'Lying' definitions:
Definition of 'lying'
From: WordNet
noun
The deliberate act of deviating from the truth [syn: lying, prevarication, fabrication]
Definition of 'Lying'
From: GCIDE
- Lie \Lie\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lied (l[imac]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Lying (l[imac]"[i^]ng).] [OE. lien, li[yogh]en, le[yogh]en, leo[yogh]en, AS. le['o]gan; akin to D. liegen, OS. & OHG. liogan, G. l["u]gen, Icel. lj[=u]ga, Sw. ljuga, Dan. lyve, Goth. liugan, Russ. lgate.] To utter falsehood with an intention to deceive; to say or do that which is intended to deceive another, when he a right to know the truth, or when morality requires a just representation. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Lying'
From: GCIDE
- Lie \Lie\, v. i. [imp. Lay (l[=a]); p. p. Lain (l[=a]n), (Lien (l[imac]"[e^]n), Obs.); p. pr. & vb. n. Lying.] [OE. lien, liggen, AS. licgan; akin to D. liggen, OHG. ligen, licken, G. liegen, Icel. liggja, Sw. ligga, Dan. ligge, Goth. ligan, Russ. lejate, L. lectus bed, Gr. le`chos bed, le`xasqai to lie. Cf. Lair, Law, Lay, v. t., Litter, Low, adj.]
- 1. To rest extended on the ground, a bed, or any support; to be, or to put one's self, in an horizontal position, or nearly so; to be prostate; to be stretched out; -- often with down, when predicated of living creatures; as, the book lies on the table; the snow lies on the roof; he lies in his coffin. [1913 Webster]
- The watchful traveler . . . Lay down again, and closed his weary eyes. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To be situated; to occupy a certain place; as, Ireland lies west of England; the meadows lie along the river; the ship lay in port. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To abide; to remain for a longer or shorter time; to be in a certain state or condition; as, to lie waste; to lie fallow; to lie open; to lie hid; to lie grieving; to lie under one's displeasure; to lie at the mercy of the waves; the paper does not lie smooth on the wall. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To be or exist; to belong or pertain; to have an abiding place; to consist; -- with in. [1913 Webster]
- Envy lies between beings equal in nature, though unequal in circumstances. --Collier. [1913 Webster]
- He that thinks that diversion may not lie in hard labor, forgets the early rising and hard riding of huntsmen. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To lodge; to sleep. [1913 Webster]
- Whiles I was now trifling at home, I saw London, . . . where I lay one night only. --Evelyn. [1913 Webster]
- Mr. Quinion lay at our house that night. --Dickens. [1913 Webster]
- 6. To be still or quiet, like one lying down to rest. [1913 Webster]
- The wind is loud and will not lie. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 7. (Law) To be sustainable; to be capable of being maintained. "An appeal lies in this case." --Parsons. [1913 Webster]
- Note: Through ignorance or carelessness speakers and writers often confuse the forms of the two distinct verbs lay and lie. Lay is a transitive verb, and has for its preterit laid; as, he told me to lay it down, and I laid it down. Lie is intransitive, and has for its preterit lay; as, he told me to lie down, and I lay down. Some persons blunder by using laid for the preterit of lie; as, he told me to lie down, and I laid down. So persons often say incorrectly, the ship laid at anchor; they laid by during the storm; the book was laying on the shelf, etc. It is only necessary to remember, in all such cases, that laid is the preterit of lay, and not of lie. [1913 Webster]
- To lie along the shore (Naut.), to coast, keeping land in sight.
- To lie at the door of, to be imputable to; as, the sin, blame, etc., lies at your door.
- To lie at the heart, to be an object of affection, desire, or anxiety. --Sir W. Temple.
- To lie at the mercy of, to be in the power of.
- To lie by. (a) To remain with; to be at hand; as, he has the manuscript lying by him. (b) To rest; to intermit labor; as, we lay by during the heat of the day.
- To lie hard or To lie heavy, to press or weigh; to bear hard.
- To lie in, to be in childbed; to bring forth young.
- To lie in one, to be in the power of; to belong to. "As much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men." --Rom. xii. 18.
