The act of one who lines; the act or process of making lines, or of inserting a lining. [1913 Webster]
That which covers the inner surface of anything, as of a garment or a box; also, the contents of anything. [1913 Webster]
"The lining of his coffers shall make coats
To deck our soldiers." [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

lining, n.
1 a layer of material used to line a surface etc.
2 an inside layer or surface etc. (stomach lining).

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THESAURUS

lining

Smyth sewing, backing, bibliopegy, binder board, binding, book cloth, book cover, book jacket, bookbinding, bookcase, burr, bush, bushing, case, casemaking, casing-in, chiseling, collating, collating mark, cover, cross-hatching, demitint, doubling, doublure, dust cover, dust jacket, engravement, engraving, etch, etching, facing, filler, filling, folding, footband, gathering, gem-engraving, glass-cutting, gluing-off, glyptic, graving, half tint, hard binding, hatching, headband, incision, inlay, inlayer, inscript, inscription, insole, interlineation, jacket, library binding, line, liner, lining-up, marking, mechanical binding, niggerhead, packing, padding, perfect binding, plastic binding, rounding, saddle stitching, score, scoring, scratch, scratching, sewing, side sewing, signature, slash, slashing, slipcase, slipcover, smashing, soft binding, spiral binding, stamping, stapling, stipple, stippling, stuffing, tailband, tint, tipping, tooling, trimming, type-cutting, wadding, wainscot, wire stitching, wrapper

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ROGET THESAURUS

lining

Lining

N lining, inner coating, coating, stalactite, stalagmite, filling, stuffing, wadding, padding, wainscot, parietes, wall, lined.

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