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Lawing
(gcide) | Lawing \Law"ing\, n.
Going to law; litigation. --Holinshed.
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Lawing
(gcide) | Lawing \Law"ing\, n. [So called because done in compliance with
an English forest law.]
Expeditation. --Blackstone.
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Clawing
(gcide) | Claw \Claw\ (kl[add]), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Clawed (kl[add]d);
p. pr. & vb. n. Clawing.] [AS. clawan. See Claw, n.]
1. To pull, tear, or scratch with, or as with, claws or
nails.
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2. To relieve from some uneasy sensation, as by scratching;
to tickle; hence, to flatter; to court. [Obs.]
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Rich men they claw, soothe up, and flatter; the poor
they contemn and despise. --Holland.
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3. To rail at; to scold. [Obs.]
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In the aforesaid preamble, the king fairly claweth
the great monasteries, wherein, saith he, religion,
thanks be to God, is right well kept and observed;
though he claweth them soon after in another
acceptation. --T. Fuller
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Claw me, claw thee, stand by me and I will stand by you; --
an old proverb. --Tyndale.
To claw away, to scold or revile. "The jade Fortune is to
be clawed away for it, if you should lose it."
--L'Estrange.
To claw (one) on the back, to tickle; to express
approbation. (Obs.) --Chaucer.
To claw (one) on the gall, to find fault with; to vex.
[Obs.] --Chaucer.
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Flawing
(gcide) | Flaw \Flaw\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flawed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Flawing.]
1. To crack; to make flaws in.
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The brazen caldrons with the frosts are flawed.
--Dryden.
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2. To break; to violate; to make of no effect. [Obs.]
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France hath flawed the league. --Shak.
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Outlawing
(gcide) | Outlaw \Out"law`\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Outlawed; p. pr. & vb.
n. Outlawing.] [AS. ?tlagian.]
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1. To deprive of the benefit and protection of law; to
declare to be an outlaw. --Blackstone.
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2. To remove from legal jurisdiction or enforcement; as, to
outlaw a debt or claim; to deprive of legal force. "Laws
outlawed by necessity." --Fuller.
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3. To render illegal; to ban, prohibit, or proscribe under
sanction of some penalty.
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