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Definition of Mensal line
1. Noun. A crease on the palm; palmists say it indicates your emotional nature.
Generic synonyms: Crease, Crinkle, Furrow, Line, Seam, Wrinkle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mensal Line
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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