Donning the Law of the Day

Ground worked on purpose — a woman who has been broken up, turned over and made fit to bear.

1. 01Of land: prepared and used for growing crops
2. 02Of a plant: grown deliberately rather than found wild
3. 03Of a person: developed and refined by attention and care
4. 04Improved by labour rather than left as it was
5. 05Tended — watered, weeded, watched
6. 06Made fruitful by repeated work on the same ground
7. 07Trained — as a taste, a skill or a manner is cultivated
8. 08Brought under management instead of left to chance
9. 09Enriched by what was worked into it
10. 10Fit to bear because someone bothered with it

Grown on purpose in a prepared medium — lifted out of one soil and made to blossom in another.

1. 01Refined in taste, manner and understanding
2. 02Of a pearl or cell: grown deliberately in a prepared medium
3. 03Educated — shaped by what was put into her
4. 04Well-bred in the sense of well-tended
5. 05Having absorbed the best of what was around her
6. 06Transplanted and thriving in new ground
7. 07Trained until quality became ordinary
8. 08Enriched by exposure rather than by accident
9. 09Cultivated one layer further — no longer only worked, now fine
10. 10Bearing the marks of long, patient keeping

Of the court — mistress over the kingdom, dignified in bearing and refined in manner.

1. 01Belonging to or suited to a royal court
2. 02Polished and dignified in manner
3. 03Ceremonious — honouring people with form
4. 04Gracious and considerate in a way that elevates others
5. 05Refined without being cold
6. 06Fit to stand before a king
7. 07Of speech: elegant and measured
8. 08Having the bearing of one who governs
9. 09Marked by high courtesy, the word behind it
10. 10Noble in conduct, not only in title

To dig out — to remove what is in the way and uncover what was buried.

1. 01To make a hole or channel by digging
2. 02To remove earth carefully from a site
3. 03To uncover something buried by digging it out
4. 04To hollow out — to make room inside a mass
5. 05To expose remains, foundations or treasure
6. 06To clear ground so building or planting can begin
7. 07To dig into a subject until what is under it shows
8. 08To take out what does not belong there
9. 09To open the earth deliberately, not accidentally
10. 10To unearth — to bring up what the ground was holding

To feed the ground until it can carry more than it could before.

1. 01To improve the quality of a thing by adding to it
2. 02To make richer in substance, nutrient or value
3. 03To fertilise soil so it will bear
4. 04To add what was missing until the whole is better
5. 05To make wealthier
6. 06To deepen an experience, a life or a mind
7. 07To strengthen by concentration — to raise the good part
8. 08To adorn or embellish with something of worth
9. 09To supply nourishment so growth becomes possible
10. 10To leave a thing more valuable than you found it

To raise to the highest — to robe a thing, or a woman, in worth she can be seen in.

1. 01To give a noble rank or title to
2. 02To lift the character or dignity of a person
3. 03To make something finer and worthier than it was
4. 04To dignify — to treat as valuable until it becomes so
5. 05To elevate work by the honour placed on it
6. 06To robe in worth; to invest with standing
7. 07To exalt — to carry a thing to the highest place it can hold
8. 08To confer honour without flattery
9. 09To make greatness the ordinary standard of a house
10. 10To raise others as you rise

The open field — the earth, the world, the universe, and every seed in it, all of it hers to work.

1. 01The open air; any space outside a building
2. 02The world of field, wood, water and sky
3. 03The whole earth considered as workable ground
4. 04Nature taken as material rather than scenery
5. 05The territory a woman has to work with
6. 06Everything outside her own four walls
7. 07The commons — land, weather, seasons, seed
8. 08A place of labour, not only of leisure
9. 09The universe, offered as raw supply
10. 10The larger world into which her work is set

The one who equips and sends out — nobody goes into the field unsupplied.

1. 01One who supplies equipment for an expedition
2. 02A supplier of clothing, gear and provision
3. 03One who fits out a ship, a party or a person for a journey
4. 04A guide who furnishes what the country requires
5. 05One who knows the ground and equips for it
6. 06A merchant of what is needed rather than what is wanted
7. 07The office of provisioning others
8. 08One who sends people out able to survive and produce
9. 09A maker and fitter of working garments
10. 10The keeper of the stores

Armor — every outfit with a design and a function: the shoes, the shield, the sword, the crown.

1. 01Sets of clothing worn together for a purpose
2. 02Complete kits of equipment for a task
3. 03The garb and robes of a king and a queen
4. 04Armor — what a woman puts on to be protected
5. 05Working gear, chosen by the work it must do
6. 06Everything needed for an undertaking, gathered as one
7. 07Regalia — what shows the office she holds
8. 08The shoes for the road and the shield for the wall
9. 09Provision made wearable
10. 10What she is robed in, and what she robes others in