[f. LAZY a.]
1. intr. = LAZE v. 1.
1612. Sylvester, Tropheis, 90. Nor waits he lazying on his bed for day.
1694. R. L’Estrange, Fables, 50. They knew no reason … why the One should lye lazying and pampering itself with the fruit of the Other’s labour.
1765. H. Timberlake, Mem., 76. Hunting, and warring abroad, and lazying at home.
1876. Besant & Rice, Gold. Butterfly, III. 81. He … lazied under the hanging willows by the shore.
1890. Mrs. Laffan, Louis Draycott, I. II. ii. 146. A snug retreat, indeed, to read, or think, or ‘lazy’ in.
2. quasi-trans. = LAZE v. 2.
1885. ‘Mark Twain,’ in Century Mag., XXXI. 197/2. We lazied the rest of the pleasant afternoon away.
1892. Tennyson, St. Telemachus, 21. Wake Thou deedless dreamer, lazying out a life Of self-suppression, not of selfless love.
