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leg
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English leg, legge, from Old Norse leggr (“leg, calf, bone of the arm or leg, hollow tube, stalk”), from Proto-Germanic *lagjaz, *lagwijaz (“leg, thigh”), from Proto-Indo-European *(?)lak-, *l?k- (“leg; the main muscle of the arm or leg”).
Cognate with Scots leg (“leg”), Icelandic leggur (“leg, limb”), Norwegian Bokmål legg (“leg”), Norwegian Nynorsk legg (“leg”), Swedish Swedish lägg (“leg, shank, shaft”), Danish læg (“leg”), Lombardic lagi (“thigh, shank, leg”), Latin lacertus (“limb, arm”), Persian ???? (leng). Upon borrowing, mostly displaced the native Old English term s?anca (Modern English shank).
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /l??/
- (some US dialects) IPA(key): /le??/
- Rhymes: -??
Noun
leg (plural legs)
- A limb or appendage that an animal uses for support or locomotion.
- In humans, the lower limb extending from the groin to the ankle.
- (anatomy) The portion of the lower limb of a human that extends from the knee to the ankle.
- A part of garment, such as a pair of trousers/pants, that covers a leg.
- A rod-like protrusion from an inanimate object, supporting it from underneath.
- (figuratively) Something that supports.
- A stage of a journey, race etc.
- (nautical) A distance that a sailing vessel does without changing the sails from one side to the other.
- (nautical) One side of a multiple-sided (often triangular) course in a sailing race.
- (sports) A single game or match played in a tournament or other sporting contest.
- (geometry) One of the two sides of a right triangle that is not the hypotenuse.
- (geometry) One of the branches of a hyperbola or other curve which extend outward indefinitely.
- (usually used in plural) The ability of something to persist or succeed over a long period of time.
- (Britain, slang, archaic) A disreputable sporting character; a blackleg.
- An extension of a steam boiler downward, in the form of a narrow space between vertical plates, sometimes nearly surrounding the furnace and ash pit, and serving to support the boiler; called also water leg.
- In a grain elevator, the case containing the lower part of the belt which carries the buckets.
- (cricket, attributive) Denotes the half of the field on the same side as the batsman's legs; the left side for a right-handed batsman.
- Synonym: on; Antonym: off
- (telephony) A branch or lateral circuit connecting an instrument with the main line.
- (electrical) A branch circuit; one phase of a polyphase system.
- (finance) An underlying instrument of a derivatives strategy.
- (US, slang, military) An army soldier assigned to a paratrooper unit who has not yet been qualified as a paratrooper.
- (archaic) A gesture of submission; a bow or curtsey. Chiefly in phrase make a leg.
- 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 74:
- Hickman came in, making his legs, and stroking his cravat and ruffles.
- 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 74:
- (journalism) A column, as a unit of length of text as laid out.
- 2015, Homer L. Hall, ?Megan Fromm, Aaron Manfull, Student Journalism & Media Literacy (page 266)
- A leg is one column of a story. It has two legs if it is set in two columns and three legs if it is set in three columns. Avoid legs longer than 10 inches and shorter than 1 inch.
- 2015, Homer L. Hall, ?Megan Fromm, Aaron Manfull, Student Journalism & Media Literacy (page 266)
Alternative forms
- legge (obsolete)
Synonyms
- (side of a right triangle): cathetus
Derived terms
Translations
See leg/translations § Noun.
See also
Verb
leg (third-person singular simple present legs, present participle legging, simple past and past participle legged)
- To remove the legs from an animal carcass.
- To build legs onto a platform or stage for support.
- To put a series of three or more options strikes into the stock market.
- To apply force using the leg (as in 'to leg a horse').
Derived terms
- leg it
References
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /l?d?/
- Homophone: ledge
Noun
leg (plural not attested)
- Abbreviation of legislature.
- Abbreviation of legend.
Adjective
leg (not comparable)
- Abbreviation of legislative.
Anagrams
- ELG, ElG, gel
Aromanian
Alternative forms
- legu
Etymology
From Latin lig?. Compare Romanian lega, leg.
Verb
leg (second-person singular present indicative ledz, third-person singular present indicative leadzi or leadze, second-person plural present indicative ligats, past participle ligatã)
- I tie, bind.
Related terms
- ligari / ligare
- ligat
- ligãturã
- ligãmintu
- dizleg
See also
- adun
- mpriunedz
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?l?j?]
- Homophone: lej
- Rhymes: -aj
Etymology 1
From Old Norse leikr, from Proto-Germanic *laikaz.
