† leghn.

Forms: 1700s legh, 1800s leigh.

Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: segh n.

Etymology: Misprint for segh n. in T. West Antiq. Furness (see quot. 1774), acknowledged on the errata page of the same volume and corrected in the revised edition (see quot. 1805 at segh n.); however, the erroneous form was occasionally taken up by later writers, most notably by Wordsworth.

Obsolete. rare.

= segh n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > [noun] > fossil or extinct

legh1774

thylacothere1838

anthracothere1848

anchithere1868

amblypod1877

Bramathere1879

multituberculate1888

promammal1889

tillodont1889

tinoceratid1895

uintathere1898

arsinoitherium1902

symmetrodont1933

synapsid1956

1774 T. West Antiq. Furness p. xlvi That the legh was a native of Furness, is evident from the heads of those animals frequently found in Furness.

1795 A. Radcliffe Journey 483 A remarkably large breed of deer, called Leghs, the heads of which have frequently been found buried at a considerable depth in the soil.

1810 W. Wordsworth in J. Wilkinson Select Views in Cumberland, Westmorland & Lancs. Introd. p. xiii The leigh, a gigantic species of deer which has been long extinct.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	legh
释义	† leghn. Forms: 1700s legh, 1800s leigh. Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: segh n. Etymology: Misprint for segh n. in T. West Antiq. Furness (see quot. 1774), acknowledged on the errata page of the same volume and corrected in the revised edition (see quot. 1805 at segh n.); however, the erroneous form was occasionally taken up by later writers, most notably by Wordsworth. Obsolete. rare. = segh n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > [noun] > fossil or extinct legh1774 thylacothere1838 anthracothere1848 anchithere1868 amblypod1877 Bramathere1879 multituberculate1888 promammal1889 tillodont1889 tinoceratid1895 uintathere1898 arsinoitherium1902 symmetrodont1933 synapsid1956 1774 T. West Antiq. Furness p. xlvi That the legh was a native of Furness, is evident from the heads of those animals frequently found in Furness. 1795 A. Radcliffe Journey 483 A remarkably large breed of deer, called Leghs, the heads of which have frequently been found buried at a considerable depth in the soil. 1810 W. Wordsworth in J. Wilkinson Select Views in Cumberland, Westmorland & Lancs. Introd. p. xiii The leigh, a gigantic species of deer which has been long extinct. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1774
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