n. a narrative poem of popular origin

n. a narrative song with a recurrent refrain

v. prepare or position for action or operation; "lay a fire"; "lay the foundation for a new health care plan"

v. impose as a duty, burden, or punishment; "lay a responsibility on someone"

v. lay eggs; "This hen doesn't lay"

v. lay bare; "bare your breasts"; "bare your feelings"

v. put in a horizontal position; "lay the books on the table"; "lay the patient carefully onto the bed"

v. make public; "She aired her opinions on welfare"

v. put into a certain place or abstract location; "Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point"

v. remove; "clear the leaves from the lawn"; "Clear snow from the road"

adj. lacking its natural or customary covering; "a bare hill"; "bare feet"

adj. lacking its natural or customary covering; "a bare hill"; "bare feet"

adj. not professional; not engaged in a profession or engaging in as a profession or for gain; "the nonprofessional wives of his male colleagues"; "nonprofessional actors"

adj. having everything extraneous removed including contents; "the bare walls"; "the cupboard was bare"

adj. lacking a surface finish such as paint; "bare wood"; "unfinished furniture"

adj. not having a protective covering; "unsheathed cables"; "a bare blade"

adj. just barely adequate or within a lower limit; "a bare majority"; "a marginal victory"

adj. concerning those not members of the clergy; "set his collar in laic rather than clerical position"; "the lay ministry"; "the choir sings both sacred and secular music"

adj. lacking in amplitude or quantity; "a bare livelihood"; "a scanty harvest"; "a spare diet"

adj. completely unclothed; "bare bodies"; "naked from the waist up"; "a nude model"

adj. providing no shelter or sustenance; "bare rocky hills"; "barren lands"; "the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes"; "the desolate surface of the moon"; "a stark landscape"

adj. without the natural or usual covering; "a bald spot on the lawn"; "bare hills"

adj. unornamented; "a simple country schoolhouse"; "her black dress--simple to austerity"

adj. not characteristic of or skilled in applied arts and sciences; "nontechnical aspects of the job"; "nontechnical training"; "an untechnical reader"; "in clear effective nontechnical language"

adj. concerned with secular rather than sacred matters; "lords temporal and spiritual"

n. correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds)

n. the act of giving an account describing incidents or a course of events; "his narration was hesitant"

n. a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events

n. a song of praise (to God or to a saint or to a nation)

n. a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence; "she was humming an air from Beethoven"

n. joyful religious song celebrating the birth of Christ

v. make visible or noticeable; "She showed her talent for cooking"; "Show me your etchings, please"

v. assume a reclining position; "lie down on the bed until you feel better"

v. transfer one's right to

v. attribute or credit to; "We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare"; "People impute great cleverness to cats"

v. sit or recline comfortably; "He was lounging on the sofa"

v. decorate with heraldic arms

v. become widely known and passed on; "the rumor spread"; "the story went around in the office"

v. call attention to; "Please don't advertise the fact that he has AIDS"

v. put or send forth; "She threw the flashlight beam into the corner"; "The setting sun threw long shadows"; "cast a spell"; "cast a warm light"

v. come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort; "excogitate a way to measure the speed of light"

v. arrange according to a system or reduce to a system; "systematize our scientific knowledge"

v. lift or elevate

v. move or cause to move in a specified way, direction, or position; "The vessel hove into sight"

v. engage or hire for work; "They hired two new secretaries in the department"; "How many people has she employed?"

v. get on the back of; "mount a horse"

v. fake or falsify; "Fudge the figures"; "cook the books"; "falsify the data"

v. ask (someone) to marry you; "he popped the question on Sunday night"; "she proposed marriage to the man she had known for only two months"; "The old bachelor finally declared himself to the young woman"

v. refer for judgment or consideration; "She submitted a proposal to the agency"

v. hand over formally

v. make a proposal, declare a plan for something

v. present for acceptance or rejection; "She offered us all a cold drink"

v. perform (a play), especially on a stage; "we are going to stage `Othello'"

v. plan for an activity or event; "I've scheduled a concert next week"

v. put into service; make work or employ (something) for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose; "use your head!"; "we only use Spanish at home"; "I can't use this tool"; "Apply a magnetic field here"; "This thinking was applied to many projects"; "How do you utilize this tool?"; "I apply this rule to get good results"; "use the plastic bags to store the food"; "He doesn't know how to use a computer"

