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verb

Line v. t.

To mark with a line or lines; to cover with lines; as, to line a copy book. "He had a healthy color in his cheeks, and his face, though lined, bore few traces of anxiety."

To represent by lines; to delineate; to portray. (R.) "Pictures fairest lined."

To read or repeat line by line; as, to line out a hymn. "This custom of reading or lining, or, as it was frequently called "deaconing" the hymn or psalm in the churches, was brought about partly from necessity."

To form into a line; to align; as, to line troops.

To line bees, to track wild bees to their nest by following their line of flight.

To line up (Mach.), to put in alignment; to put in correct adjustment for smooth running. See 3d Line, 19.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Line up" Quotes from Famous Books

... The two teams now line up in their respective positions, and the ball is placed upon the exact center of the field by ...

— Healthful Sports for Boys • Alfred Rochefort

... you say," returned the other, "we've come quite some distance since we made the last big noise; and if he's weak and wounded, yet able to answer at all, p'raps we might hear him this time. Line up here, fellers, and watch my hands now, so's ...

— Boy Scouts on a Long Hike - Or, To the Rescue in the Black Water Swamps • Archibald Lee Fletcher

... across the room at a height of about three or four feet. The players divide into sides and line up on each side of the string. The balloon is then thrown up, the game being to keep it in the air backward and forward over the string, so that if it falls it will fall in the other side's camp. It ought to be tapped with the back of the fingers ...

— What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes • Dorothy Canfield Fisher

... "Halt!" cried the French commander: the troop suddenly stopped confronting the nearer square. There was one brief pause-the moment before the storm. "Charge!" said D' Argout, and the word rang throughout the line up to the clear and placid sky. Up flashed the steel like lightning; on went the troop like the clash of a thousand waves when the sun is upon them; and before the breath of the riders was thrice drawn, came the crash—the shock—the slaughter of battle. The ...

— Falkland, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... the end of today's hike, to march into the big field (where the cook tents already stood with smoking fires before them) to have the two halves of the company line up facing each other, and to hear the captain command, ...

— At Plattsburg • Allen French

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