Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter L - Page 22
Legible (a.) Capable of being discovered or understood by apparent marks or indications; as, the thoughts of men are often legible in their countenances.
Legible (a.) (Of handwriting, print, etc.) Capable of being read or deciphered; "legible handwriting" [ant: illegible].
Legibleness (n.) The state or quality of being legible.
Legibly (adv.) In a legible manner.
Legibly (adv.) In a legible manner; "you must write legibly" [syn: legibly, decipherably, readably] [ant: illegibly, undecipherably, unreadably].
Legific (a.) Of or pertaining to making laws.
Practically, in many cases, authority or legific competence has begun in bare power. -- J. Grote.
Legion (n.) (Rom. Antiq.) 古羅馬軍團 [G]； 軍隊，部隊 [G]；眾多，大量 [（+of）] A body of foot soldiers and cavalry consisting of different numbers at different periods, -- from about four thousand to about six thousand men, -- the cavalry being about one tenth.
Legion (n.) A military force; an army; military bands.
Legion (n.) A great number; a multitude.
Where one sin has entered, legions will force their way through the same breach. -- Rogers.
Legion (n.) (Taxonomy) A group of orders inferior to a class.
Legion of honor, An order instituted by the French government in 1802, when Bonaparte was First Consul, as a reward for merit, both civil and military.
Legion (a.) 眾多的，大量的 [F] [Z] Amounting to a large indefinite number; "numerous times"; "the family was numerous"; "Palomar's fans are legion" [syn: numerous, legion(p)].
Legion (n.) Archaic terms for army [syn: host, legion].
Legion (n.) Association of ex-servicemen; "the American Legion".
Legion (n.) A large military unit; "the French Foreign Legion".
Legion (n.) A vast multitude [syn: horde, host, legion].
Legion, () A regiment of the Roman army, the number of men composing which differed at different times. It originally consisted of three thousand men, but in the time of Christ consisted of six thousand, exclusive of horsemen, who were in number a tenth of the foot-men. The word is used (Matt. 26:53; Mark 5:9) to express simply a great multitude.
Legionary (a.) 軍團的；退伍軍人協會的 Belonging to a legion; consisting of a legion or legions, or of an indefinitely great number; as, legionary soldiers; a legionary force. "The legionary body of error." -- Sir T. Browne.
Legionaries (n. pl. ) of Legionary
Legionary (n.) 退伍軍人協會會員A member of a legion.
Legioned (a.) Formed into a legion or legions; legionary.
Legionry (n.) A body of legions; legions, collectively.
Legislated (imp. & p. p.) of Legislate.
Legislating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Legislate.
Legislate (v. i.) To make or enact a law or laws.
Legislation (n.) 制定法律，立法；法律，法規 The act of legislating; preparation and enactment of laws; the laws enacted.
Legislation (n.) Law enacted by a legislative body [syn: {legislation}, {statute law}].
Legislation (n.) The act of making or enacting laws [syn: {legislation}, {legislating}, {lawmaking}].
Legislative (a.) Making, or having the power to make, a law or laws; lawmaking; -- distinguished from executive; as, a legislative act; a legislative body.
Legislative (a.) Of or pertaining to the making of laws; suitable to legislation; as, the transaction of legislative business; the legislative style.
Legislative (a.) (Formal) 法律的；立法的 Relating to laws or the making of laws.
// The European Parliament will have greater legislative powers (= ability to make laws).
Legislatively (adv.) 以立法方式；在立法方面；以立法者身分 In a legislative manner.
Legislator (n.) 立法者，立法委員；國會議員 [C] A lawgiver; one who makes laws for a state or community; a member of a legislative body.
The legislators in ancient and heroical times. -- Bacon.
Many of the legislators themselves had taken an oath of abjuration of his Majesty's person and family. -- E. Phillips.
Legislator (n.) Someone who makes or enacts laws.
Compare: Lawgiver
Lawgiver (n.) 立法者 A person who draws up and enacts laws.
‘The monarch was supreme executive, lawgiver, judge, and warrior.’
Compare: Monarch
Monarch (n.) [C] 君主；最高統治者 A sovereign head of state, especially a king, queen, or emperor.
‘The reigning monarch.’
‘This followed an attempt by the deposed monarch to regain his throne.’
Monarch (n.) A large migratory orange and black butterfly that occurs mainly in North America. The caterpillar feeds on milkweed, using the toxins in the plant to render both itself and the adult unpalatable to predators.
Danaus plexippus, subfamily Danainae, family Nymphalidae
Also called Milkweed
Monarch (n.) A flycatcher found in Africa, Asia, and Australasia, typically having boldly marked or colourful plumage.
