Blin

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Blin \Blin\, v. t. & i. [OE. blinnen, AS. blinnan; pref. be- +
     linnan to cease.]
     To stop; to cease; to desist. [Obs.] --Spenser.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Blin \Blin\, n. [AS. blinn.]
     Cessation; end. [Obs.]
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  blin \blin\, n.; pl. {blini}, {bliny} or {blinis}. [Russian.]
     a thin buckwheat pancake made with yeast and usually filled
     with sour cream and folded over. See also {blini}.
     [PJC]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  blini \bli"ni\ (bl[=e]"n[=e]; bl[i^]"n[=e]), n. pl.; sing.
     {blin}. [Russian.]
     Russian pancakes of buckwheat flour and yeast, sometimes made
     from white flour; they are usually served folded over, with
     caviar and sour cream on the inside; -- properly, it is a
     plural word (from the Russian plural of blin) but in America,
     often used as singular; thus the common plural {blinis}.
  
     Syn: bliny, blinis.
          [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  BLIND. One who is deprived of the faculty of seeing.
       2. Persons who are blind may enter into contracts and make wills like 
  others. Carth. 53; Barn. 19, 23; 3 Leigh, R. 32. When an attesting witness 
  becomes blind, his handwriting may be proved as if he were dead. 1 Stark. 
  Ev. 341. But before proving his handwriting the witness must be produced, if 
  within the jurisdiction of the court, and examined. Ld. Raym. 734; 1 M. & 
  Rob. 258; 2 M. & Rob. 262.