Definition of whin

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Whin (n.) Same as Whinstone.

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Pettywhin :: Pettywhin (n.) The needle furze. See under Needle.
Furze :: Furze (n.) A thorny evergreen shrub (Ulex Europaeus), with beautiful yellow flowers, very common upon the plains and hills of Great Britain; -- called also gorse, and whin. The dwarf furze is Ulex nanus..
Chat :: Chat (n.) A bird of the genus Icteria, allied to the warblers, in America. The best known species are the yellow-breasted chat (I. viridis), and the long-tailed chat (I. longicauda). In Europe the name is given to several birds of the family Saxicolidae, as the stonechat, and whinchat..
Snotter :: Snotter (v. i.) To snivel; to cry or whine.
Pule :: Pule (v. i.) To whimper; to whine, as a complaining child..
Whinberry :: Whinberry (n.) The English bilberry; -- so called because it grows on moors among the whins, or furze..
Cant :: Cant (v. i.) To make whining pretensions to goodness; to talk with an affectation of religion, philanthropy, etc.; to practice hypocrisy; as, a canting fanatic..
Whinstone :: Whinstone (n.) A provincial name given in England to basaltic rocks, and applied by miners to other kind of dark-colored unstratified rocks which resist the point of the pick. -- for example, to masses of chert. Whin-dikes, and whin-sills, are names sometimes given to veins or beds of basalt..
Whinger :: Whinger (n.) A kind of hanger or sword used as a knife at meals and as a weapon.
Whinyard :: Whinyard (n.) A sword, or hanger..
Whinner :: Whinner (v. i.) To whinny.
Woad-waxen :: Woad-waxen (n.) A leguminous plant (Genista tinctoria) of Europe and Russian Asia, and adventitious in America; -- called also greenwood, greenweed, dyer's greenweed, and whin, wood-wash, wood-wax, and wood-waxen..
Snivel :: Snivel (v. i.) To cry or whine with snuffling, as children; to cry weakly or whiningly..
Sough :: Sough (v. i.) A cant or whining mode of speaking, especially in preaching or praying..
Treble :: Treble (v. t.) To utter in a treble key; to whine.
Tick :: Tick (n.) The whinchat; -- so called from its note.
Puler :: Puler (n.) One who pules; one who whines or complains; a weak person.
Whinny :: Whinny (a.) Abounding in whin, gorse, or furze..
Whiningly :: Whiningly (adv.) In a whining manner; in a tone of mean complaint.
Puling :: Puling (n.) A cry, as of a chicken,; a whining or whimpering..
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