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Leger   /lˈɛdʒər/   Listen
noun
Ledger  n.  
1.
A book in which a summary of accounts is laid up or preserved; the final book of record in business transactions, in which all debits and credits from the journal, etc., are placed under appropriate heads. (Written also leger)
2.
(Arch.)
(a)
A large flat stone, esp. one laid over a tomb.
(b)
A horizontal piece of timber secured to the uprights and supporting floor timbers, a staircase, scaffolding, or the like. It differs from an intertie in being intended to carry weight. (Written also ligger)
Ledger bait, fishing bait attached to a floating line fastened to the bank of a stream, pond, etc.
Ledger blade,a stationary shearing blade in a machine for shearing the nap of cloth.
Ledger line. See Leger line, under 3d Leger, a.
Ledger wall (Mining), the wall under a vein; the foot wall.


Leger  n.  
1.
Anything that lies in a place; that which, or one who, remains in a place. (Obs.)
2.
A minister or ambassador resident at a court or seat of government. (Written also lieger, leiger) (Obs.) "Sir Edward Carne, the queen's leger at Rome."
3.
A ledger.


adjective
Leger  adj.  Lying or remaining in a place; hence, resident; as, leger ambassador.


Leger  adj.  Light; slender; slim; trivial. (Obs. except in special phrases.)
Leger line (Mus.), a line added above or below the staff to extend its compass; called also added line.





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"Leger" Quotes from Famous Books



... Leger's Campaign. (1) Unsuccessful battle at Oriskany. (2) St. Leger retreated and disappeared from the region after a flight induced by a ruse invented ...
— Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 - The Guide • Charles Herbert Sylvester
... sorry that your Zoffany and Longhi were burnt, but I myself would far rather have the Herring." [Footnote: A portrait by J. F. Herring, sen., of Rockingham, winner of the St. Leger Stakes, 1833, ...
— Margot Asquith, An Autobiography: Volumes I & II • Margot Asquith
... followed the cortege—all Paris showing a last respect to the liberateur du territoire (though there were still clubs where he was spoken of as le sinistre vieillard). In August W. went to his Conseil-General at Laon, and I went down to my brother-in-law's place at St. Leger near Rouen. We were a very happy cosmopolitan family-party. My mother-in-law was born a Scotch-woman (Chisholm). She was a fine type of the old-fashioned cultivated lady, with a charming polite manner, ...
— My First Years As A Frenchwoman, 1876-1879 • Mary King Waddington
... begged the Emperor to allow him to send him his tailor. His Majesty, who sought at that time every means of pleasing his young wife, accepted the offer of his brother-in-law; and that very day I went for Leger, King Joachim's tailor, and brought him with me to the chateau, recommending him to make the suits which would be ordered as loose as possible, certain as I was in advance, that, Monsieur Jourdain [a character in a Moliere comedy] to the contrary, if the Emperor could not get into ...
— The Private Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Complete • Constant
... tomb of the Tradescants merely took away the old leger stone, on which were cut the words quoted by A. W. H. (Vol. iii., p. 207.), and replaced it by a new stone bearing the lines quoted by DR. RIMBAULT, which were not on the original stone (see Aubrey's Surrey), ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 81, May 17, 1851 • Various


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