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▸ noun:  A regulation, law, guideline.
▸ noun:  A regulating principle.
▸ noun:  The act of ruling; administration of law; government; empire; authority; control.
▸ noun:  A normal condition or state of affairs.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) Conduct; behaviour.
▸ noun:  (law) An order regulating the practice of the courts, or an order made between parties to an action or a suit.
▸ noun:  (mathematics) A determinate method prescribed for performing any operation and producing a certain result.
▸ noun:  A ruler; device for measuring, a straightedge, a measure.
▸ noun:  A straight line (continuous mark, as made by a pen or the like), especially one lying across a paper as a guide for writing.
▸ noun:  (printing, dated) A thin plate of brass or other metal, of the same height as the type, and used for printing lines, as between columns on the same page, or in tabular work.
▸ verb:  (transitive, stative) To regulate, be in charge of, make decisions for, reign over.
▸ verb:  (slang, intransitive, stative) To excel.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To decide judicially.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To establish or settle by, or as by, a rule; to fix by universal or general consent, or by common practice.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To mark (paper or the like) with rules (lines).
▸ noun:  (obsolete) Revelry.
▸ verb:  (obsolete, intransitive) To revel.
▸ noun:  A surname.
▸ noun:  An unincorporated community in Carroll County, Arkansas, United States.
▸ noun:  A town in Haskell County, Texas, United States.

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