LIMB OF THE LAW

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LIMB OF THE LAW

Definition: LIMB OF THE LAW

LIMB OF THE LAW

1. A lawyer or an officer of the law. [Colloq.] --Landor.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Specialty Definition: LIMB OF THE LAW

Domain	Definition
Literature	Limb of the Law (A). A lawyer, or a clerk articled to a lawyer. The hands are limbs of the body, and the lawyer's clerks are his hands to copy out what the head of the office directs. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Slang in 1811	LIMB OF THE LAW. An inferior or pettyfogging attorney. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms within Context: LIMB OF THE LAW

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Lawyer	Solicitor, proctor; notary, notary public; scrivener, cursitor; writer, writer to the signet; S.S.C.; limb of the law; pettifogger; vakil.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Anagrams: LIMB OF THE LAW

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-e-f-h-i-l-l-m-o-t-w"
	-4 letters: fellatio, filmable, foilable, halftime, lifeboat, liftable, mothball.
	-5 letters: batfowl, bimetal, bohemia, filemot, floatel, foliate, hemiola, howbeit, limbate, lobelia, lowlife, maillot, melilot, teabowl, thimble, timbale.
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Alternative Orthography: LIMB OF THE LAW

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 49 4D 42 4F 46 54 48 45 4C 41 57

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001100 01001001 01001101 01000010 00100000 01001111 01000110 00100000 01010100 01001000 01000101 00100000 01001100 01000001 01010111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#73 &#77 &#66 &#32 &#79 &#70 &#32 &#84 &#72 &#69 &#32 &#76 &#65 &#87

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0049 004D 0042 004F 0046 0054 0048 0045 004C 0041 0057

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

464347362494025442392463557

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography

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