unline
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unlines
form: unlining
form: unlined
form: unlined
Etymology: From un- + line.
Senses: examples: text: as in the case of gout, a disease of the sufferer's own making, from excess of de-electrising food and drink, which uncoats and unlines the nerves, and thus leaves the nervous fluid, from casual circumstances, to almost lacerate the brain.
ref: 1848, T. H. Pasley, The Philosophy which Shows the Physiology of Mesmerism, page 87:
text: No more that unenquiring heart Perused the sweet home of her breast, Than turtle-doves unline their nest To scan the outer part.
ref: 1895, Richard Doddridge Blackmore, Fringilla, page 44:
text: These instruments are so produced as to suit the procedure of vivification by unlining, which is the one that I exclusively employ .
ref: 1917, Eugène-Louis Doyen, Surgical Therapeutics and Operative Technique, page 179:
glosses: To remove or separate the lining from.
examples: text: There is no instance of unlining which may not be as well explained by the theory of alternation.
ref: 1848, John Lindley, An Introduction to Botany:
text: The name dédoublement of Duval, which has been translated deduplication, literally means unlining'; the original hypothesis being, that the organs in question unline, or tend to separate into two or more layers, each having the same structure.
ref: 1870, Asa Gray, Introduction to Structural and Systematic Botany, page 243:
text: The carpophore unlines itself at maturity, and the vittæ are wide and solitary in each furrow.
ref: 1881, Henri Baillon, The Natural History of Plants - Volume 7, page 105:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: To undergo a (now debunked) process in which the tissue of a plant separates into identical layers.
examples: text: I'll live by a pittance. Unline my purse, and use my person, and for my limbs, take the best in the bunch.
ref: 1857, John Webster, “The Weakest Goeth To the Wall”, in William Hazlitt, editor, The dramatic works of John Webster, page 254:
text: How many old, Decrepit packs of eighty do we see Get wives, that first unline their purse, then out, Like skinless rats, drive their lean carcasses.
ref: 1892, E. J. Sanborn, “Comfort in a Corner”, in Dramas, page 54:
text: As now rich Opportunity doth give to make you Fame-full though it empt your Pouche: Two Kings thus met, make Kingdomes richly thrive, though it unlines their Purse with wearing much: Then, sith but seld, or ne're Kings consort thus, Be glorious now, or still inglorious.
ref: 1991, John Ford, edited by Leo Edward Stock, The Nondramatic Works of John Ford, page 10:
glosses: To empty (a purse).
examples: text: To-morrow doth Luxurio promise me He will unline himself from bitchery ;
ref: 1598, John Marston, The Scourge of Villanie:
text: When the eccentric lowers the pitman, it unlines the toggles and the swing jaw is free to recede from the fixed jaw .
ref: 1903, Robert Hallowell Richards, Breaking, crushing and comminuting, page 16:
text: And as I've been walking, sure enough, I see little white dots on the hills, those little sheep, and I can see cattle lined up and then unlining about a mile off on the plains .
ref: 2018, James Banks, Letters to People Who Care, page 26:
glosses: To take out of (literal or figurative) alignment; to disconnect.
examples: text: However, I am a Line, and they can't "unline" me very well. My soil is not good enough for a market-garden, and if it were, the surrounding inhabitants are too sparse to require so large a supply of the vegetable world.
ref: 1871, W.M. Statham, “The Branch Line”, in The Quiver, page 33:
text: She will ask herself whether the confined and relative reason of the artist can be deemed superior to the infinite, absolute reason of the Creator; whether it is for man to rectify God; whether mutilation can improve the beauty of nature; whether are be authorised to unline—if we may use the word — man, life, creation; . . . . whether, in fine, incompleteness be an element of harmony?
ref: 1905, Giuseppe Mazzini, Life and Writings of Giuseppe Mazzini- Volume 2, page 282:
text: Maxwell cars are of unit construction that no stress can unline.
ref: 1908, “Advertisement: Automobile Facts”, in Circle: A Modern Department Magazine, volume 3, page 371:
glosses: To remove or destroy one or more lines.