v. put into commission; equip for service; of ships

v. enter into a contractual arrangement

v. hire for work or assistance; "engage aid, help, services, or support"

v. hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services

v. get undressed; "please don't undress in front of everybody!"; "She strips in front of strangers every night for a living"

v. take away possessions from someone; "The Nazis stripped the Jews of all their assets"

v. relieve from; "Rid the house of pests"

v. remove clothes; "take off your shirt--it's very hot in here"

v. change from one level to another; "She dropped into army jargon"

adj. lacking professional skill or expertise; "a very amateurish job"; "inexpert but conscientious efforts"; "an unskilled painting"

adj. lacking practical experience or training

adj. showing lack of art; "an artless translation"

adj. completely unclothed; "bare bodies"; "naked from the waist up"; "a nude model"

adj. deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand; "fresh vegetables were scarce during the drought"

adj. avoiding waste; "an economical meal"; "an economical shopper"; "a frugal farmer"; "a frugal lunch"; "a sparing father and a spending son"; "sparing in their use of heat and light"; "stinting in bestowing gifts"; "thrifty because they remember the great Depression"; "`scotch' is used only informally"

adj. containing little excess; "a lean budget"; "a skimpy allowance"

adj. of or relating to or characteristic of Sparta or its people

adj. not sufficient to meet a need; "an inadequate income"; "a poor salary"; "money is short"; "on short rations"; "food is in short supply"; "short on experience"

adj. not dense; "a thin beard"; "trees were sparse"

adj. limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent; "a little dining room"; "a little house"; "a small car"; "a little (or small) group"

adj. containing little excess; "a lean budget"; "a skimpy allowance"

adj. having everything extraneous removed including contents; "the bare walls"; "the cupboard was bare"

adj. very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration"

adj. without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers; "an arrant fool"; "a complete coward"; "a consummate fool"; "a double-dyed villain"; "gross negligence"; "a perfect idiot"; "pure folly"; "what a sodding mess"; "stark staring mad"; "a thoroughgoing villain"; "utter nonsense"; "the unadulterated truth"

adj. characterized by or preferring solitude; "a lone wolf"; "a lonely existence"; "a man of a solitary disposition"; " a solitary walk"

adj. not decorated with something to increase its beauty or distinction

adj. furthest or highest in degree or order; utmost or extreme; "the ultimate achievement"; "the ultimate question"; "man's ultimate destiny"; "the ultimate insult"; "one's ultimate goal in life"

adj. free from pomp or affectation; "comfortable but modest cottages"; "a simple rectangular brick building"; "a simple man with simple tastes"

adj. clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment; "the effects of the drought are apparent to anyone who sees the parched fields"; "evident hostility"; "manifest disapproval"; "patent advantages"; "made his meaning plain"; "it is plain that he is no reactionary"; "in plain view"

adj. of or relating to or characteristic of Sparta or its people

adj. without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers; "an arrant fool"; "a complete coward"; "a consummate fool"; "a double-dyed villain"; "gross negligence"; "a perfect idiot"; "pure folly"; "what a sodding mess"; "stark staring mad"; "a thoroughgoing villain"; "utter nonsense"; "the unadulterated truth"

adj. being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language; "common parlance"; "a vernacular term"; "vernacular speakers"; "the vulgar tongue of the masses"; "the technical and vulgar names for an animal species"

adj. not exceptional in any way especially in quality or ability or size or degree; "ordinary everyday objects"; "ordinary decency"; "an ordinary day"; "an ordinary wine"

adj. lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered; "average people"; "the ordinary (or common) man in the street"

adj. conforming with or constituting a norm or standard or level or type or social norm; not abnormal; "serve wine at normal room temperature"; "normal diplomatic relations"; "normal working hours"; "normal word order"; "normal curiosity"; "the normal course of events"

adj. lacking exceptional quality or ability; "a novel of average merit"; "only a fair performance of the sonata"; "in fair health"; "the caliber of the students has gone from mediocre to above average"; "the performance was middling at best"

adj. not exceptional in any way especially in quality or ability or size or degree; "ordinary everyday objects"; "ordinary decency"; "an ordinary day"; "an ordinary wine"

