Line: Definition and part of speech

Line

  1. n. The longer and finer fiber of flax.
  2. n. Flax; linen.
  3. v. t. To put something in the inside of; to fill; to supply, as a purse with money.
  4. 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.
  5. v. t. To impregnate; — applied to brute animals.
  6. 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.
  7. n. A more or less threadlike mark of pen, pencil, or graver; any long mark; as, a chalk line.
  8. 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.
  9. n. Direction; as, the line of sight or vision.
  10. n. A row of letters, words, etc., written or printed; esp., a row of words extending across a page or column.
  11. 1n. 1 The longer and finer fiber of flax.
  12. 1n. 1 Flax; linen.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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