Lie

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun ·see Lye.

II. Lie ·noun Anything which misleads or disappoints.

III. Lie ·adj To be still or quiet, like one lying down to rest.

IV. Lie ·noun A fiction; a fable; an Untruth.

V. Lie ·adj To be sustainable; to be capable of being maintained.

VI. Lie ·adj To Lodge; to Sleep.

VII. Lie ·noun The position or way in which anything lies; the lay, as of land or country.

VIII. Lie ·adj To be or exist; to belong or pertain; to have an abiding place; to Consist;

— with in.

IX. Lie ·adj To be situated; to occupy a certain place; as, Ireland lies west of England; the meadows lie along the river; the ship lay in port.

X. Lie ·noun A falsehood uttered or acted for the purpose of deception; an intentional violation of truth; an untruth spoken with the intention to deceive.

XI. Lie ·vi To utter falsehood with an intention to deceive; to say or do that which is intended to deceive another, when he a right to know the truth, or when morality requires a just representation.

XII. Lie ·adj To Abide; to remain for a longer or shorter time; to be in a certain state or condition; as, to lie waste; to lie fallow; to lie open; to lie hid; to lie grieving; to lie under one's displeasure; to lie at the mercy of the waves; the paper does not lie smooth on the wall.

XIII. Lie ·adj To rest extended on the ground, a bed, or any support; to be, or to put one's self, in an horizontal position, or nearly so; to be prostate; to be stretched out;

— often with down, when predicated of living creatures; as, the book lies on the table; the snow lies on the roof; he lies in his coffin.

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