Definition of line

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Line (n.) That which was measured by a line, as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place of abode..

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Potash :: Potash (n.) The impure potassium carbonate obtained by leaching wood ashes, either as a strong solution (lye), or as a white crystalline (pearlash)..
Subsalt :: Subsaline (a.) Moderately saline or salt.
Notate :: Notate (a.) Marked with spots or lines, which are often colored..
Steeve :: Steeve (n.) The angle which a bowsprit makes with the horizon, or with the line of the vessel's keel; -- called also steeving..
Lithophyte :: Lithophyte (n.) A hard, or stony, plantlike organism, as the gorgonians, corals, and corallines, esp. those gorgonians having a calcareous axis. All the lithophytes except the corallines are animals..
Swerve :: Swerve (v. i.) To wander from any line prescribed, or from a rule or duty; to depart from what is established by law, duty, custom, or the like; to deviate..
Liveliness :: Liveliness (n.) Briskness; activity; effervescence, as of liquors..
Perivitelline :: Perivitelline (a.) Situated around the vitellus, or between the vitellus and zona pellucida of an ovum..
Bibulous :: Bibulous (v. t.) Inclined to drink; addicted to tippling.
Alternate :: Alternate (a.) Designating the members in a series, which regularly intervene between the members of another series, as the odd or even numbers of the numerals; every other; every second; as, the alternate members 1, 3, 5, 7, etc. ; read every alternate line..
Bilinear :: Bilinear (a.) Of, pertaining to, or included by, two lines; as, bilinear coordinates..
Narrative :: Narrative (a.) Apt or inclined to relate stories, or to tell particulars of events; story-telling; garrulous..
Hedge :: Hedge (n.) A thicket of bushes, usually thorn bushes; especially, such a thicket planted as a fence between any two portions of land; and also any sort of shrubbery, as evergreens, planted in a line or as a fence; particularly, such a thicket planted round a field to fence it, or in rows to separate the parts of a garden..
Lineal :: Lineal (a.) Descending in a direct line from an ancestor; hereditary; derived from ancestors; -- opposed to collateral; as, a lineal descent or a lineal descendant..
Ruling :: Ruling (a.) Used in marking or engraving lines; as, a ruling machine or pen..
Livelihood :: Livelihood (n.) Liveliness; appearance of life.
Chrysogen :: Chrysogen (n.) A yellow crystalline substance extracted from crude anthracene.
Neurine :: Neurine (n.) A poisonous organic base (a ptomaine) formed in the decomposition of protagon with boiling baryta water, and in the putrefraction of proteid matter. It was for a long time considered identical with choline, a crystalline body originally obtained from bile. Chemically, however, choline is oxyethyl-trimethyl-ammonium hydroxide, while neurine is vinyl-trimethyl-ammonium hydroxide..
Delineating :: Delineating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Delineat.
Portliness :: Portliness (n.) The quality or state of being portly; dignity of mien or of personal appearance; stateliness.
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