The Collaborative International Dictionary
Legge \Legge\, v. t. [Abbrev. fr. alegge.]
To lighten; to allay. [Obs.]
--Rom. of R.
Legge \Legge\ (l[e^]g), v. t. [See Lay, v. t. ] To lay. [Obs.]
Wikipedia
Legge is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Alexander Legge (1866–1933), American business executive, president of International Harvester
- Anthony Legge (1939–2013), British archaeologist specialized in zooarchaeology
- Sir Arthur Kaye Legge KCB (1766–1835), Royal Navy officer
- Arthur Legge (British Army officer) (1800–1890), British soldier and politician
- Arthur Legge (footballer) (1881–1941), Australian sportsman
- Augustus Legge (1839–1913), bishop of Lichfield from 1891 until 1913
- Barnwell R. Legge (1891–1949), US Army officer who served as a Military Attaché to Switzerland during World War II
- Barry Legge (born 1954), retired Canadian ice hockey player who played in the National Hockey League
- Charles A. Legge (born 1930), former United States federal judge
- Charles Legge (1829–1881), Canadian civil engineer and patent solicitor
- David Legge (born 1954), former Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda in the Victorian Football League
- Dominica Legge (1905–1986), British scholar of the Anglo-Norman language
- Dominique de Legge (born 1952), French politician, member of the Senate of France
- Eddie Legge (1902–1947), Scottish footballer who played for Carlisle United and York City in the Football League
- Edward Legge (bishop) (1767–1827), Bishop of Oxford, clergyman
- Hon Edward Legge (Royal Navy officer) (1710–1747), Royal Navy officer and posthumous MP for Portsmouth
- Francis Legge (c.1719–1783), British military officer and colonial official in Nova Scotia
- Geoffrey Legge (1903–1940), English first-class cricketer who played in five Tests
- George Legge, 1st Baron Dartmouth (c. 1647–1691)
- George Legge, 3rd Earl of Dartmouth (1755–1810)
- Gerald Legge, 9th Earl of Dartmouth (1924–1997)
- Gordon Legge (born 1948), Distinguished McKnight University Professor and chair of the Department of Psychology at the University of Minnesota
- H. Dormer Legge (1890–1982), British Army officer and philatelist specializing in the stamps of Australia
- Heneage Legge (1788–1844), Member of Parliament (MP) for Banbury
- Heneage Legge (1845–1911), MP for St George's Hanover Square, nephew of the above
- Henry Bilson-Legge (1708–1764), English statesman
- Sir Henry Legge (courtier) (1852–1924), Paymaster of the Household to King George V
- Humphry Legge, 8th Earl of Dartmouth (1888–1962)
- James Gordon Legge (1863–1947), Australian Army Lieutenant General who served in World War I
- James Legge (1815–1897), Scottish sinologist (professor of Chinese)
- Joan Margaret Legge (1885–1939), English botanist
- Katherine Legge (born 1980), British racecar driver
- Laura Legge QC (born 1923), former treasurer of the Law Society of Upper Canada and recipient of the Order of Ontario in 2003
- Leon Legge (born 1985), English footballer who plays for Cambridge United
- Lionel K. Legge (1889–1970), associate justice on the South Carolina Supreme Court
- Michael Legge (actor) (born 1978), British actor
- Michael Legge (comedian) (born 1968), Irish comedian
- Michael Legge (filmmaker) (born 1953), American actor and independent filmmaker
- Paterno Legge , South Sudanese politician, former Minister of Local Government of Central Equatoria
- Randy Legge (born 1945), retired Canadian ice hockey defenceman who played in the National Hockey League for the New York Rangers
- Major General Stanley Ferguson Legge CBE (1900–1977), Australian Army major general and the son of Lieutenant General James Gordon Legge
- Thomas Legge (1535–1607), English playwright
- Thomas Morison Legge CBE MD (1863–1932), the first Medical Inspector of Factories and Workshops in the United Kingdom
- Wade Legge (1934–1963), American jazz pianist and bassist
- Walter Legge (1906–1979), English classical record producer and impresario
- William Gordon Legge (1913–1999), Anglican Bishop of the Diocese of Western Newfoundland
- William Kaye Legge (1869–1946), senior British Army officer during World War I
- William Legge, 1st Earl of Dartmouth (1672–1750)
- William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth (1731–1801)
- William Legge, 4th Earl of Dartmouth (1784–1853)
- William Legge, 5th Earl of Dartmouth (1823–1891)
- William Legge, 6th Earl of Dartmouth (1851–1936)
- William Legge, 7th Earl of Dartmouth (1881–1958)
- William Legge, 10th Earl of Dartmouth (born 1949)
- William Legge (Royalist) (1608–1670), English royalist army officer
- Colonel William Vincent Legge (1841–1918), Australian ornithologist, first President of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union
Usage examples of "legge".
