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(transitive, obsolete) To have sex with. / (intransitive, dated) To rest from labour; to take a break.

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obsolete transitive dated intransitive

(transitive, obsolete) To have sex with. / (intransitive, dated) To rest from labour; to take a break.

Japanese Meaning

（古語・時代語・他動詞）性交する / （時代的表現・自動詞）労働などから休息する、休憩する

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The chronicler noted that the knight would lie by the queen on countless nights.

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年代記には、その騎士が数え切れない夜に王妃と関係を持っていたと記されている。

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Sense（1）

(transitive, obsolete) To have sex with.

, 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.

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Sense（2）

(intransitive, dated) To rest from labour; to take a break.

lies by

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lying by

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lay by

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lain by

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