Word Meanings - LEGER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Anything that lies in a place; that which, or one who, remains in a place. 2. A minister or ambassador resident at a court or seat of government. Sir Edward Carne, the queen's leger at Rome. Fuller. 3. A ledger.

Related words: (words related to LEGER)

• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• PLACENTARY
  Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
• PLACE-KICK
  To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
• FULLER
  One whose occupation is to full cloth. Fuller's earth, a variety of clay, used in scouring and cleansing cloth, to imbibe grease. -- Fuller's herb , the soapwort , formerly used to remove stains from cloth. -- Fuller's thistle or weed
• COURTESAN
  A woman who prostitutes herself for hire; a prostitute; a harlot. Lasciviously decked like a courtesan. Sir H. Wotton. (more info) courtier, It. cortigiano; or directly fr. It. cortigiana, or Sp.
• CARNEY
  A disease of horses, on which the mouth is so furred that the afflicted animal can not eat.
• QUEENDOM
  The dominion, condition, or character of a queen. Mrs. Browning.
• AMBASSADORIAL
  Of or pertaining to an ambassador. H. Walpole.
• COURT TENNIS
  See TENNIS
• RESIDENTIAL
  1. Of or pertaining to a residence or residents; as, residential trade. 2. Residing; residentiary.
• COURT-CUPBOARD
  A movable sideboard or buffet, on which plate and other articles of luxury were displayed on special ocasions. A way with the joint stools, remove the court-cupboard, look to the plate. Shak.
• RESIDENTIARYSHIP
  The office or condition of a residentiary.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• COURTEPY
  A short coat of coarse cloth. Full threadbare was his overeste courtepy. Chaucer.
• ANYTHINGARIAN
  One who holds to no particular creed or dogma.
• QUEEN-POST
  One of two suspending posts in a roof truss, or other framed truss of similar form. See King-post.
• MINISTERY
  See MILTON
• PLACER
  One who places or sets. Spenser.
• COURTBRED
  Bred, or educated, at court; polished; courtly.
• PLACE
  Position in the heavens, as of a heavenly body; -- usually defined by its right ascension and declination, or by its latitude and longitude. Place of arms , a place calculated for the rendezvous of men in arms, etc., as a fort which affords a safe
• UNQUEEN
  To divest of the rank or authority of queen. Shak.
• BEDWARD
  Towards bed.
• PRESIDENT
  Precedent. Bacon.
• REPLACEMENT
  The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing.
• PLEDGERY
  A pledging; suretyship.
• MISGOVERNMENT
  Bad government; want of government. Shak.
• COMPLACENCE; COMPLACENCY
  1. Calm contentment; satisfaction; gratification. The inward complacence we find in acting reasonably and virtuously. Atterbury. Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacency, if they discover none of the like
• OUTCOURT
  An outer or exterior court. The skirts and outcourts of heaven. South.