Linum, lini, m. g. Plin. Line or slate: a threede: a cable or rope in a ship: a casting net or dragge.Seges lini vrit campum.Virg.Lini semen. Plin. Line seede. Linum crudum. Cels. Linum factum. Vlpian. Flare wrought: yarne.Linum infectum. Vlpian. Flare vnspunne.Carpere linum, Vide CARPO.Linum. Cels. A threede. Traijcere duo lina acu. Cels. Linum.Virg.A draggenet.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
līnum, i, n. [Gr. li/non; Goth. lein; Germ. Leinwand; Engl. linen], flax.I.Lit.: reticulum, tenuissimo lino, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 11, 27: urit lini campum seges, Verg. G. 1, 77; cf. Plin. 19 prooem. 2; 19, 1, 1, 9: lino legato tam factum quam infectum continetur, quodque netum quodque in tela est, Dig. 32, 70, 11.—II.Transf.A.A thread, Cels. 7, 14: consuto vulnere, crassum atque recens linum ostendit non una cicatrix, Juv. 3, 151.—Esp., the thread with which letters were bound and legal instruments sealed: effer cito stilum, ceram et tabellas et linum, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 4, 64: per ceram et linum litterasque interpretes salutem mittit, id. Ps. 1, 1, 40: linum incidimus, legimus, Cic. Cat. 3, 5.—Hence: solvere vincula epistolae,