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Accordant with law or with established legal forms and requirements; lawful; as, legitimate government; legitimate rights; the legitimate succession to the throne; a legitimate proceeding of an officer; a legitimate heir.

In a legitimate manner; lawfully; genuinely.

The state or quality of being legitimate; lawfulness; genuineness.

Companion for life. Hawthorne.

A salt of malamic acid.

An associate in a mess.

To estimate erroneously. J. S. Mill.

To mate wrongly or unsuitably; as, to mismate gloves or shoes; a mismated couple.

Same as Nemathelminthes.

der of helminths, including the Nematoidea and Gordiacea; the roundworms. [Written also Nematelminthea.]

To make firm; to harden in resolution. [Obs.] Bp. Hall. Sheldon.

Of or pertaining to an ommateum.

A compound eye, as of insects and crustaceans.

Prognostication by the letters of a name.

Of or pertaining to the nobility or aristocracy. [R.] -- n.

The nobility or aristocracy of ancient Rome, as opposed to the populares.

A salt of osmic acid. [Formerly written also osmiate.]

One of a pair of scent organs which the larvæ of certain butterflies emit from the first body segment, either above or below.

A salt of osmiamic acid.

To estimate too highly; to overvalue.