(education) A method of teaching literacy that emphasises the recognition of words in an everyday context; often contrasted with phonics.

(law) The statutory or written law that governs rights and obligations of those who are subject to it.

(law) The law that comprises the rule by which a court hears and determines what happens in civil or criminal proceedings.

A particular kind of monitor lizard, native to Australia.

plural of chicken leg

Learning that occurs as a function of observing, retaining and, in the case of imitation learning, replicating novel behavior executed by other people.

(US) A dinner lady.

(Britain, informal) A woman employed to serve food in a school or work canteen.

(pharmacology) the identification of isofunctional molecular structures with significantly different molecular backbones

Slow, boring, dull, or stupid. / Tending to drive too fast.