Line - LINE, n. [L. linea, linum; Gr. flax.]
1. In geometry, a quantity extended in length, without breadth or thickness; or a limit terminating a surface.
2. A slender string; a small cord or rope. The angler uses a line and hook. The seaman uses a hand line, a hauling line, spilling lines, &c.
3. A thread, string or cord extended to direct any operation.
We as by line upon the ocean go.
4. Lineament; a mark in the hand or face.
He tipples palmistry, and dines on all her fortune-telling lines.
5. Delineation; sketch; as the lines of a building.
6. Contour; outline; exterior limit of a figure.
Free as thy stroke, yet faultless as thy line.
7. In writing, printing and engraving, the words and letters which stand on a level in one row, between one margin and another; as a page of thirty lines.
8. In poetry, a verse, or the words which form a certain number of feet, according to the measure.
9. A short letter; a note. I received a line from my friend by the last mail.
10. A rank or row of soldiers, or the disposition of an army drawn up with an extended front; or the like disposition of a fleet prepared for engagement.
11. A trench or rampart; an extended work in fortification.
Unite thy forces and attack their lines.
12. Method; disposition; as line of order.
13. Extension; limit; border.
Eden stretched her line from Auran eastward to the royal towers of great Seleucia.
14. Equator; equinoctial circle.
When the sun below the line descends -
15. A series or succession of progeny or relations, descending from a common progenitor. We speak of the ascending or descending line; the line of descent; the male line; a line of kings.
16. The twelfth part of an inch.
17. A straight extended mark.
18. A straight or parallel direction. The houses must all stand in a line. Every new building must be set in a line with other on the same street.
19. Occupation; employment; department or course of business. We speak of men in the same line of business.
20. Course; direction.
What general line of conduct ought to be pursued?
21. Lint or flax. [Seldom used.]
22. In heraldry, lines are the figures used in armories to divide the shield into different parts, and to compose different figures.
23. In Scripture, line signifies a cord for measuring; also, instruction, doctrine. Psa 19. Isa 28.
A right line, a straight or direct line; the shortest line that can be drawn between two points.
Horizontal line, a line drawn parallel to the horizon.
Equinoctial line, in geography, a great circle on the earth's surface, at 90 degrees distance from each pole, and bisecting the earth at that part. In astronomy, the circle which the sun seems to describe, in March and September, when the days and nights are of equal length.
Meridian line, an imaginary circle drawn through the two poles of the earth, and any part of its surface.
A ship of the line, a ship of war large enough to have a place in the line of battle. All ships carrying seventy four or more large guns, are ships of the line. Smaller ships may sometimes be so called.
LINE, v.t. [supposed to be from L. linum, flax, whence linen, which is often used for linings.]
1. To cover on the inside; as a garment lined with linen, fur or silk; a box lined with paper or tin.
2. To put in the inside.
- What if I do line one of their hands?
3. To place along by the side of any thing for guarding; as, to line a hedge with riflemen; to line works with soldiers.
4. To strengthen by additional works or men.
Line and new repair your towns of war with men of courage.
5. To cover; to add a covering; as, to line a crutch.
6. To strengthen with any thing added.
Who lined himself with hope.
7. To impregnate; applied to irrational animals.
Lo - LO, exclam.
Look; see; behold; observe. This word is used to excite particular attention in a hearer to some object of sight, or subject of discourse.
Lo, here is Christ. Mat 24.
Lo, we turn to the Gentiles. Acts 13.
Lofty - LOFTY, a.
1. Elevated in place; high; as a lofty tower; a lofty mountain. [But it expresses more than high, or at least is more emphatical, poetical and elegant.]
See lofty Lebanon his head advance.
2. Elevated in condition or character.
Thus saith the high and lofty One, that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy - Isa 57.
3. Proud; haughty; as lofty looks. Isa 2.
4. Elevated in sentiment or diction; sublime; as lofty strains; lofty rhyme.
5. Stately; dignified; as lofty steps.
Look - LOOK, v.i. [See Light. The primary sense is to stretch, to extend, to shoot, hence to direct the eye. We observe its primary sense is nearly the same as that of seek. Hence, to look for is to seek.]
1. To direct the eye towards an object, with the intention of seeing it.
When the object is within sight, look is usually followed by on or at. We look on or at a picture; we look on or at the moon; we cannot look on or at the unclouded sun, without pain.
At, after look, is not used in our version of the Scriptures. In common usage, at or on is now used indifferently in many cases, and yet in other cases, usage has established a preference. In general, on is used in the more solemn forms of expression. Moses was afraid to look on God. The Lord look on you and judge. In these and similar phrases, the use of at would be condemned, as expressing too little solemnity.
In some cases, at seems to be more properly used before very distant objects; but the cases can hardly be defined.
The particular direction of the eye is expressed by various modifying words; as, to look down, to look up, to look back to look forward, to look from, to look round, to look out, to look under. When the object is not in sight, look is followed by after, or for. Hence, to look after, or look for, is equivalent to seek or search, or to expect.
2. To see; to have the sight or view of.
Fate sees thy life lodged in a brittle glass, and looks it through, but to it cannot pass.
3. To direct the intellectual eye; to apply the mind or understanding; to consider; to examine. Look at the conduct of this man; view it in all its aspects. Let every man look into the state of his own heart. Let us look beyond the received notions of men on this subject.
