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To cut off the claws and balls of, as of a dog's fore feet. Wright.

A lawyer. [Obs.] Bale.

Furnished with claws. N. Grew.

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

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

To make hard or unfeeling; to brazen. The lawer who bronzes his bosom instead of his forehead. Sir W. Scott. Bronzed skin disease. (Pathol.) See Addison's disease.

in a society, toil, suffering, etc.; -- used among judges, clergymen, monks, physicians, lawers, professors of religion, etc. "A brother of your order." Shak. We few, we happy few, we band of brothers, For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother. Shak.

To rail at; to scold. [Obs.] 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 Claw me, claw thee, stand by me and I will stand by you; -- an old pr…

owper. An expiring clutch at popularity. Carlyle. But Age, with his stealing steps, Hath clawed me in his clutch. Shak.

To crack; to make flaws in. The brazen caldrons with the frosts are flawed. Dryden.

The restitution of an outlawed person to the protection of the law; inlawing. Bouvier.

Same as Lawe, v. t. [Obs.]

iction or enforcement; as, to outlaw a debt or claim; to deprive of legal force. "Laws outlawed by necessity." Fuller.

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

Furnished with nails, claws, or hooks; clawed. See the Note under Nail, n., 1.