transitive verb. To cut off the claws and balls of, as of a dog's fore feet.

noun. Obsolete spelling of law.

verb. To cut off the claws and balls of (e.g. a dog's forefeet).

"If any man be taken vpon committing of theft, he is imprisoned, and often beaten, but not hanged for the first offence, as the manner is with vs: and this they call the lawe of mercie."

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