4. To expect.
He must look to fight another battle, before he could reach Oxford. [Little used.
5. To take care; to watch.
Look that ye bind them fast.
6. To be directed.
Let thine eyes look right on. Prov 4.
7. To seem; to appear; to have a particular appearance. The patient looks better than he did. The clouds look rainy.
I am afraid it would look more like vanity than gratitude.
Observe how such a practice looks in another person.
So we say, to look stout or big; to look peevish; to look pleasant or graceful.
8. To have a particular direction or situation; to face; to front.
The gate that looketh toward the north. Ezek 8.
The east gate of the Lord's house, that looketh eastward. Ezek 11.
To look about, to look on all sides, or in different directions.
To look about one, to be on the watch; to be vigilant; to be circumspect or guarded.
1. To look after, to attend; to take care of; as, to look after children.
2. To expect; to be in a state of expectation.
Men's hearts falling them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth. Luke 21.
3. To seek; to search.
My subject does not oblige me to look after the water, or point forth the place whereunto it has now retreated.
1. To look for, to expect; as, to look for news by the arrival of a ship.
Look now for no enchanting voice.
2. To seek; to search; as, to look for lost money, or lost cattle.
To look into, to inspect closely; to observe narrowly; to examine; as, to look into the works of nature; to look into the conduct of another; to look into one's affairs.
Which things the angels desire to look into. 1 Pet 1.
1. To look on, to regard; to esteem.
Her friends would look on her the worse.
2. To consider; to view; to conceive of; to think.
I looked on Virgil as a succinct, majestic writer.
3. To be a mere spectator.
I'll be a candle-holder and look on.
To look over, to examine one by one; as, to look over a catalogue of books; to look over accounts.
To overlook, has a different sense, to pass over without seeing.
To look out, to be on the watch. The seaman looks out for breakers.
1. To look to, or unto, to watch; to take care of.
Look well to thy herds. Prov 27.
2. To resort to with confidence or expectation of receiving something; to expect to receive from. The creditor may look to the surety for payment.
Look to me and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth. Isa 45.
To look through, to penetrate with the eye, or with the understanding; to see or understand perfectly.
LOOK, v.t.
1. To seek; to search for.
Looking my love, I go from place to place. Obs.
2. To influence by looks or presence; as, to look down opposition.
A spirit fit to start into an empire, and look the world to law.
To look out, to search for and discover. Look out associates of good reputation.
To look one another in the face, to meet for combat.
2 Ki 14.
LOOK, in the imperative, is used to excite attention or notice. Look ye, look you; that is see, behold, observe, take notice.
LOOK, n.
1. Cast of countenance; air of the face; aspect; as, a high look is an index of pride; a downcast look is an index of pride; a downcast look indicates modesty, bashfulness, or depression of mind.
Pain, disgrace and poverty have frightful looks.
2. The act of looking or seeing. Every look filled him with anguish.
3. View; watch.
Loose - LOOSE, v.t. loos. [Gr.; Heb.]
1. To untie or unbind; to free from any fastening.
Canst thou loose the bands of Orion? Job 38.
Ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her; loose them, and bring them to me. Mat 21.
2. To relax.
The joints of his loins were loosed. Dan 5.
3. To release from imprisonment; to liberate; to set at liberty.
The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed. Isa 51.
4. To free from obligation.
Art thou loosed from a wife? see not a wife. 1 Cor 7.
5. To free from any thing that binds or shackles; as a man loosed from lust and pelf.
6. To relieve; to free from any thing burdensome or afflictive.
Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity. Luke 42.
7. To disengage; to detach; as, to loose one's hold.
8. To put off.
Loose thy shoe from off thy foot. Josh 5.
9. To open.
Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof? Rev 5.
10. To remit; to absolve.
Whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth, shall be loosed in heaven. Mat 16.
LOOSE, v.i. To set sail; to leave a port or harbor.
Now when Paul and his company loosed from Paphos, they came to Perga, in Pamphylia. Acts 42.
LOOSE, a.
1. Unbound; untied; unsewed; not fastened or confined; as the loose sheets of a book.
2. Not tight or close; as a loose garment.
3. Not crowded; not close or compact.
With horse and chariots rank'd in loose array.
4. Not dense, close or compact; as a cloth or fossil of loose texture.
5. Not close; not concise; lax; as a loose and diffuse style.
6. Not precise or exact; vague; indeterminate; as a loose way of reasoning.
7. Not strict or rigid; as a loose observance of rites.
8. Unconnected; rambling; as a loose indigested play.
Vario spends whole mornings in running over loose and unconnected pages.
9. Of lax bowels.
10. Unengaged; not attached or enslaved.
Their prevailing principle is, to sit as loose from pleasures, and be as moderate in the use of them as they can.
11. Disengaged; free from obligation; with from or of.
Now I stand loose of my vow; but who knows Cato's thought? [Little used.]
12. Wanton; unrestrained in behavior; dissolute; unchaste; as a loose man or woman.
13. Containing unchaste language; as a loose epistle.
To break loose, to escape from confinement; to gain liberty by violence.
To let loose, to free from restraint or confinement; to set at liberty.
LOOSE, n. Freedom from restraint; liberty.
Come, give thy soul a loose.
Vent all its griefs, and give a loose to sorrow.
We use this word only in the phrase, give a loose. The following use of it, "he runs with an unbounded loose," is obsolete.