- general appearance or outline
- a plan of procedure or construction
- the spoken words of a theatrical presentation
- the words of a particular role
- a marriage certificate
- luck, fate, or fortune (esp in the phrase hard lines)
- rows of tents, buildings, temporary stabling, etc, in a military camp
- a defensive position, row of trenches, or other fortification
- a school punishment of writing the same sentence or phrase out a specified number of times
- the phrases or sentences so written out
- to understand or find an implicit meaning in addition to the obvious one
