Whin

4 definitions found

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

  Furze \Furze\, n. [OE. firs, As. fyrs.] (Bot.)
     A thorny evergreen shrub ({Ulex Europ[ae]us}), with beautiful
     yellow flowers, very common upon the plains and hills of
     Great Britain; -- called also {gorse}, and {whin}. The dwarf
     furze is {Ulex nanus}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Whin \Whin\, n. [W. chwyn weeds, a single weed.]
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     1. (Bot.)
        (a) Gorse; furze. See {Furze}.
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                  Through the whins, and by the cairn. --Burns.
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        (b) Woad-waxed. --Gray.
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     2. Same as {Whinstone}. [Prov. Eng.]
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     {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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Woad-waxen \Woad"-wax`en\, n. [Cf. {Wood-wax}.] (Bot.)
     A leguminous plant ({Genista tinctoria}) of Europe and
     Russian Asia, and adventitious in America; -- called also
     {greenwood}, {greenweed}, {dyer's greenweed}, and {whin},
     {wood-wash}, {wood-wax}, and {wood-waxen}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  whin
       n 1: very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant
            golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe
            [syn: {gorse}, {furze}, {Irish gorse}, {Ulex europaeus}]
       2: small Eurasian shrub having clusters of yellow flowers that
          yield a dye; common as weed in England and United States;
          sometimes grown as an ornamental [syn: {woodwaxen}, {dyer's
          greenweed}, {dyer's-broom}, {dyeweed}, {greenweed}, {woadwaxen},
           {Genista tinctoria}]
       3: any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks
          consisting of chert or basalt) [syn: {whinstone}]