Also 4, 6 lyne. [ad. F. ligner.] trans. Of a dog, wolf, etc.: To copulate with, to cover.
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., XVIII. xxv. (1495), 784. The Yndens teche bytches and leue them in wodes by nyghte for Tygres shold lyne them and gendre wt them.
1535. Stewart, Cron. Scot. (1858), I. 57. And scho was lynit with ony of that birth, Sic hundis thai said for hunting ar na worth.
1576. Turberv., Venerie, ii. 5. From that time they beganne to haue bitches lined by that dogge and so to haue a race of them.
1687. Dryden, Hind & P., I. 179. These last deduce him from the Helvetian kind, Who near the Leman lake his consort lined.
1727. Bradley, Fam. Dict., I. H iv/1. Mongrels, that come from a Hound-bitch, that has been lin’d by a Dog of another Kind.
1889. Mivart, On Truth, 379. Analogous effects are often produced when a thorough-bred bitch has been once lined by a mongrel.
