Word Meanings - LIEGER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A resident ambassador. See Leger. Denham.

Related words: (words related to LIEGER)

• AMBASSADORIAL
  Of or pertaining to an ambassador. H. Walpole.
• RESIDENTIAL
  1. Of or pertaining to a residence or residents; as, residential trade. 2. Residing; residentiary.
• RESIDENTIARYSHIP
  The office or condition of a residentiary.
• LEGERDEMAINIST
  One who practices sleight of hand; a prestidigitator.
• RESIDENTSHIP
  The office or condition of a resident.
• RESIDENT
  1. Dwelling, or having an abode, in a place for a continued length of time; residing on one's own estate; -- opposed to nonresident; as, resident in the city or in the country. 2. Fixed; stable; certain. "Stable and resident like a rock." Jer.
• AMBASSADORSHIP
  The state, office, or functions of an ambassador.
• RESIDENTER
  A resident.
• RESIDENTIARY
  Having residence; as, a canon residentary; a residentiary guardian. Dr. H. More.
• LEGERDEMAIN
  Sleight of hand; a trick of sleight of hand; hence, any artful deception or trick. He of legierdemayne the mysteries did know. Spenser. The tricks and legerdemain by which men impose upon their own souls. South.
• LEGERITY
  Lightness; nimbleness Shak.
• LEGER
  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. Sir Edward Carne, the queen's leger at Rome. Fuller. 3. A ledger.
• AMBASSADOR; EMBASSADOR
  1. A minister of the highest rank sent a foreign court to represent there his sovereign or country. Note: Ambassador are either ordinary or extraordinary, that is, sent upon some special or unusual occasion or errand. Abbott. 2. An
• PRESIDENT
  Precedent. Bacon.
• ALEGER
  Gay; cheerful; sprightly. Bacon.
• ALLEGER
  One who affirms or declares.
• PRESIDENTIAL
  1. Presiding or watching over. "Presidential angels." Glanvill. 2. Of or pertaining to a president; as, the presidential chair; a presidential election.
• PRESIDENTSHIP
  The office and dignity of president; presidency. Hooker.
• NONRESIDENT
  Not residing in a particular place, on one's own estate, or in one's proper place; as, a nonresident clergyman or proprietor of lands.