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What does the word lay mean?

Part of speech: verb transitive

To place; deposit; impose; attribute or ascribe; impute; present.

Part of speech: verb transitive

To make ready, as a table for a meal.

Part of speech: verb

To drop eggs, as fowls.

Part of speech: noun

A law.

Part of speech: noun

Imp. of LIE, v.

Part of speech: noun

The manner in which something lies or is placed; a line of work; a layer; a bet.

Part of speech: noun

A song; ballad.

Part of speech: adjective

Laic.

Usage examples for lay

Will you please lay off? – Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse
It lay here four days. – The Mystery of The Barranca by Herman Whitaker
Lay her down, won't you? – From the Valley of the Missing by Grace Miller White