lawyer
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English lawiere, lawier, lawer, equivalent to law + -yer.
Base: law
Affixes: -yer
Inflected forms:
form: lawyers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lawer
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: lawyers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: lawyering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: lawyered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: lawyered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: lawer
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A professional person with a graduate law degree that qualifies for legal work (such as Juris Doctor)
pos: noun
gloss: A professional person qualified (as by a law degree or bar exam) and authorized to practice law as an attorney-at-law, solicitor, advocate, barrister or equivalent, i.e. represent parties in lawsuits or trials and give legal advice.
pos: noun
examples: His forefathers had been, as a rule, professional men—physicians and lawyers; his grandfather died under the walls of Chapultepec Castle while twisting a tourniquet for a cursing dragoon; an uncle remained indefinitely at Malvern Hill;[…].
Mr. Wells was a pleasant man of middle-age, with keen eyes, and the typical lawyer’s mouth.
A lawyer's time and advice are his stock in trade. [one of various versions of an aphorism in law]
gloss: A legal layman who argues points of law.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: The burbot.
pos: noun
tags: UK
colloquial
gloss: The stem of a bramble.
pos: noun
tags: UK
dialectal
gloss: Any of various plants that have hooked thorns.
pos: noun
examples: The species of Eugnomus are very partial to the lawyer (Rubus australis ) when in bloom.
In the lawyer (Rubus australis) a considerable differentiation has taken place. All the alllies of this plant (such as the true roses, brambles, rasps, &c.), exhibit a strong development of epidermal structures in the form of hooks, spines, or hairs, but in none are these structures so perfect as in our lawyer.
A plant that is excessively troublesome in the localities where the native vegetation has been least disturbed is the “lawyer” (Rubus australis).
gloss: Any of various plants that have hooked thorns.
pos: noun
examples: Besides the bags and nets common throughout the continent, these tribes have water-bags, which they make of closely-plaited “lawyer” (Calamus Australis), and also of palm-leaf sewn with the sinews of animals.
The nest was a foot or two from the ground, and placed in a bunch of lawyer (Calamus ) canes.
This lawyer (Calamus australis) is a climbing palm, throwing up shoots from its roots as thick as a man's finger and tough as wire, covered with sharp spines, and bearing much divided leaves, alternating with tendrils twenty feel long.
They were usually very neatly laid out under arching masses of the exasperating lawyer-palm vines ( Calamus moti and C. australis ), and consequently not too easy to examine.
Lawyer Vine (Calamus muelleri), also known as Hairy Mary and Wait-a-while, is actually a palm, that grows in long canes that loop and snake through the undergrowth.
The trail of the lawyer vine (CALAMUS OBSTRUENS), with its leaf sheath and long tentacles bristling with incurved hooks, is over it all.
gloss: Any of various plants that have hooked thorns.
pos: noun
examples: The stems of the "lawyer vine" (Flagellaria indica), buz or buzi (W.), boz (E.), are used in house-building, tying fences, etc.
gloss: To practice law.
pos: verb
tags: informal
intransitive
gloss: To perform, or attempt to perform, the work of a lawyer.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To make legalistic arguments.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To barrage (a person) with questions in order to get them to admit something.
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: You've been lawyered!
Synonyms: abogado
advocate
attorney
avocat
counsel
counselor
latitat
lawman
lawyer
legal representative
limb of the law
man of law
Antonyms: non-lawyer
Related words: lawyer up
barrister
solicitor
Derived words: antilawyer
barrack-room lawyer
barracks lawyer
barracks room lawyer
bush lawyer
canon lawyer
common lawyer
corporate lawyer
corporation lawyer
criminal lawyer
cyberlawyer
defence lawyer
defense lawyer
jailhouse lawyer
labour lawyer
lake lawyer
language lawyer
lawyerball
lawyer cane
lawyerdom
lawyerese
lawyeress
lawyer foyer
lawyering
lawyerish
lawyerism
lawyerless
lawyerlike
lawyerling
lawyerly
lawyer-readable
lawyership
lawyer-speak
lawyerspeak
lawyer vine
lawyery
neurolawyer
nonlawyer
non-lawyer
one-horse lawyer
outlawyer
Penang lawyer
Philadelphia lawyer
professional support lawyer
robolawyer
rules lawyer
sea-lawyer
sea lawyer
sharia lawyer
superlawyer
underlawyer
unlawyered
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