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▪ I. laze, n. colloq.|leɪz|
[f. laze v.]
The action of the vb. laze; an instance of this.
1862Temple Bar V. 328 He will take a quiet laze. 1894Cycl. Tour. Club Gaz. Sept. 262 The writer contented him⁓self with a laze in the gardens below.
▪ II. laze, v.|leɪz|
Also 7 lase.
[Back-formation from lazy a.]
1. intr. To lie, move, or act in a sleepy listless fashion; to enjoy oneself lazily. Also with advs.
a1592Greene Alphonsus iii. Wks. (Grosart) XIII. 370 And canst thou stand still lazing in this sort? 1610Rowlands Martin Mark-all 17 Worke is left at home vndone, and loyterers laze in the streete. 1611Cotgr., S'endormir en sentinello,..to laze it when he hath most need to looke about him. 1661K. W. Conf. Charac., Lawyer (1860) 43 He begins to lag and laze, like a tired jade. a1704Compl. Servant-Maid (ed. 7) 7 Incline not to sloth, or laze in bed. 1802Southey in C. C. Southey Life II. 195, I must sleep, and laze, and play whist till bed time. 1868Lowell Lett. (1894) I. iv. 453, I had a very pleasant time, sailing, fishing, and lazing about. 1899Atlantic Monthly Aug. 199/2 We lazed along, hardly seeming to move at all.
†b. to laze oneself: to indulge in indolence.
1612T. Adams Gallant's Burden 28 b, Hence Beggars lase themselues in the fields of idlenesse. 1620Shelton Quix. ii. xxii. 146 Lazing himselfe as if he had wakened out of a..profound sleep. 1658W. Gurnall Chr. in Arm. (1669) 119/1 In a summer's day..he lay lazing himself on the grass.
2. quasi-trans. To pass away in indolence.
1627–77Feltham Resolves ii. xxxiv. 228 So the bloudless Tortoise..lazeth his life away. 1891E. Peacock N. Brendon II. 420 With the firm determination..of ‘lazing’ away the rest of the day.
Hence ˈlazing vbl. n.
a1626W. Sclater 2 Thess. (1629) 283 The lazing of these loyterers is not numbred amongst mortals. 1672Petty Pol. Anat. (1691) 366 Their lazing seems to me to proceed..from want of employment. 1880H. S. Cooper Coral Lands II. 309 An hour or so of downright lazing on the heath.
▪ III. laze, lazer
obs. forms of lace, lazar. |