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Leger \Leg"er\ (l[e^]j"[~e]r), n. [See {Ledger}.]
1. Anything that lies in a place; that which, or one who,
remains in a place. [Obs.]

2. A minister or ambassador resident at a court or seat of
government. [Written also {lieger}, {leiger}.] [Obs.]

Sir Edward Carne, the queen's leger at Rome.
--Fuller.

3. A ledger.


Leger \Leg"er\, a.
Lying or remaining in a place; hence, resident; as, leger
ambassador.


Leger \Leg"er\, a. [F. l['e]ger, fr. LL. (assumed) leviarius,
fr. L. levis light in weight. See {Levity}.]
Light; slender; slim; trivial. [Obs. except in special
phrases.] --Bacon.

{Leger line} (Mus.), a line added above or below the staff to
extend its compass; -- called also {added line}.

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.
[Written also {leger}.]

2. (Arch.)
(a) A large flat stone, esp. one laid over a tomb. --Oxf.
Gloss.
(b) 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.