Crossword-Solution: LAY 3 letters, 360 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Lay	imp.	of Lie, to recline.
Lay	a.	Of or pertaining to the laity, as distinct from the clergy; as, a lay person; a lay preacher; a lay brother.
Lay	a.	Not educated or cultivated; ignorant.
Lay	a.	Not belonging to, or emanating from, a particular profession; unprofessional; as, a lay opinion regarding the nature of a disease.
Lay	n.	The laity; the common people.
Lay	n.	A meadow. See Lea.
Lay	n.	Faith; creed; religious profession.
Lay	n.	A law.
Lay	n.	An obligation; a vow.
Lay	a.	A song; a simple lyrical poem; a ballad.
Lay	a.	A melody; any musical utterance.
Lay	v. t.	To cause to lie down, to be prostrate, or to lie against something; to put or set down; to deposit; as, to lay a book on the table; to lay a body in the grave; a shower lays the dust.
Lay	v. t.	To place in position; to establish firmly; to arrange with regularity; to dispose in ranks or tiers; as, to lay a corner stone; to lay bricks in a wall; to lay the covers on a table.
Lay	v. t.	To prepare; to make ready; to contrive; to provide; as, to lay a snare, an ambush, or a plan.
Lay	v. t.	To spread on a surface; as, to lay plaster or paint.
Lay	v. t.	To cause to be still; to calm; to allay; to suppress; to exorcise, as an evil spirit.
Lay	v. t.	To cause to lie dead or dying.
Lay	v. t.	To deposit, as a wager; to stake; to risk.
Lay	v. t.	To bring forth and deposit; as, to lay eggs.
Lay	v. t.	To apply; to put.
Lay	v. t.	To impose, as a burden, suffering, or punishment; to assess, as a tax; as, to lay a tax on land.
Lay	v. t.	To impute; to charge; to allege.
Lay	v. t.	To impose, as a command or a duty; as, to lay commands on one.
Lay	v. t.	To present or offer; as, to lay an indictment in a particular county; to lay a scheme before one.
Lay	v. t.	To state; to allege; as, to lay the venue.
Lay	v. t.	To point; to aim; as, to lay a gun.
Lay	v. t.	To put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite them; as, to lay a cable or rope.
Lay	v. t.	To place and arrange (pages) for a form upon the imposing stone.
Lay	v. t.	To place (new type) properly in the cases.
Lay	v. i.	To produce and deposit eggs.
Lay	v. i.	To take a position; to come or go; as, to lay forward; to lay aloft.
Lay	v. i.	To lay a wager; to bet.
Lay	n.	That which lies or is laid or is conceived of as having been laid or placed in its position; a row; a stratum; a layer; as, a lay of stone or wood.
Lay	v. t.	A wager.
Lay	v. t.	A job, price, or profit.
Lay	v. t.	A share of the proceeds or profits of an enterprise; as, when a man ships for a whaling voyage, he agrees for a certain lay.
Lay	v. t.	A measure of yarn; a lea. See 1st Lea (a).
Lay	v. t.	The lathe of a loom. See Lathe, 3.
Lay	v. t.	A plan; a scheme.
Lay	imp.	of Lie

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
LAY	anagram	ALY, LYA

We have 360 clues for the answer “LAY”

Clue	Answers
"(___ Your Head on My) Pillow"	1 answer
"Now I __ me ..."	1 answer
"Now I __ me down ... "	1 answer
"Now I ___ me down to . . ."	1 answer
"Now I ___ me down to sleep ..."	1 answer
"Now I ___ me down to sleep" (lyric from Metallica's "Enter Sandman")	1 answer
"__ Your Hands On Me" (Bon Jovi)	1 answer
"___ it on me!"	1 answer
"___ it on the line"	1 answer
"___ of the Last Minstrel"	1 answer
"___ on, Macduff"	1 answer
-- siege to	1 answer
Put down gently	1 answer
As I ___ Dying	1 answer
Assemble, as bricks	1 answer
Assign, as responsibility	1 answer
BELONGING to the people	1 answer
Be a productive chicken	1 answer
Be a tile installer	1 answer
Be productive, as chickens	1 answer
Blondel's music.	1 answer
Recite a poem publicly	1 answer
Casual sexual partner, as it were	1 answer
Cease, with "off"	1 answer
Chickens do it	1 answer
Create, as groundwork	1 answer
Deliver, hen-style	1 answer
Deposit eggs	1 answer
Deposit in a nest	1 answer
Deposit, as an egg	1 answer
Deposit, as eggs	1 answer
Dismiss from work temporarily, with "off"	1 answer
Do a hen's job	1 answer
Do brickwork	1 answer
Don Juan's conquest	1 answer
Drop an egg	1 answer
Enron indictee	1 answer
Explain, with "out"	1 answer
Famously wrong word in a Dylan title	1 answer
Fill an empty nest?	1 answer
Former Enron CEO Kenneth	1 answer
Frito	1 answer
Frito follower	1 answer
Frito go-with?	1 answer
Frito's partner	1 answer
Frito-__ snacks	1 answer
Gently place	1 answer
Get it on with	1 answer
Get the __ of the land	1 answer
Give, as odds	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or a triangle.

Hint 2 anagram

AARE

Hint 3 another clue

CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE

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Unscramble LAY 3-letter words that start with L 3-letter words that end in Y 3-letter words containing AY 3-letter words containing YA 3-letter words with L and A

Sentences with LAY (5)

The fire was warm, however, and the nursery dimly lit by three night-lights, and presently the sewing lay on Mrs.

Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991

But one morning, gazing earthward, While the village still was sleeping, And the fog lay on the river, Like a ghost, that goes at sunrise, He beheld a maiden walking All alone upon a meadow, Gathering water-flags and rushes By a river in the meadow.

The Song Of Hiawatha Henry W. Longfellow 1991

Then thou thy regal Scepter shalt lay by, For regal Scepter then no more shall need, God shall be All in All.

Paradise Lost John Milton 1991

AESOP’S FABLES By Aesop Translated by George Fyler Townsend The Wolf And The Lamb WOLF, meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on him, but to find some plea to justify to the Lamb the Wolf’s right to eat him.

Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000

The sick man was feeling this as he lay looking out of the window, after the doctor had left him, on the day following Alexandra’s trip to town.

O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991

Quotes with LAY (3)

For the first twenty years of my life, I rocked myself to sleep. It was a harmless enough hobby, but eventually, I had to give it up. Throughout the next twenty-two years I lay still and discovered that after a few minutes I could drop off with no problem. Follow seven beers with a couple of scotches and a thimble of good marijuana, and it’s funny how sleep just sort of comes on its own. Often I never even made it to the bed. I’d squat down to pet the cat and wake up on the f…

David Sedaris Me Talk Pretty One Day

Eric moved the broom experimentally and made an attempt to sweep the glass into the pan while it lay in the middle of the floor. Of course, the pan slid away. Eric scowled. I'd finally found something Eric did poorly.

Charlaine Harris Dead as a Doornail

Some minutes or hours or days later, when I lay boneless and well satisfied, Ethan raised his gaze to mine again. His eyes were silver, his fangs descended. "There is no going back," he said, "Not after this.

Chloe Neill Twice Bitten

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, S&S, Slate, Three Across, TIME, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 450 times in crossword archives (1952–2025).