Linament vs Lineament - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between linament and lineament

is that linament is (surgery) lint, especially when made into a tent for insertion into wounds or ulcers while lineament is outline.

(en noun)

(surgery) lint, especially when made into a tent for insertion into wounds or ulcers

* Not to be confused with (liniment). (Webster 1913)

(en noun)

Any distinctive shape or line etc.

(senseid)A distinctive feature that characterizes something, especially the parts of the face of an individual.

* 1927 , John Crowe Ransom, Dead Boy

A pig with a pasty face, so I had said,

Squealing for cookies, kinned by poor pretense

With a noble house. But the little man quite dead,

I see the forbears' antique lineaments .