Part 6552

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To impregnate; -- applied to brute animals.</def>

<i>Creech.</i>

<cs><col>Lined gold</col>, <cd>gold foil having a lining of another metal.</cd></cs>

<h1>Line</h1> <Xpage=855>

<hw>Line</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>line</ets>, AS. <ets>l\'c6ne</ets> cable, hawser, prob. from L. <ets>linea</ets> a linen thread, string, line, fr. <ets>linum</ets> flax, thread, linen, cable; but the English word was influenced by F. <ets>ligne</ets> line, from the same L. word <ets>linea</ets>. See <er>Linen</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>linen thread or string; a slender, strong cord; also, a cord of any thickness; a rope; a hawser; <as>as, a fishing <ex>line</ex>; a <ex>line</ex> for snaring birds; a clothes<ex>line</ex>; a tow<ex>line</ex>.</as></def>

<blockquote>Who so layeth <b>lines</b> for to latch fowls. <i>Piers Plowman.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A more or less threadlike mark of pen, pencil, or graver; any long mark; <as>as, a chalk <ex>line</ex></as>.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>The course followed by anything in motion; hence, a road or route; <as>as, the arrow descended in a curved <ex>line</ex>; the place is remote from <ex>lines</ex> of travel.</as></def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Direction; <as>as, the <ex>line</ex> sight or vision</as>.</def>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>A row of letters, words, etc., written or printed; esp., a row of words extending across a page or column.</def>

<p><b>6.</b> <def>A short letter; a note; <as>as, a <ex>line</ex> from a friend</as>.</def>

<p><b>7.</b> <fld>(Poet.)</fld> <def>A verse, or the words which form a certain number of feet, according to the measure.</def>

<blockquote>In the preceding <b>line</b> Ulysses speaks of Nausicaa. <i>Broome.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>8.</b> <def>Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade, or intellectual activity.</def>

<blockquote>He is uncommonly powerful in his own <b>line</b>, but it is not the <b>line</b> of a first-rate man. <i>Coleridge.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>9.</b> <fld>(Math.)</fld> <def>That which has length, but not breadth or thickness.</def>

<p><b>10.</b> <def>The exterior limit of a figure, plat, or territory; boundary; contour; outline.</def>

<blockquote>Eden stretched her <b>line</b> From Auran eastward to the royal towers Of great Seleucia. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>11.</b> <def>A threadlike crease marking the face or the hand; hence, characteristic mark.</def>

<blockquote>Though on his brow were graven <b>lines</b> austere. <i>Byron.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>He tipples palmistry, and dines On all her fortune-telling <b>lines</b>. <i>Cleveland.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>12.</b> <def>Lineament; feature; figure</def>. "The <i>lines</i> of my boy's face."

<i>Shak.</i>

<p><b>13.</b> <def>A straight row; a continued series or rank; <as>as, a <ex>line</ex> of houses, or of soldiers; a <ex>line</ex> of barriers.</as></def>

<blockquote>Unite thy forces and attack their <b>lines</b>. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>14.</b> <def>A series or succession of ancestors or descand ants of a given person; a family or race; <as>as, the ascending or descending <ex>line</ex>; the <ex>line</ex> of descent; the male <ex>line</ex>; a <ex>line</ex> of kings.</as></def>

<blockquote>Of his lineage am I, and his offspring By very <b>line</b>, as of the stock real. <i>Chaucer.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>15.</b> <def>A connected series of public conveyances, and hence, an established arrangement for forwarding merchandise, etc. ; <as>as, a <ex>line</ex> of stages; an express <ex>line</ex>.</as></def>