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Escape from custody. To give leg - bail : To run away. "I wud gie them leg - bail to a certainty." -Scott: Anti quary, ch. xxxix. IMG:content-0469.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0470.png:[blocks in formation] le-gal-işm, s. [English legal ; -ism.] Strict adherence to law or prescription; legal doctrine. le-gal-ist, s. [Eng. legal ; -ist.] 1. Ord. Lang.: One who advocates a strict ad- herence to law or prescription. I. Ordinary Language : 1. To make lawful; to render conformable to or in accordance with the law, either by authorizing the doing of an act or by sanctioning what has been done. leg-ate-ship, s. [Eng. legate ; -ship .] The office, rank, or position of a legate. taining to a legate. leg-a-tine, a . [Eng. leg at (e); -ine.] Of or per- IMG:content-0471.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0472.png:[blocks in formation] modern legend is its diffusivene ." - Add is on : On Ancient Medals , dial. 3. to describe in story. leg-end, v . t . [LEGEND, 8.] To tell, to narrate; "Nor ladie's wanton love, nor wand'ring knight, Legend I out in rhimes all richly dight." IMG:content-0473.png:[blocks in formation] *lěg-er, s. & a. [LEDGER, LEIGER.] *leger-book, s . 1. A cartulary or register of a religious house. 2. A ledger. Music: One of a number of short lines drawn above or below the ordinary stave at the relative On and between these lines, notes distances at which the whole lines would be placed. belonging to pa ages beyond the extent of the stave are placed. The use of leger lines is comparatively modern in musical notation, for it was anciently supposed that the stave, with a certain clef prefixed, was sufficient for the compa of the voice instrument using such IMG:content-0474.png:[ocr errors] IMG:content-0475.png:[blocks in formation] to ease. *legge (2), *leg-gen (2), v. t . [LAY.] To allay, legger leg'-ger, s . [Eng. leg ; -er .] A term applied to a man who propels a canal boat or barge through a low tunnel or bridge by pushing with his legs against the sides or roof. leg'-gět, s. [Perhaps from legge =to lay.] A kind of tool used by reed-thatchers. leg-gi-a-drō, adv. [Ital.] IMG:content-0476.png:[blocks in formation] 1. A Roman soldier belonging to a legion; one of Music: A direction that the pa age to which the a legion. word is appended is to be played briskly or gayly. *leg-gi-ā-droŭs, adj . [Ital. leggiadro = brisk, handsome.] Light, graceful. leg'-ging, lěg'-gin, s . [Eng. leg ; -ing.] A gaiter; a covering of leather, canvas, ., worn over the trousers, and reaching close up to the knees. *leg-gişm, s . [Eng. leg , s.; -ism.) The character, practices, or manners of a blackleg.