To exhibit; to present or offer; as, to lay an indictment in a particular county. LAY.

To prostrate; to slay. LAY. The leaders first he laid along. LAY.

To depress and lose sight of, by sailing or departing from; as, to lay the land; a seaman’s phrase. LAY.

To station; to set; as, to lay an ambush. LAY.

To contrive; to scheme; to plan. LAY. To lay a cable, to twist or unite the strands. LAY. To lay apart, to put away; to reject. LAY. Lay apart all filthiness. James 1:21. LAY.

To lay aside, to put off or away; not to retain. LAY. Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin that doth so easily beset us. Hebrews 12:1. LAY.

To discontinue; as, to lay aside the use of any thing.