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To adjust or form to a line; to range or form in line; to bring into line; to aline.

The act of adjusting to a line; arrangement in a line or lines; the state of being so adjusted; a formation in a straight line; also, the line of adjustment; esp., an imaginary line to regulate the formation of troops or of a squadron.

malevolent; malicious; spiteful; -- opposed to benign. Witchcraft may be by operation of malign spirits. Bacon.

The state or quality of being malignant; extreme malevolence; bitter enmity; malice; as, malignancy of heart.

tuated by extreme malevolence or enmity; virulently inimical; bent on evil; malicious. A malignant and a turbaned Turk. Shak.

In a malignant manner.

One who maligns.

To make malign or malignant. [R.] "A strong faith malignified." Southey.

The state or quality of being malignant; disposition to do evil; virulent enmity; malignancy; malice; spite.

In a malign manner; with malignity.

Not malignant, as a disease.

Characterized by the absence of power or force. Adynamic fevers, malignant or putrid fevers attended with great muscular debility.

To range or place in a line; to bring into line; to align. Evelyn.

Same as Alignment.

See Alignment.

To align. [R.] Herschel.

Alignment; position in a straight line, as of two planets with the sun. Whewell. The allineation of the two planets. C. A. Young.

To make painful; to cause to smart; to inflame. [Obs.] He . . . angereth malign ulcers. Bacon.

Any inflammatory affection of the throat or faces, as the quinsy, malignant sore throat, croup, etc., especially such as tends to produce suffocation, choking, or shortness of breath. Angina pectoris, a peculiarly painful disease, so named from a sense of suffocating contraction or tightening of the lower part of the c…

A malignant pustule.