he pays this compliment to the female fex, that, among the most favage nations, where he was often ill treated by the men, he always met with kindness and humanity from the women. (1.) LEE, Charles, a celebrated general in the fervice of the American congress, was a native of England, and brother to William Lee, Esq. alderman of Aldgate Ward, and sheriff of London in 1774. He ferved under Gen. Burgoyne, in the British army at Portugal, which he afterwards quitted for the American fervice. Upon the commencement of the revolution, he was appointed a major-general. (See AMERICA, § 14.) But in 1776, he was taken prifoner by Col. Harcourt, and under pretence of being a deferter, was closely confined, and refused to be exchanged, though fix field officers were offered for him. (See AMERICA, 27.) It is even faid he was to have been tried for high treason, but the fpirited conduct of Gen. Washington and the Congrefs, in threatening retaliation, prevented that measure. On the capture of Gen. Burgoyne and his army, he was allowed his parole in New York, and being foon after exchanged, rejoined the American army. But Gen. Lee's misfortunes were not over. His defeat and disorderly retreat at Monmouth, with the flower of the American troops under his command, fubjected him to a court martial, who fufpended him from his command for one year, which he spent at his eftate in Berkley county, Virginia, and during which he arranged his letters and other papers on public affairs for the press. These he sent by his aid de camp, a young Virginian who owed his rife to him, to Philadelphia to be printed. But this ungrateful young man betrayed his truft, and gave the papers to the governor, who on perufal found it his intereft to fupprefs the publication. In the beginning of 1782, Gen. Lee went to Philadelphia on this bufinefs, but foon after his arrival, was seized with a fever, of which he died. His body was interred with military honours, and the members of the Congrefs attended the funeral. (2.) LEE, Nathaniel, an English dramatic writer, the fon of a clergyman, educated at Westminster under the famous Dr Busby, and afterwards at Trinity college, Cambridge, where he took the degree of B. A. in 1668. He went thence to London, where he attempted to commence actor, in 1672, but failing, he turned play-writer. His firft piece, entitled, Nero Emperor of Rome, appeared in 1675, and was well received. He continued to write a play every year, till Nov. 1684, when fhowing fymptoms of infanity, he was confined. In April 1688, he was difcharged, and wrote other two plays. He died in 1690, in confequence of a drunken frolic. Lee is allowed to have great power over the paffions, but his language is mere rant and bombast. His Rival Queens and Theodofius, however, are ftill often acted with applaufe. He wrote 11 tragedies in all, which contain a great portion of poetic enthufiafm. None ever felt the paffion of love more truly; nor could any one defcribe it with more tenderness. Addison commends his genius highly; obferving, that none of our English poets had 2 happier turn for tragedy, although his natural VOL. XIII. PART I. fire and unbridled impetuofity hurried him beyond all bounds of probability, and fometimes quite out of nature. The truth is, this poet's imagination ran away with his reafon. While he was confined, a coxcomb fcribbler had the cruelty to jeer him with his misfortune, obferving that it was eafy to write like a madman :-" No (faid Lee), it is not eafy to write like a madman; but it is very eafy to write like a fool." ` (3.) * LEE. n. f. [lie, French.] 1. Dregs; fediment; refufe: commonly lees My cloaths, my fex, exchang'd for thee, I'll mingle with the people's wretched lee. Prior. 2. Sea term; [fuppofed by Skinner from l'eau, Fr.] A leeward fhip is one that is not faft by a wind, to make her way fo good as the might. To lay a fhip by the lee, is to bring her fo that all her fails may lie against the mafts and fhrowds flat, and the wind to come right on her broadfide, so that she will make little or no way. Di&.