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- verb Judaism To read from the
Torah scroll during aJewish prayer service .
Etymologies
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Examples
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April 17, 2010 at 7:37 am huh. teh punz bi en eh difrunt layn
Alright guys, dis no - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010
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I recall being layn down in beyde one night and this strange musick come over the airwaves.
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Himz 12 yerz yung, I wuz skared n wurried….. satted in frunt layn wif flashlit n cawled himz nom bery quietly n den phew! himz liddle skardy face pokeded fru da frunt fenc- wuz bout 12:30 am. himz wuz beri skareded-losta beeg goggiez in da neihburhud.
Y dis ladder scream? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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I lay before you watching as my life flashes before my eyes such a short life oh yes it was layn before you
godhatesu Diary Entry godhatesu 2003
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I lay before you watching your life flashe before my eyes always strived and wanted to precieve perfection fought the battle and lost we can't all win layn before you
godhatesu Diary Entry godhatesu 2003
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Judges, I will not proceed against till his Majesties further commands; and am heartely glad the Opinion of the Court is soe favorable, I much abhorring bloodshed and being greatly dissatisfyed that in my Short Government soe many necessities have layn upon me of punishing Criminels with death.
Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents 1898
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This Rib (says John Leo) is said to have layn there a hundred Years before I saw it.
Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855
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This Rib (says John Leo) is said to have layn there a hundred Years before I saw it.
Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855
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Aftir, the maister of the shippe wolde have layn by the lady, but she denyed hit, and seid, that she had lever dey [FN#536] than consente therto.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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This Rib (says John Leo) is said to have layn there a hundred Years before I saw it.
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