[f. LIE v.1 + -ING2.]
1. That lies, or rests in a recumbent, extended, stationary or inert position; also, † absol. (OE.) dead.
c. 1000. Leg. St. Swithun, etc. (Earle, 1861), 110. Þæt maʓn þæs licgendan.
1382. Wyclif, Jer. xxxiii. 12. A dwelling place of shepperdus, of liggende flockus.
1422. trans. Secreta Secret., Priv. Priv., 224. The angry man Is wonyt to be of … a semely chyne and accordynge to the visage, and liggyne here.
a. 1450. Fysshynge w. Angle (1883), 26. The lying ground lyne with ovte floyte.
1842. Tennyson, Vision Sin, 11. Sitting, lying languid shapes.
1862. Remarks on Golf, 14. The Short-spoon … is used for playing either good-lying or bad-lying balls.
1880. W. Carnegie, Pract. Trap., 16. That most annoying eventuality, a ‘lying’ ferret.
b. Sc. Of money, goods, etc.: Put by.
1722. Ramsay, Three Bonnets, I. 129. Your claiths, your lands, and lying pelf.
1799. J. Robertson, Agric. Perth, 386. We are not informed, what lying stock they have, what donations they have received [etc.].
2. Special collocations: lying-dog, a setter; lying-panel, † (a) a panel that occupies the lowest place in a series; (b) a panel whose longest dimension, or one whose grain, lies horizontally; † lying-stone, the nether millstone; lying-storm (Sc.), a snow-storm when the snow lies; lying-wall Mining = FOOT-WALL (Raymond, Mining Gloss.).
1818. Scott, Hrt. Midl., xii. As if a penalty was inflicted by statute for any man who suld hunt or hawk, or use *lying-dogs.
1678. Moxon, Mech. Exerc., I. 106. The *Lying Pannel, above the Base.
1823. P. Nicholson, Pract. Build., 226. Lying Panel, a Panel with the fibres of the wood disposed horizontally.
1842–59. Gwilt, Archit., Gloss., Lying panels, those wherein the fibres of the wood, or the grain of it, lie in an horizontal direction.
1674. N. Fairfax, Bulk & Selv., 151. As certain a cause as is that, by which the runner in a Mill does not sink through the *Lyingstone.
1787. Beattie, Scoticisms, 79. We use the word storm to signify a storm of snow, or snowy weather. We even speak of a *lying storm.
1844. H. Stephens, Bk. Farm, I. 298. Should the flakes be spicular and fall very thick and fast, then a heavy fall, or a ‘lying storm’ … may be expected.
