To establish or apply by authority.
To practice a trick or deception (on or upon).
To arrange in proper order on a table of stone or metal and lock up in a chase for printing; said of columns or pages of type, forms, etc.
to enforce: compel to behave in a certain way
To lay on, as the hands, in the religious rites of confirmation and ordination.
to be an inconvenience (on or upon)
To regulate, be in charge of, make decisions for, reign over.
To establish or settle by, or as by, a rule; to fix by universal or general consent, or by common practice.
To decide judicially.
To mark (paper or the like) with rules (lines).
To excel.
A determinate method prescribed for performing any operation and producing a certain result.
A regulating principle.
A ruler; device for measuring, a straightedge, a measure.
A normal condition or state of affairs.
A regulation, law, guideline.
An order regulating the practice of the courts, or an order made between parties to an action or a suit.
A straight line (continuous mark, as made by a pen or the like), especially one lying across a paper as a guide for writing.
The act of ruling; administration of law; government; empire; authority; control.