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IPA: /ˈlɔ ɪŋ/

Lawing is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 101 anagrams from letters in lawing (agilnw).

Definitions for lawing

noun

1. a bill, especially for food or drink in a tavern.
2. the principles and regulations established in a community by some authority and applicable to its people, whether in the form of legislation or of custom and policies recognized and enforced by judicial decision.
3. any written or positive rule or collection of rules prescribed under the authority of the state or nation, as by the people in its constitution. Compare bylaw, statute law.
4. the controlling influence of such rules; the condition of society brought about by their observance:
5. a system or collection of such rules.
6. the department of knowledge concerned with these rules; jurisprudence:
7. the body of such rules concerned with a particular subject or derived from a particular source:
8. an act of the supreme legislative body of a state or nation, as distinguished from the constitution.
9. the principles applied in the courts of common law, as distinguished from equity.
10. the profession that deals with law and legal procedure:
11. legal action; litigation:
12. a person, group, or agency acting officially to enforce the law:
13. any rule or injunction that must be obeyed:
14. a rule or principle of proper conduct sanctioned by conscience, concepts of natural justice, or the will of a deity:
15. a rule or manner of behavior that is instinctive or spontaneous:
16. a statement of a relation or sequence of phenomena invariable under the same conditions. a mathematical rule.
17. a principle based on the predictable consequences of an act, condition, etc.:
18. a rule, principle, or convention regarded as governing the structure or the relationship of an element in the structure of something, as of a language or work of art:
19. a commandment or a revelation from God.
20. (sometimes initial capital letter) a divinely appointed order or system.
21. the Law, Law of Moses.
22. the preceptive part of the Bible, especially of the New Testament, in contradistinction to its promises:
23. British Sports. an allowance of time or distance given a quarry or competitor in a race, as the head start given a fox before the hounds are set after it.

Idioms

1. be a law to / unto oneself, to follow one's own inclinations, rules of behavior, etc.; act independently or unconventionally, especially without regard for established mores.
2. lay down the law, to state one's views authoritatively. to give a command in an imperious manner:
3. take the law into one's own hands, to administer justice as one sees fit without recourse to the usual law enforcement or legal processes:

verb (used with object)

1. Chiefly Dialect. to sue or prosecute.
2. British. (formerly) to expeditate (an animal).

verb (used with or without object), noun

1. low2 .

Origin of lawing

1525-35; obsolete Scots law bill, Middle English (dial.) lagh Old Norse lag price, tax, proper place (cf. law¹) + -ing¹

Examples for lawing

Sir, no man should enter the door of a public-house without paying his lawing.'

Jeanie courteously declined the tankard, and inquired what was her "lawing?"

I hastened through my breakfast, paid my lawing, and ordered out my horse.

I never yet lodged in a hostelrie, But I paid my lawing before I gaed.

Gradually, after much shooting and lawing, we parcelled out the range and settled down covering practically the whole State.

They're worth more than all the lawing Gray and Vanrevel have ever done or ever will do.

We have no time for lawing, and if we did, the shysters would get it all.

"I would that that part of your duty relating to the hock-sinewing, and lawing of mastiffs, could be discontinued," said Richard.