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ompliment. The commendations of this people are not always left-handed and detractive. Landor.

An ambassador or envoy.

A minister or ambassador resident at a court or seat of government. [Written also lieger, leiger.] [Obs.] Sir Edward Carne, the queen's leger at Rome. Fuller.

A name of several harmless plants, as Arnica montana, Senecio Doronicum, and Paris quadrifolia.

A small European rodent (Eliomys nitela), allied to the dormouse.

Sipping; touching lightly. [R.] Landor.

al; liberal disposition or practice; freedom from narrowness or prejudice; generosity; candor; charity. That liberality is but cast away Which makes us borrow what we can not pay. Denham.

An abject flatterer or parasite. Theodore Hook.

A resident ambassador. [Obs.] See Leger. Denham.

to show the way to by means of a light. His bishops lead him forth, and light him on. Landor. To light a fire, to kindle the material of a fire.

A West Indian fish of the genus Ephippus, remarkable for its high dorsal fin and brilliant colors.

ining the texture of the wood from which it was formed, and burning with an empyreumatic odor. It is of more recent origin than the anthracite and bituminous coal of the proper coal series. Called also brown coal, wood coal.

The fragrant wood of several shrubs and trees, especially of species of Rhodorhiza from the Canary Islands, and of the West Indian Amyris balsamifera.

the mechanism of a lock. Limb of the law, a lawyer or an officer of the law. [Colloq.] Landor.

ally not eaten until the curing has developed a peculiar and, to most people, unpleasant odor.

The act, process, or art of one who limns; the picture or decoration so produced. Adorned with illumination which we now call limning. Wood.

Adorned with lions heads; having arms terminating in lions' heads; -- said of a cross. [Written also leonced.]

A writing composed of words not having a certain letters; -- as in the Odyssey of Tryphiodorus there was no A in the first book, no B in the second, and so on.

d. Civil list (Great Britain & U.S.), the civil officers of government, as judges, ambassadors, secretaries, etc. Hence, the revenues or appropriations of public money for the support of the civil officers. More recently, the civil list, in England, embraces only the expenses of the reigning monarch's household. Free l…

learned; lettered. The literate now chose their emperor, as the military chose theirs. Landor.