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<HTML> <HEAD><TITLE>DICTIONARY: law - lawn sleeves</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> <A HREF="a.dic">A</A> <A HREF="b.dic">B</A> <A HREF="c.dic">C</A> <A HREF="d.dic">D</A> <A HREF="e.dic">E</A> <A HREF="f.dic">F</A> <A HREF="g.dic">G</A> <A HREF="h.dic">H</A> <A HREF="i.dic">I</A> <A HREF="j.dic">J</A> <A HREF="k.dic">K</A> <A HREF="l.dic">L</A> <A HREF="m.dic">M</A> <A HREF="n.dic">N</A> <A HREF="o.dic">O</A> <A HREF="p.dic">P</A> <A HREF="q.dic">Q</A> <A HREF="r.dic">R</A> <A HREF="s.dic">S</A> <A HREF="t.dic">T</A> <A HREF="u.dic">U</A> <A HREF="v.dic">V</A> <A HREF="w.dic">W</A> <A HREF="x.dic">X</A> <A HREF="y.dic">Y</A> <A HREF="z.dic">Z</A> <A NAME="law"> law (1), noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun 1. a rule or regulation made by a country or state for all the people who live there. Ex. Good citizens obey the laws. Organized group control ... is composed of the laws on the statute book and of the attitudes of the people toward these laws. It is the attitudes that count more (Emory S. Bogardus). <DD> 2. the system of rules formed to protect society or some other group. Ex. English law is different from French law. "The ruleof law is a lesson learned from centuries of human experience, from many mistakes and much suffering. ... Without it we destroy one another" (Lord Home). The Venetian Law cannot impugn you as you do proceed (Shakespeare). <DD> 3. the controlling influence of these rules, or the condition of society brought about by their observance. Ex. The police maintain law and order. <DD> 4. law as a system. Ex. a court of law. <DD> 5. the study concerned with these rules; jurisprudence. Ex. He was design'd to the study of the law (John Dryden). <DD> 6. the body of such rules concerned with a particular subject or derived from a particular source. Ex. commercial law, criminal law, civil law. <DD> 7. the profession of a lawyer. Ex. to enter the law. <DD> 8. (Informal.) a person hired to enforce the law; policeman or detective. Ex. The law came just in time to catch the armed robber. <DD> 9. legal action. Ex. to have recourse to the law. <DD> 10. any act passed upon by the highest legislative body of a State or nation. Ex. a congressional law. <DD> 11. any rule or principle that must be obeyed. Ex. the laws of hospitality, a law of grammar. The laws of the game must be obeyed. <DD> 12. a statement of what always occurs under certain conditions; description of a relation or sequence of phenomena invariable under the same conditions. Ex. the laws of motion, Mendel's law. Physicists (and other scientists) have a shorthand way of describing natural phenomena. Such shorthand descriptions are termed laws. For instance, there is a law, called the law or principle of Archimedes, describing how far into water a floating body will sink. In physics laws are usually put into mathematical form (Harper's). <DD> 13. a mathematical rule or relationship on which the construction of a curve, a series, etc., depends. <DD> 14. (Theology.) <DD> a. a divine rule or commandment. <DD> b. the collective body of precepts held to be received from God; the first five books of the Old Testament. Ex. the Mosaic law. <DD> c. Often, Law. a system or order based on divine dispensation. <DD>v.i. (Informal.) to go to law; bring a lawsuit. Ex. Your husband's ... given to lawing, they say (George Eliot). <DD>v.t. (Dialect or Informal.) to bring a lawsuit against; sue. Ex. One sends me a challenge; another laws me; but I shall keep them all off (Horatio Nelson). expr. go to law, to appeal to law courts; contest in a lawsuit. Ex. The partners could not agree on splitting their profits and had to go to law to settle the matter. expr. lay down the law, <DD> a. to give orders that must be obeyed. Ex. There is no official to lay down the law on this question. There is no official ministry view on chastity ... to lay down the law on this subject (New York Times). <DD> b. to give a scolding. Ex. The teacher laid down the law to the two boys fighting on the playground. expr. read law, to study to be a lawyer. Ex. He's reading law at Harvard. expr. take the law into one's own hands, to protect one's rights or punish a crime without appealing to law courts. Ex. The new marshal arrested the vigilantes who had taken the law into their own hands. </DL> <A NAME="law"> law (2), adjective, adverb, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Obsolete.) low (1). </DL> <A NAME="law"> Law, noun. the,<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the first five books of the Old Testament that contain the Mosaic law. <DD> 2a. the Old Testament, as containing the Mosaic law. <DD> b. the part of the Bible setting this forth. <DD> c. the Pentateuch, especially as one of the three recognized divisions of the Hebrew Scripture; Torah. </DL> <A NAME="lawabiding"> law-abiding, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> obeying the law; peaceful and orderly. Ex. Law-abiding citizens observe the traffic regulations. noun law-abidingness. </DL> <A NAME="lawandorder"> law and order,<DL COMPACT><DD> the support or use of stringent measures to suppress crime and violence. Ex. The current emphasis on law and order distresses me because the phrase appears to mean only the stringent regulation of the disadvantaged and rebellious (R. Hobart Ellis, Jr.). </DL> <A