Any law prohibiting the manufacture and sale of intoxicating beverages, especially one resembling that enacted in the State of Maine.

plural of Maine law

Alternative form of Godwin's law

The fact that many types of data studied in the physical and social sciences can be approximated with a Zipfian distribution.

(New Age) The belief that thinking about someone or something attracts it and causes it or the individual to manifest in one's life.

plural of thief in law

(Indo-European studies) A sound law describing the voicing of voiceless fricatives in early Proto-Germanic, due to placement of the accent on a word.

(phonology) A rule that describes historical sound change (the change in pronunciation of a given sound or cluster of sounds) in the development of a language.

plural of uncle-in-law

(nonstandard) The husband of one's uncle or aunt (parent's sibling). / The uncle of one's husband. / The uncle of one's wife.