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Definition of Legged
1. Adjective. Having legs of a specified kind or number. "A peg-legged man"
Definition of Legged
1. a. Having (such or so many) legs; -- used in composition; as, a long-legged man; a two- legged animal.
Definition of Legged
1. Adjective. having a certain type or number of legs ¹
2. Verb. (past of leg) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Legged
1. leg [v] - See also: leg
Lexicographical Neighbors of Legged
Literary usage of Legged
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of A. Conan Doyle by Arthur Conan Doyle (1902)
"OF THE STIFF-legged PARSON XIV OF THE STIFF-legged PARSON AND HIS FLOCK OUR road
lay through Castle Carey and Somerton, which are small towns lying in the ..."
2. Papers of the Archaeological Institute of America by Archaeological Institute of America, William Cranston Lawton, Joseph Silas Diller, Joseph Thacher Clarke (1898)
"The writer has observed unpublished vases showing human-legged centaurs in the
... Rome. i In the British Museum are two gems representing human-legged ..."
3. Colonial Furniture in America by Luke Vincent Lockwood (1901)
"Figure 191 shows a maple thousand-legged table which has been fully restored,
though the parts are all original. At Boston, in 1669, "an ovall table ^3 IDS" ..."
4. The Archaeological Journal by British Archaeological Association (1846)
"ON CROSS-legged EFFIGIES COMMONLY APPROPRIATED TO TEMPLARS. ... Of the nine
effigies, six are cross- legged, but three of these six, there is great reason ..."
5. The Birds of America by John James Audubon (1840)
"BUTEO LAGOPUS, Gmcl. PLATE XL The Red-legged Hawk seldom goes farther south along
our Atlantic coast than the eastern portions of North Carolina, ..."
6. The Tribune Primer by Eugene Field (1900)
"THE BOW-legged MAN. The Man is Bow-legged. But he cannot Help it and you Must
not Laugh at him. He got Bow-legged ploughing on a side Hill when he was a Boy ..."
7. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1907)
"The American Rough-legged Hawk Breeding in North Dakota,— a Correction.—In the
October number of 'The Auk/ 1901 (Vol. XVIII, p. 393), I recorded a supposed ..."
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