Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter L - Page 35
Limn (v. t.) 描寫；描繪 To draw or paint; especially, to represent in an artistic way with pencil or brush.
Let a painter carelessly limn out a million of faces, and you shall find them all different. -- Sir T. Browne.
Limn (v. t.) Hence: To picture in words; to describe in graphic terms.
Limn (v. t.) To illumine, as books or parchments, with ornamental figures, letters, or borders.
Compare: Parchment
Parchment (n.) 羊皮紙；仿羊皮紙 [U]；羊皮紙文稿（或文件）[C] The skin of a lamb, sheep, goat, young calf, or other animal, prepared for writing on. See Vellum.
But here's a parchment with the seal of C[ae]sar. -- Shak.
Parchment (n.) The envelope of the coffee grains, inside the pulp.
Parchment paper. See Papyrine.
Compare: Ornamental
Ornamental (a.) 裝飾的；作裝飾用的 [Z] Serving to ornament; characterized by ornament; beautifying; embellishing.
Some think it most ornamental to wear their bracelets on their wrists; others, about their ankles. -- Sir T. Browne.
Ornamental (a.) Serving an esthetic rather than a useful purpose; "cosmetic fenders on cars"; "the buildings were utilitarian rather than decorative" [syn: cosmetic, decorative, ornamental].
Ornamental (n.) [C] 裝飾品；觀賞植物 Any plant grown for its beauty or ornamental value.
Limn (v.) Trace the shape of [syn: delineate, limn, outline].
Limn (v.) Make a portrait of; "Goya wanted to portray his mistress, the Duchess of Alba" [syn: portray, depict, limn].
Limn (v. t.) (Limned; limning) To draw or paint on a surface.
// The artist limned a portrait.
Limn (v. t.) To outline in clear sharp detail : delineate.
// He was limned by a streetlight,
Limn (v. t.) Describe.
// The novel limns the frontier life of the settlers.
Compare: Delineate
Delineate (a.) Delineated; portrayed. [R.]
Delineate (v. t.) [imp. & p. p. Delineated; p. pr. & vb. n. Delineating.] 畫……的輪廓；描述 To indicate by lines drawn in the form or figure of; to represent by sketch, design, or diagram; to sketch out; to portray; to picture; in drawing and engraving, to represent in lines, as with the pen, pencil, or graver; hence, to represent with accuracy and minuteness. See Delineation.
Adventurous to delineate nature's form. -- Akenside.
Delineate (v. t.) To portray to the mind or understanding by words; to set forth; to describe.
Customs or habits delineated with great accuracy. -- Walpole.
Delineate (a.) Represented accurately or precisely [syn: delineated, represented, delineate] [ant: undelineated].
Delineate (v.) Show the form or outline of; "The tree was clearly defined by the light"; "The camera could define the smallest object" [syn: define, delineate].
Delineate (v.) Determine the essential quality of [syn: specify, define, delineate, delimit, delimitate].
Delineate (v.) Trace the shape of [syn: delineate, limn, outline].
Delineate (v.) Make a mark or lines on a surface; "draw a line"; "trace the outline of a figure in the sand" [syn: trace, draw, line, describe, delineate].
Delineate (v.) Describe in vivid detail.
Limnaea (n.) (Zool.) A genus of fresh-water air-breathing mollusks, abundant in ponds and streams; -- called also pond snail. [Written also Lymn[ae]a.]
Limner (n.) 畫匠 A painter; an artist; esp.:
Limner (n.) One who paints portraits.
Limner (n.) One who illuminates books. [Archaic]
Limner (n.) A painter or drawer of portraits [syn: portraitist, portrait painter, portrayer, limner].
Compare: Limoniad
Limoniad (n.) (Class. Myth.) A nymph of the meadows; -- called also Limniad.
Compare: Nymph
Nymph (n.) (Class. Myth.) [C] 【希神】【羅神】居於山林水澤的仙女，女神；【文】美女；年輕女子；蛹 A goddess of the mountains, forests, meadows, or waters.
Where were ye, nymphs, when the remorseless deep Closed o'er the head of your loved Lycidas? -- Milton.
