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Free from flaws. Boyle.

A sort of flat custard or pie. [Obs.] Tusser.

To scrape o [Obs.] Johnson.

Full of flaws or cracks; broken; defective; faulty. Johnson.

ourts, as a juror or witness; one of the ancient privileges of a freeman; free and common law; -- an obsolete expression signifying substantially the same as the American expression civil rights. Abbot.

A law or ruling prohibiting proper or free debate, as in closure. [Colloq. or Cant]

To clear of outlawry or attainder; to place under the protection of the law. Burrill.

The law that the rate at which heat is produced in any part of an electric circuit is measured by the product of the square of the current into the resistance of that part of the circuit. If the current

y private persons of inflicting punishment for crimes or offenses, without due process of law.

The law that the maximum good signaling distance varies directly as the square of the height of the transmitting antenna.

See Boyle's law, under Law.

In Russia, severe oppressive laws against Jews, which have given occasion for great persecution; -- so called because they received the assent of the czar in May, 1882, and because likened to the Prussian May laws (see Kulturkampf).

ing factors and hence also of the individuals possessing them) shows the operation of the law: Tallness being due to a factor T, a tall plant, arising by the union in fertilization of two germ cells both bearing this factor, is TT; a dwarf, being without T, is tt. Crossing these, crossbreeds, Tt, result (called generat…

The mother of one's husband or wife.

A person excluded from the benefit of the law, or deprived of its protection. Blackstone.

The act of outlawing; the putting a man out of the protection of law, or the process by which a man (as an absconding criminal) is deprived of that protection.

A kind of walking stick made from the stem of an East Asiatic palm (Licuala acutifida).

A scamp; a scapegrace. [Spelt also scallawag.] [Slang, U.S.] Bartlett.

The gray snapper. See under Snapper.

The sister of one's husband or wife; also, the wife of one's brother; sometimes, the wife of one's husband's or wife's brother.