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the his enemies." Milton. -- To think scorn. (a) To disdain. [Obs.] "He thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone." Esther iii. 6. (b) To feel indignation. [Obs.]

ugh; as, a through bridge. Through bolt, a bolt which passes through all the thickness or layers of that which it fastens, or in which it is fixed. -- Through bridge, a bridge in which the floor is supported by the lower chords of the tissues instead of the upper, so that travel is between the trusses and not over the…

back, as a reply. (b) To reject; to refuse. (c) To reflect, as light. -- To throw by, to lay aside; to discard; to neglect as useless; as, to throw by a garment. -- To throw down, to subvert; to overthrow; to destroy; as, to throw down a fence or wall. -- To throw in. (a) To inject, as a fluid. (b) To put in; to dep…

A California composite plant (Layia platyglossa), the flower of which has yellow rays tipped with white.

A kind of laminated shale or sandstone belonging to some of the layers of the Upper Silurian.

To beat thoroughly or severely. [Obs.] Layamon.

A cover of a top layer or part. [Colloq.]

The upper layer of soil; surface soil.

To strike; to manipulate; to play on; as, to touch an instrument of music. [They] touched their golden harps. Milton.

onable about the end of the seventeenth century and until 1715; also, any high headdress. Lay trains of amorous intrigues In towers, and curls, and periwigs. Hudibras.

own; as, the town voted to send two representatives to the legislature; the town voted to lay a tax for repairing the highways.

workman engaged in work involved in putting the track in place. [U. S. & Canada] -- Track"lay`ing, n.

To tread down, as grass, by walking through it; to lay flat. Longfellow.

A crossbeam; a lay of joists. Maundrell.

To lay in a cross direction; to cross. The parts should be often traversed, or crossed, by the flowing of the folds. Dryden.

To collect and deposit, as money or other valuable things, for future use; to lay up; to hoard; usually with up; as, to treasure up gold.

e swallow (Zoöl.), any one of several species of swallows of the genus Hylochelidon which lay their eggs in holes in dead trees. They inhabit Australia and adjacent regions. Called also martin in Australia. -- Tree swift (Zoöl.), any one of several species of swifts of the genus Dendrochelidon which inhabit the East I…

A genus of large hymenopterous insects allied to the sawflies. The female lays her eggs in holes which she bores in the trunks of trees with her large and long ovipositor, and the larva bores in the wood. See Illust. of Horntail.

A snare; a trapan. Snares and trepans that common life lays in its way. South.

A grandfather's grandfather. [Obs.] Writ of tresayle (O. Eng. Law), a writ which lay for a man claiming as heir to his grandfather's grandfather, to recover lands of which he had been deprived by an abatement happening on the ancestor's death. Mozley & W.