Nymph (n.) Hence: A lovely young girl; a maiden; a damsel.
Nymph, in thy orisons Be all my sins remembered. -- Shak.
Nymph (n.) (Zool.) The pupa of an insect; a chrysalis.
Nymph (n.) (Zool.) Any one of a subfamily (Najades) of butterflies including the purples, the fritillaries, the peacock butterfly, etc.; -- called also naiad.
Nymph (n.) (Classical mythology) A minor nature goddess usually depicted as a beautiful maiden; "the ancient Greeks believed that nymphs inhabited forests and bodies of water."
Nymph (n.) A larva of an insect with incomplete metamorphosis (as the dragonfly or mayfly).
Nymph (n.) A voluptuously beautiful young woman [syn: nymph, houri].
Compare: Voluptuous
Voluptuous (a.) 性感的；激起情慾的；貪戀酒色的；縱慾的 Full of delight or pleasure, especially that of the senses; ministering to sensuous or sensual gratification; exciting sensual desires; luxurious; sensual.
Music arose with its voluptuous swell. -- Byron.
Sink back into your voluptuous repose. -- De Quincey.
Voluptuous (a.) Given to the enjoyments of luxury and pleasure; indulging to excess in sensual gratifications. "The jolly and voluptuous livers." -- Atterbury.
Softened with pleasure and voluptuous life. -- Milton. -- Vo*lup"tu*ous*ly, adv. -- Vo*lup"tu*ous*ness, n.
Compare: Voluptuously
Voluptuously (adv.) 豔麗地；肉感地；性感地; 舒適地 In a shapely and voluptuous manner; "a voluptuously curved woman."
Voluptuously (adv.) In an indulgently voluptuous manner; "he sniffed the perfume voluptuously."
Limniad (n.) (Myth.) See Limoniad.
Limoniad (n. pl. Limoniads) (Greek mythology) A meadow nymph.
Compare: Meadow
Meadow (n.) 草地，牧草地 [C] [U] A tract of low or level land producing grass which is mown for hay; any field on which grass is grown for hay.
Meadow (n.) Low land covered with coarse grass or rank herbage near rives and in marshy places by the sea; as, the salt meadows near Newark Bay.
Meadow (a.) Of or pertaining to a meadow; of the nature of a meadow; produced, growing, or living in, a meadow. "Fat meadow ground." -- Milton.
Note: For many names of plants compounded with meadow, see the particular word in the Vocabulary.
Meadow beauty. (Bot.) Same as Deergrass.
Meadow foxtail (Bot.), A valuable pasture grass ({Alopecurus pratensis) resembling timothy, but with softer spikes.
Meadow hay, A coarse grass, or true sedge, growing in uncultivated swamp or river meadow; -- used as fodder or bedding for cattle, packing for ice, etc. [Local, U. S.]
Meadow hen. (Zool.) (a) The American bittern. See Stake-driver.
Meadow hen. (Zool.) (b) The American coot ({Fulica).
Meadow hen. (Zool.) (c) The clapper rail.
Meadow mouse (Zool.), Any mouse of the genus Arvicola, as the common American species Arvicola riparia; -- called also field mouse, and field vole.
Meadow mussel (Zool.), An American ribbed mussel ({Modiola plicatula), very abundant in salt marshes.
Meadow ore (Min.), Bog-iron ore, a kind of limonite.
Meadow parsnip. (Bot.) See under Parsnip.
Meadow pink. (Bot.) See under Pink.
Meadow pipit (Zool.), A small singing bird of the genus Anthus, as Anthus pratensis, of Europe.
Meadow rue (Bot.), A delicate early plant, of the genus Thalictrum, having compound leaves and numerous white flowers. There are many species.
Meadow saffron. (Bot.) See under Saffron.
Meadow sage. (Bot.) See under Sage.
Meadow saxifrage (Bot.), An umbelliferous plant of Europe ({Silaus pratensis), somewhat resembling fennel.
Meadow snipe (Zool.), The common or jack snipe. meadowgrass
Meadow (n.) A field where grass or alfalfa are grown to be made into hay [syn: hayfield, meadow].