—If we, in the bay of Bifcay, had had a port under our lee, that we might have kept out transporting fhips with our men of war, we had taken the Indian fleet. Raleigh.—The Hollanders were before Dunkirk with the wind at NW. making a lee fhore in all weathers. Raleigh.-Better do so than venture splitting and finking on a lee fhore. King Charles. The pilot of fome small night-founder'd skiff, Moors by his fide under the lee, while night Invests the fea. Milton. Batter'd by his lee they lay. Dryden. (4.) LEE (§ 3, def. 2.) is ufed by feamen to dif tinguish that part of the hemifphere to which the wind is directed, from the other part whence it arifes; which laft is called to windward. This expreffion is chiefly ufed when the wind croffes the line of a fhip's course, so that all on that fide of her is called to windward, and all on the oppofite fide to leeaward. Hence, Under the LEE, implies farther to the leeward, or farther from that part of the horizon whence the wind blows. Under the LEE of the fore, i. e. at a short distance from the fhore which lies to windward. This phrafe is commonly understood to exprefs the fituation of a veffel anchored, or failing under the weather shore, where there is always smoother water and less danger of heavy feas, than at a great distance from it. (5.) LEE, in geography, a river of England, in Chefhire, which runs into the Wever, 2 miles N. of Nantwich. (6.) LEE, a village in Kent, 6 miles SE. by E. of London. Dr HALLEY lies interred in it. (7, 8.) LEE, 2 rivers of Ireland; 1. in Cork, running into Cork harbour: 2. in Kerry, running into Tralee Bay. (9.) LEE, a county of Virginia, bounded on the N. by Ruffel, E. by Washington, S. by N. Carolina, and W. by Kentucky. LEEA, a genus of the pentandria order, in the monccia clafs of plants. (1.) LEECH. n. f. [lac, Saxon.] 1. A phyfician; a profeffor of the art of healing: whence we ftill ufe coavleech. A leech, the which had great infight P Spenfer. His His cunning hand 'gan to his wound to lay. And wearied out his painful skill in vain. Rowe. They fay, had wrought this bleffed deed; This leech Arbuthnot was yclept. Gay. 2. A kind of fmall water ferpent, which faftens on animals, and fucks the blood; it is used to draw blood where the lancet is lefs fafe, whence perhaps the name. I drew blood by leeches behind his ear. Wifeman.- Sticking like leeches, till they burst with blood, Without remorse insatiably. Rofcommon. (2.) LEECH, 1, def. 2. See HIRUDO. (3.) LEECHES, in a thip, the borders or edges of a fail which are either floping or perpendicular. The leeches of all fails whofe tops and bottoms are parallel to the deck, or at right angles to the maft, are denominated from the fhip's fide, and the fail to which the belong; as, the ftarboard leech of the main-fail, the lee leech of the fore topfail, &c. But the fails which are fixed obliquely on the mafts have their leeches named from their fituation with respect to the ship's length; as, the fore leech of the mizen, the after leech of the jib or fore ftay-fail, &c. *To LEECH. v. a. [from the noun.] To treat with medicament. LEECHCRAFT. n. f. [leech and craft.] The art of healing. We study speech, but others we persuade : We leechcraft learn, but others cure with it. Davies. LEECH-LINES, certain ropes faftened to the middle of the leeches of the main-fail and fore-fail, and communicating with blocks on the oppofite fide of the top, whence they pafs downwards to the deck, ferving to trufs up thofe fails to the yard, as occafion requires. See BRAILS. LEECHMAN, William, D. D. a late learned divine of the church of Scotland. He was born in the parish of Dolphington in Lanarkshire, in 1706, and appointed minifter of Beith in 1736, in which charge he continued till 1744, when he was fucceeded by the Rev. Dr WOTHERSPOON, afterwards prefident of the college of Princetown, in New Jersey. Dr Leechman was appointed principal of the University of Glasgow; in which office he continued till 1784, when he died, aged 78. He published an Effay on Prayer, and several Sermons. LEECH-ROPE, a name given to that part of the bolt-rope to which the border or