Obs. [OE. lyʓe, cogn. w. lyʓe LIE sb.1] Lying, false.
c. 975. Rushw. Gosp., Matt. xxvi. 60. Moniʓe lyʓe ʓewitu.
c. 1290. S. Eng. Leg., I. 319/688. Hinderful and of bost I-nouȝ, hardi and ofte lie.