- (n.) An ornament, as a brooch or badge, fastened to the clothing by a pin; as, a Masonic pin.
- (n.) Mood; humor.
- (n.) That which resembles a pin in its form or use.
- (n.) Especially, a small, pointed and headed piece of brass or other wire (commonly tinned), largely used for fastening clothes, attaching papers, etc.
- (n.) A peg in musical instruments, for increasing or relaxing the tension of the strings.
- (n.) A rolling-pin.
- (n.) The tenon of a dovetail joint.
- (n.) Caligo. See Caligo.
- (n.) A linchpin.
- (n.) The leg; as, to knock one off his pins.
- (n.) A piece of wood, metal, etc., generally cylindrical, used for fastening separate articles together or as a support by which one article may be suspended from another; a peg; a bolt.
- (n.) Hence, a thing of small value; a trifle.
- (n.) A clothespin.
- (n.) One of a row of pegs in the side of an ancient drinking cup to mark how much each man should drink.
- (n.) A short shaft, sometimes forming a bolt, a part of which serves as a journal.
- (n.) The bull's eye or center, of a target; hence, the center.
- (v.t.) To inclose; to confine; to pen; to pound.
- (v.t.) To peen.
- (n.) To fasten with or as with, a pin; to join; as, to pin a garment; to pin boards together.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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