fkirt of a fail is fewed In all fails whofe oppofite leeches are of the fame length, it is terminated above the earring, and below the clue. See BOLT-ROPE, CLUE, and EAR-RING, § 2. (1.) LEEDS, a town of Yorkshire, in the W. Riding, 196 miles from London, with a magnifi. cent ftone bridge over the Aire to the fuburbs. It was incorporated by Charles I. with a chief alder man, nine burgeffes, and 20 affiftants; and by Charles II. with a mayor, 12 aldermen, and 24 afliftants. It has been long famous for its woollen manufacture, and is one of the largest and most flourishing towns in the county, yet had but one church till the reign of Charles I. By the late inland navigation, it has communication with the rivers Merfey, Dee, Ribble, Ouse, Trent, Darwent, Severn, Humber, Thames, Avon, &c. which navigation, including its windings, extends above 500 miles in the counties of Lincoln, Nottingham, Lancafter, Weftmoreland, Chefter, Stafford, Warwick, Leicefter, Oxford, Worcester, &c. It has a long street of fhops, and a hall for the fale of cloth, built in 1758. The merchants of this place, York, and Hull, thip their goods off at the latter, for Holland, Hamburgh, and the north. After ringing the market-bell at 6 or 7 A. M. the chapmen come and match their patterns, when they treat for the cloth with a whisper, because the clothiers ftandings are fo near each other; and 20,000l. worth of cloth is fometimes fold in an hour's time. At half an hour after 8 the bell rings again, when the clothiers make room for the linen-drapers, hardware-men, fhoemakers, fruiterers, &c. The fhambles are well ftored with all forts of fish and flefl; and 500 horfe-loads of apples have been counted in a day. There is a magnificent hall, where they fell great quantities of white cloth; and a guildhall, with a fine marble statue of Q. Anne, erected about 1714. The river being pavi gable by boats, they fend other goods, befides their cloth, to Wakefield, York, and Hull, and furnish York with coals. There is a house called Red-ball, because it was the first brick building in the town, and K. Charles I. had an apartment in it, which is ftill called the King's chamber. There is another place, called Tower-bill, on which there was once a tower; and there was a caftle which K. Stephen befieged in his march to Scotland. There is a workhouse of free-ftone, where children are taught to mix wool; and a part of it is ufed as an hofpital for aged poor. There are 3 alms-houfes, and 2 charity fchcols of 100 bluecoat boys. In the ceiling of St Peter's, the only parochial church, the delivery of the law to Mofes is finely painted in fresco by Parmentier. This church is a venerable free-ftone pile, built in the cathedral fashion, and feems to have been the patch-work of feveral ages. The increase of building in Leeds in 1786, was nearly 400 houfes. A Prefbyterian meeting-house was erected in 1691, called the new chapel, which is the statelieft, if not the oldeft, of that denomination in the N. of England; and in the town and fuburbs are several other meeting-houfes. It is noted for fome medicinal fprings; one of which, called St Peter's, is an extreme cold one, and has been very beneficial in rheumatifms, rickets, &c. Here is an hofpital for relief of honeft and induftrious poor, endowed with 80l. a-year, befides 10l. a-year for a mafter to read prayers; alfo a free fchool. Leeds has fairs, with markets on Tuesday and Saturday, and the market laws are ftrictly obferved. It is 22 miles WSW. of York, and 192 N. by W. of London. Lon. 1. 29. W. Lat. 53. 48. N. (2.) LEEDS, a town of New Jersey, 35 miles SE. of Burlington. (3.) LEEDS, (3.) LEEDS, a town of Virginia, in Richmond county, on the N. bank of the Rappahannock; 14 miles S. by E. of Port Royal, and 70 NE. of Richmond. Lon. 77. 3. W. Lat. 38. 10. N. LEEF. adj. [lieve, leve, Dut.] Kind; fond.Whilome all thefe were low and leaf, And lov'd their flocks to feed. Spenfer. (1.) * LEEK. n. f. [leac, Saxon; loock, Dutch; lechk, Erfe; porrum, Latin.] A plant. Know'ft thou Fluellen?