L'ARGE, a larj. L. largus Gr. wide, copious, and perhaps with floor.
1. Big of great size bulky as a large body a large horse or ox a large mountain a large tree a large ship.
2. Wide extensive as a large field or plain a large extent of territory.
3. Extensive or populous containing many inhabitants as a large city or town.
4. Abundant plentiful ample as a large supply of provisions.
5. Copious diffusive.
I might be very large on the importance and advantages of education.
6. In seamen's language, the wind is large when it crosses the line of a ship's course in a favorable direction, particularly on the beam or quarter.
7. Wide consisting of much water as a large river.
8. Liberal of a great amount as a large donation.
1. At large, without restraint or confinement as, to go at large to be left at large.
2. Diffusely fully in the full extent as, to discourse on a subject at large.
L'ARGE, n. Formerly, a musical note equal to four breves.