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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.]

Long-breathed; hence, tediously long in speaking; consuming much time; as, a long-winded talker. -- Long"-wind"ed*ness, n. A tedious, long-winded harangue. South.

Tender regard; mercy; favor. Ps. lxxxix. 33.

Inclined in mind to low or unworthy things; showing a base mind. Low-minded and immoral. Macaulay. All old religious jealousies were condemned as low-minded infirmities. Bancroft.

The quality of being lowminded; meanness; baseness.

The human race; man, taken collectively. The proper study of mankind is man. Pore.

Having many faculties; versatile; many-sided.

A figure supposed to represent the iron which holds a millstone by being set into its center.

so, the entire spiritual nature; the soul; -- often in distinction from the body. By the mind of man we understand that in him which thinks, remembers, reasons, wills. Reid. What we mean by mind is simply that which perceives, thinks, feels, wills, and desires. Sir W. Hamilton. Let every man be fully persuaded in his o…

Disposed; inclined; having a mind. Joseph... was minded to put her away privily. Matt. i. 19. If men were minded to live virtuously. Tillotson.

One who minds, tends, or watches something, as a child, a machine, or cattle; as, a minder of a loom.

Bearing in mind; regardful; attentive; heedful; observant. What is man, that thou art mindful of him Ps. viii. 4. I promise you to be mindful of your admonitions. Hammond. -- Mind"ful*ly, adv. -- Mind"ful*ness, n.

Regard; mindfulness.

Not indued with mind or intellectual powers; stupid; unthinking.

An incorrect union of parties or of causes of action in a procedure, criminal or civil. Wharton.

To kindle amiss; to inflame to a bad purpose; to excite wrongly.

Dim-sighted; purblind.