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A prickly plant of the genus Carlina (C. vulgaris), found in Europe and Asia.

A short timber running lengthwise of a ship, from one transverse desk beam to another; also, one of the cross timbers that strengthen a hath; -- usually in pl.

A silver coin once current in some parts of Italy, worth about seven cents. Simmonds.

A coin. See Carline.

Growing immediately on a caulis; of or pertaining to a caulis.

An instrument for drawing lines through a point, or lines converging to a center.

Converging to a center; -- applied to lines drawn so as to meet in a point or center.

A moderate degree of coldness; disagreeable coldness or rawness; as, the chilliness of the air.

See Quinoline.

See Neurine.

A yellow substance obtained as a by-product in the manufacture of rosaniline. It dyes silk a fine golden-yellow color.

Regard for the church.

A nitrogenous organic base, C8H6N2, analogous to quinoline, obtained from certain complex diazo compounds.

Proceeding in a circle; circular. [Obs.] "With motion circuline". Dr. H. More.

State of being cleanly; neatness of person or dress. Cleanliness from head to heel. Swift.

Scholarship. [Obs.]

A rope or wire on which clothes are hung to dry.

A small hill or mount. [Obs.] And watered park, full of fine collines and ponds. Evelyn.

The act of aiming at, or directing in a line with, a fixed object. [R.] Johnson.

The quality or state of being comely. Comeliness is a disposing fair Of things and actions in fit time and place. Sir J. Davies. Strength, comeliness of shape, or amplest merit. Milton. Comeliness signifies something less forcible than beauty, less elegant than grace, and less light than prettiness. Johnson.…