(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.
(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.
(n.) The part of any article of clothing which covers the leg; as, the leg of a stocking or of a pair of trousers.
(n.) A bow, esp. in the phrase to make a leg; probably from drawing the leg backward in bowing.
(n.) A disreputable sporting character; a blackleg.
(n.) The course and distance made by a vessel on one tack or between tacks.
(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.
(n.) The case containing the lower part of the belt which carries the buckets.
(n.) A fielder whose position is on the outside, a little in rear of the batter.
Example Sentences:
(1) Calcium alginate dressings have been used in the treatment of pressure ulcers and leg ulcers.
(2) Muscle weakness and atrophy were most marked in the distal parts of the legs, especially in the gastrocnemius and soleus muscles, and then spread to the thighs and gluteal muscles.
(3) The adaptive filter processor was tested for retrospective identification of artifacts in 20 male volunteers who performed the following specific movements between epochs of quiet, supine breathing: raising arms and legs (slowly, quickly, once, and several times), sitting up, breathing deeply and rapidly, and rolling from a supine to a lateral decubitus position.
(4) Blood flow was measured in leg and torso skin of conscious or anesthetized sheep by using 15-micron radioactive microspheres (Qm) and the 133Xe washout method (QXe).
(5) A leg ulcer in a 52-year-old renal transplant patient yielded foamy histiocytes containing acid-fast bacilli subsequently identified as a Runyon group III Mycobacterium.
(6) An anatomic study of the peroneal artery and vein and their branches was carried out on 80 adult cadaver legs.
(7) In contrast sham-hemodialysis in group CA and group PS, respectively, did not result in significant increases in amino acid efflux from the leg implying that the protein catabolic effect of blood membrane contact depends on the chemical properties of dialysis membranes.
(8) The ulcers on seven of ten legs (70%) treated with Unna's boots and on 10 of 14 legs (71%) treated with elastic support stocking healed.
(9) These reflexes can function to limit forces applied to a leg and provide compensatory adjustments in other legs.
(10) A second group was chronically implanted without electrical stimulation in one leg and implanted with cyclical electrical stimulation applied through the electrode in the other leg.
(11) Attention is paid to the set of problems connected with the nonthrombotic insufficiency of the conducting veins of the leg.
(12) In the case of unilateral blockade at the groin or pelvis, the grafts connect the lymphatics of the thigh of the affected leg with lymphatics in the contralateral healthy groin.
(13) This, however will not result in normal lower leg bones, as can be concluded from the fact that spontaneous fractures have occurred partly even in the locomotor apparatus after the pseudarthroses had healed.
(14) It’s gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, social background, and – most important of all, as far as I’m concerned – diversity of thought.” Diversity needs action beyond the Oscars | Letters Read more He may have provided the Richard Littlejohn wishlist from hell – you know the one, about the one-legged black lesbian in a hijab favoured by the politically correct – but as a Hollywood A-lister, the joke’s no longer on him.
(15) According to perimeter of leg, 13% of these girl students might he considered affected of second degree malnutrition, this situation prevailed from 13 to 18 years of age, but was not true in the 12--year--old group.
(16) Martin O’Neill spoke of his satisfaction at the Republic of Ireland’s score draw in the first leg of their Euro 2016 play-off against Bosnia-Herzegovina – and of his relief that the match was not abandoned despite the dense fog that descended in the second half and threatened to turn the game into a farce.
(17) Adjunctive usage of elastic stockings and intermittent compression pneumatic boots in the perioperative period was helpful in controlling leg swelling and promoting wound healing.
(18) Heavy death losses (59%) occurred in adult Mystromys 3--14 days after muscle biopsies were taken from their rear legs.
(19) Significant differences were found for the clinical scores for legs with and without previous DVT, which shows that the method is of value despite a not inconsiderable interobserver variation.
(20) The devices worked as well on postphlebitic legs as on normal ones.
Leggy
Definition:
(a.) Having long legs.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was a fairly valiant attempt from Manchester United , but as their players grew leggy from chasing shadows, they dropped deep and let Arjen Robben and Franck Ribery wreak their unique brand of havoc.
(2) They all hover around a standard Australian size 8-10, and all have a similar svelte, leggy look.
(3) Or, put another way, pot them right the way up to their baby leaves, burying the leggy stem.
(4) Seedlings grown on a windowsill always grow leggy, because there is only one source of direct light.
(5) Voterà in aula le leggi che rispecchiano il suo programma chiunque sia a proporle February 27, 2013 The Financial Times agrees that it's a significant step: Italy’s political deadlock following inconclusive elections took a turn for the worse on Wednesday when Beppe Grillo announced that his Five Star Movement would not give a vote of confidence in parliament to any government led by the two main parties.
(6) There were leggy performances, lapses of concentration, and off-key passes scattered liberally across the drenched Emirates pitch.
(7) 2.57pm GMT 71 min: Pearce goes on a barnstorming, leggy surge from the halfway line, all the way to the edge of the box where he falls over after a double challenge from Berthold and Augenthaler.
(8) There was Torres, tearing beyond the visitors' confused last line of defence and away from a leggy Martin Demichelis, to convert into the gaping net.
(9) Other roles are unclear: both Magic Mike's Olivia Munn and Gwyneth Paltrow could be Charlie's "impossibly leggy" wife from the novels.
(10) For Catherine it has come in the form of a new relationship – she is now engaged to Christian “Leggy” Langdon, who was once their bass player and musical director and produced Creation.
(11) Coutinho has appeared leggy at times of late, struggling with a cluttered schedule, but that was sparkling reward.
(12) These babies love to grow, so turn seedlings often to prevent lopsided, leggy growth.
(13) Their dominance was underlined by two moments of jaw-dropping quality conjured by a fluid and inventive midfield, players revelling in Nemanja Matic’s leggy presence at their back, though it was the visitors’ ease in possession which truly separated them from their spirited hosts.
(14) They had struggled to the finishing line – flat, leggy and suffering.
(15) Arsenal looked just as Wenger had feared: leggy, with little zip to their passing and only a brief passage of play, at 1-1, when they showed any real control.
(16) Kane is scoring again after a slow start but often seems a bit leggy.
(17) So far he's asked him what “leggy” means, what “dead legs” are, as well as a few awkward pauses when he's clearly trying to figure out what Wright has just said.
(18) If you don’t give actors tools,” she has said , “insecurities, bad habits and quirks and ticks, you’re just playing ‘blonde and leggy’.
(19) Bruce felt his team were leggy after the efforts they put into that uplifting win over Liverpool, and regretted that he did not have the luxury of rotating.
(20) They’d been dating for like two weeks when she said: ‘Can Leggy come on the road and play bass with us?’” Allison recalls.