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Spin
v. t.
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To protract; to spend by delays; as, to spin out the day in idleness.
Spin
v. t.
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To cause to turn round rapidly; to whirl; to twirl; as, to spin a top.
Spin
v. t.
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To form (a web, a cocoon, silk, or the like) from threads produced by the extrusion of a viscid, transparent liquid, which hardens on coming into contact with the air; -- said of the spider, the silkworm, etc.
Spin
v. t.
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To shape, as malleable sheet metal, into a hollow form, by bending or buckling it by pressing against it with a smooth hand tool or roller while the metal revolves, as in a lathe.
Spin
v. i.
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To practice spinning; to work at drawing and twisting threads; to make yarn or thread from fiber; as, the woman knows how to spin; a machine or jenny spins with great exactness.
Spin
v. i.
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To move round rapidly; to whirl; to revolve, as a top or a spindle, about its axis.
Spin
v. i.
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To stream or issue in a thread or a small current or jet; as, blood spinsfrom a vein.
Spin
v. i.
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To move swifty; as, to spin along the road in a carriage, on a bicycle, etc.
Spin
n.
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The act of spinning; as, the spin of a top; a spin a bicycle.
Spin
n.
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Velocity of rotation about some specified axis.
Spina bifida
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A congenital malformation in which the spinal column is cleft at its lower portion, and the membranes of the spinal cord project as an elastic swelling from the gap thus formed.
Spinaceous
a.
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Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the plant spinach, or the family of plants to which it belongs.
Spinach
n.
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Alt. of Spinage
Spinage
n.
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A common pot herb (Spinacia oleracea) belonging to the Goosefoot family.
Spinal
a.
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Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the backbone, or vertebral column; rachidian; vertebral.
Spinal
a.
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Of or pertaining to a spine or spines.
Spinate
a.
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Bearing a spine; spiniform.
Spindle
n.
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The long, round, slender rod or pin in spinning wheels by which the thread is twisted, and on which, when twisted, it is wound; also, the pin on which the bobbin is held in a spinning machine, or in the shuttle of a loom.
Spindle
n.
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A slender rod or pin on which anything turns; an axis; as, the spindle of a vane.
Spindle
n.
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The shaft, mandrel, or arbor, in a machine tool, as a lathe or drilling machine, etc., which causes the work to revolve, or carries a tool or center, etc.
Spindle
n.
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The vertical rod on which the runner of a grinding mill turns.
Spindle
n.
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A shaft or pipe on which a core of sand is formed.
Spindle
n.
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The fusee of a watch.
Spindle
n.
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A long and slender stalk resembling a spindle.
Spindle
n.
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A yarn measure containing, in cotton yarn, 15,120 yards; in linen yarn, 14,400 yards.
Spindle
n.
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A solid generated by the revolution of a curved line about its base or double ordinate or chord.
Spindle
n.
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Any marine univalve shell of the genus Rostellaria; -- called also spindle stromb.
Spindle
n.
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Any marine gastropod of the genus Fusus.
Spindled
imp. & p. p.
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of Spindle
Spindling
p. pr. & vb. n.
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of Spindle