a. and adv. Obs. [f. LINE sb.2 + RIGHT a. and adv.]
A. adj. (Situated) in a straight line; straight.
c. 1391. Chaucer, Astrol., I. § 21. Under which lyne, whan that the Sonne and the Mone ben lyne-riht … than is the Eclips of the Sonne or of the Mone.
1465. Hist. Doc. Roch. (E.E.T.S.), 6. Which wall or syde hous is crokyd, and not lyne-ryȝt.
B. adv. In a straight line; rectilineally; straight.
c. 1391. Chaucer, Astrol., II. § 23. Til that any sterre fix sit lyne-riht perpendiculer over the pol Artik.
1412–20. Lydg., Chron. Troy, I. vi. Line right agayne the wormes heade They holden it tyll that he be deade.
1419. in Surtees Misc. (1888), 14. We awarde that a lyne be drawen lyneryght.
c. 1430. Lydg., Reas. & Sens., 2536. Lyne ryght thy cours to dresse To thilke path.
14[?]. Ephyphanye, in Tundale’s Vis. (1843), 108. The sterre hem browght to Beedlem And lyne ryght the chylde above.