Meadow, () Heb. ha'ahu (Gen. 41:2, 18), probably an Egyptain word transferred to the Hebrew; some kind of reed or water-plant. In the Revised Version it is rendered "reed-grass", i.e., the sedge or rank grass by the river side.
Meadow, () Heb. ma'areh (Judg. 20:33), pl., "meadows of Gibeah" (R.V., after the LXX., "Maareh-geba"). Some have adopted the rendering "after Gibeah had been left open." The Vulgate translates the word "from the west."
Meadow, TX -- U.S. town in Texas
Population (2000): 658
Housing Units (2000): 236
Land area (2000): 1.599908 sq. miles (4.143742 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.599908 sq. miles (4.143742 sq. km)
FIPS code: 47316
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 33.338336 N, 102.207772 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 79345
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Meadow, TX
Meadow
Meadow, UT -- U.S. town in Utah
Population (2000): 254
Housing Units (2000): 124
Land area (2000): 0.495077 sq. miles (1.282244 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.495077 sq. miles (1.282244 sq. km)
FIPS code: 48830
Located within: Utah (UT), FIPS 49
Location: 38.886764 N, 112.406698 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Meadow, UT
Meadow
Limning (n.) The act, process, or art of one who limns; the picture or decoration so produced.
Adorned with illumination which we now call limning. -- Wood.
Limning (n.) A drawing of the outlines of forms or objects [syn: delineation, depiction, limning, line drawing].
Limoges (n.) 利摩日A city of Southern France.
Limoges (n.) A variety of fine porcelain manufactured at Limoges [1]; also called Limoges ware or Limoges China.
Compare: Manufacture
Manufacture (v. t.) [imp. & p. p. Manufactured; p. pr. & vb. n. Manufacturing.] To make (wares or other products) by hand, by machinery, or by other agency; as, to manufacture cloth, nails, glass, etc.
Manufacture (v. t.) To work, as raw or partly wrought materials, into suitable forms for use; as, to manufacture wool, cotton, silk, or iron.
Compare: Manufactured
Manufactured (a.) Produced in a large-scale industrial operation. Contrasted with hand-made.
Manufactured (a.) Produced in a large-scale industrial operation.
Limoges enamel, () A kind of enamel ware in which the enamel is applied to the whole surface of a metal plaque, vase, or the like, and painted in enamel colors. The art was brought to a high degree of perfection in Limoges in the 16th century.
Limoges ware. () Articles decorated with Limoges enamel.
Limoges ware. () Articles of porcelain, etc., manufactured at Limoges.
Limoges (in British English) (n.) A city in S central France, on the Vienne River: a centre of the porcelain industry since the 18th century. Pop: 139 026 (2006)
Limoniad (n.) (Class. Myth.) A nymph of the meadows; -- called also Limniad.
Limonin (n.) (Chem.) 檸檬苦素 A bitter, white, crystalline substance found in orange and lemon seeds.
Limonite (n.) (Min.) 褐鐵礦 Hydrous sesquioxide of iron, an important ore of iron, occurring in stalactitic, mammillary, or earthy forms, of a dark brown color, and yellowish brown powder. It includes bog iron. Also called brown hematite.
Limosis (n.) (Med.) 飢餓病 A ravenous appetite caused by disease; excessive and morbid hunger.
Limous (a.) Muddy; slimy; thick. -- Sir T. Browne.
Limousine (n. pl. -s)) [ C ] (Informal limo) 大型豪華轎車；大轎車；【美】（機場、車站等接送旅客的）小型巴士 A large, expensive car, often driven by a chauffeur (= a person employed to drive a car for someone else).
Limousine (n.) [ C ] (US) (Informal limo) A small bus to take people to and from an airport.
Limousine (n.) An elongated, luxurious automobile, designed to be driven by a chauffeur and often having a glass partition between the driver's seat and the passengers' compartment behind.
