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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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2,186 words match “LEG”

To state erroneously.

Paralysis affecting a single limb.

Having the feet so near together that they interfere in traveling. Shak.

Too elegant. Johnson.

PANTELEGRAPH n.

See under Telegraph.

PARAPLEGIA; PARAPLEGY n.

half of the body on both sides, caused usually by disease of the spinal cord. -- Par`a*pleg"ic, a.

See Peregrine. [Obs.]

One of the principal rivers of Hades, in the channel of which fire flowed instead of water.

PHLEGM n. 4 definitions

ss; want of interest; indifference; coldness. They judge with fury, but they write with phlegm. Pope.

PHLEGMAGOGUE n.

A medicine supposed to expel phlegm.

An inflammation; more particularly, an inflammation of the internal organs. Phlegmasia dolens ( Etym: [NL.], milk leg.

PHLEGMATIC a. 4 definitions

Watery. [Obs.] "Aqueous and phlegmatic." Sir I. Newton.

PHLEGMATICAL a.

Phlegmatic. Ash.

PHLEGMATICALLY adv.

In a phlegmatic manner.

PHLEGMATICLY a.

Phlegmatically. [Obs.]

Purulent inflammation of the cellular or areolar tissue.

Having the nature or properties of phlegmon; as, phlegmonous pneumonia. Harvey.

PHOTOTELEGRAPHY n.

Telegraphy by means of light, as by the heliograph or the photophone. Also, less properly, telephotography. -- Pho`to*tel"e*graph (#), n. --Pho`to*tel`e*graph"ic (#), a.

Same as Infusoria.

Exceeding the limits of law. [R.]