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The lines of the spectrun; especially and properly, the dark lines of the solar spectrum, so called because first accurately observed and interpreted by Fraunhofer, a German physicist.
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To weave, as cloth, so as to produce the appearance of diagonal lines or ribs on the surface.
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A figure bounded by three lines, and containing three angles.
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The color green, represented in a drawing or engraving by parallel lines sloping downward toward the right.
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A large and handsome American butterfly (Basilarchia, / Limenitis, archippus). Its wings are orange-red, with black lines along the nervures and a row of white spots along the outer margins. The larvae feed on willow, poplar, and apple trees.
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Of, pertaining to, or included by, three lines; as, trilinear coordinates.
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To ascend in spiral lines about a support; to climb spirally; as, many plants twine.
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Made or marked with irregular wavy lines or impressions; vermiculate.
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Waving or wavy; -- applied to ordinaries, or division lines.
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A short poem or stanza of eight lines, in which the first line is repeated as the fourth and again as the seventh line, the second being, repeated as the eighth.
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To form or work, as by inlaying, with irregular lines or impressions resembling the tracks of worms, or appearing as if formed by the motion of worms.
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Not ruled or marked with lines; as, unruled paper.
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Wormlike in shape; covered with wormlike elevations; marked with irregular fine lines of color, or with irregular wavy impressed lines like worm tracks; as, a vermiculate nut.
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A fishing line, often extending a mile or more, having many short lines bearing hooks attached to it. It is used for catching cod, halibut, etc.; a boulter.
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An appearance of diagonal lines or ribs produced in textile fabrics by causing the weft threads to pass over one and under two, or over one and under three or more, warp threads, instead of over one and under the next in regular succession, as in plain weaving.
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An ancient French song, or short poem, wholly in two rhymes, and composed in short lines, with a refrain.
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A straight line which traverses or intersects any system of other lines, as a line intersecting the three sides of a triangle or the sides produced.
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The point in any figure opposite to, and farthest from, the base; the terminating point of some particular line or lines in a figure or a curve; the top, or the point opposite the base.
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A plane figure bounded by four right lines, of which no two are parallel.
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A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.
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