<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>the principles and regulations established in a community by some authority and applicable to its people, whether in the form of legislation or of custom and policies recognized and enforced by judicial decision</li><li>any written or positive rule or collection of rules prescribed under the authority of the state or nation, as by the people in its constitution</li><li>the controlling influence of such rules; the condition of society brought about by their observance: maintaining law and order</li><li>a system or collection of such rules</li><li>the department of knowledge concerned with these rules; jurisprudence: to study law</li><li>the body of such rules concerned with a particular subject or derived from a particular source: commercial law</li><li>an act of the supreme legislative body of a state or nation, as distinguished from the constitution</li><li>the principles applied in the courts of common law, as distinguished from equity</li><li>the profession that deals with law and legal procedure: to practice law</li><li>legal action; litigation: to go to law</li><li>a person, group, or agency acting officially to enforce the law: The law arrived at the scene soon after the alarm went off</li><li>any rule or injunction that must be obeyed: Having a nourishing breakfast was an absolute law in our household</li><li>a rule or principle of proper conduct sanctioned by conscience, concepts of natural justice, or the will of a deity: a moral law</li><li>a rule or manner of behavior that is instinctive or spontaneous: the law of self-preservation</li><li>(in philosophy, science, etc.) a statement of a relation or sequence of phenomena invariable under the same conditions</li><li>a mathematical rule</li><li>a principle based on the predictable consequences of an act, condition, etc.: the law of supply and demand</li><li>a rule, principle, or convention regarded as governing the structure or the relationship of an element in the structure of something, as of a language or work of art: the laws of playwriting; the laws of grammar</li><li>a commandment or a revelation from God</li><li>Sometimes Law: a divinely appointed order or system</li><li>the Law: Law of Moses</li><li>the preceptive part of the Bible, especially of the New Testament, in contradistinction to its promises: the law of Christ</li><li>British Sports: an allowance of time or distance given a quarry or competitor in a race, as the head start given a fox before the hounds are set after it</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object) Chiefly Dialect: to sue or prosecute</li><li>British: (formerly) to expeditate (an animal)</li></ul>