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Webster 1913 Edition


Unlaid

Un-laid′

,
Adj.
1.
Not laid or placed; not fixed.
Hooker.
2.
Not allayed; not pacified; not laid finally to rest.
[R.]
“Stubborn, unlaid ghost.”
Milton.
3.
Not laid out, as a corpse.
[R.]
B. Jonson.
Unlaid paper
.
See
Laid paper
, under
Laid
.

Webster 1828 Edition


Unlaid

UNLA'ID

,
Adj.
1.
Not placed; not fixed.
2.
Not allayed; not pacified; not suppressed.
3.
Not laid out, as a corpse.

Definition 2024


unlaid

unlaid

English

Adjective

unlaid (not comparable)

  1. not laid, not placed
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Hooker to this entry?)
  2. not laid by exorcism
    • Milton
      stubborn, unlaid ghost
  3. (of a person, slang) not having had sexual intercourse
  4. Not laid out, as a corpse.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Ben Jonson to this entry?)
  5. (of paper) Not laid; not marked with parallel lines.

Verb

unlaid

  1. simple past tense and past participle of unlay

References

  • unlaid in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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