Bequest: Definition and part of speech

Bequest

  1. v. t. To bequeath, or leave as a legacy.
  2. n. The act of bequeathing or leaving by will; as, a bequest of property by A. to B.
  3. n. That which is left by will, esp. personal property; a legacy; also, a gift.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.