Pin

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Mood; humor.

II. Pin ·noun A rolling-pin.

III. Pin ·noun The tenon of a dovetail joint.

IV. Pin ·vt To Peen.

V. Pin ·noun A Linchpin.

VI. Pin ·noun A Clothespin.

VII. Pin ·noun The leg; as, to knock one off his pins.

VIII. Pin ·noun Hence, a thing of small value; a trifle.

IX. Pin ·noun Caligo. ·see Caligo.

X. Pin ·noun That which resembles a pin in its form or use.

XI. Pin ·noun The bull's eye, or center, of a target; hence, the center.

XII. Pin ·noun A short shaft, sometimes forming a bolt, a part of which serves as a journal.

XIII. Pin ·noun A peg in musical instruments, for increasing or relaxing the tension of the strings.

XIV. Pin ·noun An ornament, as a brooch or badge, fastened to the clothing by a pin; as, a Masonic pin.

XV. Pin ·noun One of a row of pegs in the side of an ancient drinking cup to mark how much each man should drink.

XVI. Pin ·noun To fasten with, or as with, a pin; to Join; as, to pin a garment; to pin boards together.

XVII. Pin ·vt To Inclose; to Confine; to Pen; to Pound.

XVIII. Pin ·noun Especially, a small, pointed and headed piece of brass or other wire (commonly tinned), largely used for fastening clothes, attaching papers, ·etc.

XIX. Pin ·noun A piece of wood, metal, ·etc., generally cylindrical, used for fastening separate articles together, or as a support by which one article may be suspended from another; a peg; a bolt.

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