Note: When intended for use in transporting businessmen, the limousine may be equipped with a telephone and other conveniences to permit work during travel. Limousines are often rented for travel to and from airports, and as a luxurious perquisite on special occasions, as weddings or school prm nights. Originally (1913) the term referred to an automobile body with seats and permanent top like a coup['e], and with the top projecting over the driver and a projecting front, or an automobile with such a body.
Limousine (n.) Large luxurious car; usually driven by a chauffeur [syn: limousine, limo].
Limped (imp. & p. p.) of Limp.
Limping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Limp.
Limp (v. i.) 一瘸一拐地走，跛行；緩慢費力地前進 To halt; to walk lamely. Also used figuratively. -- Shak.
Limp (n.) 跛行 [S] A manner of walking in which the movement of one or both legs is noticeably abnormal, usually due to injury or disease; a halt; the act of limping.
Limp (n.) (Ore Washing) A scraper for removing poor ore or refuse from the sieve.
Limp (a.) Flaccid; flabby, as flesh. --Walton.
Limp (a.) Lacking stiffness; flimsy; as, a limp cravat.
Limp (a.) Not firm; "wilted lettuce" [syn: limp, wilted].
Limp (a.) Lacking in strength or firmness or resilience; "gave a limp handshake"; "a limp gesture as if waving away all desire to know" G.K.Chesterton; "a slack grip."
Limp (n.) The uneven manner of walking that results from an injured leg [syn: hitch, hobble, limp].
Compare: Hitch
Hitch (v. i.) To hitchhike; -- mostly used in the phrase to hitch a ride; as, he hitched his way home; he hitched a ride home.
Hitch (v. t.) [imp. & p. p. Hitched; p. pr. & vb. n. Hitching.] To hook; to catch or fasten as by a hook or a knot; to make fast, unite, or yoke; as, to hitch a horse, or a halter; hitch your wagon to a star.
Hitch (v. t.) To move with hitches; as, he hitched his chair nearer.
To hitch up. (a) To fasten up.
To hitch up. (b) To pull or raise with a jerk; as, a sailor hitches up his trousers.
To hitch up. (c) To attach, as a horse, to a vehicle; as, hitch up the gray mare. [Colloq.]
Hitch (v. t.) To become entangled or caught; to be linked or yoked; to unite; to cling.
Atoms . . . which at length hitched together. -- South.
Hitch (v. t.) To move interruptedly or with halts, jerks, or steps; -- said of something obstructed or impeded.
Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme. -- Pope.
To ease themselves . . . by hitching into another place. -- Fuller.
Hitch (v. t.) To hit the legs together in going, as horses; to interfere. [Eng.] -- Halliwell.
Hitch (n.) A catch; anything that holds, as a hook; an impediment; an obstacle; an entanglement.
Hitch (n.) The act of catching, as on a hook, etc.
Hitch (n.) A stop or sudden halt; a stoppage; an impediment; a temporary obstruction; an obstacle; as, a hitch in one's progress or utterance; a hitch in the performance.
Hitch (n.) A sudden movement or pull; a pull up; as, the sailor gave his trousers a hitch.
Hitch (n.) (Naut.) A knot or noose in a rope which can be readily undone; -- intended for a temporary fastening; as, a half hitch; a clove hitch; a timber hitch, etc.
Hitch (n.) (Geol.) A small dislocation of a bed or vein.
Hitch (n.) A period of time spent in military service [syn: enlistment, hitch, term of enlistment, tour of duty, duty tour, tour].
Hitch (n.) The state of inactivity following an interruption; "the negotiations were in arrest"; "held them in check"; "during the halt he got some lunch"; "the momentary stay enabled him to escape the blow"; "he spent the entire stop in his seat" [syn: arrest, check, halt, hitch, stay, stop, stoppage].
Hitch (n.) An unforeseen obstacle [syn: hang-up, hitch, rub, snag].
Hitch (n.) A connection between a vehicle and the load that it pulls.
Hitch (n.) A knot that can be undone by pulling against the strain that holds it; a temporary knot.
Hitch (n.) Any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome [syn: hindrance, hinderance, hitch, preventive, preventative, encumbrance, incumbrance, interference].
