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unlaid
[ uhn-leyd ]
adjective
- not laid or placed:
The table is still unlaid.
- (of dead bodies) not laid out; not prepared for burial.
- not laid to rest, as a spirit.
- untwisted, as a rope.
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She had unlaid one of her black braids and was replaiting it again after the havoc wrought by the prickly bushes.
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Occasionally we lighted upon land tortoises, which, with their unlaid eggs, make a very agreeable dish.
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He has been like a distracted man, a wandering Jew, an unlaid ghost, ever since you have been ill.
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Are formed of clean, unchafed yarns, drawn from condemned rope, unlaid.
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They relate a very few encounters with trolls—the hideous, unlaid, still embodied dead.
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