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 (Aramus giganteus) inhabits Florida and the West Indies; the other (Aramus scolopaceus) is found in South America. Called also courlan, and crying bird.

The quality or state of being limp.

Limp; flexible; flimsy.

The Hawaiian name for seaweeds. Over sixty kinds are used as food, and have species names, as Limu Lipoa, Limu palawai, etc.

A limulus.

An order of Merostomata, including among living animals the genus Limulus, with various allied fossil genera, mostly of the Carboniferous period. Called also Xiphosura.

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.

Smeared with, or consisting of, lime; viscous.

A pool or collection of water, particularly one above or below a fall of water.

See Lineage.

Lint; esp., lint made into a tent for insertion into wounds or ulcers.

A genus of herbs and subshrubs having showy flowers: spurred snapdragon.

A hydrous sulphate of lead and copper occurring in bright blue monoclinic crystals.

A ledge; a right-angled projection.

An esculent swallow.

A pin used to prevent the wheel of a vehicle from sliding off the axletree.

A color of cloth formerly made in Lincoln, England; the cloth itself.

of or pertaining to Abraham Lincoln.

An antibacterial antibiotic obtained from the bacterium Streptomyces lincolnensis and used in the treatment of certain penicillin-resistant infections.

Medicine taken by licking with the tongue.

The linden. See Linden.

A chemical substance (C6H6Cl6) used as an agricultural insecticide.

A handsome tree (Tilia Europ/a), having cymes of light yellow flowers, and large cordate leaves. The tree is common in Europe. In America, the basswood, or Tilia Americana.

A genus of aromatic evergreen or deciduous dioecious shrubs or trees of eastern Asia and North America.

A genus having only one species, the Texas star.

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.

Resembling the genus Lindia; -- said of certain apodous insect larv/.

an energetic American dance that was popular in the 1930s (probably named for the aviator Charles Lindbergh).

To mark with a line or lines; to cover with lines; as, to line a copy book.

a very boastful and talkative person.

Descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; race; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage.

Descending in a direct line from an ancestor; hereditary; derived from ancestors; -- opposed to collateral; as, a lineal descent or a lineal descendant.

The quality of being lineal.

In a lineal manner; as, the prince is lineally descended from the Conqueror.

One of the outlines, exterior features, or distinctive marks, of a body or figure, particularly of the face; feature; form; mark; -- usually in the plural.

Of or pertaining to a line; consisting of lines; in a straight direction; lineal.

Of a linear shape.

Having the form of a sword, but very long and narrow.

In a linear manner; with lines.

Linear.

Marked with lines.

Delineation; a line or lines.

Anything having an outline.

a print obtained from a line drawing.

furnished with items in a line or as if in a line.

resembling a line; long, thin, and narrow.

One who carries the line in surveying, etc.; the surveyor who marks positions with a range pole.

the football players who line up on the line of scrimmage.

Thread or cloth made of flax or (rarely) of hemp; -- used in a general sense to include cambric, shirting, sheeting, towels, tablecloths, etc.; as, bed linens

A dealer in linen; a linen draper.

Marked with little lines.

One who lines, as, a liner of shoes or clothing.

the official (in tennis or soccer) who watches the lines.

The members of a team who are scheduled to play a game.

Heather (Calluna vulgaris).

The European meadow pipit; -- called also titling.

The phallic symbol under which Siva is principally worshiped in his character of the creative and reproductive power.

The flesh of a lean-fleshed fish caught off the U.S. Pacific coast.

A shoemaker's thread.

low evergreen shrub (Vaccinium vitis-idaea) of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries.

To protract; to draw out.

One who lingers.

Linen goods collectively; linen underwear or nightclothes, esp. of women; the clothing of linen and cotton with its lace, etc., worn by a women.

Delaying.

With delay; slowly; tediously.

An ingot.

A mode of treating certain diseases, as obesity, by gymnastics; -- proposed by Pehr Henrik Ling, a Swede. See Kinesiatrics.

See Lingel.

Language; speech; dialect.

Amboyna wood.

A linget or ingot; also, a mold for casting metals. See Linget.

The commercial language of the Levant, -- a mixture of the languages of the people of the region and of foreign traders.

A tongue. A median process of the labium, at the under side of the mouth in insects, and serving as a tongue.

Given to the use of the tongue; loquacious.

An articulation pronounced by the aid or use of the tongue and teeth.

