(historical) A tsarist-era Russian unit of measure, approximately equal to one tenth of an English inch, used especially when measuring the calibre of firearms.
To track (wild bees) to their nest by following their line of flight.
Esimerkit
the engine is in line / out of line
Knee-high garden lamps lined the path; Jim was careful to stay in their pools. Assuming he was being watched, the last thing he wanted to do was give them any reason to chase after him in the dark.
The mountains which have lined the road on the left here cross it and the road makes a very sharp ascent, going over them.
[...] the crowd that lined the road to watch us as we wound slowly on.
Line and new repair our towns of war With men of courage and with means defendant.
to line works with soldiers
to line troops
Snorting it was a much slower blast off and a longer less intense buzz, that was much easier to function on. A few minutes after you snort a line you can feel the niacin rush coming up your back and washing over your head,.
"Yes, we did. We both did a line, but maybe close to a half gram of crystal meth. I did a line and he did a way much bigger line."
"Let's have a line." He pulled a razor blade from his pocket and scooped out a couple of mounds. He laid out seven thick lines on a mirror. He rolled up a fifty-dollar note and snorted a line.
to line a copy book
Thus, for example, in the line of Quarte, the direct thrust is parried by dropping the point under the adversary's blade and circling upwards, throwing off the attack in the opposite line (that of Tierce), and upon the direct thrust in the line of Tierce, by a similar action throwing off the attack in the opposite line (that of Quarte).
A magnetic flux is said to have a density of one line per square centimeter when it exerts on a unit north pole a force of one dyne.
The Paris Congress of 1900 adopted the name gauss as that of the unit of intensity of field, one gauss signifying one line per square centimetre. The same Congress also named one line as one maxwell, but everybody still uses the term line.
The density will now be only one quarter of a line per square centimetre, and therefore a unit pole placed at a distance of 2 centimetres from a similar pole, will only be acted on with a force of one quarter of a dyne,.
At the same time, however, for calculation in the metric system, one metre is taken as the unit for the length of the conductor, one metre per second as the unit velocity, and one line per square centimetre as the unit of field density.
In case any of the committee do not understand what is meant by a rate per line, I may say that buttons, being very small, are not measured by the foot or inch, but by the line, a line being one-fortieth of an inch. For example, that is a 27-line button.
The cutis measures in thickness from a quarter of a line to a line and a half (a line is one-twelfth of an inch).
A “line” was a unit of measurement used in tsarist Russia and equal to about a tenth of an inch. The 3-line rifle, therefore, had a bore of three lines, or approximately .30 caliber.
The arm of the Russian infantry is the three-line rifle, model 1891 (caliber 0.299 inch).
[...] such books are always close back—ie, the leather cover is always glued or pasted to the bare back of the book. After books have been lined the bands are put on if the style of binding admits of this operation.
Raspberry bushes lined the road.
Stand in line!
The people are waiting in line.
Bedlamite was a black dog, and although it may be safely asserted that he lined upwards of 100 bitches of all colours, red, white, and blue, all his produce were black.
Pliny states that the inhabitants of India take pleasure in having their dog bitches lined by the wild tigers, and to facilitate this union, they are in the habit of tieing them when in heat out in the woods, so that the male tigers may visit them.
A bitch lined by a mangy dog is very liable to produce mangy puppies, and the progeny of a mangy bitch is certain to become affected some time or other.
to line the shelves
because the charge amounteth mostly very high for any one man's purse, except lined beyond ordinary, to reach unto
Then again line the back, again bringing the paper a little further in than the second lining, and repeat the operation according to what you think the weight and size of the book demands in extra strength, [...]
The airline is in danger of bankruptcy.
to line a cloak with silk or fur
paintings lined the walls of the cavernous dining room
The bird lines its nest with soft grass.
to line a box with paper or tin
Even in an era when individuality in dress is a cult, his clothes were noticeable. He was wearing a hard hat of the low round kind favoured by hunting men, and with it a black duffle-coat lined with white.
And clothed all in Garments made of line.
Jones lined to left in his last at-bat.
to line out a hymn
All the pictures fairest lined Are but black to Rosalind.
I tried to make a call, but the line was dead.
He tipples palmistry, and dines On all her fortune-telling lines.
The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.
The carpenter stretcheth out his rule; he marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house.
Eden stretch'd her Line / From Auran Eastward to the Royal Towrs / Of great Seleucia,
This description of the old front line, as it was when the Battle of the Somme began, may some day be of use.[...]It is hoped that this description of the line will be followed by an account of our people's share in the battle.
a line of stages; an express line
Drop me a line.
Please speak up, the line is very faint.
a dedicated line; a shared line
Though on his brow were graven lines austere.
the line of sight; the line of vision
Use fabric or nursery grade webbing around stakes and trunk, loosely tying the line to the tree about 6 inches below the point where the tree bounces back in your hand when you grab the trunk.
[...]he found preparing the hook far less fun than dangling the line in the water and waiting for a fish to come along. Finally succeeding, he beamed a smile up at his father, then lowered his line into the swift-moving Sippora.
Then we hunted up a place close by to hide the canoe in, amongst the thick willows. We took some fish off of the lines and set them again, and begun to get ready for dinner.
St Johnstone's Liam Craig had to clear off the line before Steven Anderson sent a looping header into his own net for the equaliser on 36 minutes.
She [a ship called Town-Ho] was somewhere to the northward of the Line.
For their present position, he drew an inverted V. Then he drew a line and on either side he inscribed landmarks, ridges, passes. At the other end he drew a number of inverted Vs to represent the Arapaho village.
So this was my future home, I thought![...]Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
The atmosphere in flaming sparkles flew; / And where the burning wheels / Eddied above the mountain’s loftiest peak / Was traced a line of lightning.
The answer to the comprehension question can be found in the third line of the accompanying text.
How many buses does the line have?
line of business, product line
Remember, your answers must match the party line.
He is uncommonly powerful in his own line; but it is not the line of a first-rate man.
Don't feed me a line!
Anyone who has worked with Littlewood will wince at the memory of going over single lines time and time again, each actor in turn speaking the line until the valid intonation, phasing and emphasis emerged.
"It is what it is" was one his more annoying lines.
He was perfecting his pickup lines for use at the bar.
Nay if you read this line, remember not, / The hand that writ it.
The arrow descended in a curved line.
[T]he rest of the history of the Old Testament derives the succession of the line of David to the Captivity, of which line was to spring the restorer of the kingdom of God.
Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun.
They hail'd him father to a line of kings.
Of his lineage am I, and his offspring / By very line,
A band of brothers gathering round me, made, / Although unarmed, a steadfast front[...]now the line / Of war extended, to our rallying cry / As myriads flocked in love and brotherhood to die.
There is a line of houses.
The line forms on the right.
I mean, the lines of my body are as well drawn as his.
I muttered somethin' underneath my breath / She studied the lines on my face / I must admit I felt a little uneasy / When she bent down to tie the laces of my shoe / Tangled up in blue.