laid vs lain
laid
Definitions
adjective
- set down according to a plan
Examples
She laid a little of her pay away each week.
A perfect mob of street urchins, loafers, shop-men and bar-keepers who could spare a bit of time, lined up in front of the Palace Hotel and watched the plaid-coated, gray-capped visitors in short knickerbockers and golf stockings puff their pipes around the bar and call for "Porter and h'ale, 'alf and
The somnolent Hampden conference suddenly started to come alive as he laid into Labour as a waste of space in Westminster.