What does lin. mean?
Lin. means (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To desist, to stop, to cease..
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/lɪn/ · verb
(UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To desist, to stop, to cease..
Till all war deaun I knaw thou wad not lin.
Halfe furious vnto his foe he came, / Resolv'd in minde all suddenly to win, / Or soone to lose, before he once would lin [...].
He never linned till he had taen away every chicken that the wife had.
a roaring lin
Here the hammer's active din / Blends with sound of roaring lin.
Whan they came to the roaring lin, She drave unwitting Isabel in.
A step farther might be on the firm earth; but more probably it would be illusive, and dash him into the roaring Lin, where he would be ingulfed at once in its furious whirlpool.
O ye were ne ' er the ane to fret, But kept my heart aboon, Wi ' smiles sweet as when first we met,
Use lin. when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Lin. means (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To desist, to stop, to cease..
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The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Till all war deaun I knaw thou wad not lin.
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