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_Burrow Lawes._
Lat. _lin-eare_, id.
~Lyner~. _s._ One who measures land with a line.
_Ibid._
LING, _s._
1. A species of rush or thin long gra.s.s, Ayrs. S. A.
_Statist. Acc._
2. _Pull ling_, cotton gra.s.s.
_Statist. Acc._
LING, LYNG, _s._ A line, Fr. _ligne_. _In ane ling_.
1. Straight forward.
_Gawan and Gol._
2. Denoting expedition in motion, Aberd.
_Douglas._
_To_ LING, _v. n._ To go at a long pace, S.
Ir. _ling-im_, to skip.
_Barbour._
_To_ ~Link~, _v. n._
1. To walk smartly, to trip, S.
_Ross._
2. Denoting the influx of money.
_Ritson._
LINGEL, LINGLE, _s._
1. Shoemaker's thread, S. also _lingan_; Fr. _ligneul_.
_Ramsay._
2. A bandage.
_Polwart._
Isl. _lengia_, lamina coriacea.
~Lingel-tail'd~, _adj._ Applied to a woman whose clothes hang awkwardly, from the smallness of her shape below, S.
LINGET, _s._ A rope binding the fore foot of a horse to the hinder one, Ang.
V. ~Langet~.
LINGET-SEED, _s._ The seed of flax, S. B.
_Acts Ja. VI._
LINGIS, LINGS, a termination by which adverbs are formed; sometimes denoting quality, in other instances extension, as _backlingis_; now p.r.o.n. _lins_, S.
LINGIT, _adj._ Flexible, E. Loth.
A. S. _laenig_, tenuis.
LINKS, _s. pl._
1. The windings of a river, S.
_Nimmo._
2. The rich ground lying among these windings, S.
_Macneill._
3. The sandy flat ground on the sea-sh.o.r.e, S.
_Knox._
4. Sandy and barren ground; though at a distance from any body of water, S.
Germ. _lenk-en_, flectere.
