An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language / in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals

by John Jamieson

LAW, s. The remainder.
V. [Lafe].

LAW-BORROIS, LAW-BORROWS, s. pl. The legal security which one man is obliged to give, that he will not do any injury to another in his person or property, S.
Acts Ja. II.

Law and borgh, or borrow, a pledge.

LAWCH, adj. Low, S. [laigh].
Wallace.

LAWIN, s. A tavern reckoning.
V. [Lauch], s. 1.

LAW-FREE, adj. Not legally convicted.
Spalding.

LAWIT, LAWD, LAWYD, LEWIT, adj.
1. Laic.
Wyntown.
2. Unlearned, ignorant.
Douglas.

A. S. laewed, lewd, id.

LAWLY, adj. Lowly.
V. [Law], adj.

LAWRIGHTMEN.
V. [Lagraetman].