Linen
Linen (lin"en) , adjective
[Old English, from lin linen. See Linen, n.]
1.
Made of linen; as, linen cloth; a linen stocking.
2.
Resembling linen cloth; white; pale.
Linen , noun
[Prop. an adj. from Old English lin flax, Anglo-Saxon līn flax, whence līnen made of flax; akin to Old Saxon, Icelandic, & Middle High German līn flax and linen, German lein, leinen, linen, Swedish lin flax, Gothic lein linen, Latin linum flax, linen, Greek li`non. Compare Line, Linseed.]
1.
Thread or cloth made of flax or (rarely) of hemp; -- used in a general sense to include cambric, shirting, sheeting, towels, tablecloths, etc.; as, bed linens
In linen white as milk.
2.
Underclothing, esp. the shirt, as being, in former times, chiefly made of linen.
Collocations (3)
Linen draper , a dealer in linen.
Linen prover , a small microscope for counting the threads in a given space in linen fabrics.
Linen scroll or Linen pattern (Architecture) , an ornament for filling panels, copied from the folds of a piece of stuff symmetrically disposed.