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lay something over someone or something to cover someone or something with something. Here, lay this blanket over the baby. Please lay a napkin over the bread before you take it to the table. See also: lay lay over (some place) to pause some place during one's journey. I had to lay over in San Antonio for a few hours before my plane left. I want a bus that goes straight through. I don't want to lay over. See also: lay lay over to stop or have to stay in a place when you are traveling He laid over with a German family living in the area. People were getting laid over in Dallas because of the floods in Houston. See also: lay How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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"My word, it does not seem a very cheerful place," said the detective with a shiver, glancing round him at the gloomy slopes of the hill and at the huge lake of fog which lay over the Grimpen Mire. Her limbs were distorted; one of her hands was clasped round the frame of the chair, and she gripped it so hard that we could not easily make her let it go; her other arm lay over her head, and her feet lay both together, set fast against the frame of the cabin table: in short, she lay just like one in the agonies of death, and yet she was alive too. |
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