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See Aam.

See Haulm, straw.

A legislator; a lawgiver.

Enacting laws; legislative. -- n.

A trader in law; one who practices law as if it were a trade. Milton.

A puppet; a doll; originally, an idol, because in the Middle Ages it was generally believed that the Mohammedans worshiped images representing Mohammed. [Obs.] Wyclif. Beau. & Fl.

The religion of Mohammed; also, idolatry. See Mawmet. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Nauseous. [Obs.] L' Estrange.

A mill for sawing, especially one for sawing timber or lumber.

A wind instrument of music, formerly in use, supposed to have resembled either the clarinet or the hautboy in form. [Written also shalm, shaum.] Otway. Even from the shrillest shaum unto the cornamute. Drayton.

The act of withdrawing; withdrawal. W. Belsham.

at Amsterdam about 41 wine gallons, at Antwerp 36½, at Hamburg 38¼. [Written also Aum and Awm.]

An iron with fangs fastening a log in a saw pit, or on the carriage of a sawmill.

To transport by drawing, as with horses or oxen; as, to haul logs to a sawmill. When I was seven or eight years of age, I began hauling all the wood used in the house and shops. U. S. Grant. To haul over the coals. See under Coal. -- To haul the wind (Naut.), to turn the head of the ship nearer to the point from which…

-- Roman law, the system of principles and laws found in the codes and treatises of the lawmakers and jurists of ancient Rome, and incorporated more or less into the laws of the several European countries and colonies founded by them. See Civil law (above). -- Statute law, the law as stated in statutes or positive en…

Making, or having the power to make, a law or laws; lawmaking; -- distinguished from executive; as, a legislative act; a legislative body. The supreme legislative power of England was lodged in the king and great council, or what was afterwards called the Parliament. Hume.

The business of felling trees, cutting them into logs, and transporting the logs to sawmills or to market.

olling logs from the place where they were felled to the stream which floats them to the sawmill or to market. In this labor neighboring camps of loggers combine to assist each other in turn. Longfellow. [U.S.]

See Mawmetry. [Obs.]

See Mawmet. [Obs.] Chaucer.