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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Line v. t.
 1. To mark with a line or lines; to cover with lines; as, to line a copy book.
    He had a healthy color in his cheeks, and his face, though lined, bore few traces of anxiety.   --Dickens.
 2. To represent by lines; to delineate; to portray. [R.] “Pictures fairest lined.”
 3. To read or repeat line by line; as, to line out a hymn.
    This custom of reading or lining, or, as it was frequently called =\“deaconing” the hymn or psalm in the churches, was brought about partly from necessity.\=   --N. D. Gould.
 4. To form into a line; to align; as, to line troops.
 To line bees, to track wild bees to their nest by following their line of flight.
 To line up Mach., to put in alignment; to put in correct adjustment for smooth running. See 3d Line, 19.