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  1. noun — laws
    1. The body of binding rules and regulations, customs, and standards established in a community by its legislative and judicial authorities.
      • property law
      • commercial hunting and fishing law
      • The courts interpret the law but should not make it.
      • In theory, entrapment is against the law.
    2. A binding regulation or custom established in a community in this way.
      • There is a law against importing wallabies.
      • A new law forbids driving on that road.
      • The court ruled that the executive order was not law and nullified it.
    3. A rule, such as:
      • "Do unto others as you wish them to do unto you" is a good law to follow.
      • the law of self-preservation
      • 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."
      • 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.
      • This is one of several laws derived from his general theory expounded in the Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
      • Mathematical laws can be proved purely through mathematics, without scientific experimentation.
      • the law of scarcity
      • the law of supply and demand
      • Grimm's law
      • Dahl's law
    4. The control and order brought about by the observance of such rules.
      • They worked to maintain law and order.
      • It was a territory without law, marked by violence.
    5. A person or group that act(s) with authority to uphold such rules and order (for example, one or more police officers).
      • Here comes the law — run!
      • then the law arrived on the scene
      • That was Joe's first confrontation with "The Law" / Naturally, we were easy on him / One of our friendly counsellors gave him a donut / And told him to stick closer / To church-oriented social activities
    6. The profession that deals with such rules (as lawyers, judges, police officers, etc).
      • He is studying for a career in law.
      • She has practiced law in New York for twenty years.
    7. Jurisprudence, the field of knowledge which encompasses these rules.
      • She went to university to study law.
    8. Litigation; legal action (as a means of maintaining or restoring order, redressing wrongs, etc).
      • They were quick to go to law.
    9. An allowance of distance or time (a head start) given to a weaker (human or animal) competitor in a race, to make the race more fair.
    10. A mode of operation of the flight controls of a fly-by-wire aircraft.
      • normal law; alternate law; direct law
    11. One of two metaphysical forces ruling the world in some fantasy settings, also called order, and opposed to chaos.
    12. An oath sworn before a court, especially disclaiming a debt. (Chiefly in the phrases "wager of law", "wage one's law", "perform one's law", "lose one's law".)
      • As to the depriving the defendant of waging his law, it was thought, the practice merited discouragement, as a temptation to perjury.
      • A withdrawal from a wager of law was an admission of the point as to which the law was waged; the defaulter also incurred a fine (i, 297).
  2. verb — laws; lawing; lawed
    1. To work as a lawyer; to practice law.
      • That was in 1877 you were lawing with Herdick?
      • J. H. Turner is married and lawing in Milwaukee.
    2. To prosecute or sue (someone), to litigate.
      • Your husband's … so given to lawing, they say. I doubt he'll leave you poorly off when he dies.
    3. To rule over (with a certain effect) by law; to govern.
      • 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".
      • So that, when GOD said, “Let there be light:” Behold the first created light burst out unto its glory (here GOD lawed the power of heat, fire, light, melting, cooling, and freezing)
      • Beyond the ocher and yellow-washed buildings, French colonial with a suggestion of Beau Geste from the castellated balconies, it is an arm-grabbing, loosely lawed bazaar of a place.
    4. To enforce the law.
      • 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.
      • The sheriff jabbed his thumb at his chest. "I run this shebang. Been doing so for forty-six years. You think you can come in here and preach lawing to me?
    5. To subject to legal restrictions.
      • Insurance may fairly be said to head the list of objects of legislative interference. It has been lawed and lawed until it is nearly outlawed, and the cry for more continues to go up unsatisfied
      • No man knew what his water rights were until they had been lawed over, and lawed over, and lawed over again.
      • It has been truly said that we are lawed into existence and lawed through life and lawed out of it more than any other nation
      • She knows what's tethered underwater. Not Children's bodies, but their toys, their lost, Lawed-against pleasures
  3. noun — laws
    1. A tumulus of stones.
    2. A hill.
  4. noun — laws
    1. A score; share of expense; legal charge.
  5. intj
    1. An exclamation of mild surprise; lawks.
      • ‘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?’
Derivatives lawgiver lawlike