noun. One of the two forms of the 21st letter of the Hebrew alphabet, distinguished from the letter sin by having a dot above the right side of the letter.

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noun. The front part of the leg below the knee and above the ankle.

noun. The shinbone.

noun. A cut of meat from the lower foreleg of beef cattle.

intransitive verb. To climb (a rope or pole, for example) by gripping and pulling alternately with the hands and legs.

intransitive verb. To kick or hit in the shins.

intransitive verb. To climb something by shinning it.

intransitive verb. To move quickly on foot.

To use the shins in climbing; climb by hugging with arms and legs: with up: as, to shin up a tree.

To go afoot; walk: as, to shin along; to shin across the field.

To climb by grasping with the arms and legs and working or pulling one's self up: as, to shin a tree.

To kick on the shins.

noun. A god, or the gods collectively; spirit, or the spirits; with a capital, the term used by many Protestant missionaries in China, and universally among Protestant Christians in Japan, for the Supreme Being; God. (See kami.) Sometimes the adjective chin, ‘true,’ is prefixed in Chinese. See Shangti and Shinto.

noun. The front part of the human leg from the knee to the ankle, along which the sharp edge of the shin-bone or tibia may be felt beneath the skin.

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noun. The shin-bone.

noun. The lower leg; the shank: as, a shin of beef.

noun. In ornithology, the hard or scaly part of the leg of a bird; the shank. See sharp-shinncd.

noun. In entomology, the tibia, or fourth joint of the leg. Also called shank. See cut under coxa.

noun. A fishplate.

noun. An adapted pronunciation of the abbreviation sinh, used as a colloquial substitute for ‘hyperbolic sine.’

noun. The twenty-first letter of the Hebrew alphabet, corresponding in sound to the English sh. Its numerical value is 300.

noun. In a modern turning-plow, the lower front corner of the mold-board, next the share and forming part of the cutting edge. It replaces in part the head or sheath of old plows.

noun. The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone; the lower part of the leg; the shank.

noun. A fish plate for rails.

noun. the tibia.

noun. a perennial ericaceous herb (Pyrola elliptica) with a cluster of radical leaves and a raceme of greenish white flowers.

intransitive verb. To climb a mast, tree, rope, or the like, by embracing it alternately with the arms and legs, without help of steps, spurs, or the like; -- used with up.

intransitive verb. To run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as for the payment of one's notes at the bank.

transitive verb. To climb (a pole, etc.) by shinning up.

noun. The twenty-first letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).

noun. The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone; the lower part of the leg; the shank.

verb. To climb a mast, tree, rope, or the like, by embracing it alternately with the arms and legs, without help of steps, spurs, or the like; -- used with up.

verb. To strike with the shin.

verb. climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling

noun. the inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle

noun. the 22nd letter of the Hebrew alphabet

noun. the front part of the human leg between the knee and the ankle

noun. a cut of meat from the lower part of the leg

"For this stupidity I received a couple of stitches on my left knee, my shin is a giant scab, and my right thigh looks as if someone took a baseball bat to it."

double shin  sore-shin disease  sore-shin fungus  

shin bone  shin leaf  shin splints  shinned  shinning  

alphabetic character  body part  climb  cut  cut of meat  

Allin  Atkin  Begin  Berlin  Boleyn  

ankle  armpit  arse  biceps  buttock  

ankle  bayonet legs  bowlegs  calf  clamber  

shinned  shinning  

shinned  shinning  shins