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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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2,186 words match “LEG”

LEGITIMATENESS n.
The state or quality of being legitimate; lawfulness; genuineness.
LEGITIMATION n. 2 definitions
The act of making legitimate. The coining or legitimation of money. East.
LEGITIMATIST n.
See Legitimist.
LEGITIMATIZE v.
To legitimate.
LEGITIMISM n.
The principles or plans of legitimists.
LEGITIMIST n. 2 definitions
One who supports legitimate authority; esp., one who believes in hereditary monarchy, as a divine right.
LEGITIMIZE v.
To legitimate.
LEGLESS a.
Not having a leg.
LEGO-LITERARY a.
Pertaining to the literature of law.
LEGULEIAN a. 2 definitions
Lawyerlike; legal. [R.] "Leguleian barbarism." De Quincey. -- n.
LEGUME n. 2 definitions
The fruit of leguminous plants, as peas, beans, lupines; pulse.
LEGUMEN n.
Same as Legume.
LEGUMIN n.
uminous substance resembling casein, found as a characteristic ingredient of the seeds of leguminous and grain- bearing plants.
LEGUMINOUS a. 2 definitions
Belonging to, or resembling, a very large natural order of plants (Leguminosæ), which bear legumes, including peas, beans, clover, locust trees, acacias, and mimosas.
ABLEGATE v. 2 definitions
To send abroad. [Obs.] Bailey.
ABLEGATION n.
The act of sending abroad. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.
ADLEGATION n.
A right formerly claimed by the states of the German Empire of joining their own ministers with those of the emperor in public treaties and negotiations to the common interest of the empire. Encyc. Brit.
ALEGAR n.
Sour ale; vinegar made of ale. Cecil.
ALEGER a.
Gay; cheerful; sprightly. [Obs.] Bacon.
ALEGGE v.
To allay or alleviate; to lighten. [Obs.] That shall alegge this bitter blast. Spenser.
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