LINE, to extend a Line over a City, to destroy, to raze it, and level it with the Ground. Perpendiculum extenditur super Jerusalem, says Zachary i. 16. And Jeremiah in his Lamentations, ii. 8. The Lord hath proposed to destroy the Wall of the Daughter of Zion, He hath stretched out a Line.
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