- To lie in the way, to be an obstacle or impediment.
- To lie in wait, to wait in concealment; to lie in ambush.
- To lie on or To lie upon. (a) To depend on; as, his life lies on the result. (b) To bear, rest, press, or weigh on.
- To lie low, to remain in concealment or inactive. [Slang]
- To lie on hand,
- To lie on one's hands, to remain unsold or unused; as, the goods are still lying on his hands; they have too much time lying on their hands.
- To lie on the head of, to be imputed to. [1913 Webster]
- What he gets more of her than sharp words, let it lie on my head. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- To lie over. (a) To remain unpaid after the time when payment is due, as a note in bank. (b) To be deferred to some future occasion, as a resolution in a public deliberative body.
- To lie to (Naut.), to stop or delay; especially, to head as near the wind as possible as being the position of greatest safety in a gale; -- said of a ship. Cf. {To bring to}, under Bring.
- To lie under, to be subject to; to suffer; to be oppressed by.
- To lie with. (a) To lodge or sleep with. (b) To have sexual intercourse with. (c) To belong to; as, it lies with you to make amends. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Lying'
From: GCIDE
- Lying \Ly"ing\, p. pr. & vb. n. of Lie, to tell a falsehood. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Lying'
From: GCIDE
- Lying \Ly"ing\, p. pr. & vb. n. of Lie, to be supported horizontally. [1913 Webster]
- Lying panel (Arch.), a panel in which the grain of the wood is horizontal. [R.]
- Lying to (Naut.), having the sails so disposed as to counteract each other. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'lying'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accubation,
- accumbency,
- accumbent,
- couchancy,
- couchant,
- couche,
- crawling,
- credibility gap,
- debasement,
- deceit,
- deceitful,
- deceptive,
- decumbency,
- decumbent,
- delusive,
- delusory,
- depression,
- dishonest,
- dishonesty,
- draped,
- duplicitous,
- duplicity,
- equivocal,
- false,
- falsehood,
- falsification,
- fibbery,
- fibbing,
- flat,
- forsworn,
- groveling,
- hypocritical,
- knavish,
- loll,
- lolling,
- lounging,
- lowness,
- lying down,
- mendacious,
- mendaciousness,
- mendacity,
- misleading,
- mythomania,
- perfidious,
- perjured,
- perjury,
- prevaricating,
- prevarication,
- procumbent,
- prone,
- proneness,
- prostrate,
- prostration,
- pseudology,
- reclination,
- reclining,
- recumbency,
- recumbent,
- repose,
- reposing,
- resupine,
- roguish,
- shifty,
- shortness,
- sprawl,
- sprawled,
- sprawling,
- spread,
- squatness,
- squattiness,
- stumpiness,
- subjacency,
- supine,
- supineness,
- treacherous,
- truthless,
- truthlessness,
- untruthful,
- untruthfulness,
- unveracious,
- unveraciousness,
- wrong
Words containing 'Lying'
- Lie,
- Lied,
- Lying to,
- To lie by,
- To lie in,
- To lie on,
- To lie over,
- To lie to,
- To lie under,
- To lie with,
- lie about,
- lie down,
- lie in,
- lie on,
- lie with,
- Father of lies,
- Lying panel,
- Lying-in,
- To give the lie to,
- To lie at the door of,
- To lie at the heart,
- To lie at the mercy of,
- To lie hard,
- To lie heavy,
- To lie in a nutshell,
- To lie in one,
- To lie in the way,
- To lie in wait,
- To lie low,
- To lie on hand,
- To lie on the head of,
- To lie upon,
- To nail a lie,
- White lie,
- lie around,
- lie awake,
- lie detector,
- lie dormant,
- lie in wait,
- lie low,
- lie-in,
- lying in wait,
- lying under oath,
- take lying down,
- trygve lie,
- To lie along the shore,
- To lie at one's door,
- To lie in one's throat,
- To lie on one's back,
- To lie on one's hands,
- lie-abed,
- low-lying,
- trygve halvden lie,
- Love-lies-bleeding,
- To give one the lie in his throat