Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The flax plant, Linum usitatissimum.
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Short fushionless dirt, that canna grow straucht oot o 'the halesome yird, like the bonnie lint-bells, but maun stick itsel' upo 'a buss!
Robert Falconer George MacDonald 1864
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