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Lynch law
·- The act or practice by private persons of inflicting punishment for crimes or offenses, without d...
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lynch-law
A word recently imported into our parlance from America, signifying illegal and revengeful execution...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Lynch
·vt To inflict punishment upon, especially death, without the forms of law, as when a mob captures a...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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to lynch
To condemn and execute in obedience to the decree of a multitude or mob, without a legal trial; some...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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Law
·vt ·same·as <<Lawe>>, ·vt.
II. Law ·interj An exclamation of mild surprise.
III. Law ·noun An oat...
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Law
A rule of action.
1) The Law of Nature is the will of God as to human conduct, founded on the moral...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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law
To give law to a hare; a sporting term, signifying to give the animal a chance of escaping, by not s...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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Law
The word is properly used, in Scripture as elsewhere, to express a definite commandment laid down by...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Boyle's law
·- ·see under <<Law>>.
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By-law
·noun A local or subordinate law; a private law or regulation made by a corporation for its own gove...
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Coulomb's law
·add. ·- The law that the force exerted between two electric or magnetic charges is directly proport...
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Frank-law
·noun The liberty of being sworn in courts, as a juror or witness; one of the ancient privileges of ...
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Gag law
·add. ·- A law or ruling prohibiting proper or free debate, as in closure.
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Joule's law
·add. ·- The law that there is no change of temperature when a gas expands without doing external wo...
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Law-abiding
·adj Abiding the law; waiting for the operation of law for the enforcement of rights; also, abiding ...
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Marconi's law
·add. ·- The law that the maximum good signaling distance varies directly as the square of the heigh...
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Mariotte's law
·- ·see Boyle's law, under <<Law>>.
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Mendel's law
·add. ·- A principle governing the inheritance of many characters in animals and plants, discovered ...
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Verner's law
·add. ·- A statement, propounded by the Danish philologist Karl Verner in 1875, which explains certa...
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Levirate Law
From Latin levir, "a husband's brother," the name of an ancient custom ordained by Moses, by which, ...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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Law, William
(1686-1761)
Divine, s. of a grocer at Kingscliffe, Northamptonshire, was ed. at Camb., and in 1727 ...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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law latin
Barbarous Latin, vulgarly called Dog Latin, in Ireland Bog Latin.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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club law
Argumentum bacculinum, in which an oaken stick is a better plea than an act of parliament.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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curbing law
The act of hooking goods out of windows: the curber is the thief, the curb the hook. CANT.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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figging law
The art of picking pockets. CANT.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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vincent's law
The art of cheating at cards, composed of the following associates: bankers, those who play booty; t...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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club-law
The rule of violence and strength.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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maritime law
That branch of international law, or the law of nations, which consists of general principles, chief...
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martial law
The law of war, obtaining between hostile forces, or proclaimed in rebellious districts; it rests ma...
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military law
That under which soldiers and sailors are governed, founded on the acts of parliament passed to that...
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moses' law
The term among pirates for inflicting thirty-nine lashes on the bare back forty save one.
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Piozzi, Hester Lynch (Salusbury)
(1741-1821)
Miscellaneous writer, m. Henry Thrale, a wealthy brewer, and, after his death, Gabriel ...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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Brother-in-law
·noun The brother of one's husband or wife; also, the husband of one's sister; sometimes, the husban...
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Brothers-in-law
·pl of Brother-in-law.
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Daughter-in-law
·noun The wife of one's son.
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Daughters-in-law
·pl of Daughter-in-law.
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Father-in-law
·noun The father of one's husband or wife;
— correlative to son-in-law and daughter-in-law.
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Fathers-in-law
·pl of Father-in-law.
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Mother-in-law
·noun The mother of one's husband or wife.
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Sister-in-law
·noun The sister of one's husband or wife; also, the wife of one's brother; sometimes, the wife of o...
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Sisters-in-law
·pl of Sister-in-law.
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Son-in-law
·noun The husband of one's daughter; a man in his relationship to his wife's parents.
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Sons-in-law
·pl of Son-in-law.
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Valued-policy law
·add. ·- A law requiring insurance companies to pay to the insured, in case of total loss, the full ...
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Van't Hoff's law
·add. ·- The generalization that: when a system is in equilibrium, of the two opposed interactions t...
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Law of Moses
Is the whole body of the Mosaic legislation (1 Kings 2:3; 2 Kings 23:25; Ezra 3:2). It is called by ...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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Law, William Arthur
(b. 1844)
Dramatic author. A Night Surprise (1877), Enchantment (1878), Castle Botherem (1880), Nob...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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Serjeants-at-Law
A body of barristers of the highest degree, sworn to serve the King's people in their causes.
The J...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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law of nations
It was originally merely the necessary law of nature applied to nations, as in the instance of recei...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Law Of Moses
It will be the object of this article to give a brief analysis of the substance of this law, to poin...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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limb of the law
An inferior or pettyfogging attorney.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose