linoleic 
linoleic (li-no'le-ik), a. [< I-. Union, flax, + 
oli HIII, ml. ('(.linoleum.] Related to, existing 
in, or containing Ilio oil of linseed. Tjnoleic 
acid, an iiciil fnund in linHceil oil and other drylng-oiitt, 
forming witli ul>rrml the glycerfd liiml- in. 
linolein (li-no'le-in), . [< HiHilc(ir) + -/'-.) 
Tin' glyrerid of linoleic acid; the constituent 
of linseed-oil anil other drying-oils on which 
their drying property depends. 
linoleum (li-no'lo-nin), . [A trade-name, in- 
tended to mean 'linseed-oil cloth'; < L, linum, 
flax, + nli mil, oil: see line 1 and oil.] A. kind 
of floor-cloth made of linseed-oil which has been 
oxidized to a dense rubber-like consistency. 
This In accomplished in various ways, usually by allow- 
ing the oil to flow very slowly over a large concrete floor 
across which warm air is blown. This material Is ground 
up with cork-cuttings, passed through iron rollers, and 
attached to a coarse canvas. The back of the canvas re- 
ceives a coat of paint. 
linon (lin'ou), n. [F., lawn, fine linen, < {in, < 
U liiiinn, flax, linen: see line!.] Lawn. [Trade 
use.] 
Linota (li-no'ta), n. [NL., < P. Knot, a linnet: 
see lintiet.] Same as Linaria, 2 (l>). 
linous (li'nus), a. [< line'* + -oux.] Relating 
to or in a line. Sir J. Herschel. [Kare.] 
lin-pin (lin'pin), . Same as lincli-pin. [Prov. 
Bog.] 
linquet (ling'kwet), n. 1. A tongue; alanquet. 
2. The piece of a sword-hilt which turns 
down over the mouthpiece of a scabbard. 
linsang (lin'sang), n. [E. Ind.] 1. A kind of 
civet-cat found m Java, etc., banded with black 
and white, and having 38 teeth, I'rionodon (Lin- 
;/) i/riii-ilix. A related African species, Pri- 
onodon (I'oiana) richardsoni, is known as the 
(liiiiica Hwang. 2. [cap.] [NL.] A genus of 
Viverridie, now commonly called Prionodon. 
Unset, . [ME., < AS. lynis (pi. lynisds), gloss- 
ing L. (ML.) axedo, corruptly axredo, an axle, 
I . i a a*, lens = MLG. lunse, lusse, LG. lunse = 
OHG. lunisa, MHG. Inns, lunse, G. lunse, OHG. 
also luii, lima, MHG. Inn, tune, OHG. also tu- 
ning, MHG. luninc, MHG. also luner, linch-pin 
(root uncertain; some uncertainty exists as to 
the forms).] An axle. It'illiam de Shoreham, 
Poems (ed. Wright), p. 109. 
linseed (lin'sed), n. [Formerly also linjseed; < 
ME. linseede, linsede, lynesede, < AS. Unsaid, flax- 
seed, < lin, flax, + said, seed : see line 1 and seed.] 
The seed of lint or flax ; flaxseed. 
Nowe sum In soile ydoungcd lyruteede sowe, 
X bnsshels serveth for an acre lande. 
Kful subtil tlaxe and smal therof wol growe. 
Palladius, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 80. 
linseed-cake (lin'sed-kak'), n. The solid mass 
or cake which remains when oil is expressed 
from flaxseed. It is much used as food for cat- 
tle and sheep. Also called oil-cake. 
linseed-meat (liu'sed-meV), n. The meal of 
linseed or fiaxseed, used for poultices and as 
a cattle-food. 
linseed-mill (lin'sed-mil), TO. A form of mill 
for grinding flaxseed. 
linseed-oil (Un'iM-ott'). . A drying-oil pro- 
duced by pressure from linseed,varying in color 
from light amber to dark yellow. Cold-drawn or 
cold-pressed linseed-oil Is obtained from the crushed seeds 
without heat. Raw or ordinary linseed-oil is produced by 
steaming the crushed seeds before expressing the oil. The 
yield ia from 20 to 25 per cent, of oil. Boiled linseed-oil 
is obtained by boiling the raw oil with litharge, sugar of 
lead, or some similar substance, the result being a dark 
oil drying more rapidly than the raw oil. Linseed-oil is 
used as a vehicle for colors by painters, for printing-inks, 
varnishes, linoleum, etc. 
