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To allege; to assert. [Obs.] Bp. Fisher.

See Ledgment.

down from the past, but not verifiable by historical record; a myth; a fable. And in this legend all that glorious deed. Read, whilst you arm you. Fairfax.

Of or pertaining to a legend or to legends; consisting of legends; like a legend; fabulous. "Legendary writers." Bp. Lloyd. Legendary stories of nurses and old women. Bourne.

r seat of government. [Written also lieger, leiger.] [Obs.] Sir Edward Carne, the queen's leger at Rome. Fuller.

l 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.

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

To bring forward with positiveness; to declare; to affirm; to assert; as, to allege a fact.

Capable of being alleged or affirmed. The most authentic examples allegeable in the case. South.

Allegation. [Obs.]

Allegation. [Obs.] With many complaints and allegements. Bp. Sanderson.

One who affirms or declares.

r having common duties and interests, and sometimes, by charter, peculiar rights and privileges; as, a college of heralds; a college of electors; a college of bishops. The college of the cardinals. Shak. Then they made colleges of sufferers; persons who, to secure their inheritance in the world to come, did cut off all…

To deprive of a privilege or privileges. [R.]

The act of gathering flowers.

To allege or cite before. Fotherby.

To state erroneously.

One of the principal rivers of Hades, in the channel of which fire flowed instead of water.