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Equal; impartial. [Obs.] Shak.

Equality. Chaucer. Tennyson.

Chronic enlargement of the extremities and face.

A branchiostegal ray. See Illustration of Branchial arches in Appendix.

Pertaining to, or like, a flock. For this gregal conformity there is an excuse. W. S. Mayo.

contrary to, or in violation of, human law; unlawful; illicit; hence, immoral; as, an illegal act; illegal trade; illegal love. Bp. Burnet.

The quality or condition of being illegal; unlawfulness; as, the illegality of trespass or of false imprisonment; also, an illegal act.

To make or declare illegal or unlawful.

In a illegal manner; unlawfully.

Illegality, unlawfulness.

Created by, permitted by, in conformity with, or relating to, law; as, a legal obligation; a legal standard or test; a legal procedure; a legal claim; a legal trade; anything is legal which the laws do not forbid.

Strictness, or the doctrine of strictness, in conforming to law.

advocates strict conformity to law; in theology, one who holds to the law of works. See Legal, 2 (a).

The state or quality of being letter of the law.

The act of making legal.

To make legal.

In a legal manner.

Of or pertaining to law as affected by medical facts.

See Bonito, 3.

Combining forms signifying: (a) Great, extended, powerful; as, megascope, megacosm. (b) (Metric System, Elec., Mech., etc.)