Legge, esteemed the two most illustrious patriots of Great Britain, alike distinguished and admired for their unconquerable spirit and untainted integrity.
In the fore part of which, betwixt the seuen pilastrels, there were appointed little slender Pillers wrought about with leaues, copies, heades with haire like leaues, boyes their hippes and legges proportioned into brawnches, Birdes and copies, and vesselles full of flowers, with other woonderfull inuentions and deuises, from the top to the bottome of the Anaglyph, as if they had grown out of the foundation, making and diuiding in sunder the spaces, their chapters were wrought of a fashion answerable to the rest.
I knew not after what, I grew more wearie, faint, and drye, and so feeble, that my legges could but with great paine, vphould my distempered body.
Within the saide Garland I beheld a rough Milche Gote, which a little child did suck, sitting vnder hir side vpon his fleshie young legges one streight foorth, and the other retract and bowed vnder him.
For as to a large big and corpulent body strong legges, and broad feete, are necessarie to beare and carry the same: so in a modulate and well composed building, to sustaine great weights, Naues are appointed, and for beautie, columnes, Corinthies, and slender Ionices, are set vpon them.
Couered with a habite blowne abroad with the winde, and shewing parte of the naked substance of the legges and thighes: with two wings growing out from the shoulder blades, and spred abroad as if shee were readye to flye, turning hir fayre face and sweete regarding countenance towardes hir wings.
In the voyd and plaine euacuated quadret, there stood two Nimphes, little lesse then if they had been liuely creatures, apparelled, so as you might see somewhat aboue their knees, vppon one of theyr legges, as if the winde had blowne it vp, as they were doing theyr office, and their armes bare, from the elbow to the shoulder except.
Colonel Legge, Colonel Lane, Captain Giffard, Colonel Blague, Marmaduke Darcy, Wogan, and Careless.
My legges weake, feeble, and fowltering vnder mee, my spirites languishing, and my sences in a maner gone from mee.
As help me God, when that I saw him go After the bier, methought he had a pair Of legges and of feet so clean and fair, That all my heart I gave unto his hold.
When morning was come, and that I was awaked from sleep, my heart burned sore with remembrance of the murther I had committed the night before : and I rose and sate downe on the side of the bed with my legges acrosse, and wringing my hands, I weeped in most miserable sort.
Tiriamo un velo sulle turpitudini e mi perdoni chi legge se per avventura lo scandalizzai.
Thus by the telling of fortunes, they gathered a great quantity of money, but when they were weary with giving of answers, they drave me away before them next night, through a lane which was more dangerous and stony then the way which we went the night before, for on the one side were quagmires and foggy marshes, on the other side were falling trenches and ditches, whereby my legges failed me, in such sort that I could scarce come to the plaine field pathes.
For to omit the hioides or throat-bone of animals, the furcula or merry-thought in birds, which supporteth the scapulæ, affording a passage for the winde-pipe and the gullet, the wings of Flyes, and disposure of their legges in their first formation from maggots, and the position of their horns, wings and legges, in their Aurelian cases and swadling clouts: The back of the Cimex Arboreus, found often upon Trees and lesser plants, doth elegantly discover the Burgundian decussation.
But, for I was provided with a make,* *mate I wept but little, that I undertake* *promise To churche was mine husband borne a-morrow With neighebours that for him made sorrow, And Jenkin, oure clerk, was one of tho:* *those As help me God, when that I saw him go After the bier, methought he had a pair Of legges and of feet so clean and fair, That all my heart I gave unto his hold.