Term: higher law: a principle that takes precedent over the laws of society
Candidate hypernym: principle: rule of personal conduct → 1
Candidate hypernym: aba: a loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth; worn by Arabs → 0
Candidate hypernym: sweet four o'clock: leafy wildflower having fragrant slender white or pale pink trumpet-shaped flowers; southwestern United States and northern Mexico → 0
Candidate hypernym: genus parnassia: genus of bog herbs of Arctic and northern temperate regions → 0
Candidate hypernym: fatback: salt pork from the back of a hog carcass → 0
Candidate hypernym: helix hortensis: a kind of garden snail → 0
Candidate hypernym: frangipane: pastry with a creamy almond-flavored filling → 0
Candidate hypernym: stalemate: drawing position in chess: any of a player's possible moves would place his king in check → 0
Candidate hypernym: comanche: a member of the Shoshonean people who formerly lived between Wyoming and the Mexican border but are now chiefly in Oklahoma → 0
Candidate hypernym: column: a vertical array of numbers or other information → 0
Candidate hypernym: half title: a first page of some books displaying only the title of the book → 0