Hitch (n.) The uneven manner of walking that results from an injured leg [syn: hitch, hobble, limp].
Hitch (v.) To hook or entangle; "One foot caught in the stirrup" [syn: hitch, catch] [ant: unhitch].
Hitch (v.) Walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury; "The old woman hobbles down to the store every day" [syn: limp, gimp, hobble, hitch].
Hitch (v.) Jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched; "the yung filly bucked" [syn: buck, jerk, hitch].
Hitch (v.) Travel by getting free rides from motorists [syn: hitchhike, hitch, thumb].
Hitch (v.) Connect to a vehicle: "hitch the trailer to the car."
Compare: Hobble
Hobble (v. i.) [imp. & p. p. Hobbled; p. pr. & vb. n. Hobbling.] To walk lame, bearing chiefly on one leg; to walk with a hitch or hop, or with crutches.
The friar was hobbling the same way too. -- Dryden.
Hobble (v. i.) To move roughly or irregularly; -- said of style in writing. -- Prior.
The hobbling versification, the mean diction. -- Jeffreys.
Hobble (v. t.) To fetter by tying the legs; to hopple; to clog. " They hobbled their horses." -- Dickens
Hobble (v. t.) To perplex; to embarrass.
Hobble (n.) An unequal gait; a limp; a halt; as, he has a hobble in his gait. -- Swift.
Hobble (n.) Same as Hopple.
Hobble (n.) Difficulty; perplexity; embarrassment. -- Waterton.
Hobble (n.) A shackle for the ankles or feet [syn: fetter, hobble].
Hobble (n.) The uneven manner of walking that results from an injured leg [syn: hitch, hobble, limp].
Hobble (v.) Walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury; "The old woman hobbles down to the store every day" [syn: limp, gimp, hobble, hitch].
Hobble (v.) Hamper the action or progress of; "The chairman was hobbled by the all-powerful dean."
Hobble (v.) Strap the foreleg and hind leg together on each side (of a horse) in order to keep the legs on the same side moving in unison; "hobble race horses" [syn: hopple, hobble].
Limp (v.) Walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury; "The old woman hobbles down to the store every day" [syn: limp, gimp, hobble, hitch].
Limp (v.) Proceed slowly or with difficulty; "the boat limped into the harbor."
LIMP, () ["Messages in Typed Languages", J. Hunt et al, SIGPLAN Notices 14(1):27-45 (Jan 1979)].
Limper (n.) One who limps.
Limper (n.) Someone who has a limp and walks with a hobbling gait [syn: hobbler, limper].
Compare: Hobbler
Hobbler (n.) 蹣跚之人或動物；= hobbling pilot; One who hobbles.
Hobbler (n.) (Eng. Hist.) One who by his tenure was to maintain a horse for military service; a kind of light horseman in the Middle Ages who was mounted on a hobby. -- Hallam. Sir J. Davies.
Hobbler (n.) Someone who has a limp and walks with a hobbling gait [syn: hobbler, limper].
Limpet (n.) 【動】帽貝；糾纏不休者 In a general sense, any hatshaped, or conical, gastropod shell.
Limpet (n.) Any one of many species of marine shellfish of the order Docoglossa, mostly found adhering to rocks, between tides.
Note: The common European limpets of the genus Patella (esp. Patella vulgata) are extensively used as food. The common New England species is Acm[ae]a testudinalis. Numerous species of limpets occur on the Pacific coast of America, some of them of large size.
Limpet (n.) Hence: Somthing or someone that clings tenaciously to another object or person; specifically a military explosive device having magnets allowing it to cling to a metallic target object, such as the hull of a ship.
Limpet (n.) Any species of Siphonaria, a genus of limpet-shaped Pulmonifera, living between tides, on rocks.
Limpet (n.) A keyhole limpet. See Fissurella.
Limpet (n.) Mollusk with a low conical shell.
Limpet (n.) Any of various usually marine gastropods with low conical shells; found clinging to rocks in littoral areas.
Limpet mine (n.) [C] (US Limpet) 吸附雷（固定在目標上引爆的炸彈） A type bomb that is attached to what it is intended to destroy.
