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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

WHIN, n. [L.] Gorse; furze; a plant of the genus Ulex.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden- yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe [syn: gorse, furze, whin, Irish gorse, Ulex europaeus]
2: 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 [syn: woodwaxen, dyer's greenweed, dyer's-broom, dyeweed, greenweed, whin, woadwaxen, Genista tinctoria]
3: any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt) [syn: whinstone, whin]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle English whynne, of Scandinavian origin; akin to Norwegian kvein bent grass Date: 14th century gorse

Oxford Reference Dictionary

1. n. (in sing. or pl.) furze, gorse. Etymology: prob. Scand.: cf. Norw. hvine, Sw. hven 2. n. 1 hard dark esp. basaltic rock or stone. 2 a piece of this. Etymology: ME: orig. unkn.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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["o]l.), the hedge sparrow. [Prov. Eng.] Whin Thrush (Zo["o]l.), the redwing. [Prov. Eng.]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Furze Furze, n. [OE. firs, As. fyrs.] (Bot.) A thorny evergreen shrub (Ulex Europ[ae]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.