An obsolete or dialectal (Scotch) form of low.
To make a law; ordain.
To apply the law to; enforce the law against.
To give law to; regulate; determine.
In old English forest usage, to cut off the claws and balls of the fore feet of (a dog); mutilate the feet of, as a dog; expeditate.
To go to law; litigate.
To Study law.
noun.
A dialectal form of low.
A variation of la, or often of lord. Also laws.
noun.
In acoustics, the law that “any vibrational motion of the air in the entrance to the ear, corresponding to a musical tone, may be always, and for each case only in a single way, exhibited as the sum of a number of simple vibrational motions, corresponding to the partials of this musical tone.”
noun.
Same as Kelvin's law.
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A rule of action prescribed by authority, especially by a sovereign or by the state: as, the laws of Manu; a law of God.
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Specifically— Any written or positive rule, or collection of rules, prescribed under the authority of the state or nation, whether by the people in its constitution, as the organic law, or by the legislature in its statute law, or by the treaty-making power, or by municipalities in their ordinances or by-laws.
noun.
An act of the supreme legislative body of a state or nation, as distinguished from the constitution: as, the constitution, and the laws made in pursuance thereof.
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In a more general sense, the profession or vocation of attorneys, counsellors, solicitors, conveyancers, etc.: as, to practise law.
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Litigation: as, to go to law.