Emily Dickinson Lexicon

LIN'GUI-FORM, a. [L. lingua and form.]

Having the form or shape of the tongue. Martyn.

LIN'GUIST, n. [L. lingua, the tongue.]

A person skilled in languages; usually applied to a person well versed in the languages taught in colleges, Greek, Latin, and Hebrew. Milton.

LIN-GUIST'IC, or LIN-GUIST'IC-AL, a.

Relating to linguistics, or to the affinities of languages. Gliddon.

LIN-GUIST'ICS, n.

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

LIN'GU-LATE, a. [L. lingulatus, from lingua, tongue.]

Shaped like the tongue or a strap. [But ligulate is more generally used.] Martyn.

LING'WORT, n.

An herb.

LIN'GY, a.

1. Tall; limber; flexible.
2. Active; strong; able to bear fatigue. Brockett.

LIN'I-MENT, n. [Fr. from L. linimentum, from linio, lino, to anoint.]

A species of soft ointment; a composition of a consistence somewhat thinner than an unguent, but thicker than oil. Encyc.

LIN'ING, n.

1. The inner covering of any thing, as of a garment or a box. The pleura is called the lining of the thorax.
2. That which is within. Shak.

LIN'ING, ppr. [See Line.]

Covering on the inside, as a garment.

LINK, n.¹ [G. gelenk, a joint, a ring, a swivel, a link, and as an adjective, flexible, limber, from lenken, to bend; Dan. lenke, a chain.]

1. A single ring or division of a chain.
2. Any thing doubled and closed like a link; as, a link of horse hair. Mortimer.
3. A chain; any thing connecting. And love, the common link, the new creation crowned. Dryden.
4. Any single, constituent part of a connected series. This argument is a link in the chain of reasoning.
5. A series; a chain.

LINK, n.² [Gr. λυχνος, L. lychnus, a lamp or candle, coinciding in elements with light.]

A torch made of tow or hards, &c., and pitch. Shak. Dryden.

LINK, v.i.

To be connected. Burke.

LINK, v.t.

1. To complicate. Johnson.
2. To unite or connect by something intervening or in other manner. Link towns to towns by avenues of oak. Pope. And creature, link'd to creature, man to man. Pope.

LINK'BOY, or LINK'MAN, n.

A boy or man that carries a link or torch to light passengers. More. Gray.

LINK'ED, pp.

United; connected.

LINK'ING, ppr.

Uniting; connecting.

LIN-NE'AN, a.

Pertaining to Linnæus the botanist of Sweden.

LIN'NET, n. [Fr. linot; W. llinos, from llên, flax, and called also in W. adern y llin, flax-bird; Sax. linetwege. So in L. carduelis, from carduus, a thistle.]

A small singing bird of the genus Fringilla.

LIN'SEED, n. [See LINTSEED.]

LIN'SEY-WOOL-SEY, a.

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

LIN'STOCK, n. [lint and stock.]

A pointed staff with a crotch or fork at one end, to hold a lighted match; used in firing cannon. It may be stuck in the ground or in the deck of a ship. Encyc.

LINT, n. [Sax. linet, L. linteum, linteus, from linum, flax.]

Flax; but more generally, linen scraped into a soft substance, and used for dressing wounds and sores.

LINT'EL, n. [Fr. linteau; Sp. lintel or dintel.]

The head-piece of a door-frame or window-frame; the part of the frame that lies on the side-pieces. Exod. xii.

LINT'SEED, n. [lint, flax, and seed; Sax. linsæd.]

Flaxseed.