Obs. Also 6 lieger, lyger, 7 leagar. [a. F. léger (= Sp. ligero, Pg. ligeiro, It. leggiero):—popular L. type *leviārius, f. levis light.] Light, not heavy; slight, trifling. Also, nimble. Hence Legerly adv.
1481–90. Howard Househ. Bks. (Roxb.), 423. Item, my Lord payde to the armerer of Flaunderes apon his leger harnes vjs. viijd.
a. 1533. Ld. Berners, Huon, cxi. 382. Huon, who was lyger and light, lept by the syde of the serpent and gaue hym a great stroke.
1565. Cooper, Thesaurus, Agilis, nimble, light, lieger, quicke, quiuer. Ibid., Agiliter, nymbly, lightly, liegerly, quiuerly.
1598. Dallington, Meth. Trav., G iv b. By his Physiognomy ye would iudge him leger and inconstant.
