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noun

Lye n. (Written also lie and ley)

A strong caustic alkaline solution of potassium salts, obtained by leaching wood ashes. It is much used in making soap, etc.

(Chem.) Sodium hydroxide or potassium hydroxide, or a concentrated aqueous solution of either compound.

Ley n. Law.

Ley n. (Obs.) See Lye.

Ley n. Grass or meadow land; a lea.

verb

Ley v. t. & v. i. To lay; to wager. (Obs.)

adjective

Ley adj. Fallow; unseeded. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Ley'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Ley" Quotes from Famous Books

... I'm his man," said Pete. "He does what he likes with me, anyway. Caught me out in Kimber-ley ...

— The Manxman - A Novel - 1895 • Hall Caine

... out of it," said Miss Redwood, shaking her head. "It's strong, mine is; that's where it is. You see I've my own leach sot up, and there's lots o' ashes; the minister, he likes to burn wood, and I like it, for it gives me my ley; and I don't have no trouble with it; the minister, he saws it and splits it and chops it, and then when all's done he brings it in, and he puts it on. All I have to do is to get my ashes. I did think, when I first come, and the minister he told me he calculated to burn wood in his room, ...

— What She Could • Susan Warner

... searched in the Sussex Archaeological Collections for all the facts he could gather together about this forgotten family: he found far more information than he had hoped to gain, especially in an article contributed by the Reverend John Ley, a former vicar of Waldron. He also made himself familiar with the topography of the neighbourhood, and prepared to make the old castle the chief scene of his next story, and to revivify the dry dust so ...

— The House of Walderne - A Tale of the Cloister and the Forest in the Days of the Barons' Wars • A. D. Crake

... Domini 1681 and of Jane his wife the daughter of William Wattson of Bengeworth Gent, who died Anno Domini 1683, aged 73 years, by whom he had Issue three Sons and two Daughters. Thomas Augustin and Jane ley buried here with them and Mary the youngest Daughter Married Humphrey Mayo of hope in the County of Herreford Gent, and William the Eldest Son Marchant in London set this Monument in a dutiful and affectionate memory ...

— Grain and Chaff from an English Manor • Arthur H. Savory

... appears among the titles in the list of plays appended to the edition of Goffe's Careless Shepherdess, printed for Rogers and Ley in 1656. The entry was repeated with the designation 'C[omedy].' in Archer's list of the same year, and, without the addition, in those of Kirkman in 1661 and 1671. In 1691 Langbaine wrote 'Wealth and Health, a Play of which I can give no Account.' Gildon has ...

— The Interlude of Wealth and Health • Anonymous

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