An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language / in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals

by John Jamieson

LINGIS, LINGS, a termination by which adverbs are formed; sometimes denoting quality, in other instances extension, as backlingis; now pron. lins, S.

LINGIT, adj. Flexible, E. Loth.

A. S. laenig, tenuis.

LINKS, s. pl.
1. The windings of a river, S.
Nimmo.
2. The rich ground lying among these windings, S.
Macneill.
3. The sandy flat ground on the sea-shore, S.
Knox.
4. Sandy and barren ground; though at a distance from any body of water, S.

Germ. lenk-en, flectere.

LIN-PIN, LINT-PIN, s. The linch-pin.

S. Su. G. lunt-a, id.

LYNTQUHIT, LINTWHITE, s. A linnet, S. corr. lintie.
Complaynt S.

A. S. linetwige, id.

LYPE, s. A crease, a fold, S.