Associations to the word «Whin»

Wiktionary

WHIN, noun. Gorse; furze.
WHIN, noun. The plant woad-waxen.
WHIN, noun. Whinstone.

Dictionary definition

WHIN, noun. Very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe.
WHIN, noun. Small Eurasian shrub having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye; common as a weed in Britain and the United States; sometimes grown as an ornamental.
WHIN, noun. Any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt).

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope