Verb

(fak)

To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.

To make; to construct; to do. (rfexample)

To modify fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is; as, to fake a bulldog, by burning his upper lip and thus artificially shortening it.

To make a counterfeit, to counterfeit, to forge, to falsify.

To make a false display of, to affect, to feign, to simulate.

Verb

(fak)

(nautical) To coil (a rope, line, or hawser), by winding alternately in opposite directions, in layers usually of zigzag or figure of eight form, to prevent twisting when running out.

Verb

(label) To rest in a horizontal position on a surface.

* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)

The watchful traveller / Lay down again, and closed his weary eyes.

* 1849 , (Henry David Thoreau), (A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers)

Our uninquiring corpses lie more low / Than our life's curiosity doth go.

* {{quote-book, year=1892, author=(James Yoxall)

, chapter=5, title= The Lonely Pyramid , passage=The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. Whirling wreaths and columns of burning wind, rushed around and over them.}}

(label) To be placed or situated.

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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.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=52, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= The new masters and commanders , passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.}}

To abide; to remain for a longer or shorter time; to be in a certain state or condition.

To be or exist; to belong or pertain; to have an abiding place; to consist; used with in .

* (Arthur Collier) (1680-1732)

Envy lies between beings equal in nature, though unequal in circumstances.

* (John Locke) (1632-1705)

He that thinks that diversion may not lie in hard labour, forgets the early rising and hard riding of huntsmen.

(label) To lodge; to sleep.

* (John Evelyn) (1620-1706)

While I was now trifling at home, I saw London, where I lay one night only.

* (Charles Dickens) (1812-1870)

Mr. Quinion lay at our house that night.

To be still or quiet, like one lying down to rest.

* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

The wind is loud and will not lie .

(label) To be sustainable; to be capable of being maintained.

* Ch. J. Parsons

An appeal lies in this case.

Verb

To give false information intentionally.

When Pinocchio lies , his nose grows.

If you are found to have lied in court, you could face a penalty.

While a principle-based approach might claim that lying''' is always morally wrong, the casuist would argue that, depending upon the details of the case, '''lying''' might or might not be illegal or unethical. The casuist might conclude that a person is wrong to '''lie''' in legal testimony under oath, but might argue that '''lying actually is the best moral choice if the lie saves a life. ^(w)

To convey a false image or impression.

Photos often lie .

Hips don't lie .