_Burrow Lawes._

Lat. _lin-eare_, id.

~Lyner~. _s._ One who measures land with a line.

_Ibid._

LING, _s._

1. A species of rush or thin long gra.s.s, Ayrs. S. A.

_Statist. Acc._

2. _Pull ling_, cotton gra.s.s.

_Statist. Acc._

LING, LYNG, _s._ A line, Fr. _ligne_. _In ane ling_.

1. Straight forward.

_Gawan and Gol._

2. Denoting expedition in motion, Aberd.

_Douglas._

_To_ LING, _v. n._ To go at a long pace, S.

Ir. _ling-im_, to skip.

_Barbour._

_To_ ~Link~, _v. n._

1. To walk smartly, to trip, S.

_Ross._

2. Denoting the influx of money.

_Ritson._

LINGEL, LINGLE, _s._

1. Shoemaker"s thread, S. also _lingan_; Fr. _ligneul_.

_Ramsay._

2. A bandage.

_Polwart._

Isl. _lengia_, lamina coriacea.

~Lingel-tail"d~, _adj._ Applied to a woman whose clothes hang awkwardly, from the smallness of her shape below, S.

LINGET, _s._ A rope binding the fore foot of a horse to the hinder one, Ang.

V. ~Langet~.

LINGET-SEED, _s._ The seed of flax, S. B.

_Acts Ja. VI._

LINGIS, LINGS, a termination by which adverbs are formed; sometimes denoting quality, in other instances extension, as _backlingis_; now p.r.o.n. _lins_, S.

LINGIT, _adj._ Flexible, E. Loth.

A. S. _laenig_, tenuis.

LINKS, _s. pl._

1. The windings of a river, S.

_Nimmo._

2. The rich ground lying among these windings, S.

_Macneill._

3. The sandy flat ground on the sea-sh.o.r.e, S.

_Knox._

4. Sandy and barren ground; though at a distance from any body of water, S.

Germ. _lenk-en_, flectere.

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