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unlaid
[uhn-leyd]
adjective
not laid or placed.
The table is still unlaid.
(of dead bodies) not laid out; not prepared for burial.
not laid to rest, as a spirit.
untwisted, as a rope.
51Թ History and Origins
Example Sentences
With pick-up artistry, men are told they can learn to trick women into unwanted sex, but more often than not, they're just fooled into spending a lot of money on useless "classes" — unlaid, but poorer.
Yet as Freud himself wrote, “A thing which has not been understood inevitably reappears; like an unlaid ghost, it cannot rest until the mystery has been solved and the spell broken.”
For the first time, researchers have found an unlaid egg inside a fossil bird.
Speaking to the Los Angeles Times, Mr. Hamilton dismissed his critics as the “great unlaid.”
They found the poison in all of the testes of male robins examined, in developing egg follicles, in the ovaries of females, in completed but unlaid eggs, in the oviducts, in unhatched eggs from deserted nests, in embryos within the eggs, and in a newly hatched, dead nestling.
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