Family Monarchidae (the monarch flycatcher family): many genera and numerous species
Compare: Flycatcher
Flycatcher (n.) 捕蠅器；【鳥】鶲（飛行時捕食蠅等）； 捕蠅草 A perching bird that catches flying insects, especially in short flights from a perch.
Typical Old World flycatchers belong to the family Muscicapidae. Many others belong to the Old World family Monarchidae (monarch and paradise flycatchers) and the New World family Tyrannidae (tyrant flycatchers), while some belong to families Eopsaltridae (Australasia), Platysteiridae (Africa), and Bombycillidae (America).
Legislatorial (a.) Of or pertaining to a legislator or legislature.
Legislatorship (n.) The office of a legislator.
Legislatress (n.) Alt. of Legislatrix.
Legislatrix (n.) A woman who makes laws.
Legislature (n.) [C] 立法機關；（美國的）州議會 The body of persons in a state or kingdom invested with power to make and repeal laws; a legislative body.
Without the concurrent consent of all three parts of the legislature, no law is, or can be, made. -- Sir M. Hale.
Note: The legislature of Great Britain consists of the Lords and Commons, with the king or queen, whose sanction is necessary to every bill before it becomes a law. The legislatures of most of the United States consist of two houses or branches; but the sanction or consent of the governor is required to give their acts the force of law, or a concurrence of two thirds of the two houses after he has refused his sanction and assigned his objections.
Note: The legislatures of some of the more important states having constitutional government are as follows, the general name (or a translation of it) of the legislative body collectively being given under the heading legislature, or parliament: StateLegislature, or parliament Upper House [colret] Name Number of members -- how chosen or composed -- term of officeLower House [colret] Name Number of members -- suffrage -- term of office.
ArgentinaNational CongressSenate 30 -- 2 from each provincew and 2 from capital -- 9 yearsHouse of Deputies120 (1 to 33,000) -- Manhood -- 4 years AustriaReichsrath BelgiumThe Chambers BrazilNational Congress ChileNational Congress Denmark Rigsdag FranceNational Assembly German EmpireImperial legislature *Great Britain Parliament House of Lords About 600 House of Commons About 670 -- 7 years, or until dissolution Greece Hungary Orz['a]g-gy["u]l['e]s ItalyParliament JapanImperial Diet MexicoCongress NetherlandsStates-General #NorwayStorthing PortugalCortes Geraes (general Assembly) PrussiaLandtagHerrenhausNo limit -- very various classes -- For different termsAbgeordnetenhaus433 -- Indirect election, general suffrage[sect] -- 5 years, or until dissolution SpainCortes SwedenDiet SwitzerlandBundesversammlung United StatesCongressSenate 92 (1908) -- 6 yearsHouse of Representatives 391 (1908) -- 2 years.
*In the self-governing colonies of Great Britain the legislative body usually consists of two chambers, the names of the legislature and the chambers varying. Thus in Australia the Federal Parliament is composed of the Senate and the House of Commons, in New Zealand the General Assembly is composed of the Legislative Council and the House of Representatives, etc. #Members of the Storthing are chosen for three years by direct election by manhood suffrage, forty-one being elected from the towns and eighty-two from the rural districts. The Storthing on assembling divides into the Lagthing including one fourth and the Odelsthing including three fourths of the total membership of the Storthing. All new laws are laid first before the Odelsthing. If the two houses do not agree they vote in joint session, a majority of two thirds of those voting being necessary to a decision. [sect] While theoretically general, the suffrage is so classified as often practically to disfranchise those who are not property holders.
Legislature (n.) Persons who make or amend or repeal laws [syn: legislature, legislative assembly, legislative body, general assembly, law-makers].
Legislature, () government. That body of men in the state which has the power of making laws.
Legislature, () By the Constitution of the United States, art. 1, s. 1, all legislative powers granted by it are vested in a congress of the United States, which shall consist of a senate and house of representatives.
Legislature, () It requires the consent of a majority of each branch of the legislature in order to enact a law, and then it must be approved by the president of the United States, or in case of his refusal, by two-thirds of each house. Const. U. S. art. 1, s. 7, 2. Legislature.
Legislature, () Most of the constitutions of the several states, contain provisions nearly similar to this. In general, the legislature will not exercise judicial functions; yet the use of supreme power upon particular occasions, is not without example. Vide Judicial.
Legist (n.) 法律學家 One skilled in the laws; a writer on law. --Milman. -- J. Morley.
Legitim (n.) (Scots Law) [法] 特留分；遺留分 The portion of movable estate to which the children are entitled upon the death of the father.
