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Things lying scattered about in a manner indicating slovenliness; scattered rubbish. Strephon, who found the room was void. Stole in, and took a strict survey Of all the litter as it lay. Swift.

Lying down; -- used of beasts of the chase, as couchant is of beasts of prey.

That branch of the military art which embraces the details of moving and supplying armies. The meaning of the word is by some writers extended to include strategy. H. L. Scott.

A railway sleeper lying parallel with the rail.

A contrivance, as an oil cup, for supplying a lubricant to machinery.

A subdivision of the British Upper Silurian lying below the Old Red Sandstone; -- so named from the Ludlow, in Western England. See the Chart of Geology.

a lustrous surface, -- used for women's dresses. Luster ware, earthenware decorated by applying to the glazing metallic oxides, which acquire brilliancy in the process of baking.

A fibrous and muscular band lying within the longitudinal axis of the tongue in many mammals, as the dog.

A term of familiar address often implying on the part of the speaker some degree of authority, impatience, or haste; as, Come, man, we 've no time to lose !

The act of process of applying manure; also, the manure applied.

A sandy calcareous straum, containing, or impregnated with, iron, and lying between the upper and lower Lias of England.

A lower stay of rope or chain for the jib boom or flying jib boom, fastened to, or reeved through, the dolphin striker. Also, the dolphin striker itself.

The art of mechanically multiplying copies of a writing, or any work of art.

Situated in the middle; lying in a plane dividing a bilateral animal into right and left halves; -- said of unpaired organs and parts; as, median coverts. Median line. (a) (Anat.) Any line in the mesial plane; specif., either of the lines in which the mesial plane meets the surface of the body. (b) (Geom.) The line dra…

Given to deception or falsehood; lying; as, a mendacious person.

The quality or state of being mendacious; a habit of lying. Macaulay.

hed in various American cities. The duties of those belonging to the order are, to attend lying-in hospitals, to superintend the education of girls, and protect decent women out of employment, to visit prisoners and the sick, and to attend persons condemned to death. -- To be at the mercy of, to be wholly in the power…

Any revolving contrivance for affording amusement; esp., a ring of flying hobbyhorses.

Treatment of disease by applying metallic plates to the surface of the body.

the substance, as of chrysolite to serpentine; -- opposed to ordinary metamorphism, as implying simply a recrystallization. -- Met`a*so*mat"ic, a.