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Webster 1913 Edition


Blin

Blin

,
Verb.
T.
&
I.
[OE.
blinnen
, AS.
blinnan
; pref.
be-
+
linnan
to cease.]
To stop; to cease; to desist.
[Obs.]
Spenser.

Blin

,
Noun.
[AS.
blinn
.]
Cessation; end.
[Obs.]

Webster 1828 Edition


Blin

BLIN

,
Verb.
T.
To stop or cease.

Definition 2024


Blin

Blin

See also: blin

English

Alternative forms

Proper noun

Blin

  1. An ethnic group from Eritrea.
  2. Their Afro-Asiatic language.

Synonyms

  • (ethnic group): Bogos

See also

  • Wiktionary's coverage of Blin terms

blin

blin

See also: Blin

English

Verb

blin (third-person singular simple present blins, present participle blinning, simple past blinned or blan, past participle blinned or blun)

  1. (obsolete) To cease from.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.v:
      nathemore for that spectacle bad, / Did th'other two their cruell vengeaunce blin [...].
  2. (archaic or dialectal) To stop, desist; to cease to move, run, flow, etc., let up.
    • 1880, Margaret Ann Courtney, English Dialect Society, Glossary of words in use in Cornwall:
      A child may cry for half an hour, and never blin ; it may rain all day, and never blin ; the train ran 100 miles, and never blinned.
    • 1908, John Masefield, A sailor's garland:
      Thus blinned their boast, as we well ken

Noun

blin

  1. (obsolete) cessation; end

Etymology 2

From Russian блин (blin, pancake, flat object).

  1. A blintz.

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