%lines%

n. The state or quality of being beastly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being beggarly; meanness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Corporeality. Minsheu. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of having bristles. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of being brotherly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Quality of being burly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Butchery quality. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A state or sensation of being chilly; a disagreeable sensation of coldness. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A moderate degree of coldness; disagreeable coldness or rawness; as, the chilliness of the air. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Formality; lack of warmth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Regard for the church. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Cleanly. ] State of being cleanly; neatness of person or dress. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cleanliness from head to heel. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Scholarship. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Comely. ] The quality or state of being comely. [ 1913 Webster ]

Comeliness is a disposing fair
Of things and actions in fit time and place. Sir J. Davies. [ 1913 Webster ]

Strength, comeliness of shape, or amplest merit. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Comeliness signifies something less forcible than beauty, less elegant than grace, and less light than prettiness. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being costy; expensiveness; sumptuousness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Courtly. ] The quality of being courtly; elegance or dignity of manners. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Cowardice. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. State of being curly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Daily occurence. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being dastardly; cowardice; base fear. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of a daughter, or the conduct becoming a daughter. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being deadly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being deathly; deadliness. Southey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being disorderly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being early or forward; promptness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being earthly; worldliness; grossness; perishableness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Fatherly. ] The qualities of a father; parantal kindness, care, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being fleshly; carnal passions and appetites. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>prop. n. pl.. (Physics.) The lines of the spectrum; especially and properly, the dark lines of the solar spectrum, so called because first accurately observed and interpreted by Fraunhofer, a German physicist. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The condition or quality of being friendly. Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being gentlemanly; gentlemanly conduct or manners. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being ghastly; a deathlike look. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being ghostly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Godly. ] Careful observance of, or conformity to, the laws of God; the state or quality of being godly; piety. [ 1913 Webster ]

Godliness is profitable unto all things. 1 Tim. iv. 8. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Goodly. ] Beauty of form; grace; elegance; comeliness. [ 1913 Webster ]

Her goodliness was full of harmony to his eyes. Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. State of being gravelly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being grisly; horrid. Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. hypen is changed from WN: adjust hier. a rule or set of rules giving guidance on how to behave in a situation. a situation to which the guidelines are considered applicable is described as "falling within the guidelines"
Syn. -- guideline, guidepost, rule of thumb. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A sort of breeches. [ Obs. ] Chaucer.

n. The abbreviated writing style of headline writers. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ From Heavenly. ] The state or quality of being heavenly. Sir J. Davies. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being hilly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. hālignes. ] 1. The state or quality of being holy; perfect moral integrity or purity; freedom from sin; sanctity; innocence. [ 1913 Webster ]

Who is like thee, glorious in holiness! Ex. xv. 11. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The state of being hallowed, or consecrated to God or to his worship; sacredness. [ 1913 Webster ]

Israel was holiness unto the Lord. Jer.ii.3. [ 1913 Webster ]

His holiness, a title of the pope; -- formerly given also to Greek bishops and Greek emperors.

Syn. -- Piety; devotion; godliness; sanctity; sacredness; righteousness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Homely. ] 1. Domesticity; care of home. [ Obs. ] “Wifely homeliness.” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Familiarity; intimacy. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Plainness; want of elegance or beauty. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Coarseness; simplicity; want of refinement; as, the homeliness of manners, or language. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Jollity; noisy mirth. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Natural inclination; natural course. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The quality or state of being kindly; benignity; benevolence; gentleness; tenderness; as, kindliness of disposition, of treatment, or of words. [ 1913 Webster ]

In kind a father, but not in kindliness. Sackville. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Softness; mildness; propitiousness; as, kindliness of weather, or of a season. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fruits and corn are much advanced by temper of the air and
kindliness of seasons. Whitlock. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of being kingly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The character or bearing suitable for a knight; chivalry. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Likelihood; probability. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Suitableness; agreeableness. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. the official (in tennis or soccer) who watches the lines. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. a person who installs or repairs electrical or telephone lines.
Syn. -- electrician, lineman. [ WordNet 1.5 ]