Forms: 4–7 lyne, 5 lynyn, 7 loyn, 5– line. [f. LINE sb.1; with primary reference to the frequent use of linen as a lining material for articles of clothing.]
1. trans. To apply a second layer of material (usually different from that of the article ‘lined’) to the inner side of (a garment; in later use, any covering or containing object); to cover on the inside.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Prol., 440. In sangwyn and in pers he clad was al Lyned with Taffata and with Sendal.
1432. E. E. Wills (1882), 91. A russet gounne lynyt with whythe blanket.
a. 1548. Hall, Chron., Hen. VIII., 239. The sleves and brest were cutte, lyned with cloth of golde.
1591. Lodge, Catharos (1875), 30. Thou buiest a warme gowne against Winter and linest it well.
1607. Topsell, Four-f. Beasts (1658), 575. Then must the inside be lined with boards, to the intent that the beast … make no evasion.
1664. Wood, Life, 5 Dec. (O.H.S.), II. 24. For loyning and lengthning my new yarn stockings, 3d.
1676. Wiseman, Surg., VI. v. 423. You may use … Tin-plates lined with soft Linings to receive the fractured Member.
1718. Lady M. W. Montagu, Lett. to C’tess Mar, 28 Aug. The church of the Annunciation is finely lined with marble.
1795. Burke, Regic. Peace, iv. Wks. IX. 123. An ambassador, whose robes are lined with a scarlet dyed in the blood of Judges.
1820. Syd. Smith, Mem. (1855), II. 197. Lady Granville is nervous on account of her room being lined with Spitalfields silk.
1829. Southey, Young Dragon, I. v. 8. With amianth he lined the nest, And incombustible asbest.
1845. Budd, Dis. Liver, 147. Abscesses,… lined by a distinct, but very thin membrane.
1872. Yeats, Techn. Hist. Comm., 339. A mode of lining culinary … articles with enamel.
b. transf. and fig.
c. 1586. C’tess Pembroke, Ps. LV. iii. Mischief cloth’d in deceit with treason lin’d.
1608. Topsell, Serpents (1658), 602. Nature hath … lined them [serpents] with a more thick and substantial flesh.
1649. Bp. Hall, Cases Consc. (1650), 132. How can you escape to be involved in a treason, lined with perjury?
1693. Dryden, Juvenal, vi. (1697), 161. Unless some Antidote … lines with Balsam all the Noble Parts.
1742. Young, Nt. Th., VIII. 503. With modest laughter lining loud applause.
1756. C. Lucas, Ess. Waters, II. 149. In a few minutes … it is lined with bright, small air bubbles.
1780. Cowper, Table-T., 59. The diadem with mighty projects lined. Ibid. (1784), Task, I. 310. The willow such, And poplar that with silver lines his leaf.
† 2. To strengthen by placing something along the side of; to reinforce, fortify. Also fig. Obs.
1599. Shaks., Hen. V., II. iv. 7. To lyne and new repayre our Townes of Warre. Ibid. (1605), Macb., I. iIi. 112. He … did lyne the Rebell with hidden helpe And vantage.
a. 1626. Bacon, Consid. War w. Spain, Misc. Wks. (1629), 43. Two Generals,… lined and assisted with Subordinate Commanders of great Experience.
a. 1659. Osborn, Characters, &c. Wks. (1673), 630. Your Resolution is too well lined by Philosophy against the storms of Danger, to admit a Parley with any force but that of Reason.
1665. Manley, Grotius’ Low C. Warres, 275. The upper part of the Town, where the Walls were not lined with banks, he thought fit to batter.
1704. J. Harris, Lex. Techn., To Line a Work, is to strengthen a Rampart with a firm Wall, or to encompass a Parapet or Moat with good Turf, &c.
1761. Churchill, Rosciad, Poems (1763), I. 45. Receiv’d, with joyful murmurs of applause, Their darling chief, and lin’d his fav’rite cause.
3. To fill (one’s purse, pockets, stomach, etc.) with something that may be spoken of as a lining; to cram, stuff.
1514. Barclay, Cyt. & Uplondyshm. (Percy Soc.), p. lxi. He had a pautner with purses many folde And surely lined with silver and with golde..