-Yes. -Tell him I'll knock his leek about his pate, Upon St David's day. Shak. Leek to the Welch, to Dutchmen butter's dear. Gay. -We use acrid plants inwardly and outwardly in gangrenes; in the fcurvy, water-creffes, horfe-radifh, garlick, or leek pottage. Floyer. (2.) LEEK, in botany. See ALLIUM, N° 3. (3.) LEEK, in geography, a town of Stafford fhire, 155 miles from London. It lies among the barren moorlands, has a manufacture of buttons, a market on Wed. and 7 fairs. In the church-yard, at the SE. corner of the chancel, are the remains of a Danish cross, 10 feet high. Near it, in Bluehills, are coal mines, from which a falt ftream runs, which tinges the ftones and earth with a rufty colour, and, with the infufion of galls, turns as black as ink. Here are rocks of a moft furprifing height, without any turf or mould upon them. Leek is 18 miles N. of Stafford, and 144 NNW. of London. Lon. 1. 55. W. Lat. 53. 16. N. (4.) LEEK, a river in Weftmoreland. (5.) LEEK, a village in Yorkshire. LEE-LARCH, n.f. the sudden and violent roll which a fhip often takes to the leeward in a high fea, particularly when a large wave ftrikes her on the weather-fide. LEEMING, a town in Yorksh. E. of Bedal. LEEPE, Anthony VANDER, a celebrated painter, born at Bruges, in 1664. He painted landfcapes, which he sketched very accurately from nature; alfo fea views, in ftorms and in calms. He died in 1720. LEE-PENNY, OF LEE-STONE, a curious piece of antiquity belonging to the family of Lee in Scotland; of which an account was published in the Gent. Mag. for Dec. 1787; which favours very much of the marvellous. It is a stone of a dark red colour and triangular fhape; its fize is about half an inch each fide. It is fet in a piece of filver coin, which, though much defaced, by fome let ters ftill remaining, is supposed to be a fhilling of Edward I. the cross being very plain. It has been, by tradition, in the Lee family fince the year 1320 and odds; that is, a little after the death of King Robert Bruce, who having ordered his heart to be carried to the Holy Land, one of the noble family of Douglas was fent with it, and got the Crowned Heart in his Arms from that circumftance. But the person who actually carried the heart was Simon Locard of Lee, who, from his carrying it locked up in a box, changed his named to Lockheart, and got a heart within a lock for part of his arms, with the motto, Corda ferrata fero. This Simon Lockhart, having taken prifoner a Saracen chief, his wife came to ranfom him; and on counting out the money or jewels, this ftone fell out of her purfe, which the haftily fnatched up. Lock hart, obferving this, infifted to have it, elfe he would not give up his prifoner. Upon this the lady gave it him, and told him its many virtues, viz. that it cured all diseases in cattle, and the bite of a mad dog both in man and beast. It is ufed by dipping the stone in water, which is given to the difeafed cattle to drink; and the perfon who has been bit, and the wound or part infected, is washed with the water. No words are used in the dipping of the ftone, nor any money allowed to be taken by the fervants. Many cures are faid to have been performed by it, and people used to come from all parts of Scotland, and even from Yorkthire, to get the water in which the ftone is dipped to give their cattle, when ill of the murrain and black leg. It is even faid to have cured the plague at Newcastle during the 17th century. Lady Baird of Sauchtonhall, near Edinburgh, having been bit by a mad dog, was come the length of an hydrophobia; upon which, having fent to beg the Lee-penny, the ufed it for fome weeks, drinking and bathing in the water it was dipped in, and was quite recovered. This happened about 100 years ago, and is faid to have been very well attefted. But it would require fresh atteftation, and the most inconteftable proofs, to perfuade people in the present age to believe in such miracles, performed by a Saracenic talisman. (1.)* LEER. n.f. [bleare, Sax.] 1. An oblique view.-I fpy entertainment in her; the gives the leer of invitation. Shak. 1. A labour'd caft of countenance.