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A waterfall. See Lin. [Scot.]

Of or pertaining to the lynx.

death, without the forms of law, as when a mob captures and hangs a suspected person. See Lynch law.

. The act or practice by private persons of inflicting punishment for crimes or offenses, without due process of law.

One who assists in lynching.

See Linden.

Linen. [Obs.] Spenser.

Any one of several species of feline animals of the genus Felis, and subgenus Lynx. They have a short tail, and usually a pencil of hair on the tip of the ears.

Having acute sight.

Preparation. [Obs.] Chaucer.

An unfermentable sugar, obtained as an uncrystallizable sirup by the decomposition of melitose; also obtained from a Tasmanian eucalyptus, -- whence its name.

A glen. See Glen.

The European sand ray (Raia maculata); -- called also home, mirror ray, and rough ray.

A drinking cup. See 1st Maslin, 2. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Any one of numerous species of tropical food fishes of the family Polynemidæ. They have several slender filaments, often very long, below the pectoral fin. Some of them yield isinglass of good quality. Called also threadfish.

Of or pertaining to the polynemes, or the family Polynemidæ.

Of or pertaining to Polynesia (the islands of the eastern and central Pacific), or to the Polynesians.

The race of men native in Polynesia.

The open sea supposed to surround the north pole. Kane.

Containing many names or terms; multinominal; as, the polynomial theorem.