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Of or pertaining to the laity, as distinct from the clergy; as, a lay person; a lay preacher; a lay brother.

A layman authorized to read parts of the public service of the church.

A secondary shaft, as in a sliding change gear for an automobile; a cam shaft operated by a two-to-one gear in an internal- combustion engine. It is generally a shaft moving more or less independently of the other parts of a machine, as, in some marine engines, a shaft, driven by a small auxiliary engine, for independe…

One who, or that which, lays.

A propagating by layers. Gardner.

The outfit of clothing, blankets, etc., prepared for a newborn infant, and placed ready for used.

The act of one who, or that which, lays.

Land lying untilled; fallow ground. [Obs.] Blount.

n not belonging to some particular profession, in distinction from those who do. Being a layman, I ought not to have concerned myself with speculations which belong to the profession. Dryden.

A whiplash. [Obs.]

The condition of being a layman. [Obs.] Milton.

lace where rubbish, dung, etc., are laid or deposited.[Obs.] B. Jonson. Smithfield was a laystall of all ordure and filth. Bacon.

At least; at all events. [Colloq.] At leastways, or At leastwise, at least. [Obs.] Fuller.

The lateral movement of a ship to the leeward of her course; drift.

Rays emanating from the outer surface of a plate composed of any material permeable by cathode rays, as aluminium, which forms a portion of a wall of a vacuum tube, or which is mounted within the tube and exposed to radiation from the cathode. Lenard rays are similar in all their known properties to cathode rays. So ca…

In the direction of the length; in a longitudinal direction.

Lengthwise. Addison.

The stay extending from the foot of the foremast to the maintop.

The fresh-water drumfish (Haploidonotus grunniens).

One of a race of a brown or copper complexion in the Malay Peninsula and the western islands of the Indian Archipelago.