Definitions for unlaid

unlaid un·laid

Spelling: [uhn-leyd]
IPA: /ʌnˈleɪd/

Unlaid is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 103 anagrams from letters in unlaid (adilnu).

Definitions for unlaid

adjective

  1. not laid or placed:
  2. (of dead bodies) not laid out; not prepared for burial.
  3. not laid to rest, as a spirit.
  4. untwisted, as a rope.

verb (used with object)

  1. to separate (a strand) from a rope.
  2. to untwist (a rope) in order to separate its strands.

Origin of unlaid

First recorded in 1425-75, unlaid is from the late Middle English word unleyd. See un-1, laid

Examples for unlaid

The officer who had brought Father Vincent to this conference, also stood musing after them with unlaid suspicion.

But still, above and beneath and through every other odor, the unlaid ghost of Tammas's victim cried for vengeance.

She roamed about the empty house with her footsteps tracked by an unlaid ghost.

Are formed of clean, unchafed yarns, drawn from condemned rope, unlaid.

With or without a crown, or a double crown, is made by intertwisting the unlaid ends of a rope in a peculiar manner.

She had unlaid one of her black braids and was replaiting it again after the havoc wrought by the prickly bushes.

Terrors and ghosts of unlaid accountants haunt the houses of their children from generation to generation.

William and Mr Seagrave unlaid some thick rope, that Ready might make smaller and more useful rope with the yarns.

Aus ungelegten Eiern werden spt junge Hhner—Chickens are long in coming out of unlaid eggs.

They relate a very few encounters with trolls—the hideous, unlaid, still embodied dead.

Word Value for unlaid
Scrable

7

Words with friends

10

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