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present participle and gerund of lie (“to rest in a horizontal position”)
“Without shutting herself up from her family ... or lying awake the whole night to indulge meditation, Elinor found every day afforded her leisure enough to think of Edward.”
The act of one who lies, or keeps low to the ground.
“1854, Saint Augustine, Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm LXIV, translated by Philip Schaff et al. But whom could the lyings in wait of the human heart escape?”
Tending to tell lies, untruthful, mendacious
“Gloster: Then, Saunder, sit there, the lyingest knave in Christendom.”
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