lin
verbnounnouncommon in dialogue
- //lɪn//
- //laɪn//
To desist, to stop, to cease.
verb
- 1
To desist, to stop, to cease.
Halfe furious vnto his foe he came, / Resolv'd in minde all suddenly to win, / Or soone to lose, before he once would lin [...].
Till all war deaun I knaw thou wad not lin.
He never linned till he had taen away every chicken that the wife had.
Etymology
From Middle English linnen, from Old English linnan (“to cease from, desist, lose, yield up”), from Proto-West Germanic *linnan, from Proto-Germanic *linnaną (“to turn, move aside, avoid”), from Proto-Indo-European *ley- (“to elude, avoid, shrink from”). Cognate with Danish linne (“to stop, rest”), dialectal Swedish linna (“to pause, rest”), Icelandic linna (“to stop, rest”).
noun
- 1
Variant of linnAlternative spelling of linn.
a roaring lin
And therefore, to recount her Rivers, from their Lins (marginal gloss) Meeres or Pooles, from whence Rivers spring
Here the hammer's active din / Blends with sound of roaring lin.
Whan they came to the roaring lin, She drave unwitting Isabel in.
Etymology
See English linn.
noun
- 1
Variant of lineAlternative form of line (“flax, linen”).
a lin apron, lin-break, lin-brake, a lin cap, lin-clout, lin-garn/lin-yarn, lin-man, lin-weaver/lin-webster, lin-wheel
A yerd a gooid lin check.
Paddeys wi' their feyne lin' ware.
Hoo wur stonnin' i' th' front of a weshin'-mug, wi' a lin brat afore her.
Etymology
From Middle English lin, from Old English līn (“flax, linen, cloth”). For more information, see the entry linen, lint.
Forms
- plural
- lins
- past tense
- linned, lan
- past participle
- linned, lan, lun
- present participle
- linning
- third person singular
- lins