legacy : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: legacy	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for legacy
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
legacy n (law) a gift of personal property by will [syn: bequest, legacy]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Legacy \Leg"acy\ (l[ecr]g"[adot]s[ycr]), n.; pl. {Legacies} (-s[icr]z). [L. (assumed) legatia, for legatum, from legare to appoint by last will, to bequeath as a legacy, to depute: cf. OF. legat legacy. See {Legate}.] 1. A gift of property by will, esp. of money or personal property; a bequest. Also Fig.; as, a legacy of dishonor or disease. 2. A business with which one is intrusted by another; a commission; -- obsolete, except in the phrases last legacy, dying legacy, and the like. My legacy and message wherefore I am sent into the world. --Tyndale. He came and told his legacy. --Chapman. {Legacy duty}, a tax paid to government on legacies. --Wharton. {Legacy hunter}, one who flatters and courts any one for the sake of a legacy.