单词 | lawing |
释义 | lawingn.1 The action of law v. 1. Going to law; litigation. Obsolete exc. archaic. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > action of courts in claims or grievances > [noun] > litigation or going to law pleadingc1275 suita1325 suing1440 persecution1466 processing1478 lawingc1485 prosecution1590 litigation1661 soliciting1709 impleading1878 c1485 Early Eng. Misc. (Warton Club) 51 As many as her doth here For lawing schalle they not stere. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) 2 Cor. xii. 20 I feare lest there be founde amonge you lawynge [Gk. ἔρεις, Wycl. stryuyngis, Cov. debates, 1611 variance, 1881 (R.V.) strife]. ?a1560 T. Waterton in T. Wright Songs & Ballads Reign Philip & Mary (1860) 10 Behold throughe lawyng howe som be brought bar. 1587 J. Hooker tr. Giraldus Cambrensis Vaticinall Hist. Conquest Ireland ii. xxxviii. 55/2 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II Lawing & vexation in the towns, one dailie suing and troubling another. 1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 64 To defray any extraordinarie charge of building, marriage, lawing, or such like. 1641 D. Cawdrey Three Serm. 2 Warre is but a more public kind of Lawing. 1737 J. Ozell in tr. F. Rabelais Wks. III. v. 33 (note) So Lawing was his natural Element. 1891 B. Harte First Family Tasajara iv It might be a matter of ‘lawing’ hereafter. 2. The action of cutting off the claws or ball of a dog's forefeet; expeditation. Obsolete exc. Historical. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping dogs or cats > [noun] > keeping or affinity with dogs > lawing a dog expeditationc1503 expeditating1598 lawing1656 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Lawing of dogs. 1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. 72 The court of regard, or survey of dogs, is to be holden every third year for the lawing or expeditation of mastiffs. 1876 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest V. xxiii. 163 In his love for the chase he..kept up the cruel mutilation, the lawing, as it was called, of all dogs in the neighbourhood of the royal forests. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online June 2021). lawingn.2 Scottish. A reckoning at a tavern; a tavern-bill. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > an account or reckoning accountc1300 taila1325 laya1400 tale1401 reckoningc1405 tailye1497 accounterc1503 lawing1535 note1587 post1604 chalking1613 tally1614 computus1631 tick1681 tab1889 slate1909 1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) II. 633 The Scottis countit thair lawing so deir. 1686 G. Stuart Joco-serious Disc. 68 Come to my house some other day I'll pay the lawing, gang your way. 1728 A. Ramsay Lure 4 Night-drinking sots counting their lawin. a1774 R. Fergusson Poems (1785) 157 They rake the grunds o' ilka barrel, To profit by the lawen. 1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet ii No man should enter the door of a public-house without paying his lawing. Compounds lawing-free adj. not called upon for one's share in the bill; scot-free. ΚΠ 17.. Song, Andro & his Cutty Gun in Ramsay Tea-t. Misc. (1775) II. 229 She heght to keep me lawing-free. 1794 Poems, Eng. Scot. & Lat. 103 I'm no for letting ye, ye see, (As I ware rich) gang lawin free. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online June 2021). † lawingadj. Obsolete. rare. Given to litigation. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > action of courts in claims or grievances > [adjective] > litigious litigiousa1640 lawing1641 sue-happy1951 1641 D. Cawdrey Three Serm. Ep. Ded. To strangle the lawlesse contentions of this Lawing age. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < |
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