Noun
of Lay
The act of one who, or that which, lays.
The act or period of laying eggs; the eggs laid for one incubation; a clutch.
The first coat on laths of plasterer's two-coat work.
Source: Webster's dictionaryWhat is dying? Just what it is to put off a garment. For the body is about the soul as a garment; and after laying this aside for a short time by means of death, we shall resume it again with more splendor. John Chrysostom
Seamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert him from laying violent hands upon the ship. Jonathan Swift
Death belongs to life as birth does. The walk is in the raising of the foot as in the laying of it down. Rabindranath Tagore
If you spit laying down it will only come back in your mouth. Amharic Proverb
The Wealthy man has even his crow laying him eggs. Bulgarian Proverb
The laying hen says: give me feed to fill my beak and I'll give you eggs. Sicilian Proverb