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3. A shoot or twig of a plant, not detached from the stock, laid under ground for growth or propagation.

4. An artificial oyster bed.

Lay"er*ing, n. A propagating by layers. Gardner.

Lay"ing (?), n.

1. The act of one who, or that which, lays.

2. The act or period of laying eggs; the eggs laid for one incubation; a clutch.

3. The first coat on laths of plasterer's two-coat work.

Lay"land` (?), n. [Lay a meadow + land.] Land lying untilled; fallow ground. [Obs.] Blount.

Lay"man (?) n.; pl. Laymen (&?;). [Lay, adj. + man.] 1. One of the people, in distinction from the clergy; one of the laity; sometimes, a man not belonging to some particular profession, in distinction from those who do.

Being a layman, I ought not to have concerned myself with speculations which belong to the profession.

Dryden.

2. A lay figure. See under Lay, n. (above). Dryden

Lay"ner (?), n. [See Lanier.] A whiplash. [Obs.]

Lay"ship (?), n. The condition of being a layman. [Obs.] Milton.

Lay"stall` (?), n. 1. A place where rubbish, dung, etc., are laid or deposited.[Obs.] B. Jonson.

Smithfield was a laystall of all ordure and filth.

Bacon.

2. A place where milch cows are kept, or cattle on the way to market are lodged. [Obs.]

La"zar (?), n. [OF. lazare, fr. Lazarus the beggar. Luke xvi. 20.] A person infected with a filthy or pestilential disease; a leper. Chaucer.

Like loathsome lazars, by the hedges lay.

Spenser.

Lazar house a lazaretto; also, a hospital for quarantine.

{ Laz`a*ret" (?), Laz`a*ret"to (?), } n. [F. lazaret, or It. lazzeretto, fr. Lazarus. See Lazar.] A public building, hospital, or pesthouse for the reception of diseased persons, particularly those affected with contagious diseases.

{ Laz"a*rist (?), Laz"a*rite (?), } n. (R. C. Ch.) One of the Congregation of the Priests of the Mission, a religious institute founded by Vincent de Paul in 1624, and popularly called Lazarists or Lazarites from the College of St. Lazare in Paris, which was occupied by them until 1792.

{ La"zar*like` (?), La"zar*ly (?), } a. Full of sores; leprous. Shak. Bp. Hall.

Laz`a*ro"ni (?), n. pl. See Lazzaroni.

La"zar*wort` (?), n. (Bot.) Laserwort.

Laze (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lazed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Lazing.] [See Lazy.] To be lazy or idle. [Colloq.] Middleton.