Noun
leg c (singular definite legen, plural indefinite lege)
- play, game
- (zoology) spawning (fish)
Inflection
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
leg
- imperative of lege
Dupaningan Agta
Noun
leg
- neck; throat
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /l?x/
- Rhymes: -?x
Verb
leg
- first-person singular present indicative of leggen
- imperative of leggen
Anagrams
- gel
German
Alternative forms
- lege
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /le?k/
Verb
leg
- (colloquial) first-person singular present of legen
- singular imperative of legen
- (colloquial) first-person singular subjunctive I of legen
- (colloquial) third-person singular subjunctive I of legen
Hungarian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?l??]
- Hyphenation: leg
- Rhymes: -??
Etymology 1
Back-formation from leg- (prefix forming superlative adjectives).
Noun
leg (plural legek)
- (chiefly in the plural, informal) best, most (record-setting achievement, property or amount)
Declension
Etymology 2
From English leg (“single game or match played in a tournament”).
Noun
leg (plural legek)
- (darts) leg (single game played in darts)
Declension
Icelandic
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /l???/
- Rhymes: -???
Noun
leg n (genitive singular legs, nominative plural leg)
- uterus
Declension
Derived terms
- leggöng
- legháls
- leghálssýking
- legnám
Lombard
Etymology 1
From legge.
Noun
leg
- law
Etymology 2
From leggere.
Verb
leg
- to read
Middle English
Alternative forms
- legge, leggue, leige, lige
Etymology
From Old Norse leggr, from Proto-Germanic *lagjaz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /l??/
Noun
leg (plural legges)
- leg, limb
- shank, shin
- leg (cut of meat)
- leg armour
- The stem of a wine glass
Descendants
- English: leg
- Scots: leg
References
- “leg, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-05.
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
leg
- imperative of lege
Old Norse
Noun
leg n
- burial place
Declension
Derived terms
- legkaup n (“burial fee”)
- legstaðr m (“burial place”)
- legsteinn m (“tombstone”)
References
- leg in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /l?k/
- Homophone: lek
Noun
leg
- genitive plural of lega
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [le?]
Verb
leg
- first-person singular present indicative of lega
- first-person singular present subjunctive of lega
Swedish
Adjective
leg
- certified, authorized; indicating an authorized medical doctor, not a quack. Abbreviation of legitimerad.
Noun
leg n
- (slang) ID card showing the owner's age; abbreviation of legitimation.
Declension
See also
- lägg
Anagrams
- elg
Torres Strait Creole
Etymology
From English leg.
Noun
leg
- lower leg, foot
Synonyms
- ngar (western dialect)
Westrobothnian
Etymology
From Old Norse leg.
Noun
leg n (definite leje, dative lejen)
- afterbirth from calving
Synonyms
- ättföring f
- li n
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attaint
English
Alternative forms
- atteint
Etymology
From Middle English atteinte, from Old French ateint, past participle of ateindre; in some senses influenced by taint.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??te?nt/
- Rhymes: -e?nt
Adjective
attaint (comparative more attaint, superlative most attaint)
- (obsolete) Convicted, attainted.
- (obsolete) Attainted; corrupted.
- c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, Act V, Part 5,[1]
- My tender youth was never yet attaint
- With any passion of inflaming love,
- c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, Act V, Part 5,[1]
Verb
attaint (third-person singular simple present attaints, present participle attainting, simple past and past participle attainted)
- (archaic) To subject to attainder; to condemn (someone) to death and extinction of all civil rights.
- (archaic) To subject to calumny; to accuse of a crime or dishonour.
- 1929, William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury, New York: Vintage, 1956, Appendix, p. 405,[2]
- CHARLES STUART. Attainted and proscribed by name and grade in his British regiment.
- 1929, William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury, New York: Vintage, 1956, Appendix, p. 405,[2]
- (now rare) To taint; to corrupt, sully.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.i:
- Amoret right fearefull was and faint, / Lest she with blame her honor should attaint [...].
- 1848, Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Barton, Chapter 34,[3]
- Jem felt that his own character had been attainted; and that to many it might still appear suspicious.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.i:
Noun
attaint (plural attaints)
- (archaic) A blow or strike, especially in jousting.
- 1820, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe, Chapter 8,[4]
- This politic selection did not alter the fortune of the field, the challengers were still successful: one of their antagonists was overthrown, and both the others failed in the “attaint”, that is, in striking the helmet and shield of their antagonist firmly and strongly, with the lance held in a direct line, so that the weapon might break unless the champion was overthrown.
- 2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate 2010, p. 484:
- At the moment of impact, the king’s eyes are open, his body braced for the atteint; he takes the blow perfectly, its force absorbed by a body securely armoured, moving in the right direction, moving at the right speed.
- 1820, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe, Chapter 8,[4]
- A wound on the leg of a horse caused by a blow
- (obsolete, law) The giving of a false verdict by a jury; the conviction of such a jury, and the reversal of the verdict
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