lin

verb

1. (Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal)To desist, to stop, to cease.

   “Halfe furious vnto his foe he came, / Resolv'd in minde all suddenly to win, / Or soone to lose, before he once would lin [...].”

   “Till all war deaun I knaw thou wad not lin.”

   “He never linned till he had taen away every chicken that the wife had.”

noun

1. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative spelling of linn.

   “a roaring lin”

   “And therefore, to recount her Rivers, from their Lins (marginal gloss) Meeres or Pooles, from whence Rivers spring”

   “Here the hammer's active din / Blends with sound of roaring lin.”

   “Whan they came to the roaring lin, She drave unwitting Isabel in.”

   “What seek we here / Amid this waste where desolation scowls, / And the red torrent, brawling down the linn, / Sings everlasting discord?”

2. (Ireland, Northern-England, Scotland, alt-of, alternative, especially, in-compounds)Alternative form of line (“flax, linen”).

   “a lin apron, lin-break, lin-brake, a lin cap, lin-clout, lin-garn/lin-yarn, lin-man, lin-weaver/lin-webster, lin-wheel”

   “A yerd a gooid lin check.”

   “Paddeys wi' their feyne lin' ware.”

   “Hoo wur stonnin' i' th' front of a weshin'-mug, wi' a lin brat afore her.”

name

1. A male or female given name.
2. A surname
3. A surname from Chinese, equivalent to English Forest, Woods, or Grove
4. A surname from Chinese, equivalent to English Forest, Woods, or Grove
5. A surname from Chinese, equivalent to English Forest, Woods, or Grove
6. A surname from Chinese, equivalent to English Forest, Woods, or Grove
7. A county of Lüliang, Shanxi, China.

   “Together with his friend Tang Min, chief economist of the Asian Development Bank, Mao established a micro-credit scheme in Lin County of north China’s Shanxi province eight years ago.”

   “As mines increasingly became privatized, the profits no longer necessarily came to the villages and a major dispute was triggered in Lin County (Shanxi) in 2008 partly because the population felt they had received no benefits from the local mines (Nanfang dushi bao 22 October 2009).”