Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) One who, or that which, lays. 2. (n.) That which is laid; a stratum; a bed; one thickness, course, or fold laid over another; as, a layer of clay or of sand in the earth; a layer of bricks, or of plaster; the layers of an onion. 3. (n.) A shoot or twig of a plant, not detached from the stock, laid under ground for growth or propagation. 4. (n.) An artificial oyster bed.

Multi-Version Concordance Layer (4 Occurrences) Exodus 16:13 And it came to pass at even, that the quails came up, and covered the camp: and in the morning the dew lay round about the camp. (See JPS NAS NIV) Exodus 16:14 And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness a small round thing, small as the hoar-frost on the ground. (See JPS NAS) Leviticus 9:19 and the fat of the bull and of the ram, the fat tail, and that which covers the innards, and the kidneys, and the cover of the liver: (See NIV) Ezra 6:4 three rows of rolled stones, and a row of new wood, and the outlay let be given out of the king's house. (See NAS)