Sc. and north. Also 3–5 lau(e, 4, 7 lawe. [Northern repr. OE. hláw LOW sb.]
1. A hill, esp. one more or less round or conical. Sometimes with local designation prefixed, as North Berwick Law, Cushat Law.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 4081. Wit þair fee bituix þair lauus. Ibid., 7393. ‘He es,’ he said, ‘þar he es won, Wit our scep apon þe lau.’
13[?]. E. E. Allit. P., B. 992. Noȝt saued watz bot Segor þat sat on a lawe.
c. 1470. Henryson, Mor. Fab., V. (Parl. Beasts), vii. Ane vnicorne come lansand ouer ane law.
1628. Coke, On Litt., 5 b. Law signifieth a hill.
1807. Headrick, Arran, 154. Artificial hills, called laws, in various parts of the country.
1813. Hogg, Queen’s Wake, 69. We raide the tod doune on the hill, The martin on the law.
1825. J. Wilson, Noct. Ambr., Wks. I. 96. Ilk forest shaw and lofty law Frae grief and gloom arouse ye.
1892. Stevenson, Across the Plains, 209. You might climb the Law … and behold the face of many counties.
attrib. c. 1420. Anturs of Arth., iii. He ladde þat lady so longe by þe lawe sides.
† 2. A monumental tumulus of stones. Obs.
1607. Camden, Britannia, 660. In quibus quod mireris, plures sunt lapidum strues admodum magnæ Lawes vocant, quas in memoriam occisorum olim aggestas credunt vicini.
