verb

• (transitive)
  "to lay a book on the table; to lay a body in the grave"
• (transitive)
  "The cloudes, as things affrayd, before him flye; / But all so soone as his outrageous powre / Is layd, they fiercely then begin to shoure […]"
• (transitive)
  "Even when I lay a long plan, it is never in the expectation that I will live to see it fulfilled."
• (transitive)
  "lay brick; lay flooring"

noun

• (colloquial) A casual sexual partner.
  "Over the years she'd tried to tell himself that his uptown girl was just another lay."
• (colloquial) An act of sexual intercourse.
  "Listening to this dismissal of his work, [Tennessee] Williams thought to himself of Wilder, “This character has never had a good lay.”"
• (slang, archaic) A place or activity where someone spends a significant portion of their time.
  "I shall be on that lay nae mair"
• (obsolete) A layer.
  "[…] lay in the bottom of an earthen pot some dried vine leaves, and so make a lay of Pears, and leaves till the pot is filled up, laying betwixt each lay some sliced Ginger […]"

adj

• (card games) Not trumps.
  "a lay suit"
• (obsolete) Not educated or cultivated; ignorant.

noun

• (obsolete) A meadow; a lea.
  "Having destroyed all old lays, I have no other hay than clover."