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.

The state or quality of being legible.

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.

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.

Of or pertaining to the isle of Lemnos.

A curve in the form of the figure 8, with both parts symmetrical, generated by the point in which a tangent to an equilateral hyperbola meets the perpendicular on it drawn from the center.

One of two oval bodies hanging from the interior walls of the body in the Acanthocephala.

A beverage consisting of lemon juice mixed with water and sweetened.

hard tough elastic wood of the lemonwood tree; used for making bows and fishing rods.

tasting like lemons.

One of a family (Lemurid/) of nocturnal mammals allied to the monkeys, but of small size, and having a sharp and foxlike muzzle, and large eyes. They feed upon birds, insects, and fruit, and are mostly natives of Madagascar and the neighboring islands, one genus (Galago) occurring in Africa. The slow lemur or kukang of the East Indies is Nycticebus tardigradus. See Galago, Indris, and Colugo.

Spirits or ghosts of the departed; specters.

A hypothetical land, or continent, supposed by some to have existed formerly in the Indian Ocean, of which Madagascar is a remnant.

Same as Lemuroid.

Lemuroid.

Like or pertaining to the lemurs or the Lemuroidea. One of the Lemuroidea.

A suborder of primates, including the lemurs, the aye-aye, and allied species.

A procuress.

Rays emanating from the outer surface of a plate composed of any material permeable by cathode rays, as aluminium, which forms a portion of a wall of a vacuum tube, or which is mounted within the tube and exposed to radiation from the cathode. Lenard rays are similar in all their known properties to cathode rays. So called from the German physicist Philipp Lenard (b. 1862), who first described them.

To allow the custody and use of, on condition of the return of the same; to grant the temporary use of; as, to lend a book; -- opposed to borrow.

the temporary transfer of goods and services to an ally to aid in a common cause; as, lend-lease during World War II was extremely generous.

Such as can be lent.

One who lends.