Legitim (n.) The portion of an estate usually including both real and personal property reserved to the children and sometimes other heirs upon the death of the father under Roman, civil, and Scots law -- compare: Dead's part, Reasonable part.
Dead's part (n.) [Scots law] T he part of a married man's personal property that he may dispose of by will, the rest going to the widow and children -- compare: Jus relicate, Legitim
Reasonable part(s) (n.) 動產特留份；(英格蘭古法) ；依普通法，丈夫去世時應將其不動產的2/3留給其遺孀和子女，《大憲章》〔Magna Carta〕強調了這一點，但後隨時間推移而未得到有效執行。在蘇格蘭和其它歐洲國家也都有該制度。
The portion of his estate that a decedent could not under Old English law will away from his widow and children -- compare Dead's part; Jus relicate, Legitim
Jus relictae (n.) [Scots law] 寡婦繼承權；〈拉〉；〈蘇格蘭〉；指寡婦對亡夫非土地財產的繼承權，有子女時繼承三分之一，無子女時可繼承二分之一。
A widow's right to a share in the free movable estate of her deceased husband to the extent of one third if there are children and otherwise one half.
Legitim [In British English] (n.) [Scots law] The part of a person's moveable estate that is inherited by his or her children on that person's death.
Legitimacy (n.) 合法（性）；正統（性）；合理 The state, or quality, of being legitimate, or in conformity with law; hence, the condition of having been lawfully begotten, or born in wedlock.
The doctrine of Divine Right, which has now come back to us, like a thief from transportation, under the alias of Legitimacy. -- Macaulay.
Legitimacy (n.) Lawfulness by virtue of being authorized or in accordance with law [ant: illegitimacy].
Legitimacy (n.) Undisputed credibility [syn: authenticity, genuineness, legitimacy].
Legitimacy, () The state of being born in wedlock; that is, in a lawful manner.
Legitimacy, () Marriage is considered by all civilized nations as the only source of legitimacy; the qualities of husband and wife must be possessed by the parents in order to make the offspring legitimate; and furthermore the marriage must be lawful, for if it is void ab initio, the children who may be the offspring of such marriage are not legitimate. 1 Phil. Ev. Index, h.t.; Civ. Code L. art. 203 to 216.
Legitimacy, () In Virginia, it is provided by statute of 1787, "that the issue of marriages deemed null in law, shall nevertheless be legitimate." 3 Hen. & Munf. 228, n.
Legitimacy, () A conclusive, presumption of legitimacy arises from marriage and cohabitation; and proof of the mother's irregularities will not destroy this presumption: pater est quem nuptiae demonstrant. To rebut this presumption, circumstances must be shown which render it impossible that the husband should be the father, as impotency and the like. 3 Bouv. Inst. n. 300-2. Vide Bastard; Bastardy; Paternity; Pregnancy.
Legitimate (a.) 合法的；合法婚姻所生的，嫡出的 [Z]；正統的 Accordant with law or with established legal forms and requirements; lawful; as, legitimate government; legitimate rights; the legitimate succession to the throne; a legitimate proceeding of an officer; a legitimate heir.
Legitimate (a.) Lawfully begotten; born in wedlock.
Legitimate (a.) Authorized; real; genuine; not false, counterfeit, or spurious; as, legitimate poems of Chaucer; legitimate inscriptions.
Legitimate (a.) Conforming to known principles, or accepted rules; as, legitimate reasoning; a legitimate standard, or method; a legitimate combination of colors.
Tillotson still keeps his place as a legitimate English classic. -- Macaulay.
Legitimate (a.) Following by logical sequence; reasonable; as, a legitimate result; a legitimate inference.
Legitimate (a.) (C2) 合法的，正當的，法律允許的 Allowed by law.
// The army must give power back to the legitimate government.
Legitimate (a.) (C2) 合理的，可接受的，得到認可的 Reasonable and acceptable.
// He claimed that the restaurant bill was a legitimate business expense.
Legitimate (a.) （子女）合法婚生的 A legitimate child is one whose parents are legally married at the time of his or her birth.
Legitimate (v.) [ T ] (Also legitimize) (US) 使…合法；使…合理 To make something legal or acceptable.
// The government fears that talking to terrorists might legitimate their violent actions.
Legitimated (imp. & p. p.) of Legitimate.
Legitimating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Legitimate.
Legitimate (v. t.) To make legitimate, lawful, or valid; esp., to put in the position or state of a legitimate person before the law, by legal means; as, to legitimate a bastard child.
To enact a statute of that which he dares not seem to approve, even to legitimate vice. -- Milton.
Legitimate (a.) Of marriages and offspring; recognized as lawful [ant: illegitimate].
