hewed stone.”—­1 Kings, vi, 36.  “A thing by which matter is hewed.”—­Dr. Murray’s Hist. of Europ.  Lang., Vol. i, p. 378.  “SCAGD or SCAD meaned distinction, dividing.”—­Ib., i, 114.  “He only meaned to acknowledge him to be an extraordinary person.”—­Lowth’s Gram., p. 12. “The determines what particular thing is meaned.”—­Ib., p. 11.  “If Hermia mean’d to say Lysander lied.”—­Shak.  “As if I meaned not the first but the second creation.”—­Barclay’s Works, iii, 289.  “From some stones have rivers bursted forth.”—­Sale’s Koran, Vol. i, p. 14.

   “So move we on; I only meant
    To show the reed on which you leant.”—­Scott, L. L., C. v, st. 11.

OBS. 8.—­Layed, payed, and stayed, are now less common than laid, paid, and staid; but perhaps not less correct, since they are the same words in a more regular and not uncommon orthography:  “Thou takest up that [which] thou layedst not down.”—­FRIENDS’ BIBLE, SMITH’S, BRUCE’S:  Luke, xix, 21.  Scott’s Bible, in this place, has “layest,” which is wrong in tense.  “Thou layedst affliction upon our loins.”—­FRIENDS’ BIBLE:  Psalms, lxvi, 11.  “Thou laidest affliction upon our loins.”—­SCOTT’S BIBLE, and BRUCE’S.  “Thou laidst affliction upon our loins.”—­SMITH’S BIBLE, Stereotyped by J. Howe.  “Which gently lay’d my knighthood on my shoulder.”—­SINGER’S SHAKSPEARE:  Richard II, Act i, Sc. 1.  “But no regard was payed to his remonstrance.”—­Smollett’s England, Vol. iii, p. 212.  “Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit.”—­Haggai, i, 10.  “STAY, i.  STAYED or STAID; pp.  STAYING, STAYED or STAID.”—­Worcester’s Univ. and Crit.  Dict. “Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz stayed by En-rogel.”—­2 Sam., xvii, 17.  “This day have I payed my vows.”—­FRIENDS’ BIBLE:  Prov, vii, 14.  Scott’s Bible has “paid.”  “They not only stayed for their resort, but discharged divers.”—­HAYWARD:  in Joh.  Dict. “I stayed till the latest grapes were ripe.”—­Waller’s Dedication. “To lay is regular, and has in the past time and participle layed or laid.”—­Lowth’s Gram., p. 54.  “To the flood, that stay’d her flight.”—­Milton’s Comus, l. 832.  “All rude, all waste, and desolate is lay’d.”—­Rowe’s Lucan, B. ix, l. 1636.  “And he smote thrice, and stayed.”—­2 Kings, xiii, 18.

   “When Cobham, generous as the noble peer
    That wears his honours, pay’d the fatal price
    Of virtue blooming, ere the storms were laid.”—­Shenstone, p. 167.

OBS. 9.—­By the foregoing citations, lay, pay, and stay, are clearly proved to be redundant.  But, in nearly all our English grammars, lay and pay are represented as being always irregular; and stay is as often, and as improperly, supposed to be always regular.  Other examples in proof of the list:  “I lit my pipe with the paper.”—­Addison.