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单词 lawing
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lawingn.1

/ˈlɔː(r)ɪŋ/
Etymology: < law v. + -ing suffix1.
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.
Proverb.1562 J. Heywood Epigr. (1867) 180 Great lawyng, small louyng.1615 G. Webbe Pract. Quietnes 175 Then should we haue lesse lawing and more loue.attributive.1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres v. 167 Nor so easie to come to the push of the place, as to pen out a Lawing plea.
2. The action of cutting off the claws or ball of a dog's forefeet; expeditation. Obsolete exc. Historical.
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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

Brit. /ˈlɔː(r)ɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈlɔɪŋ/, /ˈlɑɪŋ/, Scottish English /ˈlɔˌɪŋ/, /ˈlɔˌɪn/
Etymology: < law n.2 + -ing suffix1.
Scottish.
A reckoning at a tavern; a tavern-bill.
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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.
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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.
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lawingadj.

Etymology: < law v. + -ing suffix2.
Obsolete. rare.
Given to litigation.
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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.
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