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Spin \Spin\, v. i.
1. 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.
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They neither know to spin, nor care to toll.
--Prior.
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2. To move round rapidly; to whirl; to revolve, as a top or a
spindle, about its axis.
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Round about him spun the landscape,
Sky and forest reeled together. --Longfellow.
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With a whirligig of jubilant mosquitoes spinning
about each head. --G. W. Cable.
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3. To stream or issue in a thread or a small current or jet;
as, blood spinsfrom a vein. --Shak.
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4. To move swifty; as, to spin along the road in a carriage,
on a bicycle, etc. [Colloq.]
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Spin \Spin\ (sp[i^]n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Spun}(Archaic imp.
{Span}); p. pr. & vb. n. {Spinning}.] [AS. spinnan; akin to
D. & G. spinnen, Icel. & Sw. spinna, Dan. spinde, Goth.
spinnan, and probably to E. span. [root]170. Cf. {Span}, v.
t., {Spider}.]
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.
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All the yarn she [Penelope] spun in Ulysses' absence
did but fill Ithaca full of moths. --Shak.
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2. 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.
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Do you mean that story is tediously spun out?
--Sheridan.
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3. To protract; to spend by delays; as, to spin out the day
in idleness.
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By one delay after another they spin out their whole
lives. --L'Estrange.
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4. To cause to turn round rapidly; to whirl; to twirl; as, to
spin a top.
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5. 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.
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6. (Mech.) 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.
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{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\, n.
1. The act of spinning; as, the spin of a top; a spin a
bicycle. [Colloq.]
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2. (Kinematics) Velocity of rotation about some specified
axis.
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3. (Politics) an interpretation of an event which is
favorable to the interpreter or to the person s/he
supports. A person whose task is to provide such
interpretations for public relations purposes is called a
{spin doctor}.
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