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  1. noun A grassland; a meadow.

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  1. Middle English leie, from Old English lēah; see leuk- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Formerly also lee, dial. lay, ley (in comp. in local names, -leigh, -ley, -ly); from Middle English ley, lay, leye, leyʒe, from Anglo-Saxon leáh (genitive leás, dative leá), masculine, leáh (genitive dative leáge), feminine, untilled land, a lea, meadow, pasture, = Middle Low German lo, loch, loge, lage, loye, Low German loge = Flemish loo (as in Waterloo) = Old High German lōh, Middle High German lōch, German dial. loh, a low plain, a morass, = Lithuanian laukas, an open field, = Latin lucus, a grove, wood (orig., according to etymology, a glade, a ‘clearing’), from lucere, be light, lux, light: see lucent and light. Thus lucus, though said to be so called “a non lucendo,” is, regarded as a ‘clearing,’ really lucus a lucendo. See lucus a non lucendo.
  2. from Middle English ley, from Icelandic = Swedish lie = Danish lee, a scythe.
  3. A variant of lay.
 

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