Meaning of lawing | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Going to law; litigation.
2. A surname.
3. Money owed for a service rendered.
   Scotland, UK, obsolete

Examples

“And in this distresse and necessitie it had beene verie requisit and needfull that the souldiers should haue taken vp their weapons , serued against the enimie , and haue defended Lawing woorse the common state”

“A shilling for breakfast, three shillings for dinner, including a pint of old port, eighteen-pence for a snug supper — such were the charges of the inn of Saint Ronan's under this landlady of the olden world, even after the nineteenth century had commenced ; and they were ever tendered with the pious recollection, that her good father never charged half so much, but these weary times rendered it impossible for her to make⟳ the lawing less.”

“Late at e'en, drinking the wine, And ere they paid the lawing, They set⟳ a combat them between, To fight⟳ it in the dawing.”

“A Spanish legend has it, that there was a cave at Salamanca, where he constantly maintained seven scholars, on condition that when they had finished their studies, the seventh should pay⟳ the lawing.”

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