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SPIN, v.t. pret. and pp. spun. Span is not used. [If the sense is to draw out or extend, this coincides in origin with span.]

1. To draw out and twist into threads, either by the hand or machinery; as, to spin wool, cotton or flax; to spin goats' hair. All the yarn which Penelope spun in Ulysses' absence did but fill Ithaca with moths.

2. To draw out tediously; to form by a slow process of be degrees; with out; as, to spin out large volumes on a subject.

3. To extend to a great length; as, to spin out a subject.

4. To draw out; to protract; to spend by delays; as, to spin out the day in the idleness By one delay after another, they spin out their whole lives.

5. To whirl with a thread; to turn or cause to whirl; as, to spin a top.

6. To draw out from the stomach in a filament; as, a spider spins a web.


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SPIN, v.t. pret. and pp. spun. Span is not used. [If the sense is to draw out or extend, this coincides in origin with span.]

1. To draw out and twist into threads, either by the hand or machinery; as, to spin wool, cotton or flax; to spin goats' hair. All the yarn which Penelope spun in Ulysses' absence did but fill Ithaca with moths.

2. To draw out tediously; to form by a slow process of be degrees; with out; as, to spin out large volumes on a subject.

3. To extend to a great length; as, to spin out a subject.

4. To draw out; to protract; to spend by delays; as, to spin out the day in the idleness By one delay after another, they spin out their whole lives.

5. To whirl with a thread; to turn or cause to whirl; as, to spin a top.

6. To draw out from the stomach in a filament; as, a spider spins a web.

SPIN, v.i.

  1. To practice spinning; to work at drawing and twisting threads; as, the woman knows how to spin. They neither know to spin, nor care to toil. – Prior.
  2. To perform the act of drawing and twisting threads; as, a machine or jenny spins with great exactness.
  3. To move round rapidly; to whirl; as, a top or a spindle.
  4. To stream or issue in a thread or small current; as, blood spins from a vein. – Drayton.

SPIN, v.t. [pret. and pp. spun. Span is not used. Sax. spinnan; Goth. spinnan; D. and G. spinnen; Dan. spinder; Sw. spinna. If the sense is to draw out or extend, this coincides in origin with span.]

  1. To draw out and twist into threads, either by the hand or machinery; as, to spin wool, cotton or flax; to spin goats' hair. All the yarn which Penelope spun in Ulysses' absence, did but fill Ithaca with moths. – Shak.
  2. To draw out tediously; to form by a slow process or by degrees; with out; as, to spin out large volumes on a subject.
  3. To extend to a great length; as, to spin out a subject.
  4. To draw out; to protract; to spend by delays; as, to spin out the day in idleness. By one delay after another, they spin out their whole lives. – L'Estrange.
  5. To whirl with a thread; to turn or cause to whirl; as, to spin a top.
  6. To draw out from the stomach in a filament; as, a spider spins a web. To spin hay, in military language, is to twist it into ropes for convenient carriage on an expedition.

Spin
  1. To draw out, and twist into threads, either by the hand or machinery; as, to spin wool, cotton, or flax; to spin goat's hair; to produce by drawing out and twisting a fibrous material.

    All the yarn she [Penelope] spun in Ulysses' absence did but fill Ithaca full of moths. Shak.

  2. 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.

    They neither know to spin, nor care to toll. Prior.

  3. The act of spinning; as, the spin of a top; a spin a bicycle.

    [Colloq.]
  4. To draw out tediously; to form by a slow process, or by degrees; to extend to a great length; -- with out; as, to spin out large volumes on a subject.

    Do you mean that story is tediously spun out? Sheridan.

  5. To move round rapidly; to whirl; to revolve, as a top or a spindle, about its axis.

    Round about him spun the landscape,
    Sky and forest reeled together.     Longfellow.

    With a whirligig of jubilant mosquitoes spinning about each head. G. W. Cable.

  6. Velocity of rotation about some specified axis.
  7. To protract; to spend by delays; as, to spin out the day in idleness.

    By one delay after another they spin out their whole lives. L'Estrange.

  8. To stream or issue in a thread or a small current or jet; as, blood spinsfrom a vein.

    Shak.
  9. To cause to turn round rapidly; to whirl; to twirl; as, to spin a top.
  10. To move swifty; as, to spin along the road in a carriage, on a bicycle, etc.

    [Colloq.]
  11. 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.
  12. 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.

    To spin a yarn (Naut.), to tell a story, esp. a long or fabulous tale. -- To spin hay (Mil.), to twist it into ropes for convenient carriage on an expedition. -- To spin street yarn, to gad about gossiping. [Collog.]

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Spin

SPIN, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive spun. Span is not used. [If the sense is to draw out or extend, this coincides in origin with span.]

1. To draw out and twist into threads, either by the hand or machinery; as, to spin wool, cotton or flax; to spin goats' hair. All the yarn which Penelope spun in Ulysses' absence did but fill Ithaca with moths.

2. To draw out tediously; to form by a slow process of be degrees; with out; as, to spin out large volumes on a subject.

3. To extend to a great length; as, to spin out a subject.

4. To draw out; to protract; to spend by delays; as, to spin out the day in the idleness By one delay after another, they spin out their whole lives.

5. To whirl with a thread; to turn or cause to whirl; as, to spin a top.

6. To draw out from the stomach in a filament; as, a spider spins a web.

TO spin HAY, in military language, is to twist it into ropes for convenient carriage on an expedition.

SPIN, v.il.

1. To practice spinning; to work at drawing and twisting threads; as, the woman knows how to spin They neither know to spin nor car to toil.

2. To perform the act of drawing and twisting threads; as, a machine or jenny spins with great exactness.

3. To move round rapidly; to whirl; as a top or a spindle.

4. To stream or issue in a thread or small current; as, blood spins from a vein.

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