Definition of "lig"

lig

/lɪɡ/

verb
third-person singular simple present ligs, present participle ligging, simple past ligged or lag or lay, past participle ligged or laggen or lain
1. (intransitive, UK dialectal, obsolete) To lie; be in a prostrate or recumbent position.
  Quotations
  His limbes would rest, ne lig in ease embost
  1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie
2. (transitive, UK dialectal, obsolete) To lay.
noun
plural ligs
1. (UK, slang, obsolete) A lie; an untruth.
  Quotations
  And the Muse of Arts that never told a lig, / Whirls in her mid-air flight to sing of Twigg; […]
  1867, James Torrington Spencer Lidstone, The Fourteenth Londoniad, page 85