noun. undefined

noun. A whinstone.

noun. A name given in the north of England and in Wales to various rocks, chiefly to basalt, but also to any unusually hard quartzose sandstone. The latter is sometimes called white or gray whin, the basalt blue whin. See whin-sill.

noun. An erroneous form of whim, 3.

noun. Same as wheen.

noun. A plant of the genus Ulex, the furze or gorse, chiefly U. Europæus and U. nanus. See furze,1, and cut under Ulex.

noun. Same as rest-harrow, 1.

noun. undefined

noun. Gorse; furze. See Furze.

noun. Woad-waxed.

noun. Same as Whinstone.

noun. a low prickly shrub (Genista Anglica) common in Western Europe.

noun. undefined

noun. a machine for cutting and bruising whin, or furze, to feed cattle on.

noun. the hedge sparrow.

noun. the redwing.

noun. Gorse; furze.

noun. The plant woad-waxen.

noun. whinstone

noun. very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe

noun. any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt)

noun. small Eurasian shrub having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye; common as a weed in Britain and the United States; sometimes grown as an ornamental

"What th 'Czar whispered to th' Imp'ror Willum whin they were alone, how to make a silk hat out iv a wire matthress, how to settle th 'coal sthrike, who to marry, how to get on with ye'er wife whin ye're married, what to feed th' babies, what doctor to call whin ye've fed thim as directed, -- all iv that ye'll find in th 'pa-apers."

cammock-whin  cat-whin  heather-whin  lady-whin  land-whin  

pettywhin  

broom  bush  rock  shrub  stone  

be'ind  carryin'  daphne  dressin'  dry-stone  

furz  woad-waxed  

whinstone