liage

English

Etymology

Compare Old French liage (“a bond”). See liable.

Noun

liage

  1. (obsolete) Union by league; alliance.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “liage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

French

Noun

liage m (plural liages)

  1. tying; binding

Further reading

Middle English

Noun

liage

  1. Alternative form of lege (“liege”)

Adjective

liage

  1. Alternative form of lege (adjective)

Old French

Etymology

lier +‎ -age.

Noun

liage oblique singular, m (oblique plural liages, nominative singular liages, nominative plural liage)

  1. link; tie; bond (something used to link two or more things together)

References
  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (liage)
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