linselt, . [< OF. Unset, lined, linsui, m., linen 
cloth ; cf. linccle, lyncele, t., also lincaol, Unyoel, 
lini;ol, tiii.tuel, etc., a linen cloth or sheet, F. 
linri'til, a winding-sheet, < L. linteoluin, dim. of 
Hit team, linen (see lingerie), < L. linum, flax, 
linen: see linel. Cf. linsey-woolsey.] A cloth 
of wool and linen mixed together ; a garment of 
such cloth. Richardson. 
Casting a tliyn course liintel ore his shoulders, 
That torne In pieces trayld upon the ground. 
Cornelia (1594). 
linsey (lin'si), n. [A corruption of linsel. In 
part an abbr.of MMMMMotofl] 1. Cloth made 
of linen and wool ; linsey-woolsey. 
U baud awa thae linen sheets, 
And bring to me the Hnitey clouts 
I hae been best used in. 
Karl Richard (Child's Ballads, III. 400). 
In 1704 was advertised "Three Suites of Hanging : one 
of Forrest Tapistry, one of clouded Camlet, and one of 
blue I'rinted I.itutey." 
J. Athlon, Social Life in Reign of Queen Anne, I. 64. 
'2. In codl-iiiiiiini/ : (a) A peculiar kind of 
clayey rock; bind. (MA streaky sandstone. 
[Eng.] 
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linsey-woolsey (lin'si-wuTsi), . and a. [Early 
moil. K. li/ii.ifii-iriil.ify, linnieiroolxir, li/iisni'ii/si, 
lunxye-icoolxyi- ; < late ME. /(/.;/ imlxi/r; < linnel 
+ irool; the term. -// hcing a reduction ot-sel 
in the first element, repeated in the second, and 
perhaps due in part to imitation of jersey and 
kersey.] I. . 1. A coarse and stout material 
of which the warp is linen and the woof woolen. 
To weave all in one loom, 
A webb of lifiiite \lnln? In Dyce's ed.) wvlte. 
SlteUon, Why Come you not to Court 'I 1. 128. 
These are the arts we think most fit to go together : . . . 
Lyusey weavers ; Tike weavers ; .Silk weavers ; Lyntey tool- 
tey weavers. Utter to Sec'y Cecil (1587). 
His wares consist of hose Unify woltcy, for making 
petticoats, . . . and all sorts of small wares. 
Mayhew, London Labour and London Poor, I. 420. 
2. A similar material into which cotton enters 
either with or without linen. The attempt has 
been made to reserve the word liiuey for a mixture of linen 
and wool and wovltey for a mixture of cotton and wool. 
The compound term would then signify a stuff made of all 
three materials In certain proportions. 
3. Inferior fabrics of doubtful or uncertain 
materials: a term of depreciation. 4. Any- 
thing unsuitably mixed ; a farrago of nonsense ; 
jargon; gibberish. 
What liiuty-icooliey hast thou to speak to us again ? 
Shalt., All's Well, IV. 1. 13. 
U. a. 1. Made of linen and wool mixed. 2. 
Of different and unsuitable parts ; neither one 
thing nor another; ill-assorted. 
And Balaams wages doe moue many still to make such 
liiuey-wooliey marriages. PurchM, Pilgrimage, p. 38. 
A lawless Kntey-wonltey brother, 
Half of one order, half another. 
S. lluiler, Hudlbras, I. UL 1227. 
No flimsy lintey-woolney scenes I wrote, 
With patches here and there like Joseph's coat. 
Churchill, The Apology. 
linstock, lintstock (lin'-, lint'stok), n. [Early 
mod. E. also linestock, linestoke; for luntstock, < 
D. lontstok, < lout, a match for firing cannon, + 
xiiii-l;. stick : see lunt and stock.] A pointed staff 
with a crotch or fork at one end to hold a lighted 
match, used in firing cannon. 
A linestoke fell into a barrel! of powder, and set it on tire 
together with the vessel). Stowe, Queen Elizabeth, an. 1663. 