adj. clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment; "the effects of the drought are apparent to anyone who sees the parched fields"; "evident hostility"; "manifest disapproval"; "patent advantages"; "made his meaning plain"; "it is plain that he is no reactionary"; "in plain view"

adj. in accord with regular practice or procedure; "took his regular morning walk"; "her regular bedtime"

adj. that you have the financial means for; "low-cost housing"

adj. found in the ordinary course of events; "a placid everyday scene"; "it was a routine day"; "there's nothing quite like a real...train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute"- Anita Diamant

adj. of or belonging to or characteristic of this earth as distinguished from heaven; "earthly beings"; "believed that our earthly life is all that matters"; "earthly love"; "our earthly home"

adj. applying to ordinary citizens; "civil law"; "civil authorities"

v. repose in

v. be based on; of theories and claims, for example; "What's this new evidence based on?"

v. place on top of; "can you superimpose the two images?"

v. save up as for future use

v. feather one's nest; have a nest egg; "He saves half his salary"

v. lay on

v. leave or unload, especially of passengers or cargo;

v. arrange the outcome of by means of deceit; "rig an election"

v. take or catch as if in a snare or trap; "I was set up!"; "The innocent man was framed by the police"

v. go ashore; "The passengers disembarked at Southampton"

v. create by putting components or members together; "She pieced a quilt"; "He tacked together some verses"; "They set up a committee"

v. construct, build, or erect; "Raise a barn"

v. cause to come to the ground; "the pilot managed to land the airplane safely"

v. lock up or confine, in or as in a jail; "The suspects were imprisoned without trial"; "the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life"

v. put together out of existing material; "compile a list"

v. apply to a surface; "She applied paint to the back of the house"; "Put on make-up!"

v. put up; "post a sign"; "post a warning at the dump"

v. to join or unite the pieces of; "patch the skirt"

v. transmit information ; "Please communicate this message to all employees"; "pass along the good news"

adj. having no leaves

adj. deprived of leaves

adj. resembling or consisting of a scape; having a bare leafless stalk growing directly from the ground; "tulips are scapose flowers"; "a scapose stalk"; "a scapose column"; "the scapose portion of a feather"

adj. engaged in as a pastime; "an amateur painter"; "gained valuable experience in amateur theatricals"; "recreational golfers"; "reading matter that is both recreational and mentally stimulating"; "unpaid extras in the documentary"

adj. completely wanting or lacking: "writing barren of insight"; "young recruits destitute of experience"; "a novel devoid of wit and inventiveness"; "a life empty of happiness"; "innocent of literary merit"; "void of understanding"

adj. having had something taken away: "bereft of their dignity"

adj. (of a surface) not written or printed on; "blank pages"; "fill in the blank spaces"; "a clean page"; "wide white margins"

adj. emptied or exhausted of (as by drawing off e.g. water or other liquid); "a drained marsh"; "a drained tank"; "a drained and apathetic old man...not caring any longer about anything"

adj. (empty)

adj. carrying nothing in the hands

adj. (used of eyes) lacking liveliness; "empty eyes"; "a glassy stare"; "his eyes were glazed over with boredom"

adj. wrongfully emptied or stripped of anything of value; "the robbers left the looted train"; "people returned to the plundered village"

adj. without an occupant or incumbent; "the throne is never vacant"

adj. void of thought or knowledge; "a vacant mind"

adj. containing nothing; "the earth was without form, and void"

adj. not having a coating of stain or varnish

adj. not wearing rouge; "unrouged lips"

adj. enough to meet a purpose; "an adequate income"; "the food was adequate"; "a decent wage"; "enough food"; "food enough"

adj. kept in reserve especially for emergency use; "a reserve supply of food"; "a spare tire"; "spare parts"

adj. sufficient to provide comfort; "a comfortable salary"

adj. extremely scanty; "an exiguous budget"

adj. of a bare living gained by great labor; "the sharecropper's hardscrabble life"; "a marginal existence"

adj. contemptibly small in amount; "a measly tip"; "the company donated a miserable $100 for flood relief"; "a paltry wage"; "almost depleted his miserable store of dried beans"

adj. having the head uncovered; "caught bareheaded by the downpour"; "with bared head"

