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er side of the spinal column between the hip bone and the false ribs. In human beings the loins are also called the reins. See Illust. of Beef.

A bitter purgative principle in aloes.

See Eloign.

See Eloignate.

See Eloignment.

; to banish; to withdraw; to avoid; to eloign. [Obs.] From worldly cares he did himself esloin. Spenser.

A bitter crystalline substance constituting the essential principle of Natal aloes. Cf. Aloon.

one's self; hence, to steal; to take by theft; to filch. Had from his wakeful custody purloined The guarded gold. Milton. when did the muse from Fletcher scenes purloin Dryden.

One who purloins. Swift.

A loin of beef, or a part of a loin. [Written also surloin.]

A loin of beef, or the upper part of the loin. See Sirloin, the more usual, but not etymologically preferable, orthography.

A strip of tender flesh on either side of the vertebral column under the short ribs, in the hind quarter of beef and pork. It consists of the psoas muscles.

To take secretly or dishonestly; to purloin; as, to abstract goods from a parcel, or money from a till. Von Rosen had quietly abstracted the bearing-reins from the harness. W. Black.

The taking surreptitiously for one's own use part of the property of another; purloining. [Modern]

ness; loss of sensation; stupor; loss of sense. [Obs.] A coldness and astonishment in his loins, as folk say. Holland.

A husband; as, baron and feme, husband and wife. [R.] Cowell. Baron of beef, two sirloins not cut asunder at the backbone. -- Barons of the Cinque Ports, formerly members of the House of Commons, elected by the seven Cinque Ports, two for each port. -- Baron of the exchequer, the judges of the Court of Exchequer, one…

To cover with a blanket. I'll . . . blanket my loins. Shak.

To purloin or embezzle, as the pieces of cloth remaining after cutting out a garment; to pilfer. Your tailor . . . cabbages whole yards of cloth. Arbuthnot.

To infect or pollute; to corrupt. Addison. A tithe purloined canker the whole estate. Herbert.

a man or beast used as a bearing when a collar is represented as worn around the neck or loins.