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A business with which one is intrusted by another; a commission; - - obsolete, except in the phrases last legacy, dying legacy, and the like. My legacy and message wherefore I am sent into the world. Tyndale. He came and told his legacy. Chapman. Legacy duty, a tax paid to government on legacies. Wharton. -- Legacy hu…

lerical; laic; laical; hence, unlearned; simple. [Obs.] For if priest be foul, on whom we trust, No wonder is a lewed man to rust. Chaucer. So these great clerks their little wisdom show To mock the lewd, as learn'd in this as they. Sit. J. Davies.

quidating; the state of being liquidated. To go into liquidation (Law), to turn over to a trustee one's assets and accounts, in order that the several amounts of one's indebtedness be authoritatively ascertained, and that the assets may be applied toward their discharge.

of continuing life; the act of living, or living comfortably. There is no living without trusting somebody or other in some cases. L' Estrange.

The object of affection; -- often employed in endearing address. "Trust me, love." Dryden. Open the temple gates unto my love. Spenser.

ke over, to transfer the title of; to convey; to alienate; as, he made over his estate in trust or in fee. -- To make sail. (Naut.) (a) To increase the quantity of sail already extended. (b) To set sail. -- To make shift, to manage by expedients; as, they made shift to do without it. [Colloq.]. -- To make sternway,…

icient measure. His majesty found what wrong measures he had taken in the conferring that trust, and lamented his error. Clarendon.

The reach and positiveness with which a person can remember; the strength and trustworthiness of one's power to reach and represent or to recall the past; as, his memory was never wrong.

One to be attended; specif., a pauper child intrusted to the care of a private person. [Eng.] Dickens.

One to whom the sovereign or executive head of a government intrusts the management of affairs of state, or some department of such affairs. Ministers to kings, whose eyes, ears, and hands they are, must be answerable to God and man. Bacon.

Having a mistaken confidence; wrongly trusting. [R.] Bp. Hall.

Want of faith; distrust. "[Anger] born of your misfaith." Tennyson.

Evil premonition; doubt; distrust. "Suspicious and misgivings." South.

wrong way or path; to lead astray; to guide into error; to cause to mistake; to deceive. Trust not servants who mislead or misinform you. Bacon. To give due light To the mislead and lonely traveler. Milton.

To mistrust. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To ween amiss; to misjudge; to distrust; to be mistaken. [Obs.] Spenser.

A horse. She had so good a seat and hand, she might be trusted with any mount. G. Eliot.

Of no faith; also, not trusting to faith for salvation; -- opposed to Ant: solifidian. Feltham.

Acknowledging, or complying with, obligation; trustworthy. [R.] The main difference between people seems to be, that one man can come under obligations on which you can rely, -- is obligable; and another is not. Emerson.

A special duty, trust, charge, or position, conferred by authority and for a public purpose; a position of trust or authority; as, an executive or judical office; a municipal office.