laying

1. To place down in a position of rest, or in a horizontal position.

   A shower of rain lays the dust.

2. To cause to subside or abate.
3. To prepare (a plan, project etc.); to set out, establish (a law, principle).
4. To install certain building materials, laying one thing on top of another.

   lay brick;  lay flooring

5. To produce and deposit an egg.

   Did dinosaurs lay their eggs in a nest?

6. To bet (that something is or is not the case).

   I'll lay that he doesn't turn up on Monday.

7. To deposit (a stake) as a wager; to stake; to risk.
8. To have sex with.
9. To take a position; to come or go.

   to lay forward;  to lay aloft

10. To state; to allege.

    to lay the venue

11. To point; to aim.

    to lay a gun

12. (ropemaking) To put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite them.

    to lay a cable or rope

13. To place and arrange (pages) for a form upon the imposing stone.
14. To place (new type) properly in the cases.
15. To apply; to put.
16. To impose (a burden, punishment, command, tax, etc.).

    to lay a tax on land

17. To impute; to charge; to allege.
18. To present or offer.

    to lay an indictment in a particular county;   to lay a scheme before one

verb

To don or put on (tefillin (phylacteries)).