lin

present singular third person lins · participle present linning · past linned · past lan · participle past linned · participle past lan · participle past lun

1. Northern EnglandScotlandUKdialectalTo desist, to stop, to cease.

   Till all war deaun I knaw thou wad not lin.

   1684, Meriton, Praise Ale, 1.46 (quoted in the EDD)

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

   1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

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

   1822, The Three Perils of Man, James Hogg, I. 238

plural lins

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of linn.

   a roaring lin

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

   1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 9 p. 134

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

   c. 1735-1801, John Millar, poem, published in 1979, William Christian Lehmann, John Millar of Glasgow, 1735-1801, page 414

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

   1776, David Herd, George Paton, Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs, Heroic Ballads, Etc, page 20, "Binnorie"

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

   1814, J. H. Craig [pseudonym; James Hogg], The Hunting of Badlewe: A Dramatic Tale, London: H[enry] Colburn; Edinburgh: G. Goldie, →OCLC, page 1; quoted in “The Hunting of Badlewe, a Dramatic Tale. 8vo. Edin. 1814. [From the Scottish Review.]”, in The Analectic Magazine, Containing Selections from Foreign Reviews and Magazines, together with Original Miscellaneous Compositions, volume V (New Series), Philadelphia, Pa.: Published and sold by Moses Thomas, […], May 1815, →OCLC, pages 353–354

   A step farther might be on the firm earth; but more probably it would be illusive, and dash him into the roaring Lin, where he would be ingulfed at once in its furious whirlpool.

   1827, Jane Porter, The Scottish Chiefs, page 51

plural lins

1. IrelandNorthern EnglandScotlandalternativeespeciallyin compoundsAlternative 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

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   […] to Sowerby-bridge, about twenty-four measured miles, wheel carriages would go in one day; and on that account they concluded that the manufacture of that place, Warrington, &c. would be much readier and cheaper supplied with lin-yarn, flax, &c. from the east, […] 1641.—14 yards of femble cloth, 12s. ; 8 yards of linen, 6s. 8d. ; 20 yards of harden, 10s. ; 5 linen sheets, 1l. ; 7 linen pillow bears, 8s. ; 2 femble sheets and a line hard sheet, 10s. ; 3 linen towels, 4s. ; 6 lin curtains and a vallance, 12s. ; […]

   1775, John Watson, The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Halifax, page 16

   A yerd a gooid lin check.

   1864, Poems, Preston, section 8

   Paddeys wi' their feyne lin' ware.

   1866, Gilpin, Songs, 233

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

   1874 (ed. of 1879), Waugh, Chim. Corner, 27

plural Lins

1. A male or female given name.
2. A surname

plural Lins · alternative Lim · alternative Lam · alternative Lem · alternative Ling · alternative Lang · alternative Leng · alternative Lan · alternative Len · alternative Nin · alternative Rim · alternative Im · alternative Lim · alternative Rin · alternative Hayashi · alternative Lam

1. A surname from Chinese, equivalent to English Forest, Woods, or Grove
   1. A surname from Mandarin
   2. A surname from Gan
   3. A surname from Wu
   4. A surname from Xiang

1. 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.

   2002 April 19, Xiao Rong, “'Grandpa Mao' Trains Peasants”, in Beijing Today, number 49, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1, column 1

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   Inspired by the communique of the Second Plenary Session of the Ninth CCP Central Committee and in order to greet the convening of the first provincial congress of activists in the creative study and application of Mao Tsetung Thought, the Chinchung Special District Revolutionary Committee recently held a discussion meeting on the study of Mao Tsetung Thought for leading cadres at and above standing committee level of the revolutionary committees of the special district and of the counties and all big factories and mines in the special district.[…] Study courses in the Thought of Mao Tsetung have been conducted by many leading cadres in the special district, including (Liu Kuo-yao), chairman of the Fenyang County Revolutionary Committee and a PLA representative; (Chao Hsiao-yuan), chairman of the Lin County Revolutionary Committee and a PLA representative; and (Kuo Li-chen), chairman of the Pingting County Revolutionary Committee and a PLA representative.

   1970 October 6 [1970 October 5], “Shansi Special District Holds Activists Congress”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 194, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Taiyuan Shansi Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →OCLC, Communist China: North Region, page F 1

   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).

   2012, Tim Wright, The Political Economy of the Chinese Coal Industry: Black Gold and Blood-stained Coal, Routledge, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 107

   Li Caidong, 68, who has lived in a cave his entire life in Lin county, stands outside his cave, at sunset in Lin county, Shanxi province, China March 14, 2018.[…] The relocations are voluntary, say residents of Lin county, but Guo sees no reason to abandon her cave house.[…] “Our work has been proceeding smoothly,” Liu Yongfu, an official handling poverty alleviation and development efforts, told a news conference in Beijing in March. “The common folk are very supportive.” But authorities in Lin county declined to comment on their relocation plans when contacted by Reuters.

   2018 May 11, Joseph Campbell, Elias Glenn, “Better off in a cave: Chinese count costs of apartments in anti-poverty campaign”, in Darren Schuettler, Clarence Fernandez, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 24 Nov 2018, World News