: the state of one who lacks a usual or socially acceptable amount of money or material possessions
: renunciation as a member of a religious order of the right as an individual to own property
: scarcity, dearth
: a length of cord or cord-like material: such as
: a comparatively strong slender cord
: clothesline
: to mark or cover with a line or lines
: to depict with lines : draw
: to place or form a line along
: to cover the inner surface of
: to put something in the inside of : fill
: to serve as the lining of
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