Definition of Mensal line

1. Noun. A crease on the palm; palmists say it indicates your emotional nature.

Exact synonyms: Heart Line, Line Of Heart, Love Line
Generic synonyms: Crease, Crinkle, Furrow, Line, Seam, Wrinkle

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mensal Line

menostasis
menostatic
menostation
menostaxis
menotropins
menow
menows
menpo
mens rea
mens store
mensae
mensal
mensal line (current term)
mensas
mensch
menschen
mensches
menschier
menschlike
menschy
mense
mensed
menseful
menseless
menservants
mensh

Literary usage of Mensal line

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1850)
"This space is called the table of the hand, which hath on the one side the mensal line, on the other the middle natural line. Sander»' Chiromancy, p. 87. ..."

2. Ainsworth's Magazine: A Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, & Art by William Harrison Ainsworth, George Cruikshank, Hablot Knight Browne (1845)
"See you not the mensal line, and the upward-turning branches of the line of life ? Enough for the present. In eight and forty hours we will speak further on ..."

3. Chiromancy; Or, The Science of Palmistry: Being a Concise Exposition of the by Henry Frith, Edward Heron-Allen (1886)
"... and by the ancients was called the mensal line, from mens, the mind; or, perhaps, from mensa, a table, as it appears in the table-land of the hand. ..."

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