| leg | (noun) a section or portion of a journey or course | Synonyms: stage |
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| (noun) (nautical) the distance traveled by a sailing vessel on a single tack | - |
| (noun) a cloth covering consisting of the part of a pair of trousers that covers a person's leg | - |
| (noun) one of the supports for a piece of furniture | - |
| (noun) a prosthesis that replaces a missing leg | Synonyms: peg, pegleg, wooden leg |
| (noun) a human limb; commonly used to refer to a whole limb but technically only the part of the limb between the knee and ankle | - |
| (noun) a structure in animals that is similar to a human leg and used for locomotion | - |
| (noun) the limb of an animal used for food | - |
| (noun) a part of a forked or branching shape | Synonyms: branch, ramification |
| legacy | (noun) (law) a gift of personal property by will | Synonyms: bequest |
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| legal | (adjective) established by or founded upon law or official or accepted rules | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to jurisprudence | - |
| (adjective) relating to or characteristic of the profession of law | - |
| (adjective) allowed by official rules | - |
| (adjective) having legal efficacy or force | Synonyms: effectual, sound |
| legalese | (noun) a style that uses the abstruse technical vocabulary of the law | - |
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| legalisation | (noun) the act of making lawful | Synonyms: legalization, legitimation |
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| legalise | (verb) make legal | Synonyms: decriminalise, decriminalize, legalize, legitimate, legitimatise, legitimatize, legitimise, legitimize |
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| legalism | (noun) strict conformity to the letter of the law rather than its spirit | - |
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| legality | (noun) lawfulness by virtue of conformity to a legal statute | - |
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| legalization | (noun) the act of making lawful | Synonyms: legalisation, legitimation |
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| legalize | (verb) make legal | Synonyms: decriminalise, decriminalize, legalise, legitimate, legitimatise, legitimatize, legitimise, legitimize |
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| legally | (adverb) by law; conforming to the law | Synonyms: de jure, lawfully |
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| (adverb) in a legal manner | - |
| legate | (noun) a member of a legation | Synonyms: official emissary |
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| legatee | (noun) someone to whom a legacy is bequeathed | - |
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| legateship | (noun) the post or office of legate | Synonyms: legation |
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| legation | (noun) the post or office of legate | Synonyms: legateship |
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| (noun) a permanent diplomatic mission headed by a minister | Synonyms: foreign mission |
| legato | (adjective) (music) without breaks between notes; smooth and connected | Synonyms: smooth |
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| (adverb) connecting the notes; in music | - |
| legend | (noun) brief description accompanying an illustration | Synonyms: caption |
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| (noun) a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events | Synonyms: fable |
| legendary | (adjective) so celebrated as to having taken on the nature of a legend | - |
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| (adjective) celebrated in fable or legend | Synonyms: fabled |
| leger | (noun) a record in which commercial accounts are recorded | Synonyms: account book, book, book of account, ledger |
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| legerdemain | (noun) an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers | Synonyms: conjuration, conjuring trick, deception, illusion, magic, magic trick, thaumaturgy, trick |
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| legerity | (noun) the gracefulness of a person or animal that is quick and nimble | Synonyms: agility, lightness, lightsomeness, nimbleness |
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| legged | (adjective) having legs of a specified kind or number | - |
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| legging | (noun) a garment covering the leg (usually extending from the knee to the ankle) | Synonyms: leg covering, leging |
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| leggy | (adjective) having long legs | Synonyms: long-legged, long-shanked |
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| (adjective) (of plants) having tall spindly stems | Synonyms: tall-growing |
| leghorn | (noun) a stiff hat made of straw with a flat crown | Synonyms: boater, Panama, Panama hat, sailor, skimmer, straw hat |
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| legibility | (noun) a quality of writing (print or handwriting) that can be easily read | Synonyms: readability |
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| (noun) distinctness that makes perception easy | Synonyms: discernability |
| legible | (adjective) (of handwriting, print, etc.) capable of being read or deciphered | - |
