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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To be or place oneself at rest in a flat, horizontal, or recumbent position; recline: He lay under a tree to sleep.
2. v. To be placed on or supported by a surface that is usually horizontal: Dirty dishes lay on the table. See Usage Note at lay¹.
3. v. To be or remain in a specified condition: The dust has lain undisturbed for years. He lay sick in bed.
4. v. To exist; reside: Our sympathies lie with the plaintiff.
5. v. To consist or have as a basis. Often used with in: The strength of his performance lies in his training.
6. v. To occupy a position or place: The lake lies beyond this hill.
7. v. To extend: Our land lies between these trees and the river.
8. v. To be buried in a specified place.
9. v. Law To be admissible or maintainable.
10. v. Archaic To stay for a night or short while.
11. n. The manner or position in which something is situated.
12. n. A haunt or hiding place of an animal.
13. n. Sports The position of a golf ball that has come to a stop.
14. lie down To do little or nothing: He's lying down on the job.
15. lie in To be in confinement for childbirth.
16. lie to Nautical To remain stationary while facing the wind.
17. lie with To be decided by, dependent on, or up to: The choice lies with you.
18. lie with Archaic To have sexual intercourse with.
19. idiom. lie To keep oneself or one's plans hidden.
20. idiom. lie To bide one's time but remain ready for action.
21. n. A false statement deliberately presented as being true; a falsehood.
22. n. Something meant to deceive or give a wrong impression.
23. v. To present false information with the intention of deceiving.
24. v. To convey a false image or impression: Appearances often lie.
25. v. To cause to be in a specific condition or affect in a specific way by telling falsehoods: You have lied yourself into trouble.
26. idiom. lie through one's teeth To lie outrageously or brazenly.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To rest in a recumbent or prostrate position; remain or be held flatwise, lengthwise, or inclined on a supporting surface; recline or be prone or supine on something.
2. To be in a quiescent state; be or become quiet or inactive; remain passive or expectant.
3. To lay or place one's self in a recumbent or prostrate position; take a reclining posture: often followed by down when entire prostration is intended: as, to lie back in a chair; to lie down on the ground.
4. To have place, position, or direction; be situated, set, or settled; stay or abide: as, the Azores lie in the Atlantic ocean; the army lay in a fortified camp.
5. To be confined or imprisoned.
6. To rest or remain in a state or condition; continue inactive or unchanged: as, to lie in soak; the land lies fallow.
7. To be in a certain direction; be present in a particular place or thing; be found; exist.
8. To lodge; pass the night; sleep.
9. To rest; bear; press; weigh: with on or upon.
10. In law, to be sustainable; be capable of being maintained: as, an action lies against the tenant for waste.
11. Nautical, to careen with the wind abeam, as a ship.
12. To rest; intermit labor; knock off: as, we lay by in the heat of the day.
13. Nautical, same as to lie to.
14. [By, prep.] To remain with; be accessible to, or be in the keeping of: as, he has the documents lying by him.
15. Nautical, to remain near, as one ship to another at sea.
16. To be an obstacle or impediment: as, objections that lie in the way of adjustment.
17. To conceal one's views or intentions.
18. To be incumbent upon, as an obligation or a duty: as, it lies on the plaintiff to maintain his action.
19. To depend on.
20. To importune; urge.
21. To be unspent or remain unemployed; hence, of unoccupied time, with a qualifying word, as heavy, to cause ennui; be tedious: as, the hours lay heavy on my hands.
22. To be deferred to some future occasion, as a motion or resolution in a deliberative assembly.
23. To have carnal knowledge of.
24. To belong to: as, it lies with you to make amends.
25. Synonyms Lie, Lay. “Lay is a transitive verb, and has for its preterit laid: as, he told me to lay it down, and I laid it down. Lie is intransitive, and has for its preterit lay: as, he told me to lie down, and I lay down. Some persons blunder by using laid for the preterit of lie: as, he told me to lie down, and I laid down. So persons often say, the ship laid at anchor; they laid by during the storm; the book laid on the shelf, etc. It is only necessary to remember, in all such cases, that laid is the preterit of lay and not of lie. This would save many respectable writers from a gross error which seems to be increasing among us.” (Goodrich.) Similarly, laid is often erroneously used for lain: as, I had laid down; and lain is sometimes used for laid.
26. n. Manner of lying; relative direction, position, arrangement, etc. See lay, n., 4.
27. n. The place where a bird, beast, or fish is accustomed to lie or lurk; haunt.
28. n. In railroading, a siding or short offset from the main line, into which trucks may be run for the purpose of loading and unloading; one of the different sets of rails at a terminus on which trucks stand while being loaded or unloaded.
29. To speak falsely; utter untruth for the purpose of misleading; make a misrepresentation consciously: followed by about, etc., and formerly (and still sometimes colloquially) by on.
30. To make a false impression, either consciously or unconsciously; hold forth a misleading or deceitful appearance; act or manifest an untruth: used of both persons and things.
31. n. A false statement made with the purpose of deceiving; an intentional untruth; a falsehood; the utterance by speech or act of that which is false, with intent to mislead or delude.
32. n. That which is intended or serves to deceive or mislead; anything designed or adapted to produce false conclusions or expectations: as, this epitaph is a lie.
33. n. Synonyms Untruth, deception. Compare fib.
34. n. An obsolete spelling of lye.
35. n. An obsolete form of lee.
36. n. An obsolete form of lee.
37. In heraldry, same as stringed.
38. n. In golf:
39. n. The angle which the shaft of a club makes with the head. A club has a flat lie when the angle is very obtuse, and an upright lie when it is less obtuse.
40. n. The position of a ball at rest on the course.

Wiktionary

1. v. intransitive To be in a horizontal position.
2. v. intransitive To be placed or situated.
3. n. golf The terrain and conditions surrounding the ball before it is struck.
4. n. medicine The position of a fetus in the womb.
5. v. intransitive To give false information intentionally.
6. v. intransitive To convey a false image or impression.
7. n. An intentionally false statement; an intentional falsehood.
8. n. A statement intended to deceive, even if literally true; a half-truth

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. See lye.
2. n. A falsehood uttered or acted for the purpose of deception; an intentional violation of truth; an untruth spoken with the intention to deceive.
3. n. A fiction; a fable; an untruth.
4. n. Anything which misleads or disappoints.
5. v. To utter falsehood with an intention to deceive; to say or do that which is intended to deceive another, when he a right to know the truth, or when morality requires a just representation.
6. v. To rest extended on the ground, a bed, or any support; to be, or to put one's self, in an horizontal position, or nearly so; to be prostate; to be stretched out; -- often with down, when predicated of living creatures
7. v. To be situated; to occupy a certain place
8. v. To abide; to remain for a longer or shorter time; to be in a certain state or condition
9. v. To be or exist; to belong or pertain; to have an abiding place; to consist; -- with in.
10. v. To lodge; to sleep.
11. v. To be still or quiet, like one lying down to rest.
12. v. (Law) To be sustainable; to be capable of being maintained.
13. n. The position or way in which anything lies; the lay, as of land or country.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. tell an untruth; pretend with intent to deceive
2. v. assume a reclining position
3. n. Norwegian diplomat who was the first Secretary General of the United Nations (1896-1968)
4. n. position or manner in which something is situated
5. v. have a place in relation to something else
6. n. a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth
7. v. be located or situated somewhere; occupy a certain position
8. v. be and remain in a particular state or condition
9. v. originate (in)
10. v. be lying, be prostrate; be in a horizontal position