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<h1>Legitimation</h1> <Xpage=841>

<hw>Le*git`i*ma"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>l\'82gitimation</ets>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of making legitimate.</def>

<blockquote>The coining or <b>legitimation</b> of money. <i>East.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Lawful birth.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Legitimatist</h1> <Xpage=841>

<hw>Le*git"i*ma*tist</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>See <er>Legitimist</er>.</def>

<h1>Legitimatize</h1> <Xpage=841>

<hw>Le*git"i*ma*tize</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To legitimate.</def>

<h1>Legitimism</h1> <Xpage=841>

<hw>Le*git"i*mism</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The principles or plans of legitimists.</def>

<h1>Legitimist</h1> <Xpage=841>

<hw>Le*git"i*mist</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>l\'82gitimiste</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>One who supports legitimate authority; esp., one who believes in hereditary monarchy, as a divine right.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Specifically, a supporter of the claims of the elder branch of the Bourbon dynasty to the crown of France.</def>

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<h1>Legitimize</h1> <Xpage=842>

<hw>Le*git"i*mize</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Legitimized</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Legitimizing</er>.]</wordforms> <def>To legitimate.</def>

<h1>Legless</h1> <Xpage=842>

<hw>Leg"less</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Not having a leg.</def>

<h1>Lego-literary</h1> <Xpage=842>

<hw>Le"go-lit"er*a*ry</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Legal</er>, and <er>Literary</er>.]</ety> <def>Pertaining to the literature of law.</def>

<h1>Leguleian</h1> <Xpage=842>

<hw>Le`gu*le"ian</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>leguleius</ets> pettifogger, fr. <ets>lex</ets>, <ets>legis</ets>, law.]</ety> <def>Lawyerlike; legal.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark> "<i>Leguleian</i> barbarism." <i>De Quincey</i>. -- <def2><tt>n.</tt> <def>A lawyer.</def></def2>

<h1>Legume</h1> <Xpage=842>

<hw>Leg"ume</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>l\'82gume</ets>, L. <ets>legumen</ets>, fr. <ets>legere</ets> to gather. So called because they may be gathered without cutting. See <er>Legend</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>A pod dehiscent into two pieces or valves, and having the seed attached at one suture, as that of the pea.</def>

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

<p><b>2.</b> <pluf>pl.</pluf> <def>The fruit of leguminous plants, as peas, beans, lupines; pulse.</def>