'Leger' definitions:
Definition of 'leger'
From: WordNet
noun
A record in which commercial accounts are recorded; "they got a subpoena to examine our books" [syn: ledger, leger, account book, book of account, book]
noun
French painter who was an early cubist (1881-1955) [syn: Leger, Fernand Leger]
Definition of 'Leger'
From: GCIDE
- Leger \Leg"er\ (l[e^]j"[~e]r), n. [See Ledger.]
- 1. Anything that lies in a place; that which, or one who, remains in a place. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- 2. A minister or ambassador resident at a court or seat of government. [Written also lieger, leiger.] [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Sir Edward Carne, the queen's leger at Rome. --Fuller. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A ledger. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Leger'
From: GCIDE
- Leger \Leg"er\, a. Lying or remaining in a place; hence, resident; as, leger ambassador. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Leger'
From: GCIDE
- Leger \Leg"er\, a. [F. l['e]ger, fr. LL. (assumed) leviarius, fr. L. levis light in weight. See Levity.] Light; slender; slim; trivial. [Obs. except in special phrases.] --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- Leger line (Mus.), a line added above or below the staff to extend its compass; -- called also added line. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'leger'
From: GCIDE
- Ledger \Ledg"er\(l[e^]j"[~e]r), n. [Akin to D. legger layer, daybook (fr. leggen to lay, liggen to lie), E. ledge, lie. See Lie to be prostrate.]
- 1. 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.] [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Arch.) (a) A large flat stone, esp. one laid over a tomb. --Oxf. Gloss. (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.] [1913 Webster]
- Ledger bait, fishing bait attached to a floating line fastened to the bank of a stream, pond, etc. --Walton. --J. H. Walsh.
- 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. --Raymond. [1913 Webster]