1. (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.

2. (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.

3. (n.) The part of any article of clothing which covers the leg; as, the leg of a stocking or of a pair of trousers.

4. (n.) A bow, esp. in the phrase to make a leg; probably from drawing the leg backward in bowing.

5. (n.) A disreputable sporting character; a blackleg.

6. (n.) The course and distance made by a vessel on one tack or between tacks.

7. (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.

8. (n.) The case containing the lower part of the belt which carries the buckets.

9. (n.) A fielder whose position is on the outside, a little in rear of the batter.

10. (v. t.) To use as a leg, with it as object

11. (v. t.) To bow.

12. (v. t.) To run.

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