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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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Etymology of 'Leger'

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"Leger" Quotes from Famous Books

... simple conjuring tricks, or that, in all stages of culture, minds are subject to identical hallucinations. The whole hocus-pocus of 'spirit-writing' on slates and in pellets of paper, has been satisfactorily exposed and explained, as a rather simple kind of leger-de-main. But this was a purely modern sort of trickery; the old universal class of useless miracles, said to occur spontaneously, still presents problems ...

— Cock Lane and Common-Sense • Andrew Lang

... unlooked-for battle, won undying fame, although most of his gallant little band were slaughtered. Schuyler sent Arnold with Larned's brigade to retrieve Herkimer's disaster, which he did in an admirable manner. Gansevoort held the fort against St. Leger, but his situation was growing desperate, when one day without apparent cause the enemy fled in haste, leaving camps, baggage and artillery. This inglorious flight was brought about by a half-wined fellow, who wandered into the enemy's camp and on being asked how many men ...

— See America First • Orville O. Hiestand

... her noix de veau. It was certainly true that she had seen changes of partners. Milly St. Leger, the belle of the students' quarter, ...

— The Incomplete Amorist • E. Nesbit

... something for him. Seeing the music of Duprato's "Il etait nuit deja," I proposed singing that, and he sat down at the pedal-less piano to accompany me. When I arrived at the phrase, "Un souffle d'air leger apportait jusqu'a nous l'odeur d'un oranger," he interrupted me. "Repeat that!" he cried. "Il faut qu'on sente le souffle d'air et l'odeur de l'oranger." I said to myself, "... no one could 'sentir un oranger' in this room; one could only smell ...

— In the Courts of Memory 1858-1875. • L. de Hegermann-Lindencrone

... the English burnt their wounded prisoners in a barn. Such was the situation of the south, when news was received of the capitulation of Burgoyne. That general, when he quitted Canada, had made a diversion on his right; but Saint Leger had failed in an operation against Fort Schuyler; and he himself, by advancing towards Albany, appeared to have lost much time. Gates was constantly adding numerous militia to his continental troops. All the ...

— Memoirs, Correspondence and Manuscripts of General Lafayette • Lafayette

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