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lie
1. verb /laɪ̯/
a) To be in a horizontal position.

Our uninquiring corpses lie more low / Than our lifes curiosity doth go.

b) To be placed or situated.

Hepaticology, outside the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, still lies deep in the shadow cast by that ultimate "closet taxonomist," Franz Stephani—a ghost whose shadow falls over us all.

See Also: lees, lier
2. noun /laɪ̯/
a) The terrain and conditions surrounding the ball before it is struck.

I knew he was telling a lie by his facial expression.

b) The position of a fetus in the womb.
See Also: liar

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