unlaid

From un- +‎ laid.

• IPA^(key): /ʌnˈleɪd/

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• Rhymes: -eɪd

unlaid (not comparable)

1. not laid

   an unlaid egg

   unlaid paving stones

   The table was still unlaid, despite Mum asking us the kids to lay it five times.

   • 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J S, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, , London: Will Stansby , published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):

     the first foundations of the world being as yet unlaid

   1. Not laid by exorcism
      • 1634 October 9 (first performance), , edited by H Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: , before the Right Honorable, Iohn Earle of Bridgewater, Vicount Brackly, Lord President of Wales, and One of His Maiesties Most Honorable Privie Counsell.">…] , London: ">…] for Hvmphrey Robinson, , published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus:  (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC:

        stubborn, unlaid ghost

   2. (of a person, slang) not having had sexual intercourse

      I've been unlaid since my boyfriend left me 5 months ago, so I'm desperate for a shag!

      • 2012, Norah Vincent, Thy Neighbor: A Novel, →ISBN:

        He smiled at this proudly, like he was the campus pussy-bandit being lauded for his prowess by his unlaid friends.

   3. Not laid out, as a corpse.
      • a. 1638 (date written), Benjamin Jonson , “Under-woods. Consisting of Divers Poems. (please specify the poem)”, in The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. The Second Volume.  (Second Folio), London: Richard Meighen, published 1640, →OCLC:

        With their pellets of small wit, / Parts of me they judg'd decay'd; / But we last out still unlay'd

   4. (of paper) Not marked with parallel lines.

unlaid

1. simple past and past participle of unlay

• “unlaid”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Lindau, dualin, Ludian