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Hawaiian name for seaweeds. Over sixty kinds are used as food, and have species names, as Limu Lipoa, Limu palawai, etc.

A limulus.

An order of Merostomata, including among living animals the genus Limulus, with various allied fossil genera, mostly of the Carboniferous period. Called also Xiphosura.

sting genus of Merostomata. It includes only a few species from the East Indies, and one (Limulus polyphemus) from the Atlantic coast of North America. Called also Molucca crab, king crab, horseshoe crab, and horsefoot.

Smeared with, or consisting of, lime; viscous. "Limy snares.' Spenser.

A waterfall, or cataract; as, a roaring lin.

See Lineage. [Obs.] Holland.

Lint; esp., lint made into a tent for insertion into wounds or ulcers.

A hydrous sulphate of lead and copper occurring in bright blue monoclinic crystals.

A ledge; a right-angled projection.

An esculent swallow.

A pin used to prevent the wheel of a vehicle from sliding off the axletree.

. A color of cloth formerly made in Lincoln, England; the cloth itself.

Medicine taken by licking with the tongue.

The linden. See Linden. Chaucer.

A handsome tree (Tilia Europæa), having cymes of light yellow flowers, and large cordate leaves. The tree is common in Europe.

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.

Resembling the genus Lindia; -- said of certain apodous insect larvæ. [See Illust. under Larva.]

Flax; linen. [Obs.] "Garments made of line." Spenser.

t of persons (rarely, of things), esp. when having a common purpose or sentiment; as, the line-up at a ticket- office window; the line-up of political factions.