Verb

To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating.

To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; with to'', ''toward , etc.

* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)

They delight rather to lean to their old customs.

To rest or rely, for support, comfort, etc.; with on'', ''upon'', or ''against .

* (1809-1892)

He leaned not on his fathers but himself.

* , chapter=23

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=The slightest effort made the patient cough. He would stand leaning on a stick and holding a hand to his side, and when the paroxysm had passed it left him shaking.}}

To hang outwards.

To press against.

* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)

His fainting limbs against an oak he leant .

Verb

(en verb)

To thin out (a fuel-air mixture): to reduce the fuel flow into the mixture so that there is more air or oxygen.

* {{quote-magazine

, year=1938 , month=July , author=Blaine and Dupont Miller , title=Weather Hop , page=25 , magazine=Boy's Life , publisher=Boy Scouts of America , issn=0006-8608 citation , passage=He leaned the mixture in an effort to cause a backfire through the carburetor, the generally accepted method of breaking the ice loose. }}

* {{quote-magazine

, year=2002 , month=July , author=Tom Benenson , title=Can Your Engine Run Too Lean? , volume=129 , issue=7 , page=73 , magazine=Flying , issn=0015-4806 citation , passage=Even the Pilot's Operating Handbooks (POH) for our training airplanes add to our paranoia with their insistence that we not lean the mixture until we're above 5000 feet density altitude. }}

Verb

(en verb)

To conceal.

(Ray)

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 .