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   Pin , v. t. (Metal Working) To peen.
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   Pin , v. t. [Cf. Pen to confine, or Pinfold.] To inclose; to confine; to pen; to pound.
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   Pin, n. [OE. pinne, AS. pinn a pin, peg; cf. D. pin, G. pinne, Icel. pinni, W. pin, Gael. & Ir. pinne; all fr. L. pinna a pinnacle, pin, feather, perhaps orig. a different word from pinna feather. Cf. Fin of a fish, Pen a feather.]
   A piece of wood, metal, etc., generally cylindrical, used for fastening separate articles together, or as a support by which one article may be suspended from another; a peg; a bolt.
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   With pins of adamant
   And chains they made all fast.
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   Especially, a small, pointed and headed piece of brass or other wire (commonly tinned), largely used for fastening clothes, attaching papers, etc.
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   Hence, a thing of small value; a trifle.
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   He . . . did not care a pin for her.
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   That which resembles a pin in its form or use; as: (a) A peg in musical instruments, for increasing or relaxing the tension of the strings. (b) A linchpin. (c) A rolling-pin. (d) A clothespin. (e) (Mach.) A short shaft, sometimes forming a bolt, a part of which serves as a journal. See Illust. of Knuckle joint, under Knuckle. (f) (Joinery) The tenon of a dovetail joint.
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   One of a row of pegs in the side of an ancient drinking cup to mark how much each man should drink.
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   The bull's eye, or center, of a target; hence, the center. [Obs.] “The very pin of his heart cleft.” 
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   Mood; humor. [Obs.] “In merry pin.” 
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   (Med.) Caligo. See Caligo.
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   An ornament, as a brooch or badge, fastened to the clothing by a pin; as, a Masonic pin.
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   The leg; as, to knock one off his pins. [Slang]
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   Banking pin (Horol.), a pin against which a lever strikes, to limit its motion. -- Pin drill (Mech.), a drill with a central pin or projection to enter a hole, for enlarging the hole, or for sinking a recess for the head of a bolt, etc.; a counterbore. -- Pin grass. (Bot.) See Alfilaria. -- Pin hole, a small hole made by a pin; hence, any very small aperture or perforation. -- Pin lock, a lock having a cylindrical bolt; a lock in which pins, arranged by the key, are used instead of tumblers. -- Pin money, an allowance of money, as that made by a husband to his wife, for private and personal expenditure. -- Pin rail (Naut.), a rail, usually within the bulwarks, to hold belaying pins. Sometimes applied to the fife rail. Called also pin rack. -- Pin wheel. (a) A contrate wheel in which the cogs are cylindrical pins. (b) (Fireworks) A small coil which revolves on a common pin and makes a wheel of yellow or colored fire. 
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   Pin , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pinned ; p. pr. & vb. n. Pinning.] [See Pin, n.] To fasten with, or as with, a pin; to join; as, to pin a garment; to pin boards together. “As if she would pin her to her heart.” 
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   To pin one's faith upon, to depend upon; to trust to.
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