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That which resembles a leg in form or use; especially, any long and slender support on which any object rests; as, the leg of a table; the leg of pair of compasses or dividers.

s in which the floor girders are rigidly secured at their extremities to supporting steel legs, driven into the round as piling, or resting on mudsills.

Having the general shape or outline of a leg of mutton; as, a leg-of-mutton, or shoulder-of-mutton, sail.

gift of property by will, esp. of money or personal property; a bequest. Also Fig.; as, a legacy of dishonor or disease.

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.

r 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.

See Legatine.

A legatee. [R.] Ayliffe.

An ambassador or envoy.

One to whom a legacy is bequeathed.

The office of a legate.

Of or pertaining to a legate; as, legatine power. Holinshed.

The sending forth or commissioning one person to act for another. "The Divine legation of Moses." Bp. Warburton.

Connected; tied; -- a term used when successive tones are to be produced in a closely connected, smoothly gliding manner. It is often indicated by a tie, thus staccato.

A testator; one who bequeaths a legacy. Dryden.