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Whin   Listen
noun
Whin  n.  
1.
(Bot.)
(a)
Gorse; furze. See Furze. "Through the whins, and by the cairn."
(b)
Woad-waxed.
2.
Same as Whinstone. (Prov. Eng.)
Moor whin or Petty whin (Bot.), a low prickly shrub (Genista Anglica) common in Western Europe.
Whin bruiser, a machine for cutting and bruising whin, or furze, to feed cattle on.
Whin Sparrow (Zool.), the hedge sparrow. (Prov. Eng.)
Whin Thrush (Zool.), the redwing. (Prov. Eng.)






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"Whin" Quotes from Famous Books



... quick, "Bill's off. Here's to him, an' may his ghost weigh two hundred and fifty. I'm on," he says. "Whin shall it be?" ...
— The Belted Seas • Arthur Colton

... men's hands the flame was lit, we know, From heaps of dry waste whin and casual brands: Yet, knowing, we scarce believe it kindled ...
— A Century of Roundels • Algernon Charles Swinburne

... attinds to iverything himself," said Major Gahogan, who had cantered up to the side of Fitz Hugh. "It's just a matther of plain business, an' he looks after it loike a business man. Did ye see us, though, Captin, whin we come in on their right flank? By George, we murthered um. There's more'n a hundred lyin' in hapes back there. As for old Stilton, I just caught sight of um behind that wood to our left, an' he's makin' for the enemy's right rair. He'll have lots o' prisoners ...
— Stories by American Authors, Volume 8 • Various

... Whin. This pretty native shrub needs no description, suffice it to say that it is one of the handsomest-flowering shrubs in cultivation. U. europaeus flore-pleno (Double-flowered Gorse) is even more beautiful than the species, the wealth of golden flowers almost hiding the ...
— Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs • A. D. Webster

... ignorance and bitter prejudice the mental disposition of the lower class of voters. Four hours' slumming convinced me of this, and must convince anyone. "We'll bate the English into the say," said a resident in the sweet region yclept Summer Hill. "Whin we get the police in our hands an' an army of our own, we'd sweep them out o' the counthry av we only held cabbage-shtalks. Ireland for the Irish, an' to hell wid John Bull! Thim's my sintiments." And those are the ...
— Ireland as It Is - And as It Would be Under Home Rule • Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)


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