Ley

Word LEY
Character 3
Hyphenation ley
Pronunciations /leɪ/

Definitions and meanings of "Ley"

What do we mean by ley?

See lea. noun

An obsolete form of lay.

Yield; produce; assay-value. noun

An obsolete or dialectal form of lea, lay, and lye. noun

Ley in this spelling (see lea) is used specifically of a plantation of grasses or other plants grown for their herbage (clovers, etc.), to serve either as meadow or as pasture. Leys are planned for one or a few years or for permanency, their composition being governed accordingly. noun

Grass or meadow land; a lea. noun

See lye. noun

Fallow; unseeded. adjective

To lay; to wager. verb

Law. noun

Alternative spelling of lea. noun

Fallow; unseeded adjective

A field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock noun

An open field, meadow.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Ley

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The word "ley" in example sentences

It had discharged a pellucid fluid, which she called a ley-water, daily for fourteen years, with a great deal of pain; on which account she applied to a surgeon, who, by means of bandage and a saturnine application, soon healed the sore, unheedful of the consequences. ❋ Erasmus Darwin (1766)

Even as she spoke, the hair at the nape of my neck prickled; she was calling the ley again. ❋ Linda Robertson (2011)

Actually, Tyler said his dad was going to check out something called ley lines, spelled l-e-y. ❋ Amanda Marrone (2010)

Experimentally, he moved to one of the little runnels collecting the flow - nowhere near large enough to be called a ley-line - and sensed the pressure increase when he interposed himself in the flow. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (1998)

Continuing for about three hundred paces farther along the val­ley, which is in this part about one hundred and fifty feet in breadth; several small tombs are met with on both sides of the rivulet, excavated in the rock, without any ornaments. ❋ Unknown (1822)

People in our community have even produced a copy of the "ley" that applies to this situation, but to no avail. ❋ Unknown (2001)

The trouble was, there would be some right to Mor'ley's argument. ❋ Cook, Glen (1988)

"Mimphl murkle mibble" came from behind Mor'ley's hand. ❋ Cook, Glen (1988)

"I have tried to take power from those lines of energy you spoke about, which seem to be the same thing that Hulda called ley-lines. ❋ R. Daniel Lester (2010)

Pasturage is still called a "ley" for cattle in these parts. ❋ John Roby (1821)

The context of soap making indicates that "ley" is most likely a misprint for "lye". ❋ John Franklin (1816)

As a committee of MPs said the not-medicine was 14 times less efficient than writing a letter to Jesus, homeopaths claimed the report had no credibility because it had not been buried for two weeks in a cocoon of damp horse chestnut leaves, directly over the right kind of ley line. ❋ The Dailymash (2010)

Tall Cholm'ley's too, * 'vvithadive Vigour ftrong, ❋ Unknown (1773)

"pray beg Mr. Bev'ley's pardon for me again, and 'sure him the honor is mine." ❋ Jeffery Farnol (1915)

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