Usually means: Place oneself flat on surface.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. lay down: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. lay down: Collins English Dictionary
  3. lay down: Vocabulary.com
  4. lay-down: Wordnik
  5. lay-down, lay down: Wiktionary
  6. lay down: Dictionary.com
  7. Lay Down (Candles in the Rain), Lay Down (disambiguation), Lay Down: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. lay down: Rhymezone
  9. lay down: Free Dictionary
  10. lay down: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. lay down: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lay down: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lay down: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lay down: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lay down: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. lay down: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. lay down: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (lay down)

verb:  (transitive) To give up, surrender, or yield (e.g. a weapon), usually by placing it on the ground.
verb:  (intransitive) To surrender or give up.
verb:  To place on the ground, e.g. a railway on a trackbed.
verb:  (transitive) To intentionally take a fall while riding a motorcycle, in order to prevent a more serious collision.
verb:  (transitive) To specify, institute, enact, assert firmly, state authoritatively, establish or formulate (rules or policies).
verb:  To stock, store (e.g. wine) for the future. See also lay by.
verb:  (African-American Vernacular, dated, transitive) To kill (someone).
verb:  (euphemistic, transitive) To euthanize an animal.
verb:  To sacrifice, especially in the phrase "to lay down one's life."
verb:  (intransitive, nonstandard, proscribed) To lie down; to place oneself in a reclined or horizontal position, on a bed or similar, for the purpose of resting.
verb:  (nautical, dated) To draw the lines of a ship's hull at full size, before starting a build.
verb:  (obsolete, printing) To place a sheet in a printing press for printing.

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