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  Lay may refer to:
  • Lay person
    Laity

    In religious organizations, the laity comprises all persons who are not clergy. A person who is a member of a religious order who is not Holy Orders clergy is considered as a member of the laity, even though they are members of a religious order ....
    , any person who is not a member of the clergy.
  • a lyric song
    Lyric poetry

    Lyric poetry refers to a usually short poem that expresses personal feelings, which may or may not be set to music. Aristotle, in Poetics , contrasted lyric poetry with drama and epic poetry....
    • Germanic *laikaz
      Lac

      Lac is the scarlet resinous secretion of a number of species of insects, namely some of the species of the families Metatachardia, Laccifer, Tachordiella, Austrotacharidia, Afrotachardina, and Tachardina of the superfamily Coccoidea, of which the most commonly cultivated sp...
      • any poem of the Poetic Edda
        Poetic Edda

        The Poetic Edda is a collection of Old Norse poems primarily preserved in the Icelandic mediaeval manuscript Codex Regius. Along with Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda, the Poetic Edda is the most important extant source on Norse mythology and Germanic heroic legends....
    • Lai
      Laï

      La? is a city in Chad, the capital of the regions of Chad of Tandjil? Region. The town is served by La? Airport....
      , a 13th- or 14th-century northern European song.
      • Breton lai
        Breton lai

        A Breton lai, also known as a narrative lay or simply a lay, is a form of medieval Old French and English language romance literature....
    • poetically of bird song
      Bird song

      Bird vocalization includes both bird calls and bird songs. In non-technical use, bird songs are the bird sounds that are melodious to the human ear....
  • Lay
    Oviparity

    Oviparous animals are animals that lay Egg , with little or no other embryonic development within the mother. This is the Biological reproduction of most fish, amphibians, reptiles, all birds, the monotremes, and most insects and arachnids....
    , the release of an egg of an animal.


A surname
  • Kenneth Lay
    Kenneth Lay

    Kenneth Lee "Ken" Lay was an United States businessman, best known for his role in the widely-reported corruption scandal that led to the downfall of Enron....
     (1942–2006), U.S. businessman, former CEO of Enron
    Enron

    Enron Creditors Recovery Corporation was an American energy company based in Houston, Texas, Texas. Before its bankruptcy in late 2001, Enron employed approximately 22,000 and was one of the world's leading electricity, natural gas, pulp and paper, and communications companies, with claimed revenues of nearly $101 billion in 2000....
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  • Benjamin Lay
    Benjamin Lay

    Benjamin Lay was a Quaker philanthropist and abolitionist.Lay was born in Colchester, England. In 1710 he moved to Barbados as a merchant, but his abolition principles, fueled by his Quaker radicalism, became obnoxious to the people who lived there so he moved to Abington, Pennsylvania....
     (1681-1760), English Quaker and Abolitionist.
  • Jeffrey Lay
    Jeffrey Lay

    Jeffrey Donald Lay is a retired rower from Canada. He won the silver medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in the Men's Lightweight Coxless Fours, alongside Brian Peaker, Dave Boyes, and Gavin Hassett....
     (born 1969), Canadian rower


toponymy
  • Lay, Loire
    Lay, Loire

    Lay is a Communes of France in the Loire Departments of France in central France....
    , a French commune in the Loire
    Loire

    Loire is an departments of France in the east-central part of France occupying the River Loire's upper reaches....
     department.
  • Sycamore, Kansas
    Sycamore, Kansas

    Sycamore is an unincorporated area in northern Montgomery County, Kansas, Kansas, United States. It lies along U.S. Route 75 north of the city of Independence, Kansas, the county seat of Montgomery County....
    , an American
    United States

    The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
     community also called Lay


brands
  • Lay's
    Lay's

    Lay's is the brand name for a number of potato chip varieties as well as the name of the company that founded the chip brand in 1938. Lay's chips are marketed as a division of Frito-Lay, a company owned by PepsiCo Inc....
    , a potato chip brand name and company.