And the nimble gunner 
With liiutatk now the devilish cannon touches, 
And down goes all before them. 
Shalt., Hen. V., iii. (cho.). 
lint 1 (lint), . [Also dial, linnet; appar. < ME. 
lin, flax (see /<<', n.). Cf. Dan. linned, linen 
cloth.] 1. Flax. [Obsolete or local.] 
I haue sene flax or lynt growyng wllde In Sommerset 
sbyre. Turner, Herbal. 
The frugal wine, garrulous, will tell 
How 't [cheese) was a towraond auld, sin' Hal was i the 
I- II Burnt, Cottar's Saturday Night. 
2. A flocculent material procured by raveling 
or scraping linen, and used for dressing wounds 
and sores; charpie. 3. Raw cotton that has 
been ginned and is ready for baling. 4. Fluff; 
flue. 
He's brushing a hat almost a quarter of an hour, and as 
long a driving the lint from his black cloaths with his wet 
thumb. Sir K. Howard, The Committee, ii. 
5. A net. 6. The netting of a pound or seine. 
E. H. Knight. 7. A kerchief or net for the 
head. 
There's never It'll/ gang on my head, 
Nor kame gang in my hair. 
Lord Livingston (Child's Ballads, IIL 348). 
Iint 2 t, n. An obsolete variant of lunt. 
lint-doctor (lint'dok*tor),n. Incalico-printing, 
a knife-edged scraper arranged on the deliver- 
ing side of a calico-printing machine, in such 
relation with the printed web that it scrapes 
off and retains loose lint, fluff, or fragments of 
threads which might otherwise adhere to and 
disfigure the fabric. 
lintel 1 (lin'tel), n. [< ME. lintel, lyntell, < OF. 
lintel, F. Nnteau = Sp. lintel, dintel, < ML. lintel- 
liis, head-piece of a door or window, for */mi- 
tellus, dim. of L. limes (limit-), a boundary, bor- 
der (cf. limen, a threshold): see limit. Cf. /in- 
tern.] In arch., a horizontal piece of timber or 
stone resting on the jambs of a door or window, 
or spanning any other open space in a wall or in 
a columnar construction, and serving to sup- 
port superincumbent weight. 
Whan he com to the halle dore he wrote letteres on the 
liinlM of the dore in Orewe. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), lit 436. 
At the bottom of the steps is a ronndheaded doorway, 
not, it is true, surmounted by a true arch, but by a curved 
lint'i of one stone. 
J. Frrguuon, Hist. Indian Arch., p. 282. 
The immense batten doors with gratings over the lin- 
tels. O. W. Cable, Old Creole Days, p. 247. 
lintel-t, M. See li 
Liodon 
linter 1 (lin'trr), M. [< Hr + -<r'.] A machine 
for stripping off the short-staple cotton-fiber 
which adheres to cotton-seed after ginning, pr'- 
paratory to extraction of oil from the seed. The 
cotton thus removed is used In the inanm .< inn- <>f cotton 
batting and for other purposes. Also linler-nm 
linter- (Hn'ter), n. A corrupt dialectal form of 
(l Itll-tO. 
linternt, . [A var. of lintel, appar. by confu- 
sion with OF. linter, lintier, a threshold, as if 
< ML. "limitarium, < L. limet (limit-), bound, 
limit, but with sense of L. Inm n (limin-), thresh- 
old : gee lintel.] Same as lintel. 
And with the blood thereof [a lamb) coloured the pott 
and (intern of the doors, lialeigh. Hist. World, II. Ill 4. 
I read these two verses written in golden letters upon 
the Liiiteriif of the doore, at the entering Into the Inne. 
Curyat, Crudities, L is. 
lintie (lin'ti), n. [Dim. of linnet 1 , or a reduction 
of the equiv. lintwhite.] The linnet. [Scotch.] 
But I dlnna see the broom 
Wf its tasBels on the lea, 
Nor hear the liiitie't sang 
U' my ain countrie. R. Oilfillan. 
lintseedt, - An obsolete form of linseed. 
lintstock, . See linstock. 
lintwhite (lint'hwit), . [< ME. (8c.) lyntquhite, 
corrupted from AS. linettcige. linctuigle, a 1 in net . 
so called from frequenting flax-fields, < lin, flax 
(see line 1 , and cf . linnrl), + -tuige, -tuigle (seen 
also in thisteltuige, a linnet), of uncertain ori- 
gin.] 1. A linnet. AlsoHntyirAite. [Prov. Eng. 
and Scotch.] 
