Definition of whin

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Whin (n.) Gorse; furze. See Furze.

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Chat :: Chat (n.) A bird of the genus Icteria, allied to the warblers, in America. The best known species are the yellow-breasted chat (I. viridis), and the long-tailed chat (I. longicauda). In Europe the name is given to several birds of the family Saxicolidae, as the stonechat, and whinchat..
Whinny :: Whinny (a.) Abounding in whin, gorse, or furze..
Whine :: Whine (v. i.) To utter a plaintive cry, as some animals; to moan with a childish noise; to complain, or to tell of sorrow, distress, or the like, in a plaintive, nasal tone; hence, to complain or to beg in a mean, unmanly way; to moan basely..
Whinchat :: Whinchat (n.) A small warbler (Pratincola rubetra) common in Europe; -- called also whinchacker, whincheck, whin-clocharet..
Whimper :: Whimper (v. i.) To cry with a low, whining, broken voice; to whine; to complain; as, a child whimpers..
Cantatory :: Cantatory (a.) Containing cant or affectation; whining; singing.
Furzechat :: Furzechat (n.) The whinchat; -- called also furzechuck.
Sough :: Sough (v. i.) A cant or whining mode of speaking, especially in preaching or praying..
Canting :: Canting (a.) Speaking in a whining tone of voice; using technical or religious terms affectedly; affectedly pious; as, a canting rogue; a canting tone..
Whinyard :: Whinyard (n.) The poachard.
Woad-waxen :: Woad-waxen (n.) 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..
Whine :: Whine (v. t.) To utter or express plaintively, or in a mean, unmanly way; as, to whine out an excuse..
Whinock :: Whinock (n.) The small pig of a litter.
Neigh :: Neigh (v. i.) To utter the cry of the horse; to whinny.
Whinger :: Whinger (n.) A kind of hanger or sword used as a knife at meals and as a weapon.
Whinnied :: Whinnied (imp. & p. p.) of Whinn.
Lugubrious :: Lugubrious (a.) Mournful; indicating sorrow, often ridiculously or feignedly; doleful; woful; pitiable; as, a whining tone and a lugubrious look..
Whinyard :: Whinyard (n.) The shoveler.
Cant :: Cant (v. i.) To speak in a whining voice, or an affected, singsong tone..
Whiningly :: Whiningly (adv.) In a whining manner; in a tone of mean complaint.
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