a. [f. LEG sb. + -ED2.] Having legs (of a particular kind, shape or color); freq. in parasynthetic combination with adjs., as BAKER-legged, bare-legged, black-legged, BOW-LEGGED, crook(ed)-legged, long-legged, two-legged, etc. In Heraldry, having legs of a specified tincture.
1470. Sir J. Paston, in P. Lett., No. 637, II. 394. He is legged right i now, and it is reportyd that hys pyntell is as long as hys legge.
c. 1529. Skelton, E. Rummyng, 50. Legged lyke a crane.
1552. Huloet, Legged crokedly and ill fauored.
c. 1570. Pride & Lowl. (1841), 64. But he were legged as was Actæon.
1572. Bossewell, Armorie, III. 26. An Owsell d’Argente, beaked golde, legged gules.
1610. Shaks., Temp., II. ii. 35. Leg’d like a man.
1652. Gaule, Magastrom., 186. The spindle legd are fearful; hairy legg’d, lustful; stump legg’d servile; bow-legg’d, various.
1697. trans. Le Comte’s Mem. China, ii. (1737), 39. A row of eunuchs … stood on each hand close legged.
1765. Treat. Dom. Pigeons, 134. The Trumpeter is a Bird … very feather-footed and leg’d.
1822. Scott, Pirate, vii. Triptolemus was a short, clumsy, duck-legged disciple of Ceres.
1864. Boutell, Her. Hist. & Pop., xv. § 15 (ed. 3), 204. Three popinjays or, collared and legged gu.
1893. The Post (Camden, NJ), 13 April, 1/5. James Oates, a gimp-legged wanderer from Wilmington, Del., was given 30 days to sober up in.
1898. Daily News, 24 Nov., 2/2. Stiffbacked, legged chairs, legged sofas … are out of place in an Eastern house.
b. Legged dollar = leg-dollar (see LEG sb. 17).
1672. Corshill Baron-Crt. Bk., in Archæol. & Hist. Coll. Ayr & Wigton (1884), IV. 104. Withholding from him ane leged dolour, at 5s., anent the niffer of ane horse.
c. 1689. Depred. Clan Campbell (1816), 100. Ane leggit dollor.
Hence Leggedly adv.
1659. Torriano, Gambescaménte, leggedly, according to the fashion of shanks.
