a.
Authorized; real; genuine; not false, counterfeit, or spurious; as, legitimate poems of Chaucer; legitimate inscriptions. →
v. t.
To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends. →
a.
Resembling fantasies in irregularity, caprice, or eccentricity; irregular; oddly shaped; grotesque. →
n.
An American thrush (Turdus fuscescens) common in the Northern United States and Canada. It is light tawny brown above. The breast is pale buff, thickly spotted with brown. Called also Wilson's thrush. →
n.
The act of retaking, as of one who has escaped after arrest; reprisal; the retaking of one's own goods, chattels, wife, or children, without force or violence, from one who has taken them and who wrongfully detains them. →