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leger

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.

  2. (Arch.)

    1. A large flat stone, esp. one laid over a tomb.
      --Oxf. Gloss.

    2. 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.
      --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.

Wiktionary
leger
  1. 1 (context obsolete English) light; slender; slim; trivial 2 Lying or remaining in a place; hence, resident. n. 1 Anything that lies in a place; that which, or one who, remains in a place. 2 A minister or ambassador resident at a court or seat of government; also lieger, leiger. 3 A ledger. v

  2. (cx UK angling English) To engage in bottom fishing.

WordNet
leger
  1. n. a record in which commercial accounts are recorded; "they got a subpoena to examine our books" [syn: ledger, account book, book of account, book]

  2. French painter who was an early cubist (1881-1955) [syn: Fernand Leger]

Wikipedia
Léger

Léger or Leger is a surname, and may refer to:

  • Alexis Leger (1887-1975), French poet and diplomat who used the pseudonym Saint-John Perse, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature
  • Antoine Joseph Léger (1880-1950), Canadian politician, lawyer and author
  • Auguste Théophile Léger (1852-1923), Canadian politician
  • Aurel Léger (1894-1961), Canadian politician
  • Dick Leger (1925-1999), square dance caller
  • Édouard H. Léger (1866-1892), Canadian politician and physician
  • Émile Léger (1795-1838), French mathematician
  • Fernand Léger (1881-1955), French painter, sculptor and filmmaker
  • Jacques Nicolas Léger (1859-1918), Haitian lawyer, politician and diplomat
  • Jules Léger (1913-1980), Canadian diplomat and Governor General of Canada (1974–1979)
  • Louis Léger (1843–1923), French writer and pioneer in Slavic studies
  • Marcel Léger (1930-1993), Canadian politician
  • Nicole Léger (born 1955), Canadian politician
  • Omer Léger (born 1931), Canadian politician
  • Paul-Émile Léger (1904-1991), Canadian Roman Catholic cardinal and Archbishop of Montreal
  • Roger Leger (1919-1965), Canadian National Hockey League player
  • Sébastien Léger (born 1979), French DJ
  • Viola Léger (born 1930), Acadian-Canadian actress and former Canadian senator
  • Walt Leger III (born 1978), American politician in Louisiana
  • Leger (chess player), an 18th-century chess player
Leger

Leger or Léger may refer to:

Leger (The Research Intelligence Group)

Leger (The Research Intelligence Group) is the largest Canadian-owned polling, research and strategic marketing firm with over 900 employees in Montreal, Quebec City, Toronto, Edmonton and Calgary in Canada, Philadelphia in the United States, as well as Zurich in Switzerland. This company was founded in 1986 by Marcel Léger and his son Jean-Marc Léger who is now the president.

Usage examples of "leger".

Quelle fete pour ses yeux que cette eclosion du printemps, si superbe dans cette humilite de petites plantes mouillees de rosee, et combien le leger parfum que degageait leur floraison evoquait en lui de souvenirs restes vivants!

Leger into making you my lieutenant, and giving you the custody of a right pleasant hermitage--some castle Shackatory or other in the midst of a big bog, where time will run swift and smooth with you, between hunting wild Irish, snaring snipes, and drinking yourself drunk with usquebaugh over a turf fire.

De meeste kunst en zorg wordt vereischt voor het gereed maken van de eigenlijke woning, die zijn leger bevat.

Leger holdings, Lance had never dared set foot on Mortmain land during his boyhood.

Leger against Mortmain, condemned by some ancient feud to duel to the death, throughout all time.

Barizel le coeur leger, plein de confiance, ne pensant plus aux mauvaises paroles de Mautravers.

So he could not lose, so long as the pawns did what they were supposed to do, and one of those pawns was Major Henri Dulong, the second in command of the 31st Leger, one of the crack French light infantry units in Portugal.

Major Dulong of the 31st Leger, the new Legion d'Honneur medal still bright on his chest, volunteered to lead the Forlorn Hope.

This is a story that begins and ends on bridges and the twin tales of how Major Dulong of the 31st Leger captured the Ponte Nova and then the Saltador are true.

Gira legera, sotile al suono, al suono del'onde del mar And indeed in the distance came the sound of the sea, and Pelagia waltzed satirically about the hue, pirouetting and giggling, throwing pouts at him to burlesque the military whores she had seen so often, making faces and blowing kisses at the men as they rattled by in their truck.