n. (Chem.) A bitter purgative principle in aloes. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. See Eloign. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. See Eloignate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Eloignment. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ See Eloign. ] To remove; to banish; to withdraw; to avoid; to eloign. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

From worldly cares he did himself esloin. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. loine, OF. logne, F. longe, from (assumed) LL. lumbea, L. lumbus join. Cf. Lends, Lumbar, Nombles. ] 1. That part of a human being or quadruped, which extends on either side of the spinal column between the hip bone and the false ribs. In human beings the loins are also called the reins. See Illust. of Beef. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A cut of meat taken from this part of a food animal, as from cattle or hogs. [ PJC ]

3. pl. The pubic area; the genitalia, especially in women; as, receptive loins. [ PJC ]

n. A cloth covering for the loins, worn around the hips; -- sometimes worn in tropical areas as the only article of clothing.
Syn. -- breechcloth, breechclout, G-string. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ From Natal aloes. ] (Chem.) A bitter crystalline substance constituting the essential principle of Natal aloes. Cf. Aloon. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Purloined p. pr. & vb. n. Purloining. ] [ OF. purloignier, porloignier, to retard, delay; pur, por, pour, for (L. pro) + loin far, far off (L. longe). See Prolong, and cf. Eloign. ] To take or carry away for one's self; hence, to steal; to take by theft; to filch. [ 1913 Webster ]

Had from his wakeful custody purloined
The guarded gold. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

when did the muse from Fletcher scenes purloin ? Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To practice theft; to steal. Titus ii. 10. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who purloins. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ A corruption of surloin. Not so called because this cut of beef was once jocosely knighted (dubbed Sir Loin) by an English king, as according to a popular story. ] A loin of beef, or a part of a loin. [ Written also surloin. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. surlonge; sur upon + longe loin. See Sur-, and Loin. ] A loin of beef, or the upper part of the loin. See Sirloin, the more usual, but not etymologically preferable, orthography. [ Also spelled sirloin. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A strip of tender flesh on either side of the vertebral column under the short ribs, in the hind quarter of beef and pork. It consists of the psoas muscles. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. In New York City, the region which is the center of the night life of fashionable amusement, including the majority of the theaters, etc., centering on Broadway. The term orig. designates the old twenty-ninth police precinct, in this region, which afforded the police great opportunities for profit through conniving at vice and lawbreaking, one captain being reported to have said on being transferred there that whereas he had been eating chuck steak he would now eat tenderlion. Hence, in some other cities, a district largely devoted to night amusement, or, sometimes, to vice. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]