Gin \Gin\ (j[i^]n), n. [Contr. from Geneva. See 2d Geneva.]
   A strong alcoholic liquor, distilled from rye and barley, and
   flavored with juniper berries; -- also called Hollands and
   Holland gin, because originally, and still very
   extensively, manufactured in Holland. Common gin is usually
   flavored with turpentine.
   [1913 Webster]

	

	Gin \Gin\, n. [A contraction of engine.]
   [1913 Webster]
   1. Contrivance; artifice; a trap; a snare. --Chaucer.
      Spenser.
      [1913 Webster]

   2.
      (a) A machine for raising or moving heavy weights,
          consisting of a tripod formed of poles united at the
          top, with a windlass, pulleys, ropes, etc.
      (b) (Mining) A hoisting drum, usually vertical; a whim.
          [1913 Webster]

   3. A machine for separating the seeds from cotton; a cotton
      gin.
      [1913 Webster]

   Note: The name is also given to an instrument of torture
         worked with screws, and to a pump moved by rotary
         sails.
         [1913 Webster]

   Gin block, a simple form of tackle block, having one wheel,
      over which a rope runs; -- called also whip gin,
      rubbish pulley, and monkey wheel.

   Gin power, a form of horse power for driving a cotton gin.
      

   Gin race, or Gin ring, the path of the horse when putting
      a gin in motion. --Halliwell.

   Gin saw, a saw used in a cotton gin for drawing the fibers
      through the grid, leaving the seed in the hopper.

   Gin wheel.
      (a) In a cotton gin, a wheel for drawing the fiber through
          the grid; a brush wheel to clean away the lint.
      (b) (Mining) the drum of a whim.
          [1913 Webster]

	

	Gin \Gin\, prep. [AS. ge['a]n. See Again.]
   Against; near by; towards; as, gin night. [Scot.] --A. Ross
   (1778).
   [1913 Webster]

	

	Gin \Gin\, conj. [See Gin, prep.]
   If. [Scotch] --Jamieson.
   [1913 Webster]

	

	Gin \Gin\ (g[i^]n), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Gan (g[a^]n), Gon
   (g[o^]n), or Gun (g[u^]n); p. pr. & vb. n. Ginning.] [OE.
   ginnen, AS. ginnan (in comp.), prob. orig., to open, cut
   open, cf. OHG. inginnan to begin, open, cut open, and prob.
   akin to AS. g[imac]nan to yawn, and E. yawn. [root]31. See
   Yawn, v. i., and cf. Begin.]
   To begin; -- often followed by an infinitive without to; as,
   gan tell. See Gan. [Obs. or Archaic] "He gan to pray."
   --Chaucer.
   [1913 Webster]

	

	Gin \Gin\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ginned; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Ginning.]
   1. To catch in a trap. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. To clear of seeds by a machine; as, to gin cotton.
      [1913 Webster]

	

	gin
    n 1: strong liquor flavored with juniper berries
    2: a trap for birds or small mammals; often has a slip noose
       [syn: snare, gin, noose]
    3: a machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers
       [syn: cotton gin, gin]
    4: a form of rummy in which a player can go out if the cards
       remaining in their hand total less than 10 points [syn:
       gin, gin rummy, knock rummy]
    v 1: separate the seeds from (cotton) with a cotton gin
    2: trap with a snare; "gin game"

	

	109 Moby Thesaurus words for "gin":
   Angostura bitters, Canadian, Canadian whiskey, Cognac, Dionaea,
   Grand Champagne, Irish, Irish whiskey, Kirsch, Scotch,
   Scotch whiskey, absinthe, allure, bait the hook, baited trap,
   birdlime, bitters, blended whiskey, bolt, booby trap, bourbon,
   brandy, catch, catch out, clean rum, cordon, cordon off, cull out,
   deadfall, deathtrap, decoy, divide, eau de vie, enmesh, ensnare,
   ensnarl, entangle, entoil, entrap, enweb, filament, firetrap,
   flytrap, ghettoize, grog, hook, hook in, insulate, inveigle,
   isolate, keep apart, keep aside, lay aside, light whiskey, lime,
   lure, malt whiskey, marc, mescal, mesh, mine, mole trap, moonshine,
   mousetrap, net, noose, ouzo, pick out, pitfall, plum brandy,
   put aside, quarantine, raki, rattrap, riddle, rum, rye,
   rye whiskey, schnapps, screen, seclude, segregate, separate,
   set apart, set aside, set gun, shred, sieve, sift, slivovitz,
   snare, snarl, sniggle, sort out, spin, spirits, spread the toils,
   spring gun, tangle, tequila, thrash, thresh, trap, trapfall, trip,
   vodka, whiskey, wind, winnow

	

	GIN

   A special-purpose macro assembler used to build the GEORGE
   3 operating system for ICL1900 series computers.

   (1994-11-02)

	

	Gin
   a trap. (1.) Ps. 140:5, 141:9, Amos 3:5, the Hebrew word used,
   _mokesh_, means a noose or "snare," as it is elsewhere rendered
   (Ps. 18:5; Prov. 13:14, etc.).
   
     (2.) Job 18:9, Isa. 8:14, Heb. pah, a plate or thin layer; and
   hence a net, a snare, trap, especially of a fowler (Ps. 69: 22,
   "Let their table before them become a net;" Amos 3:5, "Doth a
   bird fall into a net [pah] upon the ground where there is no
   trap-stick [mokesh] for her? doth the net [pah] spring up from
   the ground and take nothing at all?", Gesenius.)