Of or pertaining to the left cerebral hemisphere of the brain.

Exhibiting intellectual or personality characteristics suggesting dominance of linguistic or logical modes of thought, which are usually controlled by the left cerebral hemisphere; as, left-brained pedants unable to appreciate music; also referred to as linear. See linear{3}. Contrasted with right-brained.

Situated on the left; nearer the left hand than the right; as, the left-hand side; the left-hand road.

Having the left hand or arm stronger and more dexterous than the right; using the left hand and arm with more dexterity than the right.

a person who uses the left hand with greater skill than the right; a left-handed{1} person.

The state or quality of being left-handed; awkwardness.

same as left-wing.

Laid aside; cast-off.

slanting toward the left; -- of handwriting.

Of or pertaining to the political left or its ideology.

a person who belongs to the political left.

the part of the outfield on the catcher's or batter's left.

Inclined toward the political left.

a person who belongs to the political left.

An unused part or portion; -- used especially of food remaining uneaten from a previous meal; as, to have leftovers for dinner.

Toward or on the left side.

a person who uses the left hand with greater skill than the right; a left-handed person.

See Leveful.

To use as a leg, with it as object To bow. To run.

Having the general shape or outline of a leg of mutton; as, a leg-of-mutton, or shoulder-of-mutton, sail.

An attempt to make somebody believe something that is not true, done as a joke.

The act of attempting to make somebody believe something that is not true, done as a joke.

A gift of property by will, esp. of money or personal property; a bequest. Also Fig.; as, a legacy of dishonor or disease.

Created by, permitted by, in conformity with, or relating to, law; as, a legal obligation; a legal standard or test; a legal procedure; a legal claim; a legal trade; anything is legal which the laws do not forbid.

A style of writing or speaking heavily emphasizing the abstruse technical vocabulary of the law, to the point where a speech or document may be incomprehensible to non-specialists.

the act of legalizing; same as legalization.

Strictness, or the doctrine of strictness, in conforming to law.

One who practices or advocates strict conformity to law; in theology, one who holds to the law of works. See Legal, 2 (a).

The state or quality of being legal; conformity to law.

The act of making legal.

To make legal.

In a legal manner.

See Legatine.

A legatee.

An ambassador or envoy.

One to whom a legacy is bequeathed.

The office of a legate.

Of or pertaining to a legate; as, legatine power.

The sending forth or commissioning one person to act for another.

Connected; tied; -- a term used when successive tones are to be produced in a closely connected, smoothly gliding manner. It is often indicated by a tie, thus /, /, or /, /, written over or under the notes to be so performed; -- opposed to staccato.

A testator; one who bequeaths a legacy.

A tie or brace; a syncopation.

Legateship.

To allege; to assert.

See Ledgment.

To tell or narrate, as a legend.

A book of legends; a tale or narrative.

Light; slender; slim; trivial.

Sleight of hand; a trick of sleight of hand; hence, any artful deception or trick.

One who practices sleight of hand; a prestidigitator.

Lightness; nimbleness.

To lighten; to allay.

Having (such or so many) legs; -- used in composition; as, a long-legged man; a two-legged animal.

Light or graceful; in a light, delicate, and brisk style.

A cover for the leg, like a long gaiter.

a. vb. n., from Leg, v. t.

having tall spindly stems; -- of plants.

A straw plaiting used for bonnets and hats, made from the straw of a particular kind of wheat, grown for the purpose in Tuscany, Italy; -- so called from Leghorn, the place of exportation.

The quality of being legible; legibleness.

Capable of being read or deciphered; distinct to the eye; plain; -- used of writing or printing; as, a fair, legible manuscript.

In a legible manner.

Of or pertaining to making laws.

A body of foot soldiers and cavalry consisting of different numbers at different periods, -- from about four thousand to about six thousand men, -- the cavalry being about one tenth.

A member of a legion.

Formed into a legion or legions; legionary.

A body of legions; legions, collectively.

To make or enact a law or laws.

the act of making or enacting laws; legislation{1}.

The act of legislating; preparation and enactment of laws; the laws enacted.

In a legislative manner.

A lawgiver; one who makes laws for a state or community; a member of a legislative body.

Of or pertaining to a legislator or legislature.

The office of a legislator.

A woman who makes laws.

The body of persons in a state or kingdom invested with power to make and repeal laws; a legislative body.

One skilled in the laws; a writer on law.

The portion of movable estate to which the children are entitled upon the death of the father.

The state, or quality, of being legitimate, or in conformity with law; hence, the condition of having been lawfully begotten, or born in wedlock.

To make legitimate, lawful, or valid; esp., to put in the position or state of a legitimate person before the law, by legal means; as, to legitimate a bastard child.

In a legitimate manner; lawfully; genuinely.

The state or quality of being legitimate; lawfulness; genuineness.

See Legitimist.

To legitimate.

The principles or plans of legitimists.

One who supports legitimate authority; esp., one who believes in hereditary monarchy, as a divine right.

To legitimate.

Not having a leg.

Pertaining to the literature of law.

Lawyerlike; legal. A lawyer.

A pod dehiscent into two pieces or valves, and having the seed attached at one suture, as that of the pea.

Same as Legume.

An albuminous substance resembling casein, found as a characteristic ingredient of the seeds of leguminous and grain-bearing plants.

Pertaining to pulse; consisting of pulse.

See Leger, n., 2.

The type and sole genus of the family Leiopelmatidae.

A natural family of primitive New Zealand frogs.

A genus having only one species, the sand myrtle.

Of or pertaining to the Leiotrichi. One of the Leiotrichi.

The division of mankind which embraces the smooth-haired races.

Having smooth, or nearly smooth, hair.

A genus of Australian gallinaceous birds including but a single species (Leipoa ocellata), about the size of a turkey. Its color is variegated, brown, black, white, and gray. Called also native pheasant.

See Lipothymic.

At leisure.

Unemployed; as, leisure hours.

Having leisure.

In a leisurely manner.

a guiding theme; in Wagnerian opera, a marked melodic phrase or short musical passage which always accompanies the reappearance of a certain person, situation, abstract idea, or allusion in the course of the play; a sort of musical label. Also called Leading motive.

A genus of trees or shrubs coextensive with the family Leitneriaceae, and including the corkwood (Leitneria floridana).

A natural family of trees coextensive with the genus Leitneria; commonly isolated in a distinct order.

A genus of tropical American cacti, usually tall and branching with stout spines and funnel-shaped flowers and globular or ovoid often edible fruit.

A sweetheart, of either sex; a gallant, or a mistress; -- usually in a bad sense.

A fruit tree (Citrus limonia) which is a hybrid between the mandarin orange and the lemon, having a very acid fruit with an orange peel; also, the fruit of this tree, the rangpur.

To shine.

A preliminary or auxiliary proposition demonstrated or accepted for immediate use in the demonstration of some other proposition, as in mathematics or logic.

A leman.

The act or process of lemmatizing; conversion into a lemma{2}.

To convert into a lemma{2}; to normalize the form of (a word) to that form used as the headword in a dictionary, glossary, or index; as, /ride/ is the lemmatized form for /riding/ and /ridden/.

Any one of several species of small arctic rodents of the genera Myodes and Cuniculus, resembling the meadow mice in form. They are found in both hemispheres.

A genus of minute acquatic herbs floating on or below the water surface of still water consisting of a leaflike frond or plant body and single root.

A natural family of small free-floating thalloid plants.