13. A straight row; a continued series or rank; as, a line of houses,
or of soldiers; a line of barriers.
Unite thy forces and attack their lines.
Dryden.
14. A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given
person; a family or race; as, the ascending or descending line; the
line of descent; the male line; a line of kings.
Of his lineage am I, and his offspring By very line, as of the
stock real.
Chaucer.
15. A connected series of public conveyances, and hence, an established
arrangement for forwarding merchandise, etc.; as, a line of stages; an
express line.
16. (Geog.) (a) A circle of latitude or of longitude, as represented on
a map. (b) The equator; -- usually called the line, or equinoctial
line; as, to cross the line.
17. A long tape, or a narrow ribbon of steel, etc., marked with
subdivisions, as feet and inches, for measuring; a tapeline.