(n.) A limb or member of an animal used for supporting the body, and in running, climbing, and swimming; esp., that part of the limb between the knee and foot.

(n.) 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 a pair of compasses or dividers.

(n.) The part of any article of clothing which covers the leg; as, the leg of a stocking or of a pair of trousers.

(n.) A bow, esp. in the phrase to make a leg; probably from drawing the leg backward in bowing.

(n.) A disreputable sporting character; a blackleg.

(n.) The course and distance made by a vessel on one tack or between tacks.

(n.) An extension of the 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.

(n.) The case containing the lower part of the belt which carries the buckets.

(n.) A fielder whose position is on the outside, a little in rear of the batter.

(v. t.) To use as a leg, with it as object

(v. t.) To bow.

(v. t.) To run.

(n.) A strong caustic alkaline solution of potassium salts, obtained by leaching wood ashes. It is much used in making soap, etc.

(n.) A short side line, connected with the main line; a turn-out; a siding.

(n.) A falsehood.

(n.) Alt. of Lymhound

(n.) A ventilating chimney over the shaft of a mine.

(n.) A woody valley; also, a deep pool.

(n.) A chimney.

(n.) An old game played with five, or three, cards dealt to each player from a full pack. When five cards are used the highest card is the knave of clubs or (if so agreed upon) the knave of trumps; -- formerly called lanterloo.

(n.) A modification of the game of "all fours" in which the players replenish their hands after each round by drawing each a card from the pack.

(v. t.) To beat in the game of loo by winning every trick.

(n.) A Hebrew measure of liquids, containing 2.37 gills.

(n.) A bulky piece of wood which has not been shaped by hewing or sawing.

(n.) An apparatus for measuring the rate of a ship's motion through the water.

(n.) Hence: The record of the rate of ship's speed or of her daily progress; also, the full nautical record of a ship's cruise or voyage; a log slate; a log book.

(n.) A record and tabulated statement of the work done by an engine, as of a steamship, of the coal consumed, and of other items relating to the performance of machinery during a given time.

(n.) A weight or block near the free end of a hoisting rope to prevent it from being drawn through the sheave.

(v. t.) To enter in a ship's log book; as, to log the miles run.

(v. i.) To engage in the business of cutting or transporting logs for timber; to get out logs.

(v. i.) To move to and fro; to rock.

(obs. strong imp.) of Leap. Leaped.

(v. t.) To retard; to hinder; to impede; to oppose.

(n.) A retarding; hindrance; obstacle; impediment; delay; -- common in the phrase without let or hindrance, but elsewhere archaic.

(n.) A stroke in which a ball touches the top of the net in passing over.

(imp. & p. p.) of Let

(v. t.) To leave; to relinquish; to abandon.

(v. t.) To consider; to think; to esteem.

(v. t.) To cause; to make; -- used with the infinitive in the active form but in the passive sense; as, let make, i. e., cause to be made; let bring, i. e., cause to be brought.

(v. t.) To permit; to allow; to suffer; -- either affirmatively, by positive act, or negatively, by neglecting to restrain or prevent.

(v. t.) To allow to be used or occupied for a compensation; to lease; to rent; to hire out; -- often with out; as, to let a farm; to let a house; to let out horses.

(v. t.) To give, grant, or assign, as a work, privilege, or contract; -- often with out; as, to let the building of a bridge; to let out the lathing and the plastering.

(v. i.) To forbear.

(v. i.) To be let or leased; as, the farm lets for $500 a year. See note under Let, v. t.

(n.) One of the two fleshy folds which surround the orifice of the mouth in man and many other animals. In man the lips are organs of speech essential to certain articulations. Hence, by a figure they denote the mouth, or all the organs of speech, and sometimes speech itself.

(n.) An edge of an opening; a thin projecting part of anything; a kind of short open spout; as, the lip of a vessel.

(n.) Law; as, lex talionis, the law of retaliation; lex terrae, the law of the land; lex fori, the law of the forum or court; lex loci, the law of the place; lex mercatoria, the law or custom of merchants.

(n.) The sharp cutting edge on the end of an auger.

(n.) One of the two opposite divisions of a labiate corolla.

(n.) The odd and peculiar petal in the Orchis family. See Orchidaceous.

(n.) One of the edges of the aperture of a univalve shell.

(v. t.) To touch with the lips; to put the lips to; hence, to kiss.

(v. t.) To utter; to speak.

(v. t.) To clip; to trim.

(n.) That which covers the opening of a vessel or box, etc.; a movable cover; as, the lid of a chest or trunk.

(n.) The cover of the eye; an eyelid.

(n.) The cover of the spore cases of mosses.

(n.) A calyx which separates from the flower, and falls off in a single piece, as in the Australian Eucalypti.

(n.) The top of an ovary which opens transversely, as in the fruit of the purslane and the tree which yields Brazil nuts.

(v. i.) To recline; to lie still.

(a.) Coming tardily after or behind; slow; tardy.

(a.) Last; long-delayed; -- obsolete, except in the phrase lag end.

(a.) Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.

(n.) One who lags; that which comes in last.

(n.) The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.

(n.) The amount of retardation of anything, as of a valve in a steam engine, in opening or closing.

(n.) A stave of a cask, drum, etc.; especially (Mach.), one of the narrow boards or staves forming the covering of a cylindrical object, as a boiler, or the cylinder of a carding machine or a steam engine.

(n.) See Graylag.

(v. i.) To walk or more slowly; to stay or fall behind; to linger or loiter.

(v. t.) To cause to lag; to slacken.

(v. t.) To cover, as the cylinder of a steam engine, with lags. See Lag, n., 4.

(n.) One transported for a crime.

(v. t.) To transport for crime.