Read full poem →Is always kissing you and turning up
The white lining of your green petticoat.
The sky darts through you like blue rain,
Dictionary Entry
To place (objects) into a line (usually used with "up"); to form into a line; to align.
In a Sentence
“to line troops”
Origin
From Old English līn ‘thread, line’, ultimately from Latin linea ‘line’.
Common Phrases
. liningmembrane liningcells lininglining silverlining cellslining epitheliallining innerlining membrane
Poetry examples for “lining”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Whatever I have seen of Mr. Fletcher's own hand, is free from inter-
lining; and his friends affirm he never writ any one thing twice : ^ It seems
he had that rare felicity to prepare and perfect all first in his own brain ; to
Read full poem →"But whose velvet violet lining with the lamplight gloating o'er
_She_ shall press, ah, nevermore!"
Read full poem →This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining
On the cushion's velvet lining that the lamp-light gloated o'er,
But whose velvet violet lining with the lamp-light gloating o'er,
Read full poem →Is always kissing you and turning up
The white lining of your green petticoat.
The sky darts through you like blue rain,
Read full poem →Blossoms flaunting in the eye of day,
Tremulous leaves, with soft and silver lining,
Buds that open only to decay;
Read full poem →Here’s its stuff and lining, Cardoness’ head,
Fine for a soger, a’ the wale o’ lead.
Read full poem →one to have a goose quyll splettyd and sewed againste the
nockynge, betwixt the lining and the lether, whyche shall
helpe the shoote muche to, the other waye is to have some
Read full poem →He began to point again. “Frayed trousers! And the lining of your coat
in rags!”
Read full poem →linings, fronts, center back and side bodies; allowing width
of seams in cutting the lining portions; method of cutting
a pattern from the draft; irregularities in waist drafting,