Read full poem →Lay forth out of thine everlasting scryne
The antique rolles, which there lye hidden still,
Of Faerie knights[*] and fairest Tanaquill,[*]
Dictionary Entry
An alkaline liquid made by leaching ashes (usually wood ashes).
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Common Phrases
. lyesoap lyesolution lyelye sodalye len
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Poetry examples for “lye”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →1142. Yit wol the fyr as faire lye and brenne.--B. iii. pr. 4. 47.
Read full poem →Allas! That they sholde ever cause finde
To speke hir harm; and if they on hir lye, 20
Y-wis, hem-self sholde han the vilanye.
Read full poem →If red and white and each good quality
Be in thy wench, ne'r aske where it doth lye.
In buying things perfum'd, we aske; if there
Read full poem →Yet close and secret, as our soules, we'have beene.
Though thy immortall mother which doth lye
Still buried in her bed, yet will not dye,
Read full poem →Both rob'd of aire, we both lye in one ground,
Both whom one fire had burnt, one water drownd.
Read full poem →reprieve at last gasp, they had made him vomit up his soul with a
lye, and sealed his dangerous chops with a halter. This justice was
attended with a prodigious shout, that might be heard far beyond
Read full poem →How well dothe she make a man fare at his table? Howe
easelye dothe she make a man lye in hys bed? How fit even
as her fethers be onelye for shootynge, so be her quylles
Read full poem →tyed on with a string, as the commentaries in Greke playne-
lye tell. And therfore shoters at that tyme to carry their
shaftes withoute heedes, untill they occupyed them, and