Term: poor law: a law providing support for the poor
Candidate hypernym: law: legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity → 1
Candidate hypernym: dramatics: participation in theatrical productions as an extracurricular activity → 0
Candidate hypernym: foster-nurse: a nurse who raises another woman's child as her own → 0
Candidate hypernym: thing: a special objective → 0
Candidate hypernym: noun: the word class that can serve as the subject or object of a verb, the object of a preposition, or in apposition → 0
Candidate hypernym: daniel: a wise and upright judge;  -- Shakespeare → 0
Candidate hypernym: tack: sailing a zigzag course → 0
Candidate hypernym: basal body temperature method of family planning: natural family planning in which the fertile period of the woman's menstrual cycle is inferred by noting the rise in basal body temperature that typically occurs with ovulation → 0
Candidate hypernym: japanese plum: small tree of China and Japan bearing large yellow to red plums usually somewhat inferior to European plums in flavor → 0
Candidate hypernym: basketball: a game played on a court by two opposing teams of 5 players; points are scored by throwing the ball through an elevated horizontal hoop → 0
Candidate hypernym: hamstring: one of the tendons at the back of the knee → 0