ley

• POS: Noun

CIDE DICTIONARY

ley, v. t. & i. 

 To lay; to wager.  Chaucer.  [1913 Webster]

ley, n. [OF.].

 Law.  Abbott.  [1913 Webster]

ley, n. 

 See Lye.  [1913 Webster]

ley, n. 

 Grass or meadow land; a lea.  [1913 Webster]

ley, a. 

 Fallow; unseeded.  Beau. & Fl.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

ley, n. a field temporarily under grass.

Idiom

ley farming alternate growing of crops and grass.

ley, n. the supposed straight line of a prehistoric track, usu. between hilltops.

Etymology

var. of LEA

ROGET THESAURUS

ley

Plain

N plain, table-land, face of the country, open country, champaign country, basin, downs, waste, weary waste, desert, wild, steppe, pampas, savanna, prairie, heath, common, wold, veldt, moor, moorland, bush, plateau, campagna, alkali flat, llano, mesa, mesilla, playa, shaking prairie, trembling prairie, vega, meadow, mead, haugh, pasturage, park, field, lawn, green, plat, plot, grassplat, greensward, sward, turf, sod, heather, lea, ley, lay, grounds, maidan, agostadero, champaign, alluvial, campestral, campestrial, campestrian, campestrine.