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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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... Hayward Field is another gentleman who has been exhibiting the breed for very many years, and has owned several good terriers. The late Mr. Clear had also at one time a strong kennel, the best of which by a long way was Ch. Jack St. Leger. ...
— Dogs and All About Them • Robert Leighton

... of Skeensborough.... Colonel Warner defeated.... Evacuation of fort Anne.... Proclamation of Burgoyne.... Counter-proclamation of Schuyler.... Burgoyne approaches fort Edward.... Schuyler retires to Saratoga,... to Stillwater.... St. Leger invests fort Schuyler.... Herkimer defeated.... Colonel Baum detached to Bennington.... is defeated.... Brechman defeated.... St. Leger abandons the siege of fort Schuyler.... Murder of Miss M'Crea.... General Gates takes command.... ...
— The Life of George Washington, Vol. 2 (of 5) • John Marshall

... should especially make sure of seeing certain individual group exhibits, such as the very freely rendered figures by Paul Troubetzkoy in the International Room (108), Paul Manship's groups, with their touch of classic appeal, in gallery 93, and the cases of statuettes by Abastenia St. Leger Eberle and Bessie Potter Vonnoh, in gallery 65. Very rich in interest, too, is the collection of medals and plaques, shown in galleries ...
— An Art-Lovers guide to the Exposition • Shelden Cheney

... the eighth century, says "that they were not a new sect in the ninth and tenth centuries." Campian the Jesuit says of them, that they were reputed to be "more ancient than the Roman Church." Nor is it without great weight, as the historian Leger observes, that not one of the Dukes of Savoy or their ministers ever offered the slightest contradiction to the oft-reiterated assertions of the Vaudois, when petitioning for liberty of conscience, "We are descendants," said they, "of those who, from father to son, have ...
— Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber - Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge • James Aitken Wylie

... Morgan left Knoxville to go on the expedition known as "the First Kentucky raid," he was joined by a gentleman "from abroad," whose history had been a curious and extraordinary series of exciting adventures, and who now came to see something of our war. This was Lieutenant Colonel St. Leger Greenfell, of the English service, and of all the very remarkable characters who have figured (outside of popular novels) in this age, he will receive the suffrages of our Western cavalrymen, for pre-eminence in devil-may-care eccentricity. He had commenced life (I believe) by ...
— History of Morgan's Cavalry • Basil W. Duke


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