legged : Idioms & Phrases

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badger-legged

Badg"er-legged` adjective
Definitions
  1. Having legs of unequal length, as the badger was thought to have. Shak.
Webster 1913

baker-legged

Bak"er-legged` adjective
Definitions
  1. Having legs that bend inward at the knees.
Webster 1913

bandy-legged

  • adjective satellite have legs that curve outward at the knees
    bowed; bandy; bowlegged; bowleg.
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Ban"dy-legged` adjective
Definitions
  1. Having crooked legs.
Webster 1913

black-legged tick

  • noun parasitic on mice of genus Peromyscus and bites humans; principal vector for Lyme disease in eastern United States (especially New England); northern form was for a time known as Ixodes dammini (deer tick)
    Ixodes scapularis.
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bowl-legged

Bowl"-legged` adjective
Definitions
  1. Having crooked legs, esp. with the knees bent outward. Johnson.
Webster 1913

cross-legged

  • adverb with the legs crossed
    • he sat on the floor cross-legged and meditated
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dog-legged

dog"-leg`ged adjective
Definitions
  1. (Arch) Noting a flight of stairs, consisting of two or more straight portions connected by a platform (landing) or platforms, and running in opposite directions without an intervening wellhole.
Webster 1913

duck-legged

Duck"-legged` adjective
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  1. Having short legs, like a waddling duck; short-legged. Dryden.
Webster 1913

hairy-legged vampire bat

  • noun similar in size and habits to Desmodus rotundus; of tropical America including southern California and Texas
    Diphylla ecaudata.
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light-legged

Light"-legged` adjective
Definitions
  1. Nimble; swift of foot. Sir P. Sidney.
Webster 1913

long-legged

  • adjective satellite having long legs
    leggy; long-shanked.
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Long-legged, ∨ yellow-legged, plover

  • . See Tattler.
Webster 1913

near-legged

Near"-legged` adjective
Definitions
  1. Having the feet so near together that they interfere in traveling. Shak.
Webster 1913

puff-legged

Puff"-legged` adjective
Definitions
  1. (Zoöl.) Having a conspicuous tuft of feathers on the legs.
Webster 1913

Red-legged crow

  • . See Crough.
Webster 1913

red-legged partridge

  • noun common western European partridge with red legs
    Alectoris ruffa.
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rough-legged

Rough"-legged` adjective
Definitions
  1. (Zoöl.) Having the legs covered with feathers; -- said of a bird.
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rough-legged hawk

  • noun large hawk of the northern hemisphere that feeds chiefly on small rodents and is beneficial to farmers
    Buteo lagopus; roughleg.
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  • . (Zoöl.) See Roughleg.
Webster 1913

spindle-legged

  • adjective satellite having long slender legs
    spindle-shanked.
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Spin"dle-legged` adjective
Definitions
  1. Having long, slender legs.
Webster 1913

straight-legged

  • adjective satellite having straight legs
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three-legged

  • adjective satellite having or as if having three legs
    • a three-legged stool
    • a three-legged race
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western black-legged tick

  • noun a tick that feeds on dusky-footed wood rat and bites humans; principal vector for Lyme disease in western United States especially northern California
    Ixodes pacificus.
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