Treated or prepared with lye.

simple past tense of lye

present participle of lie to

(astronomy) Abbreviation of light year.

(astronomy, countable) Alternative spelling of ly; light-year / (uncountable) Initialism of lethal yellowing.

Alternative form of lyo- (before a vowel)

Used to form adjectives from nouns, the adjectives having the sense of "behaving like, or having a nature typical of what is denoted by the noun".

Used to form adverbs from adjectives and nouns.

plural of ly

The final stages of pregnancy; accouchement. / A period of postpartum confinement, typically a month or longer, formerly common in Europe and still practiced in some parts of the world.