Legitimate (a.) Based on known statements or events or conditions; "rain was a logical expectation, given the time of year" [syn: legitimate, logical].
Legitimate (a.) In accordance with recognized or accepted standards or principles; "legitimate advertising practices".
Legitimate (a.) Authorized, sanctioned by, or in accordance with law; "a legitimate government" [syn: lawful, legitimate, licit].
Legitimate (v.) Make legal; "Marijuana should be legalized" [syn: legalize, legalise, decriminalize, decriminalise, legitimize, legitimise, legitimate, legitimatize, legitimatise] [ant: criminalise, criminalize, illegalise, illegalize, outlaw].
Legitimate (v.) Show or affirm to be just and legitimate.
Legitimate (v.) Make (an illegitimate child) legitimate; declare the legitimacy of (someone); "They legitimized their natural child".
Legitimately (adv.) 合法地；正當地，合理地；合乎邏輯地；嫡出地 In a legitimate manner; lawfully; genuinely.
Legitimately (adv.) In a manner acceptable to common custom; "you cannot do this legitimately!" [syn: legitimately, lawfully, licitly] [ant: illegally, illegitimately, illicitly, lawlessly].
Legitimately (adv.) In a lawfully recognized manner; "let's get married so our child can be born legitimately" [ant: illegitimately, out of wedlock].
Legitimateness (n.) The state or quality of being legitimate; lawfulness; genuineness.
Legitimation (n.) 合法化；承認為嫡出 The act of making legitimate.
The coining or legitimation of money. -- East.
Legitimation (n.) Lawful birth. [R.] -- Shak.
Legitimation (n.) The act of rendering a person legitimate; "he has filial rights because he obtained letters of legitimation from the king"; "his parents' subsequent marriage resulted in his legitimation".
Legitimation (n.) The act of making lawful [syn: legalization, legalisation, legitimation].
Legitimatist (n.) See Legitimist.
Legitimatize (v. t.) To legitimate.
Legitimatize (v.) Make legal; "Marijuana should be legalized" [syn: legalize, legalise, decriminalize, decriminalise, legitimize, legitimise, legitimate, legitimatize, legitimatise] [ant: criminalise, criminalize, illegalise, illegalize, outlaw].
Legitimism (n.) The principles or plans of legitimists.
Legitimist (n.) One who supports legitimate authority; esp., one who believes in hereditary monarchy, as a divine right.
Legitimist (n.) Specifically, a supporter of the claims of the elder branch of the Bourbon dynasty to the crown of France.
Legitimized (imp. & p. p.) of Legitimize.
Legitimizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Legitimize.
Legitimize (v. t.) To legitimate.
Legitimize (v.) Make legal; "Marijuana should be legalized" [syn: legalize, legalise, decriminalize, decriminalise, legitimize, legitimise, legitimate, legitimatize, legitimatise] [ant: criminalise, criminalize, illegalise, illegalize, outlaw].
Legless (a.) Not having a leg.
Legless (a.) Not having legs; "a legless man in a wheelchair" [ant: legged].
Lego-literary (a.) Pertaining to the literature of law.
Leguleian (a.) Lawyerlike; legal.
Leguleian (n.) A lawyer.
Legume (n.) A pod dehiscent into two pieces or valves, and having the seed attached at one suture, as that of the pea.
Legume (n.) The fruit of leguminous plants, as peas, beans, lupines; pulse.
Legumina (n. pl. ) of Legumen.
Legumens (n. pl. ) of Legumen.
Legumen (n.) Same as Legume.
Legumin (n.) An albuminous substance resembling casein, found as a characteristic ingredient of the seeds of leguminous and grain-bearing plants.
Leguminous (a.) （似）豆科植物的；豆類的 Pertaining to pulse; consisting of pulse.
Leguminous (a.) (Bot.) Belonging to, or resembling, a very large natural order of plants ({Leguminosae), which bear legumes, including peas, beans, clover, locust trees, acacias, and mimosas.
Leguminous (a.) Relating to or consisting of legumes.
Leiger (n.) See Leger, n., 2.
Leiotrichan (a.) Of or pertaining to the Leiotrichi.
Leiotrichan (n.) One of the Leiotrichi.
Leiotrichi (n. pl.) The division of mankind which embraces the smooth-haired races.
Leiotrichous (a.) Having smooth, or nearly smooth, hair.
Leipoa (n.) A genus of Australian gallinaceous birds including but a single species (Leipoa ocellata), about the size of a turkey. Its color is variegated, brown, black, white, and gray. Called also native pheasant.
Leipothymic (a.) See Lipothymic.
Leister (n.) Alt. of Lister.
