Also lineage. [f. LINE sb.2 + -AGE.] a. Position (of figures) in line. b. Quantity of printed or written matter estimated in number of lines. c. Payment according to the number of lines.
a. 1883. in Are we to read backwards? 39. The modern Arabic figures—uniform in linage—were more legible than the ‘old style’ figures.
b. 1884. Nonconf. & Indep., 9 May, 446/1. Fair progress was made, though no great amount of lineage of the Bill was disposed of.
c. 1888. Globe, 27 Oct., 6/5. An editor … offered him [Mr. Swinburne] ‘lineage’ for a poem.
1898. Kendal Mercury, 7 Jan., 5/6. One of the terms of the engagement was that he [a reporter] was to have half the ‘lineage.’
