LAWINGS
Noun
lawings
plural of lawing
Anagrams
• swaling, walings
Proper noun
Lawings
plural of Lawing
Anagrams
• swaling, walings
Source: Wiktionary
LAWING
Law"ing, n.
Definition: Going to law; litigation. Holinshed.
Law"ing, n. Etym: [So called because done in compliance with an
English forest law.]
Definition: Expeditation. Blackstone.
LAW
Law, n. Etym: [OE. lawe, laghe, AS. lagu, from the root of E. lie:
akin to OS. lag, Icel. lög, Sw. lag, Dan. lov; cf. L. lex, E. legal.
A law is that which is laid, set, or fixed; like statute, fr. L.
statuere to make to stand. See Lie to be prostrate.]
1. In general, a rule of being or of conduct, established by an
authority able to enforce its will; a controlling regulation; the
mode or order according to which an agent or a power acts.
Note: A law may be universal or particular, written or unwritten,
published or secret. From the nature of the highest laws a degree of
permanency or stability is always implied; but the power which makes
a law, or a superior power, may annul or change it.
These are the statutes and judgments and law, which the Lord made.
Lev. xxvi. 46.
The law of thy God, and the law of the King. Ezra vii. 26.
As if they would confine the Interminable . . . Who made our laws to
bind us, not himself. Milton.
His mind his kingdom, and his will his law. Cowper.
2. In morals: The will of God as the rule for the disposition and
conduct of all responsible beings toward him and toward each other; a
rule of living, conformable to righteousness; the rule of action as
obligatory on the conscience or moral nature.
3. The Jewish or Mosaic code, and that part of Scripture where it is
written, in distinction from the gospel; hence, also, the Old
Testament.
What things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the
law . . . But now the righteousness of God without the law is
manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets. Rom. iii.
19, 21.
4. In human government:
(a) An organic rule, as a constitution or charter, establishing and
defining the conditions of the existence of a state or other
organized community.
(b) Any edict, decree, order, ordinance, statute, resolution,
judicial, decision, usage, etc., or recognized, and enforced, by the
controlling authority.
5. In philosophy and physics: A rule of being, operation, or change,
so certain and constant that it is conceived of as imposed by the
will of God or by some controlling authority; as, the law of
gravitation; the laws of motion; the law heredity; the laws of
thought; the laws of cause and effect; law of self-preservation.
6. In matematics: The rule according to which anything, as the change
of value of a variable, or the value of the terms of a series,
proceeds; mode or order of sequence.
7. In arts, works, games, etc.: The rules of construction, or of
procedure, conforming to the conditions of success; a principle,
maxim; or usage; as, the laws of poetry, of architecture, of
courtesy, or of whist.
8. Collectively, the whole body of rules relating to one subject, or
emanating from one source; -- including usually the writings
pertaining to them, and judicial proceedings under them; as, divine
law; English law; Roman law; the law of real property; insurance law.
9. Legal science; jurisprudence; the principles of equity; applied
justice.
Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing
else but reason. Coke.
Law is beneficence acting by rule. Burke.
And sovereign Law, that state's collected will O'er thrones and
globes elate, Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill. Sir W.
Jones.
10. Trial by the laws of the land; judicial remedy; litigation; as,
to go law.
When every case in law is right. Shak.
He found law dear and left it cheap. Brougham.
11. An oath, as in the presence of a court. [Obs.] See Wager of law,
under Wager. Avogadro's law (Chem.), a fundamental conception,
according to which, under similar conditions of temperature and
pressure, all gases and vapors contain in the same volume the same
number of ultimate molecules; -- so named after Avogadro, an Italian
scientist. Sometimes called Ampère's law.
– Bode's law (Astron.), an approximative empirical expression of
the distances of the planets from the sun, as follows: --
Mer. Ven. Earth. Mars. Aste. Jup. Sat. Uran. Nep. 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 0
Law, v. t.
Definition: Same as Lawe, v. t. [Obs.]
Law, interj. Etym: [Cf. La.]
Definition: An exclamation of mild surprise. [Archaic or Low]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition