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To lay again; to lay a second time; as, to relay a pavement.

In a variable expansion central-valve engine, a small auxiliary engine for automatically adjusting the steam distribution to the load on the main engine. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

A speed regulator, as a water-wheel governor, embodying the relay principle. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

To lay down beforehand. These grounds being forelaid and understood. Mede.

rt lines, with a refrain. Of such matter made he many lays, Songs, complains, roundels, virelayes. Chaucer. To which a lady sung a virelay. Dryden.

c reproducer for a phonograph, controlled by the recording stylus on the principle of the relay. It produces much clearer and louder tones than does the ordinary vibrating disk reproducer.

ow, a traveler's rest-house at the and of a dak stage. -- To travel by dak, to travel by relays of palanquines or other carriage, as fast as the post along a road.

To lie in front of. [Obs.] Which forelay Athwart her snowy breast. Spenser.

idly, with as little delay as possible. -- To travel post, to travel, as a post does, by relays of horses, or by keeping one carriage to which fresh horses are attached at each stopping place.

A house established for the convenience of the post, where relays of horses can be obtained.

imp. & p. p. of Relay.

post, or from the performance of duty, by the intervention of others, by discharge, or by relay; as, a relief of a sentry. For this relief much thanks; ;tis bitter cold. Shak.

A relay apparatus; specif.:

e of rest on a regularly traveled road; a stage house; a station; a place appointed for a relay of horses.

A house where a stage regularly stops for passengers or a relay of horses.

ed of another antenna in circuit with a coherer and small battery for operating through a relay the ordinary telegraphic receiver. This apparatus contains the essential features of all the systems now in use. -- Wireless telephone, an apparatus or contrivance for wireless telephony. --Wireless telephony, telephony with…