unlaid

unlaid
/un layd"/, adj.
1. not laid or placed: The table is still unlaid.
2. (of dead bodies) not laid out; not prepared for burial.
3. not laid to rest, as a spirit.
4. untwisted, as a rope.
[1425-75; late ME unleyd. See UN-1, LAID]

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