See Also: Midfield Line or Center Line - Soccer(gambling)
Forward Line or Attacking Line - Ice Hockey(gambling)
His' line(medicine)
line-out(dictionary)
line-up(dictionary)
in-line(dictionary)
Hot line(health)
Above the Line(money)
S-BP line(medicine)
S-N line(medicine)

line(4) (iou)



line verb2. LME.
[from LINE noun2.]
verb trans. Tie with a line, string, or cord. rare. LME.
verb trans. Measure or test with a line, cut to a line. LME.
verb trans. Trace out the outlines of (something to be constructed) (lit. & fig.); trace (as) with a line or lines; delineate, sketch; put in with a hard pencil the permanent lines of (a freehand drawing). LME.
Shakespeare As You Like It All the pictures fairest lin'd Are but black to Rosalinde. A. Yarranton Here is a way plainly lined out to cheat the Rats and Mice.
verb trans. Mark in, off, out, with a line or lines; impress lines on; cover with lines. M16.
Dickens This entry was afterwards lined through. Expositor The pale wronged face, lined with melancholy resignation.
verb trans.
a. Post troops etc. along (a hedge, road, etc.); (of troops) form an open or close line along (a pass etc.); (of persons or things) stand at fairly short intervals along (a street, wall, etc.). L16.
Gibbon The ramparts were lined with trembling spectators. G. Orwell The trees lined the road in close, dusty ranks.
b. Foll. by out: transplant (seedling trees) from beds into lines in a nursery for further growth. M20.
a. verb trans. Draw (persons or things) up or up in line (with); US assign (a person) to certain work; aim (a weapon) in a direct line on an object. Foll. by up: arrange, produce, or make ready, esp. for a particular person or purpose. L18.
A. Alvarez The same bottles of hair lotion..were lined above the basin in his father's dressing-room. K. Amis You've got some scheme lined up for visiting places of..historical interest. P. Barker The women were lined up facing each other.
b. verb intrans. Form a line with others; fall into line; spread out in line. Foll. by up: be arranged in a line or lines; measure up (to). L18.
A. Trollope She struggled to line up to the spirit of her promises and she succeeded. R. C. Hutchinson We all lined up outside the office to get our pay.
c. verb trans. & intrans. Baseball. Hit (a ball) straight and low above the ground; play (a shot) as a line-drive. Freq. foll. by out. L19.
Globe & Mail (Toronto) Frank White lined a drive to centre field.
verb trans. Follow the line of flight of (bees). US. E19.
verb trans. & intrans.
a. Catch (fish) with a hook and line. US. rare. M19.
b. Guide or control (a boat or canoe) from the bank or shore of a stretch of inland water by means of a rope or ropes. N. Amer. E20.
verb trans. Read out (a metrical psalm, a hymn) line by line for a congregation to sing. Also foll. by out. M19.
Comb.: line-up a line of people for inspection; an arrangement of people in a team, nations in an alliance, etc.; the personnel or configuration of a band etc.