n. (Chem.) A salt of linoleic acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to, or derived from, linoleum, or linseed oil; specifically (Chem.), designating an organic acid, a thin yellow oil, found combined as a salt of glycerin in oils of linseed, poppy, hemp, and certain nuts. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. linum flax + oleum oil. ] 1. Linseed oil brought to various degrees of hardness by some oxidizing process, as by exposure to heated air, or by treatment with chloride of sulphur. In this condition it is used for many of the purposes to which India rubber has been applied. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A kind of floor cloth made by laying hardened linseed oil mixed with ground cork on a canvas backing. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Line; Type. ] (Print.) (a) A kind of typesetting machine which produces castings, each of which corresponds to a line of separate types. By pressing the keys of a keyboard like one on a typewriter, the matrices for one line are properly arranged; the entire line, or stereotype, or slug, is then cast and planed, and the matrices are returned to their proper places, the whole process being automatic. (b) The slug produced by the machine, or matter composed in such lines. -- Lin"o*typ`ist n. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

n. [ Linoleic + oxygen. ] (Chem.) A resinous substance obtained as an oxidation product of linoleic acid. [ Written also linoxyn. ] [ 1913 Webster ]