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Belonging to, or covered with, lichens. Tennyson.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, lichens; abounding in lichens; covered with lichens. G. Eliot.

That which covers the opening of a vessel or box, etc. ; a movable cover; as, the lid of a chest or trunk.

Covered with a lid. Keats.

Having no lid, or not covered with the lids, as the eyes; hence, sleepless; watchful. A lidless watcher of the public weal. Tennyson.

Covered with, or having many, lilies. By sandy Ladon's lilied banks. Milton.

To cover the inner surface of; as, to line a cloak with silk or fur; to line a box with paper or tin. The inside lined with rich carnation silk. W. Browne.

That which covers the inner surface of anything, as of a garment or a box; also, the contents of anything. The lining of his coffers shall make coats To deck our soldiers. Shak.

To cover with list, or with strips of cloth; to put list on; as, to list a door; to stripe as if with list. The tree that stood white-listed through the gloom. Tennyson.

ich prevents a printing ink containing oil from adhering to wetted parts of the stone not covered by the design. See Lithographic limestone, under Lithographic.

Straw, hay, etc., scattered on a floor, as bedding for animals to rest on; also, a covering of straw for plants. To crouch in litter of your stable planks. Shak. Take off the litter from your kernel beds. Evelyn.

Covered or encumbered with litter; consisting of or constituting litter.

se bones; Behold, I will . . . lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live. Ezek. xxxvii. 5, 6.

To cover, smear, or fill with loam.

To drive to shelter; to track to covert. The deer is lodged; I have tracked her to her covert. Addison.

Abiding place; harbor; cover. Fair bosom . . . the lodging of delight. Spenser. Lodging house, a house where lodgings are provided and let. -- Lodging room, a room in which a person lodges, esp. a hired room.

A suborder of edentates, covered with bony plates, including the armadillos.

To cover with some protecting substance, as with lute, a crust, coating, or plates.

The act of loricating; the protecting substance put on; a covering of scales or plates.

more or less complete paralysis. The principal lesion is an inflammation of the membranes covering the brain and spinal cord.