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say it: leen
lien is a noun meaning "the right to take another's property if an obligation is not discharged". It is pronounced /ˈlin/ — leen. It carries 2 recorded senses.
the right to take another's property if an obligation is not discharged
a large dark-red oval organ on the left side of the body between the stomach and the diaphragm; produces cells involved in immune responses
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for lien come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.