— (2.) LEER. See GLASS-MAKING, Sec. IV. (3.) LEER, in geography, a river of Germany, in E. Friefland, which runs into the Ems, near the town of Leer. (4.) LEER, LEHR, or LIER, a town of E. Friefland, on the above river (N° 3.), 11 miles SE. of Einbden, and 24 WNW. of Oldenburg. : *To LEER. v. n. [from the noun.] 1. To look obliquely to look archly.-I will leer upon him as he comes by; and do but mark the countenance he will give me. Shak. I wonder whether you tafte the pleasures of independency, or whether you do not fometimes leer upon the court. Swift. 2. To look with a forced countenance. Bertran has been taught the arts of courts, To gild a face with smiles, and leer a man to ruin. Dryden. LEERDAM, a town of Holland, in the dep. of Delit, and late prov. of S. Holland; 11 miles S. of Utrecht, and 30 NE. of Dort. It was taken by the Spaniards in 1574. Lon. 5. 13. E. Lat. 51. 55. N. LEEROT, a fort of Germany, in E. Friesland, at the mouth of the Leer, 10 miles from Embden. LEERS, or LIERS, a town of France, in the dep. of the Ourte, and late bishopric of Liege, 4 miles N. of Liege. A battle was fought near it, Oct. 1, 1746, between the French under Count Saxe, and the allies under Pr. Charles of Lorraine, in which the latter were defeated. P 2 LEER LEERSTRAND, a town of Norway. (1.) * LEES. n. f. [lie, French.] Dregs; fediment; it has feldom a fingular.-The memory of King Richard was fo ftrong, that it lay like lees at the bottom of men's hearts; and if the veffel was but stirred, it would come up. Bacon. B. Jonfon. If they love lees, and leave the lufty wine, Envy them not their palates with the swine. Those lees that trouble it, refine The agitated foul of generous wine. Dryden. (2.) LEES are the groffeft and most ponderous parts of liquors, which, being feparated by fermentation, fall to the bottom. The vinegar makers make a great trade of the lees of wine dried and made into cakes, after having squeezed out the remains of the liquor in preffes. LEESBURG, a town of Virginia, capital of London county, 46 miles NW. of Alexandria, and 202 from Philadelphia. Lon. 77. 33. W. Lat. 39. 10. N. * To LEESE. v. a. [iefen, Dutch.] To lofe; an old word.— Then fell to thy profit both butter and cheefe, Who buyeth it fooner the more he shall leefe. Tuffer. No caufe, nor client fat, will Chev'ril leeje, But as they come on both sides he take fees. B. Jonfon. How in the port our fleet dear time did leefe, Withering like prifoners, which lie but for fees. Donne. LEE-SIDE, all that part of a fhip or boat which lies between the maft and the fide furtheft from the direction of the wind; or otherwife, the half of a fhip, which is preffed down towards the water by the effort of the fails, as feparated from the other half by a line drawn through the middle of her length. That part of the fhip which lies to windward of this line is accordingly called the weather-fide. Thus, admit a fhip to be failing fouthward, with the wind at eaft, then is her ftarboard or right fide the lee fide; and the larboard, or left, the queather-fide. LEESNITZ, a town of Silefia, in Oppeln. LEESTON, a river of Ireland, in Down. LEE-STONE. See LEE-PENNY. LEESTOWN, a town of Kentucky, on the ri. ver Kentucky; 20 miles W. of Lexington. * (1.) LEET. n. f. Leete, or leta, is otherwise called a law-day.-The word feemeth to have grown from the Saxon lede, which was a court of jurifdiction above the wapentake or hundred, comprehending three or four of them, otherwife called thirfhing, and contained the third part of a province or fhire: thefe jurifdictions, one and other, be now abolished, and fwallowed up in the county court. Cowel. Who has a breast so pure, But fome uncleanly apprehenfions Shak. You would prefent her at the leet, Because the bought ftone jugs, and no feal'd quarts. Shak. (2.) A LEET, or COURT LEET (leta vifus francii), is a court of record, ordained for punishing offences against the crown; and is faid to be the ancient court of the land. It inquires of all offences under high treafon; but those who are to be punished with lofs of life or member, are only inquirable and prefentable here, and to be