.
   • The book lies on the table; the snow lies on the roof; he lies in his coffin.
2. (intransitive) To be placed or situated.
   • Ying-yang county lies 70 li southwest of the modern Teng-feng county, Honan.1988, Robin D. S. Yates, “Selected Translations”, in Washing Silk: The Life and Selected Poetry of Wei Chuang (834?-910), Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 100
3. (copulative, intransitive) To abide; to remain for a longer or shorter time; to be in a certain state or condition.
   • to lie waste; to lie fallow; to lie open; to lie hidden; to lie grieving; to lie under one's displeasure; to lie at the mercy of the waves
4. Used with in: to be or exist; to belong or pertain; to have an abiding place; to consist.
   • Envy lies between beings equal in nature, though unequal in circumstances.c. 1690, Jeremy Collier, Of Envy
5. Used with with: to have sexual relations with.
   • And it came to passe after these things, that his masters wife cast her eyes vpon Ioseph, and shee said, Lie with me.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 39:7
6. Used with on/upon: to be incumbent (on); to be the responsibility of a person.

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