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That delineates; descriptive; drawing the outline; delineating.

Delineation. [Obs.]

Occurring once in every nine times, days, years, etc.; every ninth. Enneatical day, every ninth day of a disease. -- Enneatical year, every ninth year of a man's life.

The act of interlining.

A kind of early apple. [Written also jenneting.]

Marked longitudinally with depressed parallel lines; as, a lineate leaf.

Delineation; a line or lines.

Anything having outline. [R.] Holland.

Excessively neat. Spectator.

Previous delineation.

See Snath.

A mark of a line or lines under a word in a sentence, or under another line; underlining.

To deviate; to stray; to wander. [Obs.] Dryden.

Beneath; below; in a lower place; under; as, a channel underneath the soil. Or sullen mole, that runneth underneath. Milton.

Not easy; difficult; hard. [Obs.] Who he was, uneath was to descry. Spenser.

a higher place; higher than; on or over the upper surface; over; -- opposed to below or beneath. Fowl that may fly above the earth. Gen. i. 20.

ed matter, made by rivers, floods, or other causes, upon land not permanently submerged beneath the waters of lakes or seas. Lyell.

The hollow beneath the junction of the arm and shoulder; the axilla.

ds, nailheads, or wedges; -- hence called also nail-headed, wedge-formed, cuneiform, or cuneatic characters; the oldest written characters used in the country about the Tigris and Euphrates, and subsequently in Persia, and abounding among the ruins of Persepolis, Nineveh, and Babylon. See Cuneiform.…

The art of describing or delineating the stars; a description or mapping of the heavens.