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lain

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lain  (ln)
v.
Past participle of lie1.

lain
Verb
the past participle of lie2
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lain lie

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A WEARY Traveller who had lain down and fallen asleep on the brink of a deep well was discovered by Dame Fortune.
Some fellow had lain down on the open staircase, and was slumbering soundly.
We had lain thus in bed, chatting and napping at short intervals, and Queequeg now and then affectionately throwing his brown tattooed legs over mine, and then drawing them back; so entirely sociable and free and easy were we; when, at last, by reason of our confabulations, what little nappishness remained in us altogether departed, and we felt like getting up again, though day-break was yet some way down the future.
 
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