Definition of "layest" [layest]

• Second-person singular simple present form of lay (verb)

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• "If thou be layest in the ground don't think you're down for good you'll soon be seen again, in parts, in people, plants or wood"
• "Ease your hand, man, and let him rise; take leisure, and in half an hour thou layest him on the bank."
• "For verily thou layest down to sleep last night with thy mind occupied anent marriage and troubled with the talk of it (Allah damn marriage and the hour when I spake of it and curse him who counselled it!); and without doubt or diffidence I can say that being moved in mind by the mention of wedlock thou dreamedst that a handsome young lady embraced thee and didst fancy thou sawest her when awake."