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[Named by N. Nor den ski old. Etym. doubtful, but prob. after one Lindsay; suff. -ite ( Min.).] line Min.: A mineral belonging to the species Anorthite, and regarded as an altered Lepolite. It is found in large crystals at Orijarfoi, Finland. Hardne , 35; specific gravity, 2796-2-83. Color, on the exterior, black. (ANORTHITE, LEPOLITE.] line (1), *lyne (1), s . [A. S. line a cord, from Lat. line a a string of hemp or flax, from line us = hempen; linum flax; Fr. ligne ; Ital. & Sp. line a ; Port. linha ; Dan. linie , line; Sw. linie, lin a .] IMG:content-0592.png:[blocks in formation] "Hold hook and line." Shakesp.: Henry IV., Pt. II ., 11. 4. (4) Anything which resembles a thin line or cord; anything that has longitudinal extension with little breadth or width: (a) A slender, thread-like mark made as with a pencil, pen, or other instrument; a stroke; as, the lines of a drawing, the lines of an engraving. (b) A thin furrow or marking on the face or hands. "Filled his brow with lines and wrinkles." Shakesp.: Sonnet 63. (c) Any thin streak or mark. "Yon grey lines that fret the clouds." Shakesp.: Julius Cæsar, ii. 1. (5) Arow; a continued series or rank. "They conversed with him acro the lines of sentinels."-Macaulay: Hist . Eng . , ch. xiii. (6) An arrangement of letters and words acro a page or column. "Al the bulle In two lynes hit lay, and no lettere more." Piers Ploughman, p. 182. 2. Figuratively : (1) A continued or connected series: as of descendants from a common ancestor; lineage. "Of the true line and stock of Charles the Great." Shakesp.: Henry V., i. 2. (2) Outline, contour, lineament. "Looking on the lines of my boy's face." Shakesp.: Winter's Tale, 1. 2. (3) Method, arrangement, disposition. (4) Extension, extent, limit, bounds. ."Eden stretch'd her line From Auran eastward to the royal towers Of great Seleucia." Milton: P. L. , iv. 212. IMG:content-0593.png:[blocks in formation] 2533 (3) The visual line; the line conceived to proceed from the object to the eye. (4) The principal line; a line drawn from the eye perpendicular to the picture; the line of distance. 4. Fort .: A rampart; continued lines are used to inclose a front, or to connect principal works with one another by a continuous parapet. 5. Geog .: A circle of latitude or longitude, as on a map; a line or mark traced to show the variations of temperature, . The line: The equator. "When the sun below the line descends, Then one long night continued darkne joins." 6. Machinery: Creech. (1) The truth of position; as, an engine in line , that is, the motions of the piston, connecting-rod, and crank in the same plane, and at right angles to the axis of the fly-wheel. (2) The line of centers; the dead point of a crank, when the connecting-rod and crank are in a straight line. 7. Masonry: The bricklayer's cord, which is his guide for level and direction. It is stretched between line-pins. 8. Mathematics: (1) A magnitude which has length, but neither breadth nor thickne . It po e es one, and only one, attribute of extension. In elementary geometry, lines are cla ed as straight and curved. A IMG:content-0594.png:[blocks in formation] 12. Line of sight: Ordnance: The line pa ing through the breech and muzzle sights of a gun at any elevation and the object. 13. Line of swiftest descent: [CYCLOID.] 14. Line of the nodes: Astron.: The line joining the nodes of the orbit of a planet. [NODE.] 15. Mason & Dixon's Line: Geog.: The boundary line separating Pennsylvania from Maryland and Virginia, surveyed by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, two English surveyors (1763-67). The phrase was very popular during the agitation of the question of excluding slavery from Mi ouri in 1820. "The slaves that we ollers make the most on, Air them north o' Mason and Dixon's Line." Lowell : Biglow Papers . 16. Meridian line: [MERIDIAN.] 17. Right line : A straight line; the shortest line that can be drawn away between any two points. 