adj. having the legs uncovered by clothing; "barelegged children on the beach"

adj. possessing no clothing

adj. partly dressed in a loose or careless manner

adj. not covered with clothing; "her exposed breast"

adj. inadequately clothed

adj. as naked as at birth

adj. partially clothed

adj. (British informal) stark naked

adj. with clothing stripped off

adj. having removed clothing

adj. without any clothing at all

adj. very unfavorable to life or growth; "a hostile climate"; "an uncongenial atmosphere"; "an uncongenial soil"; "the unfriendly environment at high altitudes"

adj. very unfavorable to life or growth; "a hostile climate"; "an uncongenial atmosphere"; "an uncongenial soil"; "the unfriendly environment at high altitudes"

adj. open to or swept by wind; "windswept headlands"

adj. (uncovered)

adj. having no roof; "an unroofed shed"

adj. severely simple; "a stark interior"

adj. lacking distinguishing characteristics or features; "the featureless landscape of the steppe"

adj. not elaborate; lacking rich or complex detail

adj. avoiding embellishment or exaggeration (used for emphasis); "it's the literal truth"

adj. unornamented; "a simple country schoolhouse"; "her black dress--simple to austerity"

adj. severely simple in line or design; "a neat tailored suit"; "tailored curtains"

adj. "the country at large"; "I enjoyed the play as a whole though I thought the acting could have been better"

adj. representing the whole of a state or body rather than one specific division or part of it: "ambassador-at-large"

adj. not detailed or specific; "a broad rule"; "the broad outlines of the plan"; "felt an unspecific dread"

adj. widely circulated or diffused; "a widespread doctrine"; "widespread fear of nuclear war"

adj. not limited in use or function

adj. applicable to an entire class or group; "is there a generic Asian mind?"

adj. lacking fine distinctions or detail; "the gross details of the structure appear reasonable"

adj. "mass destruction"

adj. constituting a grab-bag category; "the usual collection of miscellaneous expenses"

adj. involving only main features; "the overall pattern of his life"

adj. existing everywhere; "pandemic fear of nuclear war"

adj. spreading or spread throughout; "armed with permeative irony...he punctures affectations"; "the pervasive odor of garlic"; "an error is pervasive if it is material to more than one conclusion"

adj. grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred; "blasphemous rites of a witches' Sabbath"; "profane utterances against the Church"; "it is sacrilegious to enter with shoes on"

adj. profaning or tending to desecrate

adj. made secular

v. provide with a covering or cause to be covered; "cover her face with a handkerchief"; "cover the child with a blanket"; "cover the grave with flowers"

v. prevent from being seen or discovered; "Muslim women hide their faces"; "hide the money"

v. put a dressing on; "dress the salads"

v. destroy the arrangement or order of; "My son disarranged the papers on my desk"

v. keep away from others; "He sequestered himself in his study to write a book"

v. take and lift upward

v. give a passenger or a hitchhiker a lift; "We picked up a hitchhiker on the highway"

adj. engaged in a profession or engaging in as a profession or means of livelihood; "the professional man or woman possesses distinctive qualifications"; "began her professional career after the Olympics"; "professional theater"; "professional football"; "a professional cook"; "professional actors and athletes"

adj. containing as much or as many as is possible or normal; "a full glass"; "a sky full of stars"; "a full life"; "the auditorium was full to overflowing"

adj. enclosed in a protective covering; sometimes used in combination; "his sheathed sword"; "the cat's sheathed claws"; "a ship's bottom sheathed in copper"; "copper-sheathed"

adj. of a quantity that can fulfill a need or requirement but without being abundant; "sufficient food"

adj. wearing or provided with clothing; sometimes used in combination; "clothed and in his right mind"- Bible; "proud of her well-clothed family"; "nurses clad in white"; "white-clad nurses"

adj. not plain; decorative or ornamented; "fancy handwriting"; "fancy clothes"

adj. concerned with religion or religious purposes; "sacred texts"; "sacred rites"; "sacred music"

adj. of or associated with a church (especially a Christian Church); "ecclesiastic history"

adj. concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church; "religious texts"; "a member of a religious order"; "lords temporal and spiritual"; "spiritual leaders"; "spiritual songs"