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.

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 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.

See Lends.

The act of one who lends.

Loins.

The smooth breathing (spiritus lenis). Any one of the lene consonants, as p, k, or t (or Gr. /, /, /).

Longer; longest; -- obsolete compar. and superl. of long.

To lengthen.

To become longer.

Long.

In a lengthy manner; at great length or extent.

The state or quality of being lengthy; prolixity.

In the direction of the length; running or extending in the direction of the length of a thing; in a longitudinal direction. Contrasted with crosswise.

Having length; rather long or too long; prolix; not brief; -- said chiefly of discourses, writings, and the like.

The quality or state of being lenient; lenity; clemency.

A lenitive; an emollient.

In a lenient manner.

To assuage; to soften; to mitigate; to alleviate.

An assuasive.

A city in the European part of Soviet Russia; the former capital of Russia. The name was formerly St. Petersburg and Petrograd, and was changed back to Saint Petersburg (Sankt Peterburg in Russian) in 1992.

a form of communism based on the writings of Marx and Lenin; called also Marxism-Leninism.

A medicine or application that has the quality of easing pain or protecting from the action of irritants. A mild purgative; a laxative.

The quality of being lenitive.

The quality or habit of being lenient; lenity.

The state or quality of being lenient; mildness of temper or disposition; gentleness of treatment; softness; tenderness; clemency; -- opposed to severity and rigor.

A general name for a group of Algonquin tribes which formerly occupied the coast region of North America from Connecticut to Virginia. They included the Mohicans, Delawares, Shawnees, and several other tribes.

A light open cotton fabric used for window curtains.

Given to lewdness.

A piece of glass, or other transparent substance, ground with two opposite regular surfaces, either both curved, or one curved and the other plane, and commonly used, either singly or combined, in optical instruments, for changing the direction of rays of light, and thus magnifying objects, or otherwise modifying vision. In practice, the curved surfaces are usually spherical, though rarely cylindrical, or of some other figure.

Slow; mild; gentle; as, lenter heats.

Slowly; in slow time.

Slackening; retarding. Same as Rallentando.

Of or pertaining to the fast called Lent; used in, or suitable to, Lent; as, the Lenten season.

The season of Lenten or Lent.