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Examples from the Web for lawer
The lawer of dogs sat him down beside his friend, and, taking out his knife, began to whet it upon a hone.
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British Dictionary definitions for lawer (1 of 4)
Law
/ (lɔː) /
noun
Andrew Bonar (ˈbɒnə). 1858–1923, British Conservative statesman, born in Canada; prime minister (1922–23)
Denis. born 1940, Scottish footballer; a striker, he played for Manchester United (1962–73) and Scotland (30 goals in 55 games, 1958–74); European Footballer of the Year (1964)
John. 1671–1729, Scottish financier. He founded the first bank in France (1716) and the Mississippi Scheme for the development of Louisiana (1717), which collapsed due to excessive speculation
Jude . born 1972, British film actor, who starred in The Talented Mr Ripley (1999), Cold Mountain (2003), and Sherlock Holmes (2009)
William. 1686–1761, British Anglican divine, best known for A Serious Call to a Holy and Devout Life (1728)
British Dictionary definitions for lawer (2 of 4)
law
1/ (lɔː) /
noun
Related formsRelated adjectives: judicial, jural, juridical, legal
Word Origin for law
Old English lagu, from Scandinavian; compare Icelandic lög (pl) things laid down, law
British Dictionary definitions for lawer (3 of 4)
law
2/ (lɔː) /
noun
Scot a hill, esp one rounded in shape
Word Origin for law
Old English hlǣw
British Dictionary definitions for lawer (4 of 4)
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Word Origin and History for lawer
law
Old English lagu (plural laga, comb. form lah-) "law, ordinance, rule, regulation; district governed by the same laws," from Old Norse *lagu "law," collective plural of lag "layer, measure, stroke," literally "something laid down or fixed," from Proto-Germanic *lagan "put, lay" (see lay (v.)).
Replaced Old English æ and gesetnes, which had the same sense development as law. Cf. also statute, from Latin statuere; German Gesetz "law," from Old High German gisatzida; Lithuanian istatymas, from istatyti "set up, establish." In physics, from 1660s. Law and order have been coupled since 1796.
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Medicine definitions for lawer
law
[ lô ]
n.
A rule of conduct or procedure established by custom, agreement, or authority.
A set of rules or principles for a specific area of a legal system.
A piece of enacted legislation.
A formulation describing a relationship observed to be invariable between or among phenomena for all cases in which the specified conditions are met.
A generalization based on consistent experience or results.
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Science definitions for lawer
law
[ lô ]
A statement that describes invariable relationships among phenomena under a specified set of conditions. Boyle's law, for instance, describes what will happen to the volume of an ideal gas if its pressure changes and its temperature remains the same. The conditions under which some physical laws hold are idealized (for example, there are no ideal gases in the real world), thus some physical laws apply universally but only approximately. See Note at hypothesis.
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Idioms and Phrases with lawer
law
In addition to the idioms beginning with law
- law and order
- law of averages
- law of the jungle
- law unto oneself
also see:
- above suspicion (the law)
- lay down the law
- letter of the law
- long arm of the law
- Murphy's law
- possession is nine points of the law
- take the law into one's hands
- unwritten law
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