NAME="lawandorder"> law-and-order, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> supporting or advocating stringent measures to suppress crime and violence, including rioting and other forms of violent demonstrations. Ex. [He] was best known for his views on the handling of criminal prosecutions, which had often caused him to be classified as a "law-and-order" judge (C. Herman Pritchett). </DL> <A NAME="lawbook"> lawbook, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a book relating to law, or containing laws or reports of cases. </DL> <A NAME="lawbreaker"> lawbreaker, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who breaks the law. Ex. All too many lawbreakers and potential lawbreakers are persuaded that they can steal a car ... and get away with it, or with worse crimes (New York Times). </DL> <A NAME="lawbreaking"> lawbreaking, noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun a breaking of the law. <DD>adj. breaking the law. Ex. a lawbreaking offense. </DL> <A NAME="lawclerk"> law clerk,<DL COMPACT><DD> an assistant to a judge or lawyer. Ex. Taking a job as a law clerk in Chicago ... he saved enough money to start his own law office (Wall Street Journal). </DL> <A NAME="lawcourt"> law court,<DL COMPACT><DD> a place where justice is administered; court of law. </DL> <A NAME="lawday"> law day,<DL COMPACT><DD> a day appointed for the discharge of a bond. Ex. A person who borrows money with a mortgage promises to repay it by law day. </DL> <A NAME="lawday"> Law Day,<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) May 1, celebrated to emphasize the importance of law in American life. </DL> <A NAME="lawfrench"> law French,<DL COMPACT><DD> a form of Anglo-French in legal use in England from the time of William the Conqueror to that of Edward III or later, and still surviving in some phrases and expressions. </DL> <A NAME="lawful"> lawful, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. according to law; done as the law directs. Ex. a lawful trial, a lawful arrest. <DD> 2. allowed by law; rightful. Ex. lawful demands. <DD> 3. law-abiding. Ex. a lawful man. adv. lawfully. noun lawfulness. </DL> <A NAME="lawgiver"> lawgiver, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who prepares and puts into effect a system of laws for a people; legislator; lawmaker. </DL> <A NAME="lawhand"> law-hand, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the style of handwriting in former times customarily used in legal documents. Ex. an immense desert of law-hand and parchments (Dickens). </DL> <A NAME="lawine"> Lawine, noun, pl. -nen,<DL COMPACT><DD> (German.) an avalanche. </DL> <A NAME="lawless"> lawless, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. paying no attention to the law; breaking the law. Ex. A thief leads a lawless life. <DD> 2. having no laws. Ex. In pioneer days much of the West was a lawless wilderness. <DD> 3. hard to control; disorderly; unruly. Ex. Her lawless hair was caught in a net (Bret Harte). (SYN) uncontrolled, ungovernable. adv. lawlessly. noun lawlessness. </DL> <A NAME="lawlord"> law lord,<DL COMPACT><DD> one of the members of the House of Lords qualified to take part in its judicial proceedings. Ex. He's a law lord--a member of our highest appeals court, and thus automatically a life peer (Norman Kotker). </DL> <A NAME="lawmaker"> lawmaker, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who helps to make laws of a country; member of a legislature or parliament; legislator; lawgiver. Ex. Congressmen are lawmakers. </DL> <A NAME="lawmaking"> lawmaking, adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>adj. having the duty and power of making laws; legislative. Ex. Congress is a lawmaking body. <DD>noun the act or process of making laws; legislation. </DL> <A NAME="lawman"> lawman, noun, pl. -men.<DL COMPACT><DD> a law enforcement officer. </DL> <A NAME="lawmerchant"> law merchant, pl. laws merchant.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the body of principles and rules for the regulation of commerce, drawn chiefly from the customs of merchants; mercantile law. <DD> 2. (formerly) the customs that governed legal cases originating in trade or commerce. </DL> <A NAME="lawn"> lawn (1), noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun 1. land covered with grass kept closely cut, especially near or around a house. <DD> 2. (Archaic.) an open space between woods; glade. <DD>v.t. to turn (land) into lawn. Ex. The grounds of the estate are beautifully lawned. </DL> <A NAME="lawn"> lawn (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a thin, sheer linen or cotton cloth, resembling cambric. Ex. A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn (Alexander Pope). <DD> 2. =lawn sleeves. </DL> <A NAME="lawnbowling"> lawn bowling,<DL COMPACT><DD> the game of bowls. </DL> <A NAME="lawnchair"> lawn chair,<DL COMPACT><DD> a chair for use outdoors. </DL> <A NAME="lawnmower"> lawn mower,<DL COMPACT><DD> a machine with revolving blades for cutting the grass on a lawn. </DL> <A NAME="lawnparty"> lawn party,<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) an informal gathering held on the lawn or in the garden of a house; garden party. </DL> <A NAME="lawnsleeves"> lawn sleeves,<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the sleeves of lawn characterizing the dress of an Anglican bishop. <DD> 2a. the position of a bishop. <DD> b. a bishop or bishops. </DL> <A HREF="lawntenn.dic">NEXT</A>