certified over to the juftices of affize. Stat.1. Edw. III. And this court is called the view of frank pledge, because the king is to be there certified by the view of the steward, how many people are within every leet, and have an account of their good manners and government; and every person of the age of 12 years, who hath remained there for a year and a day, may be sworn to be faithful to the king, and the people to be kept in peace, &c. A leet is incident to a hundred, as a court baron to a manor; for by grant of a hundred, a leet paffeth; and a hundred cannot be without a leet. The ufual method of punishment in the courtleet, is by fine and'amercement; the former affeffed by the steward, and the latter by the jury. (3.) LEET, in geography, a river of Scotland in Berwickth, which runs into the Tweed. (4.) LEETS, in the Scottish borough politics, are thofe lifts of names, made out previous to the day of election, out of which the magiftrates, councillors, corporations, &c. annually elect the lord provoft, bailies, deacons, and other officebearers, for the fubfequent year. See DEACON, 2; and EDINBURGH, $23. (1, 2.) LEEUW, Gabriel and Peter, VANDER, eminent Dutch painters, brothers. Gabriel was born at Dort in 1643, and died in 1688. They painted animals with admirable spirit. (3.) LEEUW, William DE, an eminent engraver of the 17th century. He was a native of Flanders, and the difciple of Sootman, whofe manner of engraving, or rather etching, he imitated. His prints generally appear harth at firit fight; but become more agreeable upon examination. Several of them have great effect; particularly his Daniel in the lion's den, a large plate lengthwife, from Rubens. The first impreffions of this plate are before the name of Dankertz was added, and are extremely rare and dear. LEEUWE, or a town of France, in the deLEEUWEN, part. of the Dyle, and late prov. of Auftrian Brabant, feated on the Geete. It was taken by the French in 1678, but restored to Spain by the peace of Nimeguen. In 1705, it was taken by the allies. It is 20 miles NW.of Liege. (1.) * LÉEWARD. adj. [lee and weard. Sax.] Towards the wind. See LEE.-The clafficæ were called long fhips, the onerariæ round, because of their figure, approaching towards circular: this figure, though proper for the ftowage of goods, was not the fitteft for failing, because of the great quantity of leeward way, except when they failed full before the wind. Arbuth. bee Islands, which extend from Dominica to Porto Rico. See CARIBBEE ISLANDS. (4.) A LEEWARD SHIP, is a veffel that falls much to leeward of her course, when failing closehauled, and confequently lofes much ground. LEEWARDEN. See LEWARDEN. LEE-WAY See NAVIGATION. LEFKI, a town of Turkey, in Natolia. LEFOOGA, one if the FRIENDLY ISLANDS, in the clufter called HAPAEES; about 7 miles long, and 3 broad; very fertile, and highly cultivated; the fences running parallel from fpacious public roads. Capt. Cook fowed melons, pineapples, Indian corn, &c. on it. Lon. 149. 40. E. Lat. 19. 49. S. (1.) LEFT. participle preter. of leave.Alas, poor lady! desolate and left! -Had fuch a river as this been left to itself, to have found its way out from the Alps, whatever windings it had made, it must have formed several little feas. Addif.-Were I left to myself, I would rather aim at inftructing than diyerting; but if we will be useful to the world, we must take it as we find it. Addifon. (2.) * LEFT. adj. [lufte, Dutch; lævus, Latin.] Siniftrous; not right. That there is alfo in men a natural prepotency in the right, we cannot with conftancy affirm, if we make obfervation in children, who, permitted the freedom of both hands, do oft-times confine it unto the left, and are not without great difficulty restrained from it. Brown's Vulg. Errours.—. The right to Pluto's golden palace guides, The left to that unhappy region tends, Which to the depth of Tartarus defcends. Dryd. The gods of greater nations dwell around, And, on the right and left, the palace bound. Dryden. A raven from a wither'd oak, Left of their lodging, was oblig'd to croak. Dryd. The left foot naked when they march to fight, But in a bull's raw hide they sheath the right. Dryden. The man who struggles in the fight, Fatigues left arm as well as right. Prior. * LEFT-HANDED. adj. [left and hand.] Ufing the left hand rather than the right.