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- English Word Lin Definition To yield; to stop; to cease.
- English Word Lin Definition To cease from.
- English Word Lin Definition A pool or collection of water, particularly one above or below a fall of water.
- English Word Lin Definition A waterfall, or cataract; as, a roaring lin.
- English Word Lin Definition A steep ravine.
- English Word Linage Definition See Lineage.
- English Word Linament Definition Lint; esp., lint made into a tent for insertion into wounds or ulcers.
- English Word Linarite Definition A hydrous sulphate of lead and copper occurring in bright blue monoclinic crystals.
- English Word Linch Definition A ledge; a right-angled projection.
- English Word Linchi Definition An esculent swallow.
- English Word Linchpin Definition A pin used to prevent the wheel of a vehicle from sliding off the axletree.
- English Word Lincoln green Definition A color of cloth formerly made in Lincoln, England; the cloth itself.
- English Word Lincture Definition Alt. of Linctus
- English Word Linctus Definition Medicine taken by licking with the tongue.
- English Word Lind Definition The linden. See Linden.
- English Word Linden Definition A handsome tree (Tilia Europaea), having cymes of light yellow flowers, and large cordate leaves. The tree is common in Europe.
- English Word Linden Definition In America, the basswood, or Tilia Americana.
- English Word Lindia Definition A peculiar genus of rotifers, remarkable for the absence of ciliated disks. By some zoologists it is thought to be like the ancestral form of the Arthropoda.
- English Word Lindiform Definition Resembling the genus Lindia; -- said of certain apodous insect larvae.
- English Word Line Definition Flax; linen.
- English Word Line Definition The longer and finer fiber of flax.
- English Word Line Definition To cover the inner surface of; as, to line a cloak with silk or fur; to line a box with paper or tin.
- English Word Line Definition To put something in the inside of; to fill; to supply, as a purse with money.
- English Word Line Definition To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding anything; to fortify; as, to line works with soldiers.
- English Word Line Definition To impregnate; -- applied to brute animals.
- English Word Line Definition A linen thread or string; a slender, strong cord; also, a cord of any thickness; a rope; a hawser; as, a fishing line; a line for snaring birds; a clothesline; a towline.
- English Word Line Definition A more or less threadlike mark of pen, pencil, or graver; any long mark; as, a chalk line.
- English Word Line Definition The course followed by anything in motion; hence, a road or route; as, the arrow descended in a curved line; the place is remote from lines of travel.
- English Word Line Definition Direction; as, the line of sight or vision.
- English Word Line Definition A row of letters, words, etc., written or printed; esp., a row of words extending across a page or column.