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noun (English)
1. (usually with "the") The body of binding rules and regulations, customs, and standards established in a community by its legislative and judicial authorities.Examples: "Not unnaturally, "Auntie" took this communication in bad part.[…]Next day she[…]tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head. Then, thwarted, the wretched creature went to the police for help; she was versed in the law, and perhaps had spared no pains to keep on good terms with the local constabulary."; "Here one comes upon an all-important English trait: the respect for constitutionalism and legality, the belief in "the law" as something above the State and above the individual, something which is cruel and stupid, of course, but at any rate incorruptible. It is not that anyone imagines the law to be just. Everyone knows that there is one law for the rich and another for the poor. But no one accepts the implications of this, everyone takes it for granted that the law, such as it is, will be respected, and feels a sense of outrage when it is not."; "The courts interpret the law but should not make it."countableuncountableusuallywith-definite-article
2. (usually with "the") The body of binding rules and regulations, customs, and standards established in a community by its legislative and judicial authorities.Examples: "property law"; "commercial hunting and fishing law"countableuncountableusuallywith-definite-article
3. (usually with "the") The body of binding rules and regulations, customs, and standards established in a community by its legislative and judicial authorities.countableuncountableusuallywith-definite-article
4. (more generally) A rule, such as:Examples: ""Do unto others as you wish them to do unto you" is a good law to follow."; "the law of self-preservation"broadlycountableuncountable
5. (more generally) A rule, such as:Examples: "the laws of playwriting and poetry"; "The normal pronoun to use with "spirit" would be "it." But Jesus breaks the law of grammar and says not "when it," but "when he.""broadlycountableuncountable
6. (more generally) A rule, such as:Examples: "Observing pi is easier than studying physical phenomena, because you can prove things in mathematics, whereas you can't prove anything in physics. And, unfortunately, the laws of physics change once every generation."; "the laws of thermodynamics"; "Newton's third law of motion states that to every action there is always an equal and opposite reaction."Synonyms: law of nature, lawbroadlycountableuncountable
verb (English)
1. (obsolete) To work as a lawyer; to practice law.Examples: "That was in 1877 you were lawing with Herdick?"; "J. H. Turner is married and lawing in Milwaukee."; "The American Bar Association ruefully admits that the legal profession is overcrowded, especially in large cities. It has a committee studying the situation. Last week an editorial in the New York Law Journal urged a youthful revolt against the city, twanged an idyll of lawing in the country."obsolete
2. (ambitransitive, chiefly dialectal) To prosecute or sue (someone), to litigate.Examples: "Your husband's … so given to lawing, they say. I doubt he'll leave you poorly off when he dies."; ""I like folks to be up and down and square," she began saying, as she vigilantly watched the effect of her culinary skill upon the awed little party. "Yes, I've got a regular hotel license; you bet I have. There's been folks lawed in this town for sellin' a meal of victuals and not having one.""; "“So I said to her, 'Well, no man ever made anything lawing with his wife, so, if your mind is set on having a divorce and the children you will want plenty to raise them with,' so I deed her the farm in Sumner county and everything on it—horses, mules, machinery, everything.”"ambitransitivedialectal
3. (nonstandard) To rule over (with a certain effect) by law; to govern.Examples: "At its 1933 session, the Kansas legislature provided for funding outstanding bills and floating debts of those cities which could not make payment by a fixed date. By this stroke of its imagination, the legislature lawed all Kansas cities onto a "cash" basis and admonished them to stay there."; "Earth lies in the chorus of the stars' congregation in the lawed line of their movement, in the balanced rotation of their light, bound by that lawed line, conceived in the focus of that turning; a vessel fashioned on the wheel of endless time."; "Nicholas Downton (February 1615) says of the people of Surat: "a mixt people, quiet, peaceable, very subtle; civil, and universally governed under one King, but diversely lawed and customed"."nonstandard
4. (informal) To enforce the law.Examples: "De gram jury lawed me all de time an' dat place got too hot."; "The only time I ever got lawed [arrested] was for the union. Happened three times."; "So we're on the road with the micks, maybe a mile from the precinct, and Reedy just pulls over, takes them out onto the Commons, takes off the cuffs, and we knock about twenty pounds of shit out of them.” Petey sensed the agent watching him talk and tried to explain it all another way. “What I mean is, lawing used to be pretty damn pure."informal
noun (English)
1. (obsolete) A tumulus of stones.obsolete
2. (Northern England, Scotland, archaic) A hill.Examples: "[Y]ou might climb the Law, where the whale's jawbone stood landmark in the buzzing wind, and behold the face of many counties, and the smoke and spires of many towns, and the sails of distant ships."Northern-EnglandScotlandarchaic
noun (English)
1. (dialectal or obsolete) A score; share of expense; legal charge.dialectalobsolete
intj (English)
1. (dated) An exclamation of mild surprise; lawks; in interjections, a minced oath for Lord.Examples: "‘Do tell me once for all, whether you intend to marry Mr Watts or not?’ ‘Law Mama, how can I tell you what I don't know myself?’"; "[…] and my boots were a leetle 'eavier than they are, law bless my soul! I'd do it myself."; "Arthur Sketchley. But, law bless my 'art , it's werry orful to be a forriner, as I were a-thinkin', and never be able to make yourself understood, except in that gibberish,"dated
name (English)
1. (Scotland) a conical hillScotlandcountableuncountable
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