Found 2 items, similar to Whin.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: whin whin n 1: very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe [syn: gorse, furze, Irish gorse, Ulex europaeus] 2: small Eurasian shrub having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye; common as weed in England and United States; sometimes grown as an ornamental [syn: woodwaxen, dyer's greenweed , dyer's-broom, dyeweed, greenweed, woadwaxen, Genista tinctoria] 3: any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt) [syn: whinstone]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Whin Whin \Whin\, n. [W. chwyn weeds, a single weed.] [1913 Webster] 1. (Bot.) (a) Gorse; furze. See Furze. [1913 Webster] Through the whins, and by the cairn. --Burns. [1913 Webster] (b) Woad-waxed. --Gray. [1913 Webster] 2. Same as Whinstone. [Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster] 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["o]l.), the hedge sparrow. [Prov. Eng.] Whin Thrush (Zo["o]l.), the redwing. [Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster]