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{ Linc"ture (lk"tr; 135), Linc"tus (lk"ts), } n. [L. lingere, linctum, to lick.] Medicine taken by licking with the tongue.

Lind (lnd), n. The linden. See Linden. Chaucer.

Lin"den (ln"den), n. [Orig. an adj. from lind linden tree, AS. lind; akin to D. & G. linde, OHG. linta, Icel., Sw., & Dan. lind. Cf. Lime linden.] (Bot.) (a) A handsome tree (Tilia Europæa), having cymes of light yellow flowers, and large cordate leaves. The tree is common in Europe. (b) In America, the basswood, or Tilia Americana.

||Lin"di*a (ln"d*), n. [NL.] (Zoöl.) A peculiar genus of rotifers, ||remarkable for the absence of ciliated disks. By some zoölogists it ||is thought to be like the ancestral form of the Arthropoda. || Lin"di*form (-d*fôrm), a. [Lindia + -form.] (Zoöl.) Resembling the genus Lindia; -- said of certain apodous insect larvæ. [See Illust. under Larva.]

Line (ln), n. [OE. lin. See Linen.] 1. Flax; linen. [Obs.] "Garments made of line." Spenser.

2. The longer and finer fiber of flax.

Line, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lined (lnd); p. pr. & vb. n. Lining.] [See Line flax.] 1. To cover the inner surface of; as, to line a cloak with silk or fur; to line a box with paper or tin.

The inside lined with rich carnation silk.

W. Browne.

2. To put something in the inside of; to fill; to supply, as a purse with money.

The charge amounteth very high for any one man's purse, except lined beyond ordinary, to reach unto.

Carew.

Till coffee has her stomach lined.

Swift.

3. 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.

Line and new repair our towns of war With men of courage and with means defendant.

Shak.

4. To impregnate; -- applied to brute animals. Creech.

Lined gold, gold foil having a lining of another metal.

Line, n. [OE. line, AS. lne cable, hawser, prob. from L. linea a linen thread, string, line, fr. linum flax, thread, linen, cable; but the English word was influenced by F. ligne line, from the same L. word linea. See Linen.] 1. 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.

Who so layeth lines for to latch fowls.

Piers Plowman.

2. A more or less threadlike mark of pen, pencil, or graver; any long mark; as, a chalk line.

3. 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.

4. Direction; as, the line of sight or vision.

5. A row of letters, words, etc., written or printed; esp., a row of words extending across a page or column.

6. A short letter; a note; as, a line from a friend.

7. (Poet.) A verse, or the words which form a certain number of feet, according to the measure.