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lie_by

lie by

English

Verb

lie by

  1. (obsolete) To have sex with.
    • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte d’Arthur, Book V:
      Than he lete make a cry thorow all the oste that uppon layne of lyff and lymme [...] that no lyege man that longyth to his oste sholde lye be no maydens ne ladyes nother no burgessis wyff that to the cité longis.