Lin vs Lien - What's the difference?
lin | lien |
To desist (from something), stop.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.i:
To cease; leave off.
A pool or collection of water, particularly one above or below a waterfall.
A waterfall, or cataract.
A steep ravine.
(Webster 1913)
(obsolete) A tendon.
(legal) A legal claim; a charge upon real or personal property for the satisfaction of some debt or duty.
* 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 7:
(Bible, archaic)
As a noun lin
is flax or lin can be ling (fish).As a verb lien is
.lin
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) linnen, from (etyl) .Verb
- Halfe furious vnto his foe he came, / Resolv'd in minde all suddenly to win, / Or soone to lose, before he once would lin [...].
Derived terms
* (l)Etymology 2
From Irish or Gaelic.Alternative forms
* linn * lynNoun
(en noun)- a roaring lin
Anagrams
* English three-letter words ----lien
English
Noun
(en noun)- Bodin deemed the king of France's power as absolute in the sense that the ruler was ‘absolved’ by divine sanction from legally binding liens and restrictions.
Quotations
* (English Citations of "lien")Derived terms
* lienholderVerb
(head)- If no man have lien with thee, and if thou hast not gone aside to uncleanness, being under thy husband, be thou free from this water of bitterness that causeth the curse...