Define the word whin"whin" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
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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"Whin" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
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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"whin" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
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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"whin" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"
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]
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