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unlaid

[ uhn-leyd ]

adjective

  1. not laid or placed:

    The table is still unlaid.

  2. (of dead bodies) not laid out; not prepared for burial.
  3. not laid to rest, as a spirit.
  4. untwisted, as a rope.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of unlaid1

First recorded in 1425–75, unlaid is from the late Middle English word unleyd. See un- 1, laid
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Example Sentences

She had unlaid one of her black braids and was replaiting it again after the havoc wrought by the prickly bushes.

Occasionally we lighted upon land tortoises, which, with their unlaid eggs, make a very agreeable dish.

He has been like a distracted man, a wandering Jew, an unlaid ghost, ever since you have been ill.

Are formed of clean, unchafed yarns, drawn from condemned rope, unlaid.

They relate a very few encounters with trolls—the hideous, unlaid, still embodied dead.

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