laying down

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• Laying Down The Law — Artwork title=Trial By Jury artist=Sir Edwin Landseer year=1840 type=Oil on canvas height=72 width=95 Trial By Jury , or Laying Down The Law as it is commonly known, is an oil on canvas painting from 1840 by the English painter Sir Edwin Landseer …   Wikipedia

• laying down — labeling, marking, setting; placing in a horizontal position, putting down …   English contemporary dictionary

• Laying down of pages — Спуск полос …   Краткий толковый словарь по полиграфии

• laying down rules — stating the rules …   English contemporary dictionary

• Laying — is the skill of making equipment level. It usually involves moving equipment in small motions so that spirit levels are centralised in all planes. Movement is usually done by small worm gears or other fine setting devices for accurate small… …   Wikipedia

• laying on of hands —    Throughout church history the laying on of hands the purposeful and symbolic touching of one Christian by another has been used for a variety of purposes. It can be a formal public acknowledgment that the church is commissioning a member for… …   Encyclopedia of Protestantism

• Laying — Lay Lay (l[=a]), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Laid} (l[=a]d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Laying}.] [OE. leggen, AS. lecgan, causative, fr. licgan to lie; akin to D. leggen, G. legen, Icel. leggja, Goth. lagjan. See {Lie} to be prostrate.] 1. To cause to lie down,… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• laying house — ▪ farm building       in animal husbandry, a building or enclosure for maintaining laying flocks of domestic fowl, usually chickens, containing nests, lighting, roosting space, waterers, and feed troughs. Feeders and waterers may be automatic. In …   Universalium

• laying ghosts —    Many traditions about haunt ings imply that there is nothing the living can do to lay the ghost to rest. Others, however, describe ghosts which depart once whatever is troubling them has been dealt with; it may be that their bones need burial …   A Dictionary of English folklore

• Laying on of hands — Hand Hand (h[a^]nd), n. [AS. hand, hond; akin to D., G., & Sw. hand, OHG. hant, Dan. haand, Icel. h[ o]nd, Goth. handus, and perh. to Goth. hin[thorn]an to seize (in comp.). Cf. {Hunt}.] 1. That part of the fore limb below the forearm or wrist in …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• laying — lay·ing || leɪɪŋ n. act of placing in a horizontal position; setting in place, setting down, arranging; causing to lie down; putting; placing leɪ n. way in which something is laid or lies (especially of a country); (Slang) sexual partner… …   English contemporary dictionary