| 单词 | even lay |
| 释义 | > as lemmaseven lay ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > chance or causelessness > [noun] > haphazardness or randomness catch as catch cana1393 die1548 hazard1548 random1565 haphazard1569 chance-medley1583 lay1584 lottery1593 haphazarding1787 randomness1803 haphazardness1857 happy-go-luckiness1866 chanciness1870 flukiness1888 haphazardry1910 randomicity1936 the world > existence and causation > causation > chance or causelessness > [noun] > chance or opportunity > even chance jeopardyc1374 even lay1584 an equal, even wager1638 toss-up1809 turn-up1810 society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > betting > [noun] > stake wager1303 wedc1330 wed-feec1475 stake1540 lay1584 lake1636 1584 R. Scot Discouerie Witchcraft vii. iv. 134 It is an euen laie, that an idiot shall coniecture right. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 495 They bound themselues by a sacred lay and oth to fight it out to the last man. 1604 T. Dekker & T. Middleton Honest Whore i. iv. 49 Done, tis a lay, ioyne golls on't. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) v. iii. 20 + 9 Clif. My soule and bodie on the action both. Yor. A dreadfull lay . View more context for this quotation 1616 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Scornful Ladie v. sig. H2v If I had bin vnhandsome, old or iealous, 't had bin an euen lay she might haue scorn'd me. 1725 New Canting Dict. (at cited word) Lay, An Hazard or Chance; as, He stands a queer Lay; He stands an odd Chance, or is in great Danger. 1726 D. Defoe Polit. Hist. Devil i. x. 149 By venturing my Life upon an even Lay with him. 1729 E. Erskine Wks. (1871) I. 453 What a fair lay sinners living under the Gospel dispensation have for the eternal Salvation of their Souls. 1769 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 2 Nov. (1932) (modernized text) VI. 2900 You will stand a very good lay, for if it is a prize it shall be yours, if a blank, mine. < as lemmas |
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