Webster's Dictionary 1828

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LIMPID

LIM'PID, adjective [Latin limpidus.] Pure; clear; transparent; as a limpid stream.

974

LIMPIDNESS

LIM'PIDNESS, noun Clearness; purity.

975

LIMPING

LIM'PING, participle present tense Halting; walking lamely.

976

LIMPINGLY

LIM'PINGLY, adverb Lamely; in a halting manner.

977

LIMSY

LIM'SY, adjective Weak; flexible.

978

LIMY

LI'MY, adjective [See lime.]1. Viscous; glutinous; as limy snares.2. Containing lime; as a limy soil.3. Resembling lime; having the qualities of lime.

979

LIN

LIN, verb intransitive To yield. obsoleteLIN, noun A pool or mere. [Not used.]

980

LINCHPIN

LINCH'PIN, nounA pin used to prevent the wheel of a carriage from sliding off the axle-tree.

981

LINCTURE

LINC'TURE, noun [Latin lingo, linctus.] Medicine taken by licking.

982

LINDEN

LIN'DEN, nounThe lime-tree, or teil-tree, of the genus Tilia.

983

LINE

LINE, noun [Latin linea, linum; Gr. flax.]1. In geometry, a quantity extended in length, without breadth or thickness; or a limit terminating a surface.2. A slender string; a sm...

984

LINEAGE

LIN'EAGE, nounRace; progeny; descendants in a line from a common progenitor.

985

LINEAL

LIN'EAL, adjective [Latin linealis, from linea, line.]1. Composed of lines; delineated; as lineal designs.2. In a direct line from an ancestor; as lineal descent; lineal success...

986

LINEALITY

LINEAL'ITY, noun The state of being in the form of a line.

987

LINEALLY

LIN'EALLY, adverb In a direct line; as, the prince is lineally descended from the conqueror.

988

LINEAMENT

LIN'EAMENT, noun [Latin lineamentum.]Feature; form; make; the outline or exterior of a body or figure, particularly of the face.Man he seems in all his lineaments.- The lineamen...

989

LINEAR

LIN'EAR, adjective [Latin linearis.]1. Pertaining to a line; consisting of lines; in a straight direction.2. In botany, like a line; slender; of the same breadth throughout, exc...

990

LINEATE

LIN'EATE, adjective In botany, marked longitudinally with depressed parallel lines; as a lineate leaf.

991

LINEATION

LINEA'TION, noun Draught; delineation, which see.

992

LINED

LI'NED, participle passive Covered on the inside.

993

LINEN

LIN'EN, noun [Latin linun, flax, Gr. The sense is probably long, extended or smooth. In the latter sense, it would accord with Latin linio, lenio.]1. Cloth made of flax or hemp....

994

LINEN-DRAPER

LIN'EN-DRAPER, noun A person who deals in linens.Linener and linen-man, in a like sense, are obsolete.

995

LING

LING, nounA fish of the genus Gadus, or cod kind, which grows to the length of four feet or more, is very slender, with a flat head. This fish abounds on the coasts of Scotland ...

996

LINGER

LIN'GER, verb intransitive1. To delay; to loiter; to remain or wait long; to be slow.Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind.Whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not....

997

LINGERER

LIN'GERER, noun One who lingers.

998

LINGERING

LIN'GERING, participle present tense1. Delaying; loitering.2.adjective Drawing out in time; remaining long; protracted; as a lingering disease.To die is the fate of man; but to ...

999

LINGERINGLY

LIN'GERINGLY, adverb With delay; slowly; tediously.