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An impetuous flood; a bore. See Eagre.

Sharp; bitter; acid; sour. [Obs.] The egre words of thy friend. Chaucer.

To germinate. [Obs.]

Gay; cheerful; sprightly. [Obs.] Bacon.

One who affirms or declares.

One who besieges; -- opposed to the besieged.

To extract the germs from, as from wheat grains.

A machine for breaking open the kernels of wheat or other grain and removing the germs.

entity; a whole number, in contradistinction to a fraction or a mixed number. Complex integer (Theory of Numbers), an expression of the form a + bsq. root-1, where a and b are real integers.

See Jager.

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.

deception or trick. He of legierdemayne the mysteries did know. Spenser. The tricks and legerdemain by which men impose upon their own souls. South.

One who practices sleight of hand; a prestidigitator.

Lightness; nimbleness [Archaic] Shak.

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

One of the larger measures of work, amounting to one million ergs; -- called also megalerg.

To germinate again. Perennial plants regerminate several years successively. J. Lee.

A germinating again or anew.

The office of a vicegerent. South.

ority, to exercise the powers of another; a lieutenant; a vicar. Bacon. The symbol and vicegerent of the Deity. C. A. Young.