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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.

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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.

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whin

n. 1 gorse; furze. 2 The plant woad-waxen. 3 whinstone.

WordNet
whin
  1. n. 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]

Wikipedia
WHIN

WHIN (1010 AM), licensed to Gallatin, Tennessee, is a radio station broadcasting a country music format. The station is owned by Whin, Inc..

Usage examples of "whin".

Disnae metter aboot the language, man, lassies ken whin thir bein leered at by some fuckin half-pished creep.

Whin Rockyfellar wants tin millyon, he puts up his peace iv mind or his health or something akelly valyable.

If hosen and shoon thou gavest nane, The whins shall prick thee intil the bane.

General Stigh came into the room, his mouth open as if about to say something to Whin.

Where the trees were pines and the ground a carpet of needles and young whortleberries the going was good, but when whins intervened or burnt heather or the matted stumps of fallen oaks, and the moon was shut out by thick undergrowth, it was necessary to walk as delicately as Agag.

Terror was picking his steps, narvous, among the stones of the road, whin suddenly a frowning, ugly rock seemed to jump up and stand ferninst them at a turn of the path.

It is also known as Fursbush, Furrs and Whins, being crushed and given as fodder to cattle.

Captain Epaminondas Lucius Quintus Cassius Marcellus Xerxes Cyrus Bangs of Hoganpolis, Hamilcar Township, Butseen County, died iv hear-rt disease whin his scoor was tied.

Wavy tree-tops, yellow whins, Shelter eager minikins, Myriads, free to peck and pipe: Would you better?

Where the trees were pines and the ground a carpet of needles and young whortleberries the going was good, but when whins intervened or burnt heather or the matted stumps of fallen oaks, and the moon was shut out by thick undergrowth, it was necessary to walk as delicately as Agag.

I think of it," says the fairy man, a vexed frown wrinkling over his forehead, "there's three young bachelors in your own parish that have a foolish habit of callin' their colleens angels whin they's not the laste likeness - not the laste.

D'ye think that we are a coople av hoochy-koochy girls to be makin' sphort for all the domned dudes that runs to look at us whin their mammas don't know they're out?

We thought that the lad here left the danged counthry for good, an' sarves thim danged yellow-legs that boss the Company right for not knowin' a man whin they see wan.

But whin it comes to foightin', now, it's mesilf belaves Oi have yez bate, Fritz, me bye.

An thin ag'in, a gossoon who'll talk to his sweetheart about the size of the petatie crop'll maybe bate her whin they're both married.