lying
lying is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.of Lie, to tell a falsehood.
- 2.of Lie, to be supported horizontally. 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.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- abuse
- accubation
- accumbent
- adown
- all
- alluvial
- area
- away
- azimuth
- back
- bad
- basement
- beam
- below
- beneath
- bilge
- billiard
- bowling
- butte
- calm
- catachresis
- cellar
- coloring
- concave
- construction
- couch
- couchant
- cricket
- croquet
- cross
- cross-reading
- crouch
- crouched
- dead
- debased
- debasement
- decumbence
- decumbency
- decumbent
- depress
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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