noun

• (usually with "the") The body of binding rules and regulations, customs, and standards established in a community by its legislative and judicial authorities.
  "Not unnaturally, "Auntie" took this communication in bad part.[…]Next day she[…]tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head. Then, thwarted, the wretched creature went to the police for help; she was versed in the law, and perhaps had spared no pains to keep on good terms with the local constabulary."
• (usually with "the") The body of binding rules and regulations, customs, and standards established in a community by its legislative and judicial authorities.
  "property law"
• (usually with "the") The body of binding rules and regulations, customs, and standards established in a community by its legislative and judicial authorities.
• (more generally) A rule, such as:
  ""Do unto others as you wish them to do unto you" is a good law to follow."

verb

• (obsolete) To work as a lawyer; to practice law.
  "That was in 1877 you were lawing with Herdick?"
• (ambitransitive, chiefly dialectal) To prosecute or sue (someone), to litigate.
  "Your husband's … so given to lawing, they say. I doubt he'll leave you poorly off when he dies."
• (nonstandard) To rule over (with a certain effect) by law; to govern.
  "At its 1933 session, the Kansas legislature provided for funding outstanding bills and floating debts of those cities which could not make payment by a fixed date. By this stroke of its imagination, the legislature lawed all Kansas cities onto a "cash" basis and admonished them to stay there."
• (informal) To enforce the law.
  "De gram jury lawed me all de time an' dat place got too hot."

noun

• (obsolete) A tumulus of stones.
• (Northern England, Scotland, archaic) A hill.
  "[Y]ou might climb the Law, where the whale's jawbone stood landmark in the buzzing wind, and behold the face of many counties, and the smoke and spires of many towns, and the sails of distant ships."

noun

• (dialectal or obsolete) A score; share of expense; legal charge.