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noun

Ledger n.

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)

(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.

Anything that lies in a place; that which, or one who, remains in a place. (Obs.)

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."

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

... announced to the king, that all his subjects demanded that he should marry again in order to have a son who should reign after him. He refused at first but finally yielded to the pressing desires of his people and said to his minister Leger:— ...

— Old French Fairy Tales • Comtesse de Segur

... front they reached in the afternoon Maissemy, north of St. Quentin, and the line Essigny-Benay south of it. Farther north less progress had been made against Byng's Third Army, but the Germans had reached St. Leger in their effort to thrust a wedge between Arras and Cambrai, and many villages had been captured. The prospect was gloomy for the morrow, since, although the Germans had already used sixty-four divisions they ...

— A Short History of the Great War • A.F. Pollard

... agent for the privateer "Buccaneer," Captain Hoysted Hacker. For a time he was inspector of the ports of Boston and Charlestown. In 1777, he became a member of St. Andrew's Lodge of Freemasons. October 15, 1771, he married Mary St. Leger. His orderly books for June and July, 1775, are in the possession of ...

— Tea Leaves • Various

... Rat-Trap, over the Old Mile. At Stockbridge, in a sweepstakes of 100 sovs. each, with thirteen subscribers, he frightened all the field away with the exception of Wisdom, whom he beat cleverly, and then he remained at Dilly's, at Littleton, to be prepared for the St. Leger. Having stood his work well, John Day brought over The Drummer and Chapeau d'Espagne from Stockbridge to try him on Winchester race-course. Both Mr. Greville and Lord George Bentinck had reason to be satisfied with what Mango did in his gallop ...

— The Greville Memoirs - A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William - IV, Volume 1 (of 3) • Charles C. F. Greville

... end of the three weeks, Adeline returned home, bringing glowing accounts of the delights of Boston, and talking a great deal about several "delightful young gentlemen," and occasionally mentioning a certain Theodore St. Leger. She had heard that the Boston people were all BLUE; but it must be a calumny to say so, for she had had a very lively time—plenty of fun and flirtation. Miss Lawrence returned with her, and of course a party was given in her honour; there were some eighty persons ...

— Elinor Wyllys - Vol. I • Susan Fenimore Cooper

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