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In moving lines thefe few epiftles tell 
What fate attends the nymph who loves too well. Garth. 
Rank of foldiers.—They pierce the broken foe’s remoteft 
lines. Addifon. —Work thrown up ; trench : 
Now [hatch an hour that favours thy defigns. 
Unite thy forces, and attack their lines. Dry den. 
Method ; difpofition : 
The heavens themfelves, the planets, and this center, 
Obferve degree, priority, and place, 
Intifture, courfe, proportion, feafon, form, 
Office and cuftom, in all line of order. Skakefpeare . 
Extenfion; limit: 
Eden ftretch’d her line 
From A uran eaftward to the royal tovv'rs 
Of great Seleucia. Milton's Paradife Lojl . 
Equator; equinoftial circle: 
When the fun below the line defcends, 
Then one long night continued darknefs joins. Creech. 
Progeny ; family, afcending or defending.—They hail’d 
him father to a line of kings. Skakefpeare. —Some lines were 
r.oted for a Item, rigid virtue, favage, haughty, parfimo- 
nious and unpopular ; others were fweet and affable. Dryd. 
He fends you this mod memorable line, 
In ev’ry branch truly demoriftrative, 
Willing you overlook this pedigree. Skakefpeare's Henry V. 
One tenth of an inch.— [In the plural] A letter.—I re¬ 
ceive your lines, my dear princefs. Suckling .— Lint or flax. 
.—In diaper, in damalk, or in lyne. Spenfer's Muiopotmos. 
Lines in mufic. Three, four, five, or fix, horizontal and 
parallel lines compofe the ftafF, upon which and between 
■which all mufic, fince the invention of counterpoint, has 
been written. The ftaff in canto fermo, or plain fong, 
confided only of a Angle line, drawn through or between 
the points or dots of different elevation, to aid the prielts 
in chanting; then two, three, and finally four, lines com- 
pofed the ffaff for Gregorian notes in the miflals and mafs- 
books, in Roman-catholic churches; and thefe have ne¬ 
ver been increafed. Secular mufic for the virginal, fpin- 
net, harpfichord, and organ, from the time of queen Eli¬ 
zabeth to the end of the feventeenth century, was written 
on a .ftaff of fix lines, both in the treble and the bafe. At 
the beginning of the laft century, all mufic, except the 
tablature for the lute and guitar, began to be conftantly 
written on and between five lines, called /paces, with the 
occafional ufe of fhort additional lines, for notes that go 
higher or lower than the regular ftaff. The lines and 
fpaces in all mufic are counted from the bottom, fo that 
the loweft is the firft, the higheft in canto fermo the fourth, 
and-in figurative mufic the fifth. See the article Music. 
The Line is..a term frequently ufed to diftinguifh the 
regular army of Great Britain from other eftabliffnnents 
of a lefs military nature. All numbered or marching re¬ 
giments are called the line. The guards are an exception 
to this rule. ' The marines, fencible, militia, volunteer, 
and yeomanry, corps, together with the life-guards, are 
not comprehended under this denomination. The term 
line, however, has not been applied with fufficient preci¬ 
sion and difcrimiuation. Strictly fpeaking, line, in mili¬ 
tary matters, denotes that folid part of an army which is 
called the main body, and has a regular formation from 
rifht.to left. Upon the whole, it may be obl'erved, that 
the term is generally mifapplied; and that it cannot, with 
ft rift propriety, be ufed to diftinguifli any particular ella- 
blifhment from another. 
Lime of Demarcation, or Alexandrian Line, is a me¬ 
ridian palling over the mouth of the river Maragnon, and 
by-the capes of Houmas and Malabrigo ; fo called from 
pope Alexander VI. who, to end the difputes between 
the crowns of Caftile and Portugal about their boundaries, 
■jn 1+93, chew an imaginary line on the globe, which was 
fc terminate the pretenfions of each. By which partition 
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the Eaft Indies fell to the lot of the Portuguefe ; and the 
Weft Indies, then newly difeovered, to the Caftilians. 
To LINE, v. a. [fuppofed by Junius from linum, linings 
being often made of linen.] To cover on the infide.—A 
box lined with paper to receive the mercury that might be 
fpilt. Boyle. —To put any thing in the infide: a i'enle ra¬ 
ther ludicrous.—The charge amoipiteth very high for any 
one man’s purfe, except lined beyond ordinary, to reach 
unto. Carezu. —Her women are about her: what if I u» 
line one of their hands ? Skakefpeare's Cymbeline. 
He, by a gentle bow, divin’d 
How well a cully’s purfe was lin'd. Swift. 
To guard within.—Notwithftanding they had lined fome 
hedges with mufqueteers, they were totally diiperfed. 
Clarendon. —To ftrengthen by inner works : 
Line and new repair our towns of war 
With men of courage, and with means defendant. Shakefp, 
To cover with fomething foft: 
Son of fixteen. 
Pluck the lin'd crutch from thy old limping fire. Shakefp, 
To double ; to ftrengthen with help.-—The two armies 
were affigned to the leading of two generals, both of them 
rather courtiers, and affured to the ftate, than martial 
men ; yet lined and affifted with fubordinate commanders 
of great experience and valour. Bacon. 
My brother Mortimer doth ftir 
About his title, and hath fent for you 
To line his enterprife. Skakefpeare's Henry IV. 
To impregnate : applied to animals generating : 
Thus from the Tyrian paftures lin'd with Jove 
lie bore Europa, and ftill keeps his love. Creech. 
LIN'EA, f. [Latin.] A line. 
LIN'EA AL'BA, [from the Latin lima, a line, and alba„ 
white.] In anatomy, the complication of tendons in the 
oblique mufcles of the abdomen. 
LIN'EAGE,/; [lignage, Fr.] Race; progeny; family, 
afcending or defcending.—This care was infufed by God 
himfelf, in order to ascertain the defeent of the Meffiah, 
and to prove that he was, as the prophets had foretold, of 
the tribe of Judah, and of the lineage of David. Atterhury 
No longer fhall the widow'd land bemoan 
A broken lineage , and a doubtful throne; 
But boaft her royal progeny’s increafe, 
And count the pledges of her future peace. Addifon. 
LIN'EAL, adj. [lincalis, from line a, Lat.] Compofed of 
lines; delineated.—When any thing is mathematically de- 
monftrated weak, it is much more mechanically weak; er¬ 
rors ever occurring more eafilyin the management of grofs 
materials than lineal defigns. Wotton. —Defcending in a di- 
reft genealogy.—To re-eftablifh, de fafto, the right o f li. 
neal ftucceffion to paternal government, is to put a man in 
poffeffion of that government which his fathers did en¬ 
joy, and he by lineal fucceffion had a right to. Locke. — 
Hereditary"; derived from anceftors: 
Peace be to France, if France in peace permit 
Our juft and lineal entrance to our own. Skakefpeare. 
Allied by direft defeent: 
O that your brows my laurel had fuftain’d! 
Well had I been depos’d if you had reign’d: 
The father had defeended for the fon ; 
For only you are lineal to the throne. Drydeo. 
LIN'EALLY, adv. In a direft line.—If he had been 
the perfon upon whom the crown had lineally and right¬ 
fully deicended, it was good law. Clarendon. 
LIN'EAMENT,yi [Fr. from lincamentum, Lat.] Feature ; 
diferiminating mark in the form.—There are not more 
differences in men’s faces, and the outward lineaments of 
their bodies, than there are in the makes and tempers of 
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