whin : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: whin	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for whin
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
whin n very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden- yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe Synonym(s): gorse, furze, whin, Irish gorse, Ulex europaeus 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 Synonym(s): woodwaxen, dyer's greenweed, dyer's-broom, dyeweed, greenweed, whin, woadwaxen, Genista tinctoria any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt) Synonym(s): whinstone, whin
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Whin \Whin\, n. [W. chwyn weeds, a single weed.] 1. (Bot.) (a) Gorse; furze. See {Furze}. Through the whins, and by the cairn. --Burns. (b) Woad-waxed. --Gray. 2. Same as {Whinstone}. [Prov. Eng.] {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} (Zo[94]l.), the hedge sparrow. [Prov. Eng.] {Whin Thrush} (Zo[94]l.), the redwing. [Prov. Eng.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Furze \Furze\, n. [OE. firs, As. fyrs.] (Bot.) A thorny evergreen shrub ({Ulex Europ[91]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}.