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The act or period of laying eggs; the eggs laid for one incubation; a clutch.

A strong pin in the side of a vessel, or by the mast, round which ropes are wound when they are fastened or belayed.

icks, or of uniting them by cement or mortar into various forms; the act or occupation of laying bricks.

By delays. [R.] Tennyson.

A superficial covering; a coating.

The laying of conducting pipes underground, as for water, gas, etc.

a. & vb. n. of Play. Playing cards. See under Card.

The act or process of laying bare the roots of trees to expose them to the air and water. [Obs.] Evelyn.

The act of playing honor to a divine being; the worship paid to God; the act of addressing as a god. The more immediate objects of popular adoration amongst the heathens were deified human beings. Farmer.

An allaying; that which allays; mitigation. [Obs.] The like allayment could I give my grief. Shak.

To dissect; to cut in pieces, as an animal vegetable body, for the purpose of displaying or examining the structure and use of the several parts.

e water. -- At anchor, anchored. -- To back an anchor, to increase the holding power by laying down a small anchor ahead of that by which the ship rides, with the cable fastened to the crown of the latter to prevent its coming home. -- To cast anchor, to drop or let go an anchor to keep a ship at rest. -- To cat th…

Efficacious in preventing or allaying fever. -- n.

The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb.

A coating or overlaying with silver. [R.] Johnson.

The production of the tones of a chord in rapid succession, as in playing the harp, and not simultaneously; a strain thus played.

of arts. Pope. Four years spent in the arts (as they are called in colleges) is, perhaps, laying too laborious a foundation. Goldsmith.

A remedy capable of allaying organic excitement or irritation. Dunglison.

ch the players, beginning with the dealer, bid for the privilege of naming the trump and playing with the dummy for that deal, there being heavy penalties for a player's failure to make good his bid. The score value of each trick more than six taken by the successful bidder is as follows: when the trump is spades, 2; c…

are determined by throwing dice. Formerly called tables. Backgammon board , a board for playing backgammon, often made in the form of two rectangular trays hinged together, each tray containing two "tables".