Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Thalline \Thal"line\, a. (Bot.)
   Consisting of a thallus.

Thalline \Thal"line\, n. [Gr. ? a young shoot or branch.]
   (Chem.)
   An artificial alkaloid of the quinoline series, obtained as a
   white crystalline substance, {C10H13NO}, whose salts are
   valuable as antipyretics; -- so called from the green color
   produced in its solution by certain oxidizing agents.