LEG
\lˈɛɡ], \lˈɛɡ], \l_ˈɛ_ɡ]\
Definitions of LEG
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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(nautical) the distance traveled by a sailing vessel on a single tack
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a prosthesis that replaces a missing leg
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cloth covering consisting of the part of a garment that covers the leg
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one of the supports for a piece of furniture
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a human limb; commonly used to refer to a whole limb but technically only the part between the knee and ankle
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a structure in animals that is similar to a human leg and used for locomotion
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the limb of an animal used for food
By Princeton University
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(nautical) the distance traveled by a sailing vessel on a single tack
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a prosthesis that replaces a missing leg
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cloth covering consisting of the part of a garment that covers the leg
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one of the supports for a piece of furniture
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a human limb; commonly used to refer to a whole limb but technically only the part between the knee and ankle
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a structure in animals that is similar to a human leg and used for locomotion
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the limb of an animal used for food
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
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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.
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A bow, esp. in the phrase to make a leg; probably from drawing the leg backward in bowing.
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A disreputable sporting character; a blackleg.
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The course and distance made by a vessel on one tack or between tacks.
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The case containing the lower part of the belt which carries the buckets.
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A fielder whose position is on the outside, a little in rear of the batter.
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To use as a leg, with it as object
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To bow.
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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.
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A branch or lateral circuit connecting an instrument with the main line.
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A branch circuit; one phase of a polyphase system.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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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.
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A bow, esp. in the phrase to make a leg; probably from drawing the leg backward in bowing.
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A disreputable sporting character; a blackleg.
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The course and distance made by a vessel on one tack or between tacks.
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The case containing the lower part of the belt which carries the buckets.
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A fielder whose position is on the outside, a little in rear of the batter.
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To use as a leg, with it as object
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To bow.
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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.
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A branch or lateral circuit connecting an instrument with the main line.
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A branch circuit; one phase of a polyphase system.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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One of the limbs by which men and animals walk; anything resembling this limb; as, the leg of a chair; a covering for a lower limb.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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The lower extremity; specifically the segment of the lower extremity between the knee and the ankle.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William R. Warner
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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A supporting limb of an animal or something analogous to it; as, the leg of a stocking; the leg of a table; a support.
By James Champlin Fernald
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A limb by which an animal walks; that part of the limb from the knee to the foot; that which covers the leg; the long or slender support of anything; the side of a triangle. To stand on one's own legs, to depend on one's own efforts without aid.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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The limb of an animal which supports the body; that by which anything is supported, as the leg of a table.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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The portion of the lower extremity, which extends from the knee to the foot. It consists of three bones, Tibia, Fibula, and Patella, and also of a great number of muscles, vessels, and nerves. The projection, formed by the muscles at the back part of the leg, has received the name of Calf of the leg. It is the special attribute of man, and proves that he is destined to be biped.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
