Definition of line

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Line (n.) 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..

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Hurden :: Hurden (n.) A coarse kind of linen; -- called also harden.
Display :: Display (v. t.) To extend the front of (a column), bringing it into line..
Side :: Side (n.) A line of descent traced through one parent as distinguished from that traced through another.
Greisen :: Greisen (n.) A crystalline rock consisting of quarts and mica, common in the tin regions of Cornwall and Saxony..
Directly :: Directly (adv.) In a direct manner; in a straight line or course.
Bolter :: Bolter (n.) A kind of fishing line. See Boulter.
Oxaline :: Oxaline (n.) See Glyoxaline.
Jazerant :: "Jazerant (n.) A coat of defense made of small plates of metal sewed upon linen or the like; also, this kind of armor taken generally; as, a coat of jazerant..
Loveliness :: Loveliness (n.) The state or quality of being lovely.
Sense :: Sense (v. t.) One of two opposite directions in which a line, surface, or volume, may be supposed to be described by the motion of a point, line, or surface..
March :: March (n.) A territorial border or frontier; a region adjacent to a boundary line; a confine; -- used chiefly in the plural, and in English history applied especially to the border land on the frontiers between England and Scotland, and England and Wales..
Decline :: Decline (v. t.) To cause to decrease or diminish.
Scribe :: Scribe (v. t.) To cut (anything) in such a way as to fit closely to a somewhat irregular surface, as a baseboard to a floor which is out of level, a board to the curves of a molding, or the like; -- so called because the workman marks, or scribe, with the compasses the line that he afterwards cuts..
Inclave :: Inclave (a.) Resembling a series of dovetails; -- said of a line of division, such as the border of an ordinary..
Kingbird :: Kingbird (n.) A small American bird (Tyrannus tyrannus, or T. Carolinensis), noted for its courage in attacking larger birds, even hawks and eagles, especially when they approach its nest in the breeding season. It is a typical tyrant flycatcher, taking various insects upon the wing. It is dark ash above, and blackish on the head and tail. The quills and wing coverts are whitish at the edges. It is white beneath, with a white terminal band on the tail. The feathers on the head of the adults show
Paeonine :: Paeonine (n.) An artifical red nitrogenous dyestuff, called also red coralline..
Crotchet :: Crotchet (n.) The arrangement of a body of troops, either forward or rearward, so as to form a line nearly perpendicular to the general line of battle..
Orphaline :: Orphaline (n.) See Orpheline.
Archwife :: Archwife (n.) A big, masculine wife..
Quadrat :: Quadrat (n.) An old instrument used for taking altitudes; -- called also geometrical square, and line of shadows..
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