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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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46 words match “LEGGED”

Having (such or so many) legs; -- used in composition; as, a long-legged man; a two-legged animal.

BADGER-LEGGED a.

Having legs of unequal length, as the badger was thought to have. Shak.

BAKER-LEGGED a.

Having legs that bend inward at the knees.

BANDY-LEGGED a.

Having crooked legs.

Having the legs bare.

Having crooked legs, esp. with the knees bent outward. Johnson.

Having the legs crossed.

Noting a flight of stairs, consisting of two or more straight portions connected by a platform (landing) or platforms, and running in opposite directions without an intervening wellhole.

Having short legs, like a waddling duck; short-legged. Dryden.

LIGHT-LEGGED a.

Nimble; swift of foot. Sir P. Sidney.

Having the feet so near together that they interfere in traveling. Shak.

Having a conspicuous tuft of feathers on the legs.

ROUGH-LEGGED a.

Having the legs covered with feathers; -- said of a bird. rough-legged hawk. (Zoöl.) See Roughleg.

SPINDLE-LEGGED a.

Having long, slender legs.

CARBONADO; CARBONADE v.

To cut (meat) across for frying or broiling; to cut or slice and broil. [Obs.] A short-legged hen daintily carbonadoed. Bean. & Fl.

A large, long-legged South American bird (Dicholophus cristatus) which preys upon snakes, etc. See Seriema.

, curved bill and red legs; -- also called chauk, chauk-daw, chocard, Cornish chough, red-legged crow. The name is also applied to several allied birds, as the Alpine chough. Cornish chough (Her.), a bird represented black, with red feet, and beak; -- called also aylet and sea swallow.

A short-legged and stout horse, esp. one used for the saddle. [Eng.]

any bird of the genera Gymnorhina, Craticus, or Strepera, mostly from Australia. -- Red-legged crow. See Crough. -- As the crow flies, in a direct line. -- To pick a crow, To pluck a crow, to state and adjust a difference or grievance (with any one).

of its ravages in the region beyond the Mississippi. In the Eastern United States the red-legged (Caloptenus femurrubrum and C. atlanis) are closely related species, but their ravages are less important. They are closely related to the migratory locusts of the Old World. See Locust.