[jin] 
| 1. | an alcoholic liquor obtained by distilling grain mash with juniper berries. |
| 2. | an alcoholic liquor similar to this, made by redistilling spirits with flavoring agents, esp. juniper berries, orange peel, angelica root, etc. |
[jin] noun, verb, ginned, gin⋅ning.| 1. | cotton gin. |
| 2. | a trap or snare for game. |
| 3. | any of various machines employing simple tackle or windlass mechanisms for hoisting. |
| 4. | a stationary prime mover having a drive shaft rotated by horizontal beams pulled by horses walking in a circle. |
| 5. | to clear (cotton) of seeds with a gin. |
| 6. | to snare (game). |
[gin] | to begin. |
[jin] noun, verb, ginned, gin⋅ning. Cards.| 1. | Also called gin rummy. a variety of rummy for two players, in which a player with 10 or fewer points in unmatched cards can end the game by laying down the hand. |
| 2. | the winning of such a game by laying down a full set of matched cards, earning the winner a bonus of 20 or 25 points. |
| 3. | to win a game in gin by laying down a hand in which all 10 cards are included in sets. |
[jin] | 1. | a female Aborigine. |
| 2. | an Aboriginal wife. |
| gin 1 (jĭn) n. A strong colorless alcoholic beverage made by distilling or redistilling rye or other grain spirits and adding juniper berries or aromatics such as anise, caraway seeds, or angelica root as flavoring. [Alteration of geneva, from Dutch jenever, from Middle Dutch geniver, juniper, from Old French geneivre, from Vulgar Latin *iiniperus, from Latin iūniperus.] gin'ny adj. |
| gin 2 (jĭn) n.
[Middle English, from Old French, short for engin, skill; see engine.] |
| gin 3 (jĭn) n. Gin rummy. |
... to put ginger up a horse's fundament, and formerly, as it is said, a live eel, to make him lively and carry his tail well; it is said, a forfeit is incurred by any horse-dealer's servant, who shall shew a horse without first feaguing him. Feague is used, figuratively, for encouraging or spiriting one up.
GIN
A special-purpose macro assembler used to build the GEORGE 3 operating system for ICL1900 series computers.
(1994-11-02)
Gin
a trap. (1.) Ps. 140:5, 141:9, Amos 3:5, the Hebrew word used, _mokesh_, means a noose or "snare," as it is elsewhere rendered (Ps. 18:5; Prov. 13:14, etc.). (2.) Job 18:9, Isa. 8:14, Heb. pah, a plate or thin layer; and hence a net, a snare, trap, especially of a fowler (Ps. 69: 22, "Let their table before them become a net;" Amos 3:5, "Doth a bird fall into a net [pah] upon the ground where there is no trap-stick [mokesh] for her? doth the net [pah] spring up from the ground and take nothing at all?", Gesenius.)
| GIN Greenland-Iceland-Norway |