18. Ship of the line: A man-of-war. 19. The line: The regiments of foot. 20. To break the line : straight line is one which does not change its direc- tion between any two of its points. A curved line is one which changes its direction at every one of its points. Such a line is often called a curve. A broken line is one made up of limited straight lines ranged in line of battle breaks an opponent's line, lying in different directions. (2) The twelfth part of an inch. 9. Mil.: A straight row of soldiers drawn up in an extended front. 10. Mining: (1) Line of bearing : The strike of a stratum, or its direction at right angles to the dip. (2) Line of least resistance ; the line of mine or axis of explosion: Aline drawn from the focus of a mine to that point in the direction of which the charge meets the least resistance. 11. Music : One of the straight horizontal lines, on or between which the notes are written. 12. Nautical : (1) A running cord or rope, as bowline , buntline, clew line , spilling line , . (2) A cord for a specific purpose, as a hand line, a 20-fathom sounding-line having a lead of from 7 to 14 pounds. [HAND-LINE.) A deep-sea line, one say of 200 fathoms, and having a lead of 28 pounds weight; a fishing-line. (3) A grade of rope, such as marline, white line , tarred line, . 13. Naval : A number of ships arranged in a row for action. A column is said to be in line ahead when the ships are in one line ahead of each other; in line abreast when they are ranged in one line abeam of each other; in quarter-line when ranged in one line abaft each other's beam, but not right astern. 14. Ship build .: A delineation of the form of a ves sel, representing vertical and horizontal sections. 15. Surveying: (1) A carefully measured line, which extends be. tween two stations and forms the basis of triangu. lati on. [BASE (1), A., II. 4.] (2) The line laid down or protracted in a survey. [DIRECTION, 1 (2).]. 16. Teleg .: The wire connecting one station with another. 1. Hour lines: Dialing: The common sections of the hour circles of the sphere with the plane of the dial. 2. Line of battle : The disposition or arrangement of troops or ships for battle. 3. Line of beauty : The ideal line formed by a graceful figure of any kind, and which Hogarth, in his Analysis of Beauty , satisfactorily established as a curve, combining a kind of concave and convex termination, somewhat resembling an elongated S. 4. Line of dip: Geol .: A line in the plane of a stratum perpendicular to its intersection with a horizontal plane. 5. Line of direction : [DIRECTION, (2).] 6. Line of fire : Mil.: The direction of fire. 7. Line of life : A line on the inside of the hand, curving about the base of the thumb, and supposed to denote the length of the person's life. 8. Line of march: Military (1) Disposition or arrangement of troops for marching. (2) The direction taken by an army in its march. 9. Line of measures: Geom.: The line of measures of a circle, in spherical projections, is the line of intersection of the primitive plane with a plane pa ed through the axis of the primitive circle and that of the given circle. IMG:content-0595.png:[blocks in formation] Naut.: A maneuver by which one squadron by choice about the middle, and doubling upon the rearmost half of the enemy's line with the foremost portion of one's own line so as to take that part of the enemy between two fires and conquer it before the foremost and leeward portion of the enemy can beat back to its a istance. IMG:content-0596.png:[blocks in formation] moved in columns of companies acro front, and wheeled into line opposite his flank in order to attack. French formations were always more or le columnar for attack, but in the early Napoleonic wars the columns were at deploying interval, so as to form line if required for defense. British formations formerly were usually line in two ranks, both for attack and defense. After the campaign of 1870-71, both formations, for attacking purposes, were abandoned, the line being too slow, the column too dense to advance without lo under the fire of brecchloaders, and an "attack formation," not dense and yet deep, was substituted. line-pin, s . Bricklaying : A pin used by bricklayers to hold the line by which the bricks are laid. Its pointed end is forced into a mortar-joint of the building. line-rocket, s . Pyrotech.: A small rocket made to run along an extended wire or line.