A consonant sound formed by the aid of the tongue; -- a term especially applied to certain articulations (as those of t, d, th, and n) and to the letters denoting them.

The quality of being lingual.

Same as Linguatulina.

An order of wormlike, degraded, parasitic arachnids. They have two pairs of retractile hooks, near the mouth. Called also Pentastomida.

Linguadental.

Having the form of the tongue; tongue-shaped.

A master of the use of language; a talker.

Of or pertaining to language; relating to linguistics, or to the affinities of languages.

In a linguistic manner; from the point of view of a linguist.

The science of languages, or of the origin, signification, and application of words; glossology.

A tonguelike process or part.

Shaped like the tongue or a strap; ligulate.

Bearing flax; producing linen.

A liquid or semiliquid preparation of a consistence thinner than an ointment, applied to the skin by friction, esp. one used as a sedative or a stimulant.

The act of one who lines; the act or process of making lines, or of inserting a lining.

To be connected.

A valve gear, consisting of two eccentrics with their rods, giving motion to a slide valve by an adjustable connecting bar, called the link, in such a way that the motion of the engine can be reversed, or the cut-off varied, at will; -- used very generally in locomotives and marine engines.

The act of linking; the state of being linked; also, a system of links.

Associated.

A boy or man that carried a link or torch to light passengers.

A tract of ground laid out for the game of golf; a golfing green.

something that serves to join or link.

A fabric consisting of links made of metal or other material fastened together; also, a chain.

A genus with only one species, the twinflower.

The twin flower which grows in cold northern climates.

Of or pertaining to Linn/us, the celebrated Swedish botanist.

A mineral of pale steel-gray color and metallic luster, occurring in isometric crystals, and also massive. It is a sulphide of cobalt containing some nickel or copper.

Carolus Linnaeus, also called Karl von Linn/. Born at R/shult, Sm/land, Sweden, May 13, 1707: died at Upsala, Sweden, Jan. 10, 1778. A celebrated Swedish botanist and naturalist, founder of the Linnean system in botany. He made a journey to Lapland in 1732; resided in the Netherlands 1735-38; and became professor of medicine (later of botany) at Upsala in 1741. Among his works are /Systema natur// (1735), /Fundamenta botanica/ (1736), /Genera plantarum/ (1737), /Flora lapponica/ (1737), /Philosophia botanica/ (1751), and /Species plantarum/ (1753).

Flax. See Linen.

Any one of several species of fringilline birds of the genera Linota, Acanthis, and allied genera, esp. the common European species (Linota cannabina), which, in full summer plumage, is chestnut brown above, with the breast more or less crimson. The feathers of its head are grayish brown, tipped with crimson. Called also gray linnet, red linnet, rose linnet, brown linnet, lintie, lintwhite, gorse thatcher, linnet finch, and greater redpoll. The American redpoll linnet (Acanthis linaria) often has the crown and throat rosy. See Redpoll, and Twite.

A salt of linoleic acid.

Pertaining to, or derived from, linoleum, or linseed oil; specifically (Chem.), designating an organic acid, a thin yellow oil, found combined as a salt of glycerin in oils of linseed, poppy, hemp, and certain nuts.

Linseed oil brought to various degrees of hardness by some oxidizing process, as by exposure to heated air, or by treatment with chloride of sulphur. In this condition it is used for many of the purposes to which India rubber has been applied.

A kind of typesetting machine which produces castings, each of which corresponds to a line of separate types. By pressing the keys of a keyboard like one on a typewriter, the matrices for one line are properly arranged; the entire line, or stereotype, or slug, is then cast and planed, and the matrices are returned to their proper places, the whole process being automatic. The slug produced by the machine, or matter composed in such lines.

A resinous substance obtained as an oxidation product of linoleic acid.

Any viverrine mammal of the genus Prionodon, inhabiting the East Indies and Southern Asia. The common East Indian linsang (Prionodon gracilis) is white, crossed by broad, black bands. The Guinea linsang (Porana Richardsonii) is brown with black spots.

The seeds of flax, from which linseed oil is obtained.

Linsey-woolsey.

Made of linen and wool; hence, of different and unsuitable parts; mean.

A pointed forked staff, shod with iron at the foot, to hold a lighted match for firing cannon.

Flax.

A horizontal member spanning an opening, and carrying the superincumbent weight by means of its strength in resisting crosswise fracture.

See Linseed.

See Linnet.

A genus of herbaceous plants including the flax (Linum usitatissimum).