- Doctor, doctor! I"ve had a sore stomach ever since I ate three crabs last week.
- Did they smell bad when you took them out of their shells?
- What do you mean "took them out of their shells"?
lord n. Member of the house of lords qualified to perform its legal work.
- n. - a rule enacted or customary in a community and recognized as commanding or forbidding certain actions. B body of such rules.
- controlling influence of laws; respect for laws.
- laws collectively as a social system or subject of study.
- binding force (her word is law).
- (prec. By the) a the legal profession. B colloq. The police.
- (in pl.) Jurisprudence.
- a the judicial remedy. B the lawcourts as providing this (go to law).
- rule of action or procedure.
- regularity in natural occurrences (laws of nature; law of gravity). 10 divine commandments. be a law unto oneself do what one considers right; disregard custom. Lay down the law be dogmatic or authoritarian. Take the law into one's own hands redress a grievance by one's own means, esp. By force. [old english from old norse, = thing laid down]
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