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| legibly | (adverb) in a legible manner | Synonyms: decipherably, readably |
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| leging | (noun) a garment covering the leg (usually extending from the knee to the ankle) | Synonyms: leg covering, legging |
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| legion | (adjective) amounting to a large indefinite number | Synonyms: numerous |
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| (noun) a vast multitude | Synonyms: horde, host |
| (noun) a large military unit | - |
| (noun) association of ex-servicemen | - |
| (noun) archaic terms for army | Synonyms: host |
| legionary | (noun) a soldier who is a member of a legion (especially the French Foreign Legion) | Synonyms: legionnaire |
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| legionella | (noun) the motile aerobic rod-shaped Gram-negative bacterium that thrives in central heating and air conditioning systems and can cause Legionnaires' disease | Synonyms: Legionella pneumophilia |
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| legionnaire | (noun) a soldier who is a member of a legion (especially the French Foreign Legion) | Synonyms: legionary |
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| legislate | (verb) make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation | Synonyms: pass |
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| legislating | (noun) the act of making or enacting laws | Synonyms: lawmaking, legislation |
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| legislation | (noun) the act of making or enacting laws | Synonyms: lawmaking, legislating |
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| (noun) law enacted by a legislative body | Synonyms: statute law |
| legislative | (adjective) of or relating to or created by legislation | - |
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| (adjective) relating to a legislature or composed of members of a legislature | - |
| legislatively | (adverb) by legislation | - |
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| legislator | (noun) someone who makes or enacts laws | - |
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| legislatorship | (noun) the office of legislator | - |
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| legislature | (noun) persons who make or amend or repeal laws | Synonyms: general assembly, law-makers, legislative assembly, legislative body |
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| legitimacy | (noun) lawfulness by virtue of being authorized or in accordance with law | - |
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| (noun) undisputed credibility | Synonyms: authenticity, genuineness |
| legitimate | (adjective) of marriages and offspring; recognized as lawful | - |
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| (adjective) in accordance with recognized or accepted standards or principles | - |
| (adjective) authorized, sanctioned by, or in accordance with law | Synonyms: lawful, licit |
| (adjective) based on known statements or events or conditions | Synonyms: logical |
| (verb) make (an illegitimate child) legitimate; declare the legitimacy of (someone) | - |
| (verb) show or affirm to be just and legitimate | - |
| (verb) make legal | Synonyms: decriminalise, decriminalize, legalise, legalize, legitimatise, legitimatize, legitimise, legitimize |
| legitimately | (adverb) in a lawfully recognized manner | - |
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| (adverb) in a manner acceptable to common custom | Synonyms: lawfully, licitly |
| legitimation | (noun) the act of making lawful | Synonyms: legalisation, legalization |
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| (noun) the act of rendering a person legitimate | - |
| legitimatise | (verb) make legal | Synonyms: decriminalise, decriminalize, legalise, legalize, legitimate, legitimatize, legitimise, legitimize |
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| legitimatize | (verb) make legal | Synonyms: decriminalise, decriminalize, legalise, legalize, legitimate, legitimatise, legitimise, legitimize |
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| legitimise | (verb) make legal | Synonyms: decriminalise, decriminalize, legalise, legalize, legitimate, legitimatise, legitimatize, legitimize |
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| legitimize | (verb) make legal | Synonyms: decriminalise, decriminalize, legalise, legalize, legitimate, legitimatise, legitimatize, legitimise |
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| legless | (adjective) not having legs | - |
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| leglike | (adjective) resembling or functioning like a leg | - |
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| legs | (noun) staying power | - |
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| legume | (noun) the seedpod of a leguminous plant (such as peas or beans or lentils) | - |
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| (noun) an erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae | Synonyms: leguminous plant |
| (noun) the fruit or seed of any of various bean or pea plants consisting of a case that splits along both sides when ripe and having the seeds attach to one side of the case | - |
| leguminous | (adjective) relating to or consisting of legumes | - |
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