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leg

LEG, n.

1. The limb of an animal, used in supporting the body and in walking and running; properly, that part of the limb from the knee to the foot, but in a more general sense, the whole limb, including the thigh, the leg and the foot.

2. The long or slender support of any thing; as the leg of a table.

To make a leg, to bow; a phrase introduced probably by the practice of drawing the right leg backward. [Little used.]

To stand on one's own legs, to support one's self; to trust to one's own strength or efforts without aid.


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LEG, n.

1. The limb of an animal, used in supporting the body and in walking and running; properly, that part of the limb from the knee to the foot, but in a more general sense, the whole limb, including the thigh, the leg and the foot.

2. The long or slender support of any thing; as the leg of a table.

To make a leg, to bow; a phrase introduced probably by the practice of drawing the right leg backward. [Little used.]

To stand on one's own legs, to support one's self; to trust to one's own strength or efforts without aid.

LEG, n. [Dan. læg; It. lacca.]

  1. The limb of an animal, used in supporting the body and in walking and running; properly, that part of the limb from the knee to the foot, but in a more general sense, the whole limb, including the thigh, the leg and the foot.
  2. The long or slender support of any thing; as, the leg of a table. To make a leg, to bow; a phrase introduced probably by the practice of drawing the right leg backward. [Little used.] – Locke. Swift. To stand on one's own legs, to support one's self; to trust to one's own strength or efforts without aid.

Leg
  1. A limb or member of an animal used for supporting the body, and in running, climbing, and swimming; esp., that part of the limb between the knee and foot.
  2. To use as a leg, with it as object

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  3. Either side of a triangle of a triangle as distinguished from the base or, in a right triangle, from the hypotenuse; also, an indefinitely extending branch of a curve, as of a hyperbola.
  4. That which resembles a leg in form or use; especially, any long and slender support on which any object rests; as, the leg of a table; the leg of a pair of compasses or dividers.
  5. A branch or lateral circuit connecting an instrument with the main line.
  6. The part of any article of clothing which covers the leg; as, the leg of a stocking or of a pair of trousers.
  7. A branch circuit; one phase of a polyphase system.
  8. A bow, esp. in the phrase to make a leg; probably from drawing the leg backward in bowing.

    [Obs.]

    He that will give a cap and make a leg in thanks for a favor he never received. Fuller.

  9. A disreputable sporting character; a blackleg.

    [Slang, Eng.]
  10. The course and distance made by a vessel on one tack or between tacks.
  11. An extension of the boiler downward, in the form of a narrow space between vertical plates, sometimes nearly surrounding the furnace and ash pit, and serving to support the boiler; -- called also water leg.
  12. The case containing the lower part of the belt which carries the buckets.
  13. A fielder whose position is on the outside, a little in rear of the batter.

    A good leg (Naut.), a course sailed on a tack which is near the desired course. -- Leg bail, escape from custody by flight. [Slang] -- Legs of an hyperbola (or other curve) (Geom.), the branches of the curve which extend outward indefinitely. -- Legs of a triangle, the sides of a triangle; -- a name seldom used unless one of the sides is first distinguished by some appropriate term; as, the hypothenuse and two legs of a right-angled triangle. On one's legs, standing to speak. -- On one's last legs. See under Last. -- To have legs (Naut.), to have speed. -- To stand on one's own legs, to support one's self; to be independent.

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Leg

LEG, noun

1. The limb of an animal, used in supporting the body and in walking and running; properly, that part of the limb from the knee to the foot, but in a more general sense, the whole limb, including the thigh, the leg and the foot.

2. The long or slender support of any thing; as the leg of a table.

To make a leg to bow; a phrase introduced probably by the practice of drawing the right leg backward. [Little used.]

To stand on one's own legs, to support one's self; to trust to one's own strength or efforts without aid.

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