1550. Crowley, Last Trump., 820. Thou wylt viset no sicke man that cannot lyne thy pursse with golde.
1597. Shaks., 2 Hen. IV., I. iii. 27. Who lin’d himself with hope, Eating the ayre, on promise of Supply. Ibid. (1600), A. Y. L., II. vii. 154. The Iustice, In faire round belly, with good Capon lin’d. Ibid. (1611), Cymb., II. iii. 72. What If I do line one of their hands, ’tis Gold Which buyes admittance.
1625. Massinger, New Way, IV. i. I will not fail my lord…. Nor I, to line My Christmas coffer.
1663. Dryden, Wild Gallant, I. i. (1725), 97. When I have lined my sides with a good dinner. Ibid. (1672), Assignation, Prol. You come to plays with your own follies lined.
1731. W. Bowman, Serm., xxix. Tho’ such change would line our breeches.
1795. J. O’Keeffe, Song, ‘Friar of Orders Gray,’ ii. With old sack wine I’m lin’d within.
1820. Combe, Dr. Syntax, Consol., I. (1869), 144. For now I have my purse well lin’d Nor doth a fear assail my mind.
1824. Carr, Craven Dial., Gloss. 90. Lined, drunk. ‘He’s weel lined.’
1866. Whittier, Maids of Attitash, 30.
| No bridegroom’s hand be mine to hold | |
| That is not lined with yellow gold. |
4. To cover the outside of; to overlay, drape, pad, lit. and fig.; to face (a turf-slope). Obs. exc. Naut., to add a layer of wood to.
1572. Gascoigne, Hearbes, Councell to Barthol. Withipoll (1575), 152. Theyr smoothed tongues are lyned all with guyle.
1626. [see CLARICHORD ¶].
1663. Wood, Life, 9 July (O.H.S.), I. 481. The rayles … were Ioyned in mourning.
1664. Power, Exp. Philos., I. 5. A fuzzy kinde of substance like little sponges, with which she [Nature] hath lined the soles of her [the fly’s] feet.
1712. J. James, trans. Le Blond’s Gardening, 67. Slopes … require more Circumspection in the Method of lining them with Turf.
1794. Rigging & Seamanship, I. 31. Bowsprits made of two trees, are coaked together in the middle, and bolted as masts, and lined to the size.
1796. C. Marshall, Garden., xviii. (1813), 293. If the bed gets over cool, line it, or cover round with straw.
5. In certain technical senses (chiefly to line up). a. Bookbinding. To glue on the back of (a book) a paper covering continuous with the lining of the back of the cover. b. Cabinet-making. To put a molding round (the top of a piece of furniture).
1880. Zaehnsdorf, Bookbinding, xix. 85. This class of work is not lined up. The leather is stuck directly upon the book.
1885. Crane, Bookbinding, xv. 118. Before lining the back, the headband should be set.
1889. Work, 22 June, I. 234/1. A small toilet table was being lined up.
6. To serve or be used as a lining for. (Cf. senses 1, 3 and 4.)
1726. Swift, Bec’s Birth-day, 8 Nov., 34. Domestic business never mind Till coffee has her stomach lin’d. Ibid. (1733), On Poetry, Wks. 1755, IV. I. 188. Your poem sunk, And sent in quires to line a trunk.
1794. Cowper, Needless Alarm, 15. Wide yawns a gulf beside a ragged thorn; Bricks line the sides, but shivered long ago.
1850. Tennyson, In Mem., lxxvii. 6. These mortal lullabies of pain May bind a book, may line a box.
1885. Law Times Rep., LII. 738/1. Small quantities of gold and silver … became embedded in the bricks lining the furnaces.
1892. Katharine Tynan, in Speaker, 3 Sept., 289/2. Wild rose … falling in close exquisite veils of pink and green down to the daisied grass that lines the ditches.
1895. Zangwill, Master, II. iv. 167. Caricatures of … sensuous faces lined the walls.
