4. 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. 5. A disreputable sporting character; a blackleg. [Slang, Eng.]
6. (Naut.) The course and distance made by a vessel on one tack or between tacks.
7. (Steam Boiler) 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.
8. (Grain Elevator) The case containing the lower part of the belt which carries the buckets.
9. (Cricket) 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.
Leg
(Leg) v. t. To use as a leg, with it as object: (a) To bow. [Obs.] (b) To run. [Low]
Legacy
(Leg"a*cy) n.; pl. Legacies (- siz). [L. (assumed) legatia, for legatum, from legare to appoint
by last will, to bequeath as a legacy, to depute: cf. OF. legat legacy. See Legate.]
1. A gift of property by will, esp. of money or personal property; a bequest. Also Fig.; as, a legacy of
dishonor or disease.
2. A business with which one is intrusted by another; a commission; — obsolete, except in the phrases
last legacy, dying legacy, and the like.
My legacy and message wherefore I am sent into the world.
Tyndale.
He came and told his legacy.
Chapman. Legacy duty,
a tax paid to government on legacies. Wharton. — Legacy hunter, one who flatters
and courts any one for the sake of a legacy.
Legal
(Le"gal) a. [L. legalis, fr. lex, legis, law; prob. orig., that which lies or is fixed and if so akin to
E. lie, law: cf. F. légal. Cf. Lie to be prostrate, Loyal, Leal.]
1. 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.
2. (Theol.) (a) According to the law of works, as distinguished from free grace; or resting on works for
salvation. (b) According to the old or Mosaic dispensation; in accordance with the law of Moses.
3. (Law) Governed by the rules of law as distinguished from the rules of equity; as, legal estate; legal
assets. Bouvier. Burrill.
Legal cap.
See under Cap. — Legal tender. (a) The act of tendering in the performance of a contract
or satisfaction of a claim that which the law prescribes or permits, and at such time and place as the law