Limpid (a.) 清澈的；透明的；（文體等）暢達的；平靜的 Characterized by clearness or Limpid; clear; as, a limpid stream.
Springs which were clear, fresh, and limpid. -- Woodward.
Limpid (a.) Clear and unambiguous; lucid; easy to understand; -- of speech and writing; as, limpid prose.
Limpid (a.) Calm, untroubled, and without worry; serene.
Syn: Clear; transparent; pellucid; lucid; pure; crystal; translucent; bright.
Limpid (a.) Clear and bright; "the liquid air of a spring morning"; "eyes shining with a liquid luster"; "limpid blue eyes" [syn: liquid, limpid].
Limpid (a.) Transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity; "the cold crystalline water of melted snow"; "crystal clear skies"; "could see the sand on the bottom of the limpid pool"; "lucid air"; "a pellucid brook"; "transparent crystal" [syn: crystalline, crystal clear, limpid, lucid, pellucid, transparent].
Limpid (a.) (Of language) Transparently clear; easily understandable; "writes in a limpid style"; "lucid directions"; "a luculent oration"- Robert Burton; "pellucid prose"; "a crystal clear explanation"; "a perspicuous argument" [syn: limpid, lucid, luculent, pellucid, crystal clear, perspicuous].
Limpidity (n.) 清澈；透明；暢達；平靜 The quality or state of being limpid.
Limpidity (n.) Free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression [syn: clarity, lucidity, lucidness, pellucidity, clearness, limpidity] [ant: abstruseness, obscureness, obscurity, reconditeness, unclearness].
Limpidity (n.) Passing light without diffusion or distortion [syn: pellucidness, pellucidity, limpidity].
Limpidness (n.) 清澈；清晰 Quality of being limpid; limpidity.
Limpin (n.) A limpet. [Obs.] -- Holland.
Limpingly (adv.) In a limping manner.
Limpitude (n.) Limpidity. [Obs.]
Limpkin (n.) (Zool.) Either one of two species of wading birds of the genus Aramus, intermediate between the cranes and rails. The limpkins are remarkable for the great length of the toes. One species (A. giganteus) inhabits Florida and the West Indies; the other (A. scolopaceus) is found in South America. Called also courlan, and crying bird.
Limpkin (n.) Wading bird of Florida, Cuba and Jamaica having a drooping bill and a distinctive wailing call [syn: limpkin, Aramus pictus].
Limpness (n.) The quality or state of being limp. Limpsy
Limpness (n.) A flabby softness [syn: flabbiness, limpness, flaccidity].
Limpsy (a.) Alt. of Limsy.
Limsy (a.) Limp; flexible; flimsy. [Local, U. S.]
Limu (n.) (Bot.) The Hawaiian name for seaweeds. Over sixty kinds are used as food, and have species names, as Limu Lipoa, Limu palawai, etc.
Limule (n.) [F.] (Zool.) A limulus.
Limuloidea (n.
pl.) (Zool.) An order of Merostomata, including among living animals the
genus Limulus, with various allied fossil genera, mostly of
{Xiphosura"> the Carboniferous period. Called also {Xiphosura.
Note: There are six pairs of leglike organs, surrounding
the mouth, most of which terminate in claws; those of the first pair (probably
mandibles) are the smallest; the others have the basal joints thickened and
spinose, to serve as jaws, while the terminal joints serve as legs. This group
is intermediate, in some characteristics, between crustaceans and certain
arachnids (scorpions), but the respiration is by means of lamellate gills borne
upon the five posterior abdominal appendages, which are flat and united in pairs
by their inner edges, and are protected by the lidlike anterior pair, which
also bear the genital orifices.
Limuli (n. pl. ) of Limulus.
Limulus (n.) (Zool.) The only existing genus of Merostomata. It includes only a few species from the East Indies, and one (Limulus polyphemus) from the Atlantic coast of North America. Called also Molucca crab, king crab, horseshoe crab, and horsefoot.
Limy (a.) Smeared with, or consisting of, lime; viscous. "Limy snares." -- Spenser.
