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Lie (l&ī;), n. See Lye.
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Lie (l&ī;), n. [AS. lyge; akin to D. leugen, OHG. lugi, G. l&ü;ge, lug, Icel. lygi, Dan. & Sw. l&ö;gn, Goth. liugn. See Lie to utter a falsehood.] 1. A falsehood uttered or acted for the purpose of deception; an intentional violation of truth; an untruth spoken with the intention to deceive.
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The proper notion of a lie is an endeavoring to deceive another by signifying that to him as true, which we ourselves think not to be so.
S. Clarke.
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It is willful deceit that makes a lie. A man may act a lie, as by pointing his finger in a wrong direction when a traveler inquires of him his road.
Paley.
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2. A fiction; a fable; an untruth. Dryden.
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3. Anything which misleads or disappoints.
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Wishing this lie of life was o'er.
Trench.
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To give the lie to. (a) To charge with falsehood; as, the man gave him the lie. (b) To reveal to be false; as, a man's actions may give the lie to his words. -- White lie, a euphemism for such lies as one finds it convenient to tell, and excuses himself for telling.
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Syn. -- Untruth; falsehood; fiction; deception. -- Lie, Untruth. A man may state what is untrue from ignorance or misconception; hence, to impute an untruth to one is not necessarily the same as charging him with a lie. Every lie is an untruth, but not every untruth is a lie. Cf. Falsity.
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Lie, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lied (l&ī;d); p. pr. & vb. n. Lying (l&ī;"ĭng).] [OE. lien, li&yogh_;en, le&yogh_;en, leo&yogh_;en, AS. leógan; akin to D. liegen, OS. & OHG. liogan, G. l&ü;gen, Icel. lj&ū;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.
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Lie, v. i. [imp. Lay (l&ā;); p. p. Lain (l&ā;n), (Lien (l&ī;"ĕn), 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.
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The watchful traveler . . .
Lay down again, and closed his weary eyes.
Dryden.
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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.
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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.
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4. To be or exist; to belong or pertain; to have an abiding place; to consist; -- with in.
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Envy lies between beings equal in nature, though unequal in circumstances.
Collier.
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He that thinks that diversion may not lie in hard labor, forgets the early rising and hard riding of huntsmen.
Locke.
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5. To lodge; to sleep.
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Whiles I was now trifling at home, I saw London, . . . where I lay one night only.
Evelyn.
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Mr. Quinion lay at our house that night.
Dickens.
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6. To be still or quiet, like one lying down to rest.
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The wind is loud and will not lie.
Shak.
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7. (Law) To be sustainable; to be capable of being maintained. “An appeal lies in this case.” Parsons.
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&hand_; 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.
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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.
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Lie (l&ī;), n. The position or way in which anything lies; the lay, as of land or country. J. H. Newman.
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He surveyed with his own eyes . . . the lie of the country on the side towards Thrace.
Jowett (Thucyd.).
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