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[law]
adjective, adverb, noun Obsolete.
  1. low1.
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Examples from the Web for lawer

Historical Examples

  • The lawer of dogs sat him down beside his friend, and, taking out his knife, began to whet it upon a hone.

    The Serf

    Guy Thorne

British Dictionary definitions for lawer

Law

noun
  1. Andrew Bonar (ˈbɒnə). 1858–1923, British Conservative statesman, born in Canada; prime minister (1922–23)
  2. 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)
  3. 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
  4. Jude . born 1972, British film actor, who starred in The Talented Mr Ripley (1999), Cold Mountain (2003), and Sherlock Holmes (2009)
  5. William. 1686–1761, British Anglican divine, best known for A Serious Call to a Holy and Devout Life (1728)
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law1

noun
  1. a rule or set of rules, enforceable by the courts, regulating the government of a state, the relationship between the organs of government and the subjects of the state, and the relationship or conduct of subjects towards each other
    1. a rule or body of rules made by the legislatureSee statute law
    2. a rule or body of rules made by a municipal or other authoritySee bylaw
    1. the condition and control enforced by such rules
    2. (in combination)lawcourt
  4. a rule of conducta law of etiquette
  5. one of a set of rules governing a particular field of activitythe laws of tennis
  6. the law
    1. the legal or judicial system
    2. the profession or practice of law
    3. informalthe police or a policeman
  7. a binding force or statementhis word is law
  8. Also called: law of nature a generalization based on a recurring fact or event
  9. the science or knowledge of law; jurisprudence
  10. the principles originating and formerly applied only in courts of common lawCompare equity (def. 3)
  11. a general principle, formula, or rule describing a phenomenon in mathematics, science, philosophy, etcthe laws of thermodynamics
  12. the Law (capital) Judaism
    1. short for Law of Moses
    2. the English term for Torah See also Oral Law, Written Law
  13. a law unto itself or a law unto himself a person or thing that is outside established laws
  14. go to law to resort to legal proceedings on some matter
  15. lay down the law to speak in an authoritative or dogmatic manner
  16. reading the Law or reading of the Law Judaism that part of the morning service on Sabbaths, festivals, and Mondays and Thursdays during which a passage is read from the Torah scrolls
  17. take the law into one's own hands to ignore or bypass the law when redressing a grievance
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Related formsRelated adjectives: judicial, jural, juridical, legal

Word Origin

Old English lagu, from Scandinavian; compare Icelandic lög (pl) things laid down, law

law2

noun
  1. Scot a hill, esp one rounded in shape
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Word Origin

Old English hlǣw

law3

adjective
  1. a Scot word for low 1
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Word Origin and History for lawer

law

n.

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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lawer in Medicine

law

(lô)
n.
  1. A rule of conduct or procedure established by custom, agreement, or authority.
  2. A set of rules or principles for a specific area of a legal system.
  3. A piece of enacted legislation.
  4. A formulation describing a relationship observed to be invariable between or among phenomena for all cases in which the specified conditions are met.
  5. A generalization based on consistent experience or results.
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lawer in Science

law

[lô]
  1. 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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