Limy (a.) Containing lime; as, a limy soil.
Limy (a.) Resembling lime; having the qualities of lime.
Lin (v. i.) To yield; to stop; to cease. [Obs. or Scot.] -- Marston.
Lin (v. t.) To cease from. [Obs. or Scot.]
Lin (n.) A pool or collection of water, particularly one above or below a fall of water.
Lin (n.) A waterfall, or cataract; as, a roaring lin.
Lin (n.) A steep ravine.
Note: Written also linn and lyn.
Compare: Arecoline
Arecoline (n.) Also - lin. An oily liquid substance, C8H13O2N, the chief alkaloid of the betel nut, to which the latter owes its anthelmintic action.
Syn: arecholine; arecaline; methylarecaidin; methyl N-methyltetrahydronicotinate; 1,2,5,6-tetrahydro-1-methyl-3-pyridinecarboxylic acid methyl ester.
Lin (n.) United States sculptor and architect whose public works include the memorial to veterans of the Vietnam War in Washington (born in 1959) [syn: Lin, Maya Lin].
LIN, () Local Interconnect Network [bus]
Linage (n.) See Lineage. [Obs.] -- Holland.
Linage (n.) The number of lines in a piece of printed material [syn: linage, lineage].
Linage (n.) A rate of payment for written material that is measured according to the number of lines submitted [syn: linage, lineage].
Linament (n.) (Surg.) Lint; esp., lint made into a tent for insertion into wounds or ulcers.
Linarite (n.) (Min.) A hydrous sulphate of lead and copper occurring in bright blue monoclinic crystals.
Linch (n.) [AS. hlinc a hill.] A ledge; a right-angled projection.
Linchi (n.) (Zool.) An esculent swallow.
Linchpin (n.) 【機】制輪楔；關鍵 A pin used to prevent the wheel of a vehicle from sliding off the axletree.
Linchpin (n.) A central cohesive source of support and stability; "faith is his anchor"; "the keystone of campaign reform was the ban on soft money"; "he is the linchpin of this firm" [syn: anchor, mainstay, keystone, backbone, linchpin, lynchpin].
Linchpin (n.) Pin inserted through an axletree to hold a wheel on [syn: linchpin, lynchpin].
Lincoln green () A color of cloth formerly made in Lincoln, England; the cloth itself.
Lincture (n.) Alt. of Linctus.
Linctus (n.) [L. lingere, linctum, to lick.] Medicine taken by licking with the tongue.
Linctus (n.) [U] UK 潤喉止咳糖漿，止咳露 A thick, sweet liquid medicine that is used to treat coughs and sore throats.
Lind (n.) The linden. See Linden. -- Chaucer.
Lind (n.) 珍妮·林德 Swedish soprano who toured the United States under the management of P. T. Barnum (1820-1887) [syn: Lind, Jenny Lind, Swedish Nightingale].
Lind, WA -- U.S. town in Washington
Population (2000): 582
Housing Units (2000): 307
Land area (2000): 1.027650 sq. miles (2.661602 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.027650 sq. miles (2.661602 sq. km)
FIPS code: 39510
Located within: Washington (WA), FIPS 53
Location: 46.972564 N, 118.616346 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 99341
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
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Linden (n.) (Bot.) A handsome tree (Tilia Europaea), having cymes of light yellow flowers, and large cordate leaves. The tree is common in Europe.
Linden (n.) (Bot.) In America, the basswood, or Tilia Americana.
Lindia (n.) [NL.] (Zool.) A peculiar genus of rotifers, remarkable for the absence of ciliated disks. By some zoologists it is thought to be like the ancestral form of the Arthropoda.
Lindiform (a.) (Zool.) Resembling the genus Lindia; -- said of certain apodous insect larv[ae]. [See Illust. under Larva.].
Line (n.) Flax; linen. [Obs.] "Garments made of line." -- Spenser.Line (n.) The longer and finer fiber of flax.
Lined (imp. & p. p.) of Line.
Lining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Line.
