"lawing" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "law",
        "3": "ing"
      },
      "expansion": "law + -ing",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From law + -ing.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "lawings",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "lawing (plural lawings)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1577, Raphaell Holinshed, The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, →OCLC:",
          "text": "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",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Going to law; litigation."
      ],
      "id": "en-lawing-en-noun-B5kLThtl",
      "links": [
        [
          "law",
          "law"
        ],
        [
          "litigation",
          "litigation"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "British English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Scottish English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "30 57 5 8",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "23 65 12",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ing",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "24 53 5 7 6 6",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 2 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "28 56 4 5 4 4",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1824, Sir Walter Scott, St. Ronan's Well, page 9:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1925, George Wharton Edwards, The Book of Old English Ballads, →ISBN:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Jacob Grimm, Teutonic Mythology, →ISBN, page 1024:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Money owed for a service rendered."
      ],
      "id": "en-lawing-en-noun-FasHzu~F",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK, Scotland, obsolete) Money owed for a service rendered."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Scotland",
        "UK",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "lawing"
}

{
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "law",
        "3": "ing"
      },
      "expansion": "law + -ing",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From law + -ing.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "verb form"
      },
      "expansion": "lawing",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "law"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "present participle and gerund of law"
      ],
      "id": "en-lawing-en-verb-1uusPywC",
      "links": [
        [
          "law",
          "law#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "form-of",
        "gerund",
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "lawing"
}

{
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "verb form"
      },
      "expansion": "lawing",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "lawe"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "present participle and gerund of lawe"
      ],
      "id": "en-lawing-en-verb-2e-6AvbO",
      "links": [
        [
          "lawe",
          "lawe#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "form-of",
        "gerund",
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "lawing"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English non-lemma forms",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms suffixed with -ing",
    "English verb forms",
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "law",
        "3": "ing"
      },
      "expansion": "law + -ing",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From law + -ing.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "lawings",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "lawing (plural lawings)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1577, Raphaell Holinshed, The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, →OCLC:",
          "text": "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",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Going to law; litigation."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "law",
          "law"
        ],
        [
          "litigation",
          "litigation"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "British English",
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Scottish English"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1824, Sir Walter Scott, St. Ronan's Well, page 9:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1925, George Wharton Edwards, The Book of Old English Ballads, →ISBN:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Jacob Grimm, Teutonic Mythology, →ISBN, page 1024:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Money owed for a service rendered."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK, Scotland, obsolete) Money owed for a service rendered."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Scotland",
        "UK",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "lawing"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English non-lemma forms",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms suffixed with -ing",
    "English verb forms",
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "law",
        "3": "ing"
      },
      "expansion": "law + -ing",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From law + -ing.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "verb form"
      },
      "expansion": "lawing",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "law"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "present participle and gerund of law"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "law",
          "law#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "form-of",
        "gerund",
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "lawing"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English non-lemma forms",
    "English verb forms",
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "verb form"
      },
      "expansion": "lawing",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "lawe"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "present participle and gerund of lawe"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "lawe",
          "lawe#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "form-of",
        "gerund",
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "lawing"
}