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leger - What does it mean?

Definition of 'leger'

English

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • (obsolete) light; slender; slim; trivial
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • Lying or remaining in a place; hence, resident.
  • leger ambassador

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • Anything that lies in a place; that which, or one who, remains in a place.
  • A minister or ambassador resident at a court or seat of government; also lieger, leiger.
  • * Fuller
  • Sir Edward Carne, the queen's leger at Rome
  • A ledger.
  • Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To engage in bottom fishing.
  • (Webster 1913) ----