Lister (n.) A spear armed with three or more prongs, for striking fish.
Leisurable (a.) Leisurely.
Leisurable (a.) Vacant of employment; not occupied; idle; leisure; as leisurable hours.
Leisurably (adv.) At leisure.
Leisure (n.) Freedom from occupation or business; vacant time; time free from employment.
Leisure (n.) Time at one's command, free from engagement; convenient opportunity; hence, convenience; ease.
Leisure (a.) Unemployed; as, leisure hours.
Leisure (n.) [ U ] (B1) 空閒，閒暇，休閒 The time when you are not working or doing other duties.
// Leisure activities.
Most people only have a limited amount of leisure time.
The town lacks leisure facilities such as a swimming pool or squash courts.
Idiom:
At (your) leisure 在有空的時候，空閒時 When you want to and when you have time to.
// You can take the documents home and study them at (your) leisure.
Leisured (a.) Having leisure.
Leisurely (a.) 從容不迫的，悠閒的，慢慢的；審慎的 Characterized by leisure; taking abundant time; not hurried; as, a leisurely manner; a leisurely walk.
Leisurely (adv.) 從容不迫地，慢慢地 In a leisurely manner. -- Addison. Leitmotif
Leisurely (adv.) In an unhurried way or at one's convenience; "read the manual at your leisure"; "he traveled leisurely" [syn: at leisure, leisurely].
Leisurely (a.) Not hurried or forced; "an easy walk around the block"; "at a leisurely (or easygoing) pace" [syn: easy, easygoing, leisurely].
Leitmotif (n.) 【德】主導主題；主旨，主題 See Leading motive, under Leading, a.
Leman (n.) 【古】情人；姘頭 A sweetheart, of either sex; a gallant, or a mistress; -- usually in a bad sense.
Leme (n.) A ray or glimmer of light; a gleam.
Leme (v. i.) To shine.
Lemmata (n. pl. ) of Lemma.
Lemmas (n. pl. ) of Lemma.
Lemma (n.) A preliminary or auxiliary proposition demonstrated or accepted for immediate use in the demonstration of some other proposition, as in mathematics or logic.
Lemman (n.) A leman.
Lemming (n.) Any one of several species of small arctic rodents of the genera Myodes and Cuniculus, resembling the meadow mice in form. They are found in both hemispheres.
Lemnian (a.) Of or pertaining to the isle of Lemnos.
Lemniscata (n.) Alt. of Lemniscate.
Lemniscate (n.) A curve in the form of the figure 8, with both parts symmetrical, generated by the point in which a tangent to an equilateral hyperbola meets the perpendicular on it drawn from the center.
Lemnisci (n. pl. ) of Lemniscus
Lemniscus (n.) One of two oval bodies hanging from the interior walls of the body in the Acanthocephala.
Lemon (n.) 檸檬，檸檬樹，檸檬色 An oval or roundish fruit resembling the orange, and containing a pulp usually intensely acid. It is produced by a tropical tree of the genus Citrus, the common fruit known in commerce being that of the species C. Limonum or C. Medica (var. Limonum). There are many varieties of the fruit, some of which are sweet.
Lemon (n.) The tree which bears lemons; the lemon tree.
Lemon (n.) Yellow oval fruit with juicy acidic flesh.
Lemon (n.) A strong yellow color [syn: {gamboge}, {lemon}, {lemon yellow}, {maize}].
Lemon (n.) A small evergreen tree that originated in Asia but is widely cultivated for its fruit [syn: {lemon}, {lemon tree}, {Citrus limon}].
Lemon (n.) A distinctive tart flavor characteristic of lemons.
Lemon (n.) An artifact (especially an automobile) that is defective or unsatisfactory [syn: {lemon}, {stinker}].
Lemonade (n.) A beverage consisting of lemon juice mixed with water and sweetened.
Lemur (n.) One of a family (Lemuridae) of nocturnal mammals allied to the monkeys, but of small size, and having a sharp and foxlike muzzle, and large eyes. They feed upon birds, insects, and fruit, and are mostly natives of Madagascar and the neighboring islands, one genus (Galago) occurring in Africa. The slow lemur or kukang of the East Indies is Nycticebus tardigradus. See Galago, Indris, and Colugo.
Lemur (n.) [ C ] A small animal from Madagascar, similar to a monkey with thick fur and a long tail, that lives in trees and is active at night.
Lemures (n. pl.) Spirits or ghosts of the departed; specters.
Lemuria (n.) A hypothetical land, or continent, supposed by some to have existed formerly in the Indian Ocean, of which Madagascar is a remnant.
Lemurid (a. & n.) Same as Lemuroid.