Word Meanings - WHIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Gorse; furze. See Furze. Through the whins, and by the cairn. Burns. Woad-waxed. Gray. 2. Same as Whinstone. Moor whin or Petty whin , a low prickly shrub common in Western Europe. -- Whin bruiser, a machine for cutting and bruising whin,

Additional info about word: WHIN

Gorse; furze. See Furze. Through the whins, and by the cairn. Burns. Woad-waxed. Gray. 2. Same as Whinstone. Moor whin or Petty whin , a low prickly shrub common in Western Europe. -- Whin bruiser, a machine for cutting and bruising whin, or furze, to feed cattle on. -- Whin Sparrow , the hedge sparrow. -- Whin Thrush , the redwing.

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• BRUISEWORT
  A plant supposed to heal bruises, as the true daisy, the soapwort, and the comfrey.
• MACHINER
  One who or operates a machine; a machinist.
• CUTTHROAT
  One who cuts throats; a murderer; an assassin.
• COMMONER
  1. One of the common people; one having no rank of nobility. All below them even their children, were commoners, and in the eye law equal to each other. Hallam. 2. A member of the House of Commons. 3. One who has a joint right in common ground.
• COMMONISH
  Somewhat common; commonplace; vulgar.
• SHRUBBY
  1. Full of shrubs. 2. Of the nature of a shrub; resembling a shrub. "Shrubby browse." J. Philips.
• COMMONLY
  1. Usually; generally; ordinarily; frequently; for the most part; as, confirmed habits commonly continue trough life. 2. In common; familiary. Spenser.
• COMMONWEALTH
  Specifically, the form of government established on the death of Charles I., in 1649, which existed under Oliver Cromwell and his son Richard, ending with the abdication of the latter in 1659. Syn. -- State; realm; republic. (more info) 1. A state;
• SHRUBLESS
  having no shrubs. Byron.
• CUTTY
  Short; as, a cutty knife; a cutty sark.
• WAXBILL
  Any one of numerous species of finchlike birds belonging to Estrelda and allied genera, native of Asia, Africa, and Australia. The bill is large, conical, and usually red in color, resembling sealing wax. Several of the species are often kept as
• PETTYWHIN
  The needle furze. See under Needle.
• FURZEN
  Furzy; gorsy. Holland.
• THROUGH
  thuru, OFries. thruch, D. door, OHG. durh, duruh, G. durch, Goth. ; 1. From end to end of, or from side to side of; from one surface or limit of, to the opposite; into and out of at the opposite, or at another, point; as, to bore through a piece
• COMMONITION
  Advice; warning; instruction. Bailey.
• PRICKLY
  Full of sharp points or prickles; armed or covered with prickles; as, a prickly shrub. Prickly ash , a prickly shrub with yellowish flowers appearing with the leaves. All parts of the plant are pungent and aromatic. The southern species
• CUTTING
  1. The act or process of making an incision, or of severing, felling, shaping, etc. 2. Something cut, cut off, or cut out, as a twig or
• CUTTYSTOOL
  1. A low stool 2. A seat in old Scottish churches, where offenders were made to sit, for public rebuke by the minister.
• WAXWORKS
  An exhibition of wax figures, or the place of exhibition.
• COMMONAGE
  The right of pasturing on a common; the right of using anything in common with others. The claim of comonage . . . in most of the forests. Burke.
• GRAMME MACHINE
  A kind of dynamo-electric machine; -- so named from its French inventor, M. Gramme. Knight.
• UNCOMMON
  Not common; unusual; infrequent; rare; hence, remarkable; strange; as, an uncommon season; an uncommon degree of cold or heat; uncommon courage. Syn. -- Rare; scarce; infrequent; unwonted. -- Un*com"mon*ly, adv. -- Un*com"mon*ness, n.
• BURRING MACHINE
  A machine for cleansing wool of burs, seeds, and other substances.
• FELLOW-COMMONER
  A student at Cambridge University, England, who commons, or dines, at the Fellow's table.
• INTERCOMMON
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• STRAW-CUTTER
  An instrument to cut straw for fodder.
• PLEUROPERITONEUM
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• PACKWAX
  See PAXWAX
• SWARD-CUTTER
  A plow for turning up grass land. A lawn mower.
• PAXWAX
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• GLIDING MACHINE
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• SCUTTLE
  both fr. L. scutella, dim. of scutra, scuta, a dish or platter; cf. 1. A broad, shallow basket. 2. A wide-mouthed vessel for holding coal: a coal hod.