Line (v. t.) To cover the inner surface of; as, to line a cloak with silk or fur; to line a box with paper or tin.
The inside lined with rich carnation silk. -- W. Browne.
Line (v. t.) To put something in the inside of; to fill; to supply, as a purse with money.
The charge amounteth very high for any one man's purse, except lined beyond ordinary, to reach unto. -- Carew.
Till coffee has her stomach lined. -- Swift.
Line (v. t.) To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding anything; to fortify; as, to line works with soldiers.
Line and new repair our towns of war With men of courage and with means defendant. -- Shak.
Line (v. t.) To impregnate; -- applied to brute animals. -- Creech.
Lined gold, gold foil having a lining of another metal.
Line (n.) A linen thread or string; a slender, strong cord; also, a cord of any thickness; a rope; a hawser; as, a fishing line; a line for snaring birds; a clothesline; a towline.
Who so layeth lines for to latch fowls. -- Piers Plowman.
Line (n.) A more or less threadlike mark of pen, pencil, or graver; any long mark; as, a chalk line.
Line (n.) The course followed by anything in motion; hence, a road or route; as, the arrow descended in a curved line; the place is remote from lines of travel.
Line (n.) Direction; as, the line of sight or vision.
Line (n.) A row of letters, words, etc., written or printed; esp., a row of words extending across a page or column.
Line (n.) A short letter; a note; as, a line from a friend.
Line (n.) (Poet.) A verse, or the words which form a certain number of feet, according to the measure.
In the preceding line Ulysses speaks of Nausicaa. -- Broome.
Line (n.) Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade, or intellectual activity.
He is uncommonly powerful in his own line, but it is not the line of a first-rate man. -- Coleridge.
Line (n.) (Math.) That which has length, but not breadth or thickness.
Line (n.) The exterior limit of a figure, plat, or territory; boundary; contour; outline.
Eden stretched her line From Auran eastward to the royal towers Of great Seleucia. -- Milton.
Line (n.) A threadlike crease marking the face or the hand; hence, characteristic mark.
Though on his brow were graven lines austere. -- Byron.
He tipples palmistry, and dines On all her fortune-telling lines. -- Cleveland.
Line (n.) Lineament; feature; figure. "The lines of my boy's face." -- Shak.
Line (n.) A straight row; a continued series or rank; as, a line of houses, or of soldiers; a line of barriers.
Unite thy forces and attack their lines. -- Dryden.
Line (n.) A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; as, the ascending or descending line; the line of descent; the male line; a line of kings.
Of his lineage am I, and his offspring By very line, as of the stock real. -- Chaucer.
Line (n.) A connected series of public conveyances, and hence, an established arrangement for forwarding merchandise, etc.; as, a line of stages; an express line.
Line (n.) (Geog.) A circle of latitude or of longitude, as represented on a map.
Line (n.) (Geog.) The equator; -- usually called the line, or equinoctial line; as, to cross the line.
Line (n.) A long tape, or a narrow ribbon of steel, etc., marked with subdivisions, as feet and inches, for measuring; a tapeline.
Line (n.) (Script.) A measuring line or cord.
He marketh it out with a line. -- Is. xliv. 13.
Line (n.) (Script.) That which was measured by a line, as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place of abode.
The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage. -- Ps. xvi. 6.
Line (n.) Instruction; doctrine. Their line is gone out through all the earth. -- Ps. xix. 4.
Line (n.) (Mach.) The proper relative position or adjustment of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with reference to smooth working; as, the engine is in line or out of line.
Line (n.) The track and roadbed of a railway; railroad.
Line (n.) (Mil.) A row of men who are abreast of one another, whether side by side or some distance apart; -- opposed to column.
Line (n.) (Mil.) The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry, artillery, etc.
Line (n.) (Fort.) A trench or rampart.
Line (n.) (Fort.) pl. Dispositions made to cover extended positions, and presenting a front in but one direction to an enemy.
Line (n.) Form of a vessel as shown by the outlines of vertical, horizontal, and oblique sections.
Line (n.) (Mus.) One of the straight horizontal and parallel prolonged strokes on and between which the notes are placed.