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The Devil's Dictionary: Law

by Ambrose Bierce LAURELLAWFULLAW -n. Once Law was sitting on the bench, And Mercy knelt a-weeping. "Clear out!" he cried, "disordered wench! Nor come before me creeping…

Geometry: The Law of Detachment

The Law of DetachmentGeometryTaking the Burden out of ProofsThe Law of DetachmentThe Importance of Being DirectProof by Contradiction: The Advantage of Being IndirectThe Given Information: Use It or…

Chemistry: Gas Laws

Gas LawsChemistryGas LawsBoyle's Law: Why Compressed Gas Is SmallCharles's Law: The Incredible Imploding CanGay-Lussac's Law: Spray Paint + Campfire = Bad NewsThe Combined Gas LawAvogadro's Law and…

Brewer's: Boyle's Law

“The volume of a gas is inversely as the pressure.” If we double the pressure on a gas, its volume is reduced to one-half; if we quadruple the pressure, it will be reduced to one-fourth;…

Brewer's: By-laws

Local laws. From by, a borough. Properly, laws by a Town Council, and bearing only on the borough or company over which it has jurisdiction. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E.…

Brewer's: Canon Law

A collection of ecclesiastical laws which serve as the rule of church government. (See below.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894CanonicalCanon A B C D E…

Brewer's: Cowper Law

a corruption of Cupar, etc., is trying a man after execution. Similar expressions are Jedwood, Jeddart, and Jedburgh justice. Cowper justice had its rise from a baron-baile in Coupar-Angus…

Brewer's: Cutter's Law

Not to see a fellow want while we have cash in our purse. Cutter's law means the law of purse-cutters, robbers, brigands, and highwaymen. “I must put you in cash with some of your old…