Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • An obsolete or dialectal form of lie.
  • noun Nautical, a combination fish-hook and sinker.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb Obs. or Scot. To recline; to lie still.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb intransitive To lie; be in a prostrate or recumbent position.
  • verb transitive To lay.

Etymologies

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From Middle English liggen, from Old English licgan ("to lie, be situated, be at rest, remain") and Old Norse liggja ("to lie"). More at lie.

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Examples

  • The Lakers have become known as the lig's most elite finesse team, while Houston is full of bullies and bruisers.

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  • The Lakers have become known as the lig's most elite finesse team, while Houston is full of bullies and bruisers.

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  • There is a tall plant with small purple flowers growing by waters, thence and from tlie shape of die leaves called water betony, but it has none of the virtues of this plant; it is a kind of lig-wort, and possc«cs tlie virtues of that plant, but in an infeiipr jcgrcc.

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  • Though his face was more or less human, his pupils were unnaturally wide and round in the dim lig ht of the pavilion, and his eyes glittered with the nocturnal brightness of a cat's.

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  • He'd given Aari a mental suggestion that acted as a lig ht sedative, and left him food and drink.

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  • It was a symphony that I knew real horrorshow but had not slooshied for many a year, namely the Symphony Number Three of the Danish veck Otto Skade - lig, a very gromky and violent piece, especially in the first movement, which was what was playing now.

    Where's the show? John Myles Aavedal 2010

  • Gesien in die lig van die beoogde versnelde grondherworming, sal die befondsing van sodanige bystand aan nuwe boere in die toekoms ooreenstemmend moet toeneem.

    African National Congress Parliamentary Caucus 2007

  • Naturally, I snapped at the chance to lig the event, which was timed to coincide with the release of the magazine's "Hot 100" of 2007's hippest and most happening, and sounded like it should therefore be fairly ligworthy.

    Archive 2007-12-01 Hal Duncan 2007

  • Naturally, I snapped at the chance to lig the event, which was timed to coincide with the release of the magazine's "Hot 100" of 2007's hippest and most happening, and sounded like it should therefore be fairly ligworthy.

    N-n-n-n-n-n-nineteen! Hal Duncan 2007

  • Maç Siteleri canlı maç izle - bedava maç izle - maç izle - canlı maç dinle -- lig tv izle canlı maç izle - lig tv izle canlı maç izle - lig tv izle canlı maç izle canlı maç izle canlı maç izle canlı maç izle canlı maç izle lig tv izle canlı maç izle lig tv izle lig tv izle canlı maç izle

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