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Definition of Lawings
1. lawing [n] - See also: lawing
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lawings
Literary usage of Lawings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Royal Burgh of Forfar: A Local History by Alan Reid (1902)
"Which day the Deacon and haill members of the traid then convened did statute
and ordained That there be no Drinking lawings Drunken upon the ..."
2. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1879)
"table-lawings, ftc.'anil all such like, v.,.- disown all of them." Paper published
by the followers of John Gibb, 1681. V. Law's Memorial]*, p. ..."
3. The Teacher's Handbook of Psychology by James Sully (1910)
"The ght of the food caused the cat to make a series of random lawings and
scratchings, until at last some lucky move- lent chanced to hit the catch and open ..."
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