Leg

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vt To Bow.

II. Leg ·vt To Run.

III. Leg ·vt To use as a leg, with it as object.

IV. Leg ·noun A disreputable sporting character; a blackleg.

V. Leg ·add. ·noun A branch circuit; one phase of a polyphase system.

VI. Leg ·noun The course and distance made by a vessel on one tack or between tacks.

VII. Leg ·noun The case containing the lower part of the belt which carries the buckets.

VIII. Leg ·noun A fielder whose position is on the outside, a little in rear of the batter.

IX. Leg ·add. ·noun A branch or lateral circuit connecting an instrument with the main line.

X. Leg ·noun A bow, ·esp. in the phrase to make a leg; probably from drawing the leg backward in bowing.

XI. Leg ·noun The part of any article of clothing which covers the leg; as, the leg of a stocking or of a pair of trousers.

XII. Leg ·noun 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.

XIII. Leg ·noun 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.

XIV. Leg ·add. ·noun 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.

XV. Leg ·noun 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.

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