laidadj.
/leɪd/, U.S. /leɪd/ a. In various senses of the verb. †Of a design: Deliberately framed. laid drain n. (see quot. 1811). laid paper n. (see quot. 1839). laid wool n. tarry wool. laid-work n. (see couching n. 2). (Cf. best-laid adj., new-laid adj.)
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > sewn or ornamented textile fabric > [noun] > embroidery or ornamental sewing > done in specific stitches > couching
laid-work1634
couching1882
the mind > will > intention > planning > [adjective] > planned
compassedc1430
contrivedc1450
imagined1509
castc1540
devised1552
plotted1592
projected1630
brewed1637
forelaid1640
laid1697
calculated1723
planned1728
unspontaneous1791
programmed1845
tactical1876
drafted1877
programmatical1890
programmatic1899
the world > animals > animal body > general parts > sexual organs and reproduction > [adjective] > relating to laying of eggs > laid
laid1805
society > communication > writing > writing materials > material to write on > paper > [adjective] > laid paper
laid1818
the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > crop or crops > [adjective] > killed
winterkilled1817
weathered1875
laid1886
a1547 Earl of Surrey tr. Virgil Certain Bks. Aenæis (1557) ii. sig. Div My sholders brode, And laied neck [L. subjectaque colla] with garmentes gan I spred.
1634 J. Taylor Needles Excellency (ed. 10) sig. A2 For Tent-worke, Raisd-worke, Laid-worke, Frost-worke.
1697 in W. S. Perry Hist. Coll. Amer. Colonial Church: Virginia (1870) I. 46 A laid designe to obstruct..the business..of the College.
1720 J. Ozell et al. tr. R. A. de Vertot Hist. Revol. Rom. Republic I. iii. 169 There seemed to be a laid Design of making away with all the Senators.
1733 G. Berkeley Theory of Vision §5. 8 I think one may observe a laid Design, gradually to undermine the Belief of the Divine Attributes and Natural Religion.
1790 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. (ed. 2) Laid, just frozen. When water is slightly frozen, it is said to be laid. Norf.
1805 R. Southey Ballads in Poet. Wks. VI. 266 The Old Dragon's own laid egg was this.
1805 R. Forsyth Beauties Scotl. II. 127 25½ lib. of what is called laid wool to the stone.
1811 G. S. Keith Agric. Surv. Aberdeen 426 It is generally found advisable to use a laid drain, i.e. a row of stones laid on each side,..and a course of flat stones laid above these.
1818 J. Hassell Rides & Walks II. 106 Mr. Staines manufactures wove drawing papers and laid writing ones.
1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 373 Observing that the laid wires should be parallel with the axis.
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 927 A strong raised wire is laid along each of the cross bars [of the mould] to which the other wires are fastened; this gives the laid paper its ribbed appearance.
1860 ‘G. Eliot’ Let. 27–28 Aug. (1954) III. 337 It is piteous to see the laid corn, and then hear the rain pouring in the still night!
1865 F. B. Palliser Hist. Lace xxiii. 275 Then there is..true stitch, laid-work,..and cut-work.
1880 Paper & Printing Trades Jrnl. xxx. 8 The thick cream laid paper on which this work is printed.
1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 28 July 6/1 There are many good standing pieces [of wheat]..A laid crop being quite a rarity, except in some of the fens.
1900 Westm. Gaz. 10 July 10/1 Harvest labour..is..much greater for laid fields than for good standing crops.
1960 B. L. Snook Eng. Hist. Embroidery 32 Split stitch was still used..accompanied by laid-work, couching, brick stitch, satin stitch and long and short stitch.
1971 Country Life 10 June 1440/2 Reaping a small field of badly laid corn with sickles and reaping hooks.
b. of rope, with some defining word prefixed, as cable-laid, hawser-laid, short-laid, slack-laid, soft-laid, twice-laid, for which see the first member.
c. with adverbs, as by (cf. to lay by 6 at lay v.1 Phrasal verbs), down, off (cf. to lay off 6 at lay v.1 Phrasal verbs), on, out, up; †laid in = ‘inlaid’. Also, laid-back, inclined backwards; as figurative, relaxed.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > inlaying, etc., in wood > [adjective]
inlaid1598
laid in1598
the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > garden > [adjective] > designed or laid out
tame1551
laid1827
the world > health and disease > ill health > [adjective] > in state of ill health or diseased > restrained by ill health
bedridc1000
bedridden1340
bedlarc1440
bedrel1513
bed-sickc1550
clinica1631
bedfasta1639
non-surrective1668
decumbent1689
invalided1837
laid1868
to lay aside1879
wheelchaired1938
on the sick1976
1598 Inv. in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) III. 325 A..bedsteade of walnuttree varnished vpon layd in woorke.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Laid-up, the situation of a ship when she is either moored in a harbour during the winter season, or laid by, for want of employment: or when by age and craziness she is rendered incapable of further service.
1827 H. Steuart Planter's Guide (1828) 390 An ill laid-out place..is, generally speaking, the work of the owner.
1849 G. C. Greenwell Gloss. Terms Coal Trade Northumberland & Durham 34 A laid out tub of coals is a tub of coals containing stones or foul coal beyond a certain specified quantity, usually one quart.
1852 C. W. Hoskyns Talpa 60 However good in their way broad principles, and laid down courses of cropping or of treatment may be.
1868 J. C. Atkinson Gloss. Cleveland Dial. Laid off, applied to a person who from illness or other disablement is incapable of working as usual.
a1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. II. 1246/1 Laid-on (Joinery), a term applied to moldings which are got out in strips and nailed on to the surface of the object.
1882 H. de Windt On Equator 22 In the midst of beautifully laid-out gardens, is the..Palace of the Raja.
1906 Westm. Gaz. 9 June 16/3 The Valenciennes running around the laid-on tucks surrounding the skirt.
1908 Westm. Gaz. 23 Dec. 4/1 To get in under the ball you must have a shallow head..or else a very much laid-back face.
1909 Westm. Gaz. 30 Apr. 4/2 You can take a laid-back club and loft right over it.
1932 W. Faulkner Light in August xviii. 394 Any man could look at him and perhaps recognise him: Byron Bunch, that weeded another man's laidby crop, without any halvers.
1934 Archit. Rev. 76 13 Central heating, lighting, cooking, vacuum cleaning, laid-on water and drainage.
1943 J. L. Hunt & A. G. Pringle Service Slang 43 Laid on, confirming that transport and supplies are available, that men are on the spot, and, in short, that everything is ready for action.
1955 Times 31 May 5/3 The union proposed that the guaranteed level of pay for ‘laid off’, meaning temporarily unemployed, workers, should be 80 per cent. of gross pay rather than 100 per cent. of take-home pay as originally proposed.
1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 15 Mar. 75/3 The appeal of zero-grazing is that it requires no fencing, no laid-on water, but maintains fertility.
1967 Guardian 26 July 10/7 A group of laid-on Turkish peasants in costume, dancing a jig.
1970 Daily Tel. 11 Sept. 6/2 Laid-off workers at Coventry are receiving..£5 unemployment benefit.
1973 Melody Maker 28 July 36/2 This hit-writer of the early 60s came out with a highly contemporary style which fitted the fashionable term ‘laid-back’, and her ‘Tapestry’ album zoomed up to become one of the three biggest-selling LPs of all time.
1974 New Society 7 Mar. 589/3 It's all cheerfully grotty and relaxed in the usual laid-back Montreal style.
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