-The limbs are ufed moft on the right side, whereby cuftom helpeth; for we fee, that fome are left-handed, which are fuch as have ufed the left hand moit. Bacon.-For the feat of the heart and liver on one fide, whereby men become left-handed, it happeneth too rarely to countenance an effect so common: for the feat of the liver on the left fide is very monftrous. Brown's Vulg. Err. LEFT-HANDEDNESS. n, f. [from left-handed.] Habitual ufe of the left hand. Although a fquint left-handedness B' ungracious; yet we cannot want that hand. Donne. (1.) * LEG. n. f. [leg, Danish; leggur, Iflandic.] 1. The limb by which we walk; particularly that part between the knee and the foot. They hafte; and what their tardy feet deny'd, The trufty staff, their better leg, supply'd. Dryd. Purging comfits, and ants eggs, Had almoft brought him off his legs. Hudibras. -Such intrigues people cannot meet with, who have nothing but legs to carry them. Addison's G. 2. An act of obeifance; a bow with the leg drawn back.-At court, he that cannot make a leg, put off his cap, kifs his hand, and fay nothing, has neither leg, hands, lip, nor cap, Shakefp. Their horfes never gave a blow, But when they make a leg, and bow. Hudibras. -If the boy fhould not put off his hat, nor make legs very gracefully, a dancing-master will cure that defect. Locke. He made his leg, and went away. Swift. 3. To ftand on his own LEGS. To fupport himself, -Persons of their fortune and quality could well have food upon their own legs, and needed not to lay in for countenance and fupport. Collier of Fr. 4. That by which any thing is fupported on the ground; as, the leg of a table. (2.) LEG, in anatomy, the whole lower extremity from the acetabula of the offa innominata, is commonly divided into 3 parts, viz. the thigh, the leg properly fo called, and the foot. See ANATOMY, Index. (1.)* LEGACY. n. f. [legatum, Lat.] Legacy is a particular thing given by laft will and teftament. Cowel.-If there be no fuch thing apparent upon record, they do as if one should demand a legacy by force and virtue of fome written teftament, wherein there being no fuch thing specified, he pleadeth that there it muft needs be. Hooker. Fetch the will hither, and we shall determine How to cut off fome charge in legacies. Shak. -Good counfel is the beft legacy a father can leave a child. L'Efrange. He deem'd 'em legacies of royal love. Dryd. When the heir of this vaft treasure knew, How large a legacy was left to you, He wifely ty'd it to the crown again. Dryden. Leave to thy children tumult, ftrife, and war, Portions of toil, and legacies of care. (2.) A LEGACY, in Scots law, is a donation, to be paid by the giver's executor after his death. See LAW, PART III. CHAP. II. Sect. XXI. § 3-5. Prior. *LEGAL. adj. [legal, Fr. leges, Lat.] 1. Done or conceived according to law.-Whatsoever was before Richard I. was before time of memory; and what is fince is, in a legal fenfe, within the time of memory. Hale's Hift. of the Common Law. 2. Lawful; not contrary to law. 3. According to the law of the old difpenfation.His merits, To fave them, not their own, though legal, Milton works. **LEGALITY. n. f. \legalité, Fr.] Lawfulness. *To LEGALIZE. v. a. [legalifer, Fr. from legal.] To authorize; to make lawful.-If any thing can legalize revenge, it should be injury from an extremely obliged perfon. South: * LEGALLY adv. [from legal.] Lawfully; according to law. A prince may not, much lefs may inferior judges, deny juftice, when it is legally and competently demanded. Taylor. * LEGATARY. n. f. [legataire, Fr. from legatum, Lat.] 1. One who has a legacy left.-An exe'cutor fhall exhibit a true inventory of goods, taken in the prefence of fit perfons, as creditors and legataries are, unto the ordinary. Ayliffe. 2. Belonging to a legate of the Roman fee.— All thofe you have done of late, By |