LEG, n.
1. The limb of an animal, used in supporting the body and in walking and running properly, that part of the limb from the knee to the foot, but in a more general sense, the whole limb, including the thigh, the leg and the foot.
2. The long or slender support of any thing as the leg of a table.
To make a leg, to bow a phrase introduced probably by the practice of drawing the right leg backward. Little used.
To stand on one's own legs, to support one's self to trust to one's own strength or efforts without aid.