Obs. Also 7 ligge. [Origin obscure; the identity of the word in the two quots. is not certain.] a. A projection. b. A band, stripe.
1610. Guillim, Heraldry, III. xiii. (1611), 125. When any part is thus born with ligges, like peeces of the flesh or skinne, depending, it is termed erasing.
1686. Goad, Celest. Bodies, II. vii. 252. I cannot… empale each Page of this Discourse with a Black mourning Lig.
