lawyer

name

1. A male given name.

noun

Etymology: From Middle English lawiere, lawier, lawer, equivalent to law + -yer.

1. A professional person with a graduate law degree that qualifies for legal work (such as Juris Doctor)
2. 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.

   “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.”

3. A legal layman who argues points of law.
4. The burbot.
5. The stem of a bramble.
6. Any of various plants that have hooked thorns.

   “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.”

7. Any of various plants that have hooked thorns.

   “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.”

8. Any of various plants that have hooked thorns.

   “The stems of the "lawyer vine" (Flagellaria indica), buz or buzi (W.), boz (E.), are used in house-building, tying fences, etc.”

verb

Etymology: From Middle English lawiere, lawier, lawer, equivalent to law + -yer.

1. To practice law.
2. To perform, or attempt to perform, the work of a lawyer.
3. To make legalistic arguments.
4. To barrage (a person) with questions in order to get them to admit something.

   “You've been lawyered!”