Noun: lien
| Singular | lien |
| Plural | liens; lienes |
Sample Sentences
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[…] every youth movement presents itself as loan to the future, and tries to call in its lien in advance, but when there is no future all loans are canceled. [1989, Greil Marcus, Lipstick Traces, Faber & Faber, published 2009:]
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Bodin deemed the king of France's power as absolute in the sense that the ruler was ‘absolved’ by divine sanction from legally binding liens and restrictions. [2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 7:]
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In fact, an 1847 state medical convention in Alambama issued a recommendation that doctors caring for slaves seek liens upon the human chattel if their bills were not paid. [2008, Harriet A. Washington, “Southern Discomfort”, in Medical Apartheid, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, page 65:]
Nouns inflected like lien
great go,
great-go,
senhor,
afrancesado,
sprite halo,
shacko,
commando,
villiaco,
magic Negro,
Phnom Laang bent-toed gecko,
chacmool,
yerbal,
depressor,
bombolo,
bolivar,
bolívar,
buccinator,
boratto,
botargo,
slashed zero, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French lien, from Latin ligāmen (“bond”), from ligō (“tie, bind”). See: Latin Nouns '
ligāmen'.