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A waterfall, or cataract; as, a roaring lin.

See Lineage. [Obs.] Holland.

Lint; esp., lint made into a tent for insertion into wounds or ulcers.

A hydrous sulphate of lead and copper occurring in bright blue monoclinic crystals.

A ledge; a right-angled projection.

An esculent swallow.

A pin used to prevent the wheel of a vehicle from sliding off the axletree.

. A color of cloth formerly made in Lincoln, England; the cloth itself.

Medicine taken by licking with the tongue.

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.]

Flax; linen. [Obs.] "Garments made of line." Spenser.

t of persons (rarely, of things), esp. when having a common purpose or sentiment; as, the line-up at a ticket- office window; the line-up of political factions.

Descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; race; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage. Both the lineage and the certain sire From which I sprung, from me are hidden yet. Spenser.

Descending in a direct line from an ancestor; hereditary; derived from ancestors; -- opposed to collateral; as, a lineal descent or a lineal descendant. The prime and ancient right of lineal succession. Locke.

The quality of being linea

In a lineal manner; as, the prince is lineally descended from the Conqueror.

One of the outlines, exterior features, or distinctive marks, of a body or figure, particularly of the face; feature; form; mark; - - usually in the plural. "The lineaments of the body." Locke. "Lineaments in the character." Swift. Man he seems In all his lineaments. Milton.