Word Meanings - LYING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

of Lie, to tell a falsehood.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of LYING)

• Mendacity
• Falsehood
• lying
• untruthfulness
• deception
• prevarication
• duplicity
• Recumbent
• Lying
• leaning
• trailing
• reclining
• prostrate
• reposing
• horizontal

Related words: (words related to LYING)

• LYRE BIRD
  Any one of two or three species of Australian birds of the genus Menura. The male is remarkable for having the sixteen tail feathers very long and, when spread, arranged in the form of a lyre. The common lyre bird , inhabiting New South Wales,
• LYTHE
  The European pollack; -- called also laith, and leet.
• LYSIMETER
  An instrument for measuring the water that percolates through a certain depth of soil. Knight.
• LYCOPODE
  See LYCOPODIUM
• LYTHONTHRIPTIC; LYTHONTRIPTIC
  See LITHONTRIPTIC
• LYONNAISE
  Applied to boiled potatoes cut into small pieces and heated in oil or butter. They are usually flavored with onion and parsley.
• LYMPH
  An alkaline colorless fluid, contained in the lymphatic vessels, coagulable like blood, but free from red blood corpuscles. It is absorbed from the various tissues and organs of the body, and is finally discharged by the thoracic and right lymphatic
• LEANING
  The act, or state, of inclining; inclination; tendency; as, a leaning towards Calvinism.
• LYSSA
  Hydrophobia. Note: The plural has been used to signify the pustules supposed to be developed under the tongue in hydrophobia.
• HORIZONTALLY
  In a horizontal direction or position; on a level; as, moving horizontally.
• LYNCH LAW
  . The act or practice by private persons of inflicting punishment for crimes or offenses, without due process of law. Note: The term Lynch law is said to be derived from a Virginian named Lynch, who took the law into his own hands. But the origin
• RECLINING
  Bending or curving gradually back from the perpendicular. Recumbent. Reclining dial, a dial whose plane is inclined to the vertical line through its center. Davies & Peck .
• RECLINATE
  Reclined, as a leaf; bent downward, so that the point, as of a stem or leaf, is lower than the base.
• LYCINE
  A weak base identical with betaine; -- so called because found in the boxthorn . See Betaine.
• LYAM
  A leash.
• LYRIFEROUS
  Having a lyre-shaped shoulder girdle, as certain fishes.
• LYMPHOGENIC
  Connected with, or formed in, the lymphatic glands.
• LYCOPODIUM
  A genus of mosslike plants, the type of the order Lycopodiaceæ; club moss. Lycopodium powder, a fine powder or dust composed of the spores of Lycopodium, and other plants of the order Lycopodiaceæ. It is highly inflammable, and is sometimes used
• LEANLY
  Meagerly; without fat or plumpness.
• LYCHEE
  See LITCHI
• FAMILIARLY
  In a familiar manner.
• STILLY
  Still; quiet; calm. The stilly hour when storms are gone. Moore.
• LIVINGLY
  In a living state. Sir T. Browne.
• SAVELY
  Safely. Chaucer.
• POLYPHYLLOUS
  Many-leaved; as, a polyphyllous calyx or perianth.
• SCOLYTID
  Any one of numerous species of small bark-boring beetles of the genus Scolytus and allied genera. Also used adjectively.
• POLYCHROITE
  The coloring matter of saffron; -- formerly so called because of the change of color on treatment with certain acids; -- called also crocin, and safranin.
• LAUGHINGLY
  With laughter or merriment.
• WHIP-TOM-KELLY
  A vireo native of the West Indies and Florida; -- called also black-whiskered vireo.
• DISPROPORTIONALLY
  In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally.
• STAUNCH; STAUNCHLY; STAUNCHNESS
  See ETC
• THIRSTILY
  In a thirsty manner.
• SUNDRILY
  In sundry ways; variously.
• OVERFLOWINGLY
  In great abundance; exuberantly. Boyle.
• THERMALLY
  In a thermal manner.
• POLYPODIUM
  A genus of plants of the order Filices or ferns. The fructifications are in uncovered roundish points, called sori, scattered over the inferior surface of the frond or leaf. There are numerous species.
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• SPANGLY
  Resembling, or consisting of, spangles; glittering; as, spangly light.
• MAGNIFICENTLY
  In a Magnificent manner.