ley

An obsolete form of lay.

See lea.

Ley in this spelling (see lea) is used specifically of a plantation of grasses or other plants grown for their herbage (clovers, etc.), to serve either as meadow or as pasture. Leys are planned for one or a few years or for permanency, their composition being governed accordingly.

Yield; produce; assay-value.

An obsolete or dialectal form of lea, lay, and lye.