Of Larkes, of lynlnchyttei, that lufflyche songene. 
Mart* Arthur* (E. E. T. S.), L 2674. 
In vain to me, in glen or shaw, 
The mavis an' the lintwhite sing. 
Burns, Again Rejoicing Nature See*. 
Her song the lintwhite swelleth. 
Tennyton, Claribel. 
2. A skylark or wood-warbler. [Prov. Eng.] 
lintr-white (lint'hwit), a. [< Knl + white.] As 
white as lint or flax ; flaxen. 
Lassie wi' the lintwhite locks, . . . 
Wilt thou be my dearie, O? 
Burnt, Lassie wl' the Lintwhite Lock*. 
linty-white, . Same as linttcliite. 
Linum (li'num), n. [NL. (Tournefort, 1700), < 
L. linum = Gr. Mvav = W. llin, flax: see line*.] 
A genus of dicotyledonous polypetalous plants, 
of the natural order I.inr, tribe Eulineee. They 
are herbs, often slightly woody, characterized by regular 
five-parted flowers, with often showy but fugacious petjUs. 
usually yellow or blue in color, and by entire sepals and 
leaves. There are about 100 species, growing in both hemi- 
spheres. many of which are ornamental. L. uritatittsi- 
mum Is the flax of commerce, and the seeds of the same 
are thesourceof linseed-oil. L. perenne, called perennial 
flax, is a very handsome blue-flowered species, abundant 
in the northern parts of the United .States, and having a 
wide distribution through Europe and Asia. 
liny (li'ni), a. [< line* + -yi.] Full of lines; 
resembling a line ; marked with lines. 
Then there rose to view a fane 
Of liney marble. Knit*. Sleep and Poetry. 
shaping their eyes long and linn, partly because of the 
light. T. Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd, viii. 
Linyphia (li-nif'i-a), . [NL., < MGr. Kv 
).tvov$of, favovf/K, weaving linen/ Gr. )Jvov, flax, 
linen, 4- fyaiveiv, weave: see wcare.] 1. A 
Latreillean genus of spiders of the family '/'//<- 
rittiidfi'. L. marmarata is noted for its large domed web, 
under which it lies in wait for its prey to be entangled 
In a maze of threads that reach two or three feet upward in 
the bush. L. cwnmunu constructs a double web, with one 
sheet over the other, and hides between the two. 
2. [I. c.] A spider of this genus. 
Liocephalus (U-o-sef 'a-lus),n. [NL. (J. E. Gray, 
1827, as Leiocepli(ilus),(. Gr. teiof, smooth (= L. 
levis), + *tQa>Ji, head.] A genus of American 
iguanoid lizards, having no anal or femoral 
pores, and the back and tail crested. There are 
many species, natives of tropical America and the West 
Indies, known as rogufo,as L.can'ua/u*, the keeled roquet. 
Liodera (li-od'e-ra), n. [NL. (Fitzinger, 1843), 
also Liodeira ; "< Gr. feiof , smooth, + itpof (for 
Atpua), skin.] A genus of South American 
iguanoid lizards, containing such as /.. chilen- 
sis, L. gravenhorsti, and L. yracilis. Also spelled 
Leiodera. 
liodere (li'o-der), n. A lizard of the genus Lio- 
dera. Also spelled leiodere. 
Liodermatidae (li'o-der-mat'i-de), n. pi. [XL. 
(Owen, 1841), < Liodermatus, the typical genus 
(< Gr. Aeiof, smooth, 4- itpiui (ocpfiar-), the skin ), 
+ -idor.] A family of holothunans, commonly 
called Urol/tadiidif. Also Liodermati. 
Liodon (U 6-don), . [NL.. < Gr. ?.of, smooth, 
+ orfoif (OOWT-) = E. tooth.] A genus of Creta- 
ceous mosasaurian or pythonomorphic reptiles, 
with smooth compressed teeth fitted for cut- 
ting, and lenticular in sectional outline. The 
