Legs
[leɡz] or [lɛg]
Definition
(noun.) staying power; 'that old Broadway play really has legs'.
Editor: Martin--From WordNet
Unserious Contents or Definition
If you dream of admiring well-shaped feminine legs, you will lose your judgment, and act very silly over some fair charmer. To see misshapen legs, denotes unprofitable occupations and ill-tempered comrades. A wounded leg, foretells losses and agonizing attacks of malaria. To dream that you have a wooden leg, denotes that you will bemean yourself in a false way to your friends. If ulcers are on your legs, it signifies a drain on your income to aid others. To dream that you have three, or more, legs, indicates that more enterprises are planned in your imagination than will ever benefit you. If you can't use your legs, it portends poverty. To have a leg amputated, you will lose valued friends, and the home influence will render life unbearable. For a young woman to admire her own legs, denotes vanity, and she will be repulsed by the man she admires. If she has hairy legs, she will dominate her husband. If your own legs are clean and well shaped, it denotes a happy future and devoted friends.
Checker: Yale
Examples
- I can't very well do it myself; because my back's so bad, and my legs are so queer. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- She laughed, and the Major did too, at his droll figure on donkey-back, with his long legs touching the ground. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I needed no second permission; though I was by this time in such a state of consternation and agitation, that my legs shook under me. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Old Uncle Peter sung both de legs out of dat oldest cheer, last week, suggested Mose. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The new legs last twice as long as the others used to do, and he attributes this solely to his temperate habits (triumphant cheers). Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- But, bless you, I'm strong on my legs still! Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- His last effort was made, when we had looked at our watches, and had got on our legs previous to taking leave. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Apparently it carried this vast body kangaroo fashion on its tail and hind legs. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He bent down so low to frown at his boots, that he was able to rub the calves of his legs in the pause he made. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Sir Percival looked seriously embarrassed and distressed, Mr. Fairlie stretched out his lazy legs on his velvet footstool, and said, Dear Marian! Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Our legs would refuse to bear us, our knees would double up, our ankles would turn over, and we should come to the ground. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Young John was small of stature, with rather weak legs and very weak light hair. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Set a bulldog on hind legs, and dress him up in coat and breeches, and yo'n just getten John Thornton. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- I come her, he retorted, on my legs. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- If I had to give her up, it would be like beginning to live on wooden legs. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
Edited by Carlos