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Le*git"i*mate*ly (-mt*l), adv. In a legitimate manner; lawfully; genuinely.

Le*git"i*mate*ness, n. The state or quality of being legitimate; lawfulness; genuineness.

Le*git`i*ma"tion (-m"shn), n. [Cf. F. légitimation.]

1. The act of making legitimate.

The coining or legitimation of money.

East.

2. Lawful birth. [R.] Shak.

Le*git"i*ma*tist (l*jt"*m*tst), n. See Legitimist.

Le*git"i*ma*tize (-tz), v. t. To legitimate.

Le*git"i*mism (-mz'm), n. The principles or plans of legitimists.

Le*git"i*mist (-mst), n. [Cf. F. légitimiste.] 1. One who supports legitimate authority; esp., one who believes in hereditary monarchy, as a divine right.

2. Specifically, a supporter of the claims of the elder branch of the Bourbon dynasty to the crown of France.

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Le*git"i*mize (l*jt"*mz), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Legitimized (-mzd); p. pr. & vb. n. Legitimizing.] To legitimate.

Leg"less (lg"ls), a. Not having a leg.

Le"go-lit"er*a*ry (l"g- lt"r**r), a. [See Legal, and Literary.] Pertaining to the literature of law.

Le`gu*le"ian (l`g*l"yan), a. [L. leguleius pettifogger, fr. lex, legis, law.] Lawyerlike; legal. [R.] "Leguleian barbarism." De Quincey. -- n. A lawyer.

Leg"ume (lg"m or l*gm"), n. [F. légume, L. legumen, fr. legere to gather. So called because they may be gathered without cutting. See Legend.] 1. (Bot.) A pod dehiscent into two pieces or valves, and having the seed attached at one suture, as that of the pea.

In the latter circumstance, it differs from a siliqua, in which the seeds are attached to both sutures. In popular use, a legume is called a pod, or cod; as, pea pod, or peas cod.

2. pl. The fruit of leguminous plants, as peas, beans, lupines; pulse.

||Le*gu"men (l*g"mn), n.; pl. L. Legumina (- m*n), E. Legumens (-mnz). ||[L.] Same as Legume. || Le*gu"min (-mn), n. [Cf. F. légumine.] (Physiol. Chem.) An albuminous substance resembling casein, found as a characteristic ingredient of the seeds of leguminous and grain-bearing plants.

Le*gu"mi*nous (-m*ns), a. [Cf. F. légumineux.] 1. Pertaining to pulse; consisting of pulse.

2. (Bot.) Belonging to, or resembling, a very large natural order of plants (Leguminosæ), which bear legumes, including peas, beans, clover, locust trees, acacias, and mimosas.

Lei"ger (l"jr), n. [See Leger, and Ledger.] See Leger, n., 2. [Obs.] Shak.

Lei*ot"ri*chan (l*t"r*kan), a. Of or pertaining to the Leiotrichi. - - n. One of the Leiotrichi.

||Lei*ot"ri*chi (-k), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. lei^os smooth + qri`x, ||tricho`s, hair.] (Anthropol.) The division of mankind which embraces ||the smooth-haired races. || Lei*ot"ri*chous (-ks), a. [See Leiotrichi.] (Anthropol.) Having smooth, or nearly smooth, hair.

||Lei*po"a (l*p"), n. [NL.] (Zoöl.) A genus of Australian gallinaceous ||birds including but a single species (Leipoa ocellata), about the ||size of a turkey. Its color is variegated, brown, black, white, and ||gray. Called also native pheasant. || It makes large mounds of sand and vegetable material, in which its eggs are laid to be hatched by the heat of the decomposing mass.

Lei`po*thym"ic (l`p*thm"k), a. See Lipothymic.