Legible (a.) Capable of being discovered or understood by apparent marks or indications; as, the thoughts of men are often legible in their countenances.
Legibleness (n.) The state or quality of being legible.
Legibly (adv.) In a legible manner.
Legific (a.) Of or pertaining to making laws.
Legion (n.) 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.
Legion (n.) A military force; an army; military bands.
Legion (n.) A great number; a multitude.
Legion (n.) A group of orders inferior to a class.
Legionary (a.) Belonging to a legion; consisting of a legion or legions, or of an indefinitely great number; as, legionary soldiers; a legionary force.
Legionaries (pl. ) of Legionary
Legionary (n.) A member of a legion.
Legioned (a.) Formed into a legion or legions; legionary.
Legionry (n.) A body of legions; legions, collectively.
Legislated (imp. & p. p.) of Legislate
Legislating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Legislate
Legislate (v. i.) To make or enact a law or laws.
Legislation (n.) The act of legislating; preparation and enactment of laws; the laws enacted.
Legislative (a.) Making, or having the power to make, a law or laws; lawmaking; -- distinguished from executive; as, a legislative act; a legislative body.
Legislative (a.) Of or pertaining to the making of laws; suitable to legislation; as, the transaction of legislative business; the legislative style.
Legislatively (adv.) In a legislative manner.
Legislator (n.) A lawgiver; one who makes laws for a state or community; a member of a legislative body.
Legislatorial (a.) Of or pertaining to a legislator or legislature.
Legislatorship (n.) The office of a legislator.
Legislatress (n.) Alt. of Legislatrix
Legislatrix (n.) A woman who makes laws.
Legislature (n.) The body of persons in a state or kingdom invested with power to make and repeal laws; a legislative body.
Legist (n.) One skilled in the laws; a writer on law.
Legitim (a.) The portion of movable estate to which the children are entitled upon the death of the father.
Legitimacy (a.) The state, or quality, of being legitimate, or in conformity with law; hence, the condition of having been lawfully begotten, or born in wedlock.
Legitimate (a.) Accordant with law or with established legal forms and requirements; lawful; as, legitimate government; legitimate rights; the legitimate succession to the throne; a legitimate proceeding of an officer; a legitimate heir.
Legitimate (a.) Lawfully begotten; born in wedlock.
Legitimate (a.) Authorized; real; genuine; not false, counterfeit, or spurious; as, legitimate poems of Chaucer; legitimate inscriptions.
Legitimate (a.) Conforming to known principles, or accepted rules; as, legitimate reasoning; a legitimate standard, or method; a legitimate combination of colors.
Legitimate (a.) Following by logical sequence; reasonable; as, a legitimate result; a legitimate inference.
Legitimated (imp. & p. p.) of Legitimate
Legitimating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Legitimate
Legitimate (v. t.) 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.
Legitimately (adv.) In a legitimate manner; lawfully; genuinely.
Legitimateness (n.) The state or quality of being legitimate; lawfulness; genuineness.
Legitimation (n.) The act of making legitimate.
Legitimation (n.) Lawful birth.
Legitimatist (n.) See Legitimist.
Legitimatize (v. t.) To legitimate.
Legitimism (n.) The principles or plans of legitimists.
Legitimist (n.) One who supports legitimate authority; esp., one who believes in hereditary monarchy, as a divine right.
Legitimist (n.) Specifically, a supporter of the claims of the elder branch of the Bourbon dynasty to the crown of France.
Legitimized (imp. & p. p.) of Legitimize
Legitimizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Legitimize
Legitimize (v. t.) To legitimate.
Legless (a.) Not having a leg.
Lego-literary (a.) Pertaining to the literature of law.
Leguleian (a.) Lawyerlike; legal.
Leguleian (n.) A lawyer.
Legume (n.) A pod dehiscent into two pieces or valves, and having the seed attached at one suture, as that of the pea.
Legume (n.) The fruit of leguminous plants, as peas, beans, lupines; pulse.
Legumina (pl. ) of Legumen
Legumens (pl. ) of Legumen
Legumen (n.) Same as Legume.
Legumin (n.) An albuminous substance resembling casein, found as a characteristic ingredient of the seeds of leguminous and grain-bearing plants.
Leguminous (a.) Pertaining to pulse; consisting of pulse.
Leguminous (a.) Belonging to, or resembling, a very large natural order of plants (Leguminosae), which bear legumes, including peas, beans, clover, locust trees, acacias, and mimosas.
Leiger (n.) See Leger, n., 2.
Leiotrichan (a.) Of or pertaining to the Leiotrichi.
Leiotrichan (n.) One of the Leiotrichi.
Leiotrichi (n. pl.) The division of mankind which embraces the smooth-haired races.
Leiotrichous (a.) Having smooth, or nearly smooth, hair.
Leipoa (n.) 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.
Leipothymic (a.) See Lipothymic.
Leister (n.) Alt. of Lister
Lister (n.) A spear armed with three or more prongs, for striking fish.
Leisurable (a.) Leisurely.
Leisurable (a.) Vacant of employment; not occupied; idle; leisure; as leisurable hours.
Leisurably (adv.) At leisure.
Leisure (n.) Freedom from occupation or business; vacant time; time free from employment.
Leisure (n.) Time at one's command, free from engagement; convenient opportunity; hence, convenience; ease.
Leisure (a.) Unemployed; as, leisure hours.
Leisured (a.) Having leisure.
Leisurely (a.) Characterized by leisure; taking abundant time; not hurried; as, a leisurely manner; a leisurely walk.
Leisurely (adv.) In a leisurely manner.
Leitmotif (n.) See Leading motive, under Leading, a.
Leman (n.) A sweetheart, of either sex; a gallant, or a mistress; -- usually in a bad sense.
Leme (n.) A ray or glimmer of light; a gleam.
Leme (v. i.) To shine.
Lemmata (pl. ) of Lemma
Lemmas (pl. ) of Lemma
Lemma (n.) A preliminary or auxiliary proposition demonstrated or accepted for immediate use in the demonstration of some other proposition, as in mathematics or logic.
Lemman (n.) A leman.
Lemming (n.) 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.
Lemnian (a.) Of or pertaining to the isle of Lemnos.
Lemniscata (n.) Alt. of Lemniscate
Lemniscate (n.) 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.
Lemnisci (pl. ) of Lemniscus
Lemniscus (n.) One of two oval bodies hanging from the interior walls of the body in the Acanthocephala.
Lemon (n.) An oval or roundish fruit resembling the orange, and containing a pulp usually intensely acid. It is produced by a tropical tree of the genus Citrus, the common fruit known in commerce being that of the species C. Limonum or C. Medica (var. Limonum). There are many varieties of the fruit, some of which are sweet.
Lemon (n.) The tree which bears lemons; the lemon tree.
Lemonade (n.) A beverage consisting of lemon juice mixed with water and sweetened.
Lemur (n.) One of a family (Lemuridae) 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.
Lemures (n. pl.) Spirits or ghosts of the departed; specters.
Lemuria (n.) A hypothetical land, or continent, supposed by some to have existed formerly in the Indian Ocean, of which Madagascar is a remnant.
Lemurid (a. & n.) Same as Lemuroid.