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Sliced cabbage served as a salad, cooked or uncooked.

p. p. of Slee, to slay. With a sword drawn out he would have slaw himself. Wyclif (Acts xvi. 27.)

s daughter; a man in his relationship to his wife's parents. To take me as for thy son in lawe. Chaucer.

To deprive of the authority or character of law. [Obs.]

Not having the claws and balls of the forefeet cut off; -- said of dogs.

Not lawful; contrary to law. -- Un*law"ful*ly, adv. -- Un*law"ful*ness, n. Unlawful assembly. (Law) See under Assembly.

Not according to law; being or done in violation of law; unlawful. Milton.

A law requiring insurance companies to pay to the insured, in case of total loss, the full amount of the insurance, regardless of the actual value of the property at the time of the loss.

The generalization that: when a system is in equilibrium, of the two opposed interactions the endothermic is promoted by raising the temperature, the exothermic by lowering it.

sh philologist Karl Verner in 1875, which explains certain apparent exceptions to Grimm's law by the original position of the accent. Primitive Indo-European k, t, p, became first in Teutonic h, th, f, and appear without further change in old Teutonic, if the accent rested on the preceding syllable; but these sounds be…

See Welaway. [Obs.]

Alas! [Obs.] Then welaway, for she undone was clean. Wyatt.

A whitlow. [Obs.] Holland.

Whitlow. [Obs.] "The nails fallen off by whitflaws." Herrick.

A kind of club moss. See Lycopodium.

wn or put an end to; to do away with; as, to abate a nuisance, to abate a writ. (b) (Eng. Law) To diminish; to reduce. Legacies are liable to be abated entirely or in proportion, upon a deficiency of assets. To abate a tax, to remit it either wholly or in part.

sessor, before the heir or devisee. Blackstone. Defense in abatement, Plea in abatement, (Law), plea to the effect that from some formal defect (e.g. misnomer, want of jurisdiction) the proceedings should be abated.

[Obs.] "To abhor from those vices." Udall. Which is utterly abhorring from the end of all law. Milton.

Sunk to a law condition; down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile; groveling; despicable; as, abject posture, fortune, thoughts. "Base and abject flatterers." Addison. "An abject liar." Macaulay. And banish hence these abject, lowly dreams. Shak.

To do away with wholly; to annul; to make void; -- said of laws, customs, institutions, governments, etc.; as, to abolish slavery, to abolish folly.