Lay

Lay may refer to:

Roles, jobs, or offices

• Laity, persons in a religious organization who are not members of the clergy
• Lay magistrate, magistrates who are not trained in legal technicalities
• Lay judge, a person assisting a judge in some jurisdictions
• Lay assessor, a government position in the United Kingdom, Sweden, or Japan
• Layperson, a person without specialist professional training

Geography

Toponymy

• Lay, Ardabil, a village in Iran
• Lay, Loire, a French commune in the Loire department
• Lay, Kansas, an unincorporated community in the United States

Hydronymy

• Lay (river), in France

Other uses

• Lay's, a potato-chip brand name and company
• Lay confession, a religious confession made to a member of the laity
• Lay time or lay days, time allowed in a charter for the loading or discharge of a ship
• A short ballad

See also

• Lay (surname)
• All pages beginning with "Lay"
• Ley (disambiguation)