(India, obsolete) The sloping or roof part of the canvas of a tent.
(baseball) A fly ball.
(cotton manufacture) waste cotton
(finance) A butterfly (combination of four options).
(fishing) A lightweight fishing lure resembling an insect.
(historical) A type of small, light, fast horse-drawn carriage that can be hired for transportation (sometimes pluralised flys).
(nautical) That part of a compass on which the points are marked; the compass card.
(non-technical) Especially, any of the insects of the family Muscidae, such as the common housefly (other families of Diptera include mosquitoes and midges).
(obsolete) A parasite.
(obsolete) A witch's familiar.
(obsolete) The action of flying; flight.
(often plural) A strip of material (sometimes hiding zippers or buttons) at the front of a pair of trousers, pants, underpants, bootees, etc.
(preceded by definite article) A simple dance in which the hands are shaken in the air, popular in the 1960s.
(printing, historical) A vibrating frame with fingers, attached to a power printing press for doing the same work.
(printing, historical) The person who took the printed sheets from the press.
(rural, Scotland, Northern England) A wing.
(swimming) The butterfly stroke (plural is normally flys).
(weaving) A shuttle driven through the shed by a blow or jerk.
(weightlifting) A chest exercise performed by moving extended arms from the sides to in front of the chest. (also flye)
(weightlifting) An exercise that involves wide opening and closing of the arms perpendicular to the shoulders.
(zoology) Any insect of the order Diptera; characterized by having two wings (except for some wingless species), also called true flies.
A piece of canvas that covers the opening at the front of a tent.
An act of flying.
Any similar, but unrelated insect, such as a dragonfly or butterfly.
In a knitting machine, the piece hinged to the needle, which holds the engaged loop in position while the needle is penetrating another loop; a latch..
One of the upper screens of a stage in a theatre.
Related terms: flyman
Short for flywheel.
The free edge of a flag.
The horizontal length of a flag.
The pair of arms revolving around the bobbin, in a spinning wheel or spinning frame, to twist the yarn.
The part of a vane pointing the direction from which the wind blows.
Two or more vanes set on a revolving axis, to act as a fanner, or to equalize or impede the motion of machinery by the resistance of the air, as in the striking part of a clock.
verb
(intransitive) To move suddenly, or with violence; to do an act suddenly or swiftly.
(intransitive) To proceed with great success.
(intransitive) To travel or proceed very fast; to hasten.
(intransitive) To travel through the air, another gas, or a vacuum, without being in contact with a grounded surface.
(intransitive, baseball) To hit a fly ball; to hit a fly ball that is caught for an out. Compare ground (verb) and line (verb).
(intransitive, colloquial, of a proposal, project or idea) To be accepted, come about or work out.
(intransitive, entomology, of a type of moth or butterfly) To be in the winged adult stage.
(transitive) To hunt with a hawk.
(transitive, ergative) To cause to fly (travel or float in the air): to transport via air or the like.
(transitive, ergative) To display (a flag) on a flagpole.
(transitive, intransitive, archaic, poetic) To flee, to escape (from).
kyl
lay
lay
adj
(card games) Not trumps.
(obsolete) Not educated or cultivated; ignorant.
Non-professional; not being a member of an organized institution.
Not belonging to the clergy, but associated with them.
noun
(colloquial) A casual sexual partner.
(colloquial) An act of sexual intercourse.
(obsolete) A basis or ground.
(obsolete) A law.
(obsolete) A layer.
(obsolete) A meadow; a lea.
(obsolete) An obligation; a vow.
(slang, archaic) A place or activity where someone spends a significant portion of their time.
A ballad or sung poem; a short poem or narrative, usually intended to be sung.
A lake.
A lyrical, narrative poem written in octosyllabic couplets that often deals with tales of adventure and romance.
A share of the profits in a business.
Arrangement or relationship; layout.
The direction a rope is twisted.
The laying of eggs.
What was I, just another lay you can toss aside as you go on to your next conquest?
verb
(Judaism, transitive) To don or put on (tefillin (phylacteries)).
(intransitive, proscribed, see usage notes) To lie: to rest in a horizontal position on a surface.
(law) To state; to allege.
(military) To point; to aim.
(nautical) To take a position; to come or go.
(printing) To place (new type) properly in the cases.
(printing) To place and arrange (pages) for a form upon the imposing stone.
(proscribed) To be in a horizontal position; to lie (from confusion with lie).
(ropemaking) To put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite them.
(transitive) To bet (that something is or is not the case).
(transitive) To deposit (a stake) as a wager; to stake; to risk.
(transitive) To install certain building materials, laying one thing on top of another.
(transitive) To place down in a position of rest, or in a horizontal position.
(transitive) To prepare (a plan, project etc.); to set out, establish (a law, principle).
(transitive) To produce and deposit an egg.
(transitive, archaic) To cause to subside or abate.
(transitive, slang) To have sex with.
To apply; to put.
To impose (a burden, punishment, command, tax, etc.).
To impute; to charge; to allege.
To present or offer.
simple past tense of lie when pertaining to position.
ley
ley
adj
(agriculture) Fallow; unseeded.
(agriculture) Rotated to pasture instead of cropping.
noun
(obsolete) Law.
A ley line.
Alternative spelling of lea
Archaic form of lye.
loy
loy
noun
(Ireland) A type of one-eared spade used in Ireland.
lyc
lye
lye
noun
(UK, rail transport) A short side line, connected with the main line; a turn-out; a siding.
An alkaline liquid made by leaching ashes (usually wood ashes).
Obsolete spelling of lie
Potassium or sodium hydroxide (caustic soda).
verb
Obsolete spelling of lie.
To treat with lye.
lym
lyn
lyn
noun
Alternative form of linn (“waterfall”)
lys
lys
noun
plural of ly
oly
ply
ply
noun
(artificial intelligence, combinatorial game theory) In two-player sequential games, a "half-turn" or a move made by one of the players.
(colloquial) Short for plywood.
(now chiefly Scotland) A condition, a state.
A bent; a direction.
A layer of material.
A strand that, twisted together with other strands, makes up rope or yarn.
verb
(intransitive) To bend, to flex; to be bent by something, to give way or yield (to a force, etc.).
(intransitive, nautical, obsolete) To manoeuvre a sailing vessel so that the direction of the wind changes from one side of the vessel to the other; to work to windward, to beat, to tack.
(intransitive, obsolete) To work diligently.
(transitive) To persist in offering something to, especially for the purpose of inducement or persuasion.
(transitive) To press upon; to urge persistently.
(transitive) To wield or use (a tool, a weapon, etc.) steadily or vigorously.
(transitive) To work at (something) diligently.
(transitive, intransitive, transport) To travel over (a route) regularly.
(transitive, obsolete) To bend; to fold; to mould; (figuratively) to adapt, to modify; to change (a person's) mind, to cause (a person) to submit.
rly
rly
adv
(Internet slang) Abbreviation of really.
noun
Abbreviation of railway.
sly
sly
adj
(having a positive connotation) Dexterous in performing an action, so as to escape notice
Artfully cunning; secretly mischievous; wily.
Done with, and marked by, artful and dexterous secrecy; subtle
Light or delicate; slight; thin.
adv
Slyly.
syl
ycl
ycl
Proper noun
of, the youth section of the Communist Party of the USA.