unlaid
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Adjective edit
unlaid (not comparable)
- not laid
- an unlaid egg
- unlaid paving stones
- The table was still unlaid, despite Mum asking us the kids to lay it five times.
- 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
- the first foundations of the world being as yet unlaid
- Not laid by exorcism
- 1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC:
- stubborn, unlaid ghost
- (of a person, slang) not having had sexual intercourse
- I've been unlaid since my boyfriend left me 5 months ago, so I'm desperate for a shag!
- Not laid out, as a corpse.
- a. 1638 (date written), Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Under-woods. Consisting of Divers Poems. (please specify the poem)”, in The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. The Second Volume. […] (Second Folio), London: […] Richard Meighen, published 1640, →OCLC:
- With their pellets of small wit, / Parts of me they judg'd decay'd; / But we last out still unlay'd
- (of paper) Not marked with parallel lines.
Verb edit
unlaid
- simple past and past participle of unlay
References edit
- “unlaid”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.