lining-paper

(li’ning-pa”pér), n. Any paper used as a lining. Specifically—(a) In bookbinding, the plain or ornamented paper pasted on the inside of the cover, which aids in connecting the book proper with its binding. () In building, paper (generally made waterproof) fastened to the studding of frame buildings before nailing on the weather-boarding. It is more commonly called sheathing. Such paper is also used under slates and shingles in roofing. lining-strip (li’ning-strip), ». One of a series of wooden or metal strips fixed on the inside of freight or baggage-cars to protect the car from injury by the freight. Car-Builder’s Dict. liniscus (li-nis’kus),.; pl. linisci (4). [NL., Gr. Auviokoc, dim. of Aivov, a line, cord: see linel.] In ornith., one of the little lines or traces which form reticulations on the tarsal envelop. [Rare.] link! (lingk), ». [ MHG. G. lenken, bend, turn): see lank2,] 1, One of the rings or 810 separate In of said, way 2. ring 8. or stituent were dle 4, the sure ment. inches. in often 5. continuous terlings, 6. other means which link-motion.—Link (a) quence term forms from vival hypothetical or have especially, been mediate morously, link the Hence were, ing Africa. link! or by couple; That Linked joined link? of river; as, stretch the with a —3. —Links link? lunt, or the and fluttering link® give link# To ly link pieces of which a chain is composed. ornamental chain-making, any member of the chain, whatever form, as a plaque, a bead, etc., is called a link. Nor airle dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength of spirit. Shak., J. C., i. 3. 94. Untwining his gold chain from his neck, Balafré ‘‘Then look that none of the links find their to the wine-house.” Scott, Quentin Durward, v. Anything doubled and closed together like a or division of a chain. Now, sir, a new link to the bucket must needs be had. Shak., 2 Hen. IV., v. 1. 23, Then down cam Queen Marie Wi gold links in her hair. Mary Hamilton (Child’s Ballads, III. 329). Anything which serves to connect one thing one part of a thing with another; any conpart of a connected series. As nature has framed the several species of beings as it in a chain, so man seems to be placed as the middink between angels and brutes. Spectator, No. 408. A division, forming the hundredth part, of chain used in surveying and for other mea- In Gunter’s chain of 66 feet the link is 7.92 The chain of 100 feet, with link of a foot, is used the United States exclusively in engineering work, and in surveying. One of the divisions of a sausage made in a chain. [Colloq.] Then followed seven camels loaded with links and chithog’s puddings and sausages. Urquhart, tr. of Rabelais, ii. 2. (Davies.) Any rigid movable piece connected with pieces, generally themselves movable, by of interlinked open ends or pivots about it can turn.—7. In a steam-engine, the cent. See cent.—Mi ing link. Something lacking for the completion of a series or seof any kind; a desiderated connecting-link. The has been used especially with reference to animal not found in the supposed succe ion of development primordial germs by natural variation and “the sur of the fittest.” (6) In zodl., specifically, an unknown form of animal life in any evolutionary chain series, a umed to have existed at some time and thus to been the connecting-link between some known forms; an anthropomorphic animal supposed to have derived from some simian and to have been the imancestral stock of the human race; hence, huan ape or monkey taken as itself the connecting for which Darwin i ans seek, See Alalus. The lowest races of men will soon become extinct, like Tasmanians, and the highest Apes cannot long survive, the intermediate forms of the past, if any there become of still greater importance. For such mi links, we must look to the caves and later Tertiary of 0. C. Marsh, Proc. of Amer. A . for Adv. of Sci., [1877, p. 256. (lingk),v. [