Definition of leg

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Leg (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..

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Palatine :: Palatine (a.) Of or pertaining to a palace, or to a high officer of a palace; hence, possessing royal privileges..
Revolt :: Revolt (n.) The act of revolting; an uprising against legitimate authority; especially, a renunciation of allegiance and subjection to a government; rebellion; as, the revolt of a province of the Roman empire..
Repeater :: Repeater (n.) An instrument for resending a telegraphic message automatically at an intermediate point.
Xiphodon :: Xiphodon (n.) An extinct genus of artiodactylous mammals found in the European Tertiary formations. It had slender legs, didactylous feet, and small canine teeth..
Prawn :: Prawn (n.) Any one of numerous species of large shrimplike Crustacea having slender legs and long antennae. They mostly belong to the genera Pandalus, Palaemon, Palaemonetes, and Peneus, and are much used as food. The common English prawn is Palaemon serratus..
Perfidy :: Perfidy (n.) The act of violating faith or allegiance; violation of a promise or vow, or of trust reposed; faithlessness; treachery..
Gavel :: Gavel (n.) The mallet of the presiding officer in a legislative body, public assembly, court, masonic body, etc..
Caucus :: Caucus (n.) A meeting, especially a preliminary meeting, of persons belonging to a party, to nominate candidates for public office, or to select delegates to a nominating convention, or to confer regarding measures of party policy; a political primary meeting..
East :: East (n.) Formerly, the part of the United States east of the Alleghany Mountains, esp. the Eastern, or New England, States; now, commonly, the whole region east of the Mississippi River, esp. that which is north of Maryland and the Ohio River; -- usually with the definite article; as, the commerce of the East is not independent of the agriculture of the West..
Hexapoda :: Hexapoda (n. pl.) The true, or six-legged, insects; insects other than myriapods and arachnids..
Mission :: Mission (n.) Persons sent; any number of persons appointed to perform any service; a delegation; an embassy.
Recording :: Recording (a.) Keeping a record or a register; as, a recording secretary; -- applied to numerous instruments with an automatic appliance which makes a record of their action; as, a recording gauge or telegraph..
Homologoumena :: Homologoumena (n. pl.) Those books of the New Testament which were acknowledged as canonical by the early church; -- distinguished from antilegomena.
Precarious :: Precarious (a.) Depending on the will or pleasure of another; held by courtesy; liable to be changed or lost at the pleasure of another; as, precarious privileges..
Prestidigitator :: Prestidigitator (n.) One skilled in legerdemain or sleight of hand; a juggler.
Rampant :: Rampant (v.) Ramping; leaping; springing; rearing upon the hind legs; hence, raging; furious..
Invalidity :: Invalidity (n.) Want of validity or cogency; want of legal force or efficacy; invalidness; as, the invalidity of an agreement or of a will..
Poonga Oil :: Poonga oil () A kind of oil used in India for lamps, and for boiling with dammar for pitching vessels. It is pressed from the seeds of a leguminous tree (Pongamia glabra)..
Graceful :: Graceful (a.) Displaying grace or beauty in form or action; elegant; easy; agreeable in appearance; as, a graceful walk, deportment, speaker, air, act, speech..
Water Privilege :: Water privilege () The advantage of using water as a mechanical power; also, the place where water is, or may be, so used. See under Privilege..
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