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A layer or stratum. The lowest ledge or row should be of stone. Sir H. Wotton.

See Ledgment.

ke. It differs from an intertie in being intended to carry weight. [Written also ligger.] Ledger bait, fishing bait attached to a floating line fastened to the bank of a stream, pond, etc. Walton. J. H. Walsh. -- Ledger line. See Leger line, under 3d Leger, a. -- Ledger wall (Mining), the wall under a vein; the foot…

The largest hammer used by smiths. Weale.

To of or admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in; as, to acknowledge the being of a God. I acknowledge my transgressions. Ps. li. 3. For ends generally acknowledged to be good. Macaulay.

Confessedly.

One who acknowledges.

See Allege. [Obs.]

The upper stratum of fuller's earth.

To refuse to acknowledge; to deny; to disown. [Obs.] South.

One of the dowels joining the ends of the fellies which form the circle of the wheel of a gun carriage. Wilhelm.

Feathered; furnished with feathers or wings; able to fly. Hfledge with wings. Milton.

A young bird just fledged.

Knowledge of a thing before it happens, or of whatever is to happen; prescience. If I foreknew, Foreknowledge had no influence on their fault. Milton.

A pledge or surety for the good behavior of freemen, -- each freeman who was a member of an ancient decennary, tithing, or friborg, in England, being a pledge for the good conduct of the others, for the preservation of the public peace; a free surety.

To pledge. Sir W. Scott.

Mutual knowledge or acquaintance. [Obs.] Bacon.

To pledge mutually. [R.]

Pigs of iron used for ballast. [Written also kintlidge.]

eption of fact, truth, or duty; certain apprehension; familiar cognizance; cognition. Knowledge, which is the highest degree of the speculative faculties, consists in the perception of the truth of affirmative or negative propositions. Locke.