(intransitive) To rest in a horizontal position on a surface.
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The book lies on the table; the snow lies on the roof; he lies in his coffin
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Though ye haue lien among the pots, yet shall yee bee as the wings of a doue, couered with siluer, and her feathers with yellow gold.
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1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 68:13:
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The watchful traveller […] / Lay down again, and closed his weary eyes.
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1660, [John] Dryden, Astraea Redux:
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Our uninquiring corpses lie more low / Than our life's curiosity doth go.
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1849, Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers:
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The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. Whirling wreaths and columns of burning wind, rushed around and over them.
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1892, James Yoxall, chapter 5, in The Lonely Pyramid: