lin

i. & t. [A. S. linn an; Icel. linn a.] [BLIN.) A. Intransitive: 1. To cease, to stop, to give over. *2. To yield. *B. Trans.: To cease, to give over. "The spawner, when the time serveth generation, fol. loweth after the male, and never linneth picking and jobbing at his bellie with her muzzle.”— P . Holland: Pliny, bk. ix., ch. i. lin, lyn, s . [Gael. linne ; Wel. llyn ; Ir. linn =a pool; A. S. hlinna =a brook; Icel. lind =a well.] 1. A spring, a mere, a pool, especially one under a waterfall; the source of a river or stream. "Toothy, tripping down from Terwin's rushy lin." Drayton: Polyolbion, s. 5. 2. A waterfall, a cascade. 3. A precipice, a ravine. li-nā-çe-se, li'-ně-æ, s. pl. [Lat.lin(um) (q.v.); fem. pl. adj. suff. -aceæ, -eœ.] Bot .: Flaxworts: an order of hypogynous Exogens, alliance Geraniales. It consists of annual or perennial small plants, sometimes tending to shrubbine , with leaves alternate or opposite, rarely whorled, simple, entire, without stipules, sometimes with two glands; flowers very fugitive, white, yellow, or blue; sepals three, four, or five, imbricated in æstivation, persistent; petals the same number, unguiculate, twisted in estivation; stamens as many as the petals, but with little teeth in the hypogynous ring from which they spring; ovary with as many cells as the sepals, rarely fewer, but divided by spurious di epiments; styles equal in number to the cells; stigmas capitate, seeds in each cell of the fruit, single, compre ed, and inverted. Fourteen genera and 135 species known, from Europe, the North of Africa, . *lin-age, s . [LINEAGE.]