Found 8 hits - Term: ley, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
ley \ley\, a.
fallow; unseeded. obs. --beau. fl.
1913 webster leyden jar
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
ley \ley\ l=a, v. t. i.
to lay; to wager. obs. --chaucer.
1913 webster
- [3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
ley \ley\, n. of.
law. --abbott.
1913 webster
- [4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
ley \ley\ limac, n. obs.
see lye.
1913 webster
see also:
lye
- [5] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
ley \ley\ l=e, n.
grass or meadow land; a lea.
1913 webster
- [6] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
lye \lye\, n. written also lie and ley. as. le'ah; akin
to d. loog, ohg. louga, g. lauge; cf. icel. laug a bath, a
hot spring.
1. a strong caustic alkaline solution of potassium salts,
obtained by leaching wood ashes. it is much used in making
soap, etc.
1913 webster
2. chem. sodium hydroxide or potassium hydroxide, or a
concentrated aqueous solution of either compound.
pjc
see also:
lie ley
- [7] : WordNet (r) 2.0
ley
n : a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for
grazing by livestock syn: pasture, pastureland, grazing
land, lea
see also:
pasture pastureland grazing land lea
- [8] : Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
ley. this word is old french, a corruption of loi, and signifies law; for
example, termes de la ley, terms of the law. in another, and an old
technical sense, ley signifies an oath, or the oath with compurgators; as,
il tend sa ley aiu pleyntiffe. brit. c. 27.
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