n. - A limb or member of an animal used for supporting the body, and in running, climbing, and swimming; esp., that part of the limb between the knee and foot.
n. - That which resembles a leg in form or use; especially, any long and slender support on which any object rests; as, the leg of a table; the leg of a pair of compasses or dividers.
n. - The part of any article of clothing which covers the leg; as, the leg of a stocking or of a pair of trousers.
n. - A bow, esp. in the phrase to make a leg; probably from drawing the leg backward in bowing.
n. - A disreputable sporting character; a blackleg.
n. - The course and distance made by a vessel on one tack or between tacks.
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.
n. - The case containing the lower part of the belt which carries the buckets.
n. - A fielder whose position is on the outside, a little in rear of the batter.
v. t. - To use as a leg, with it as object
v. t. - To bow.
v. t. - To run.
n. - Either side of a triangle of a triangle as distinguished from the base or, in a right triangle, from the hypotenuse; also, an indefinitely extending branch of a curve, as of a hyperbola.
n. - A branch or lateral circuit connecting an instrument with the main line.
n. - A branch circuit; one phase of a polyphase system.