noun mood; humor.
2. pin ·noun a rolling-pin.
3. pin ·noun the tenon of a dovetail joint.
4. pin ·vt to peen.
5. pin ·noun a linchpin.
6. pin ·noun a clothespin.
7. pin ·noun the leg; as, to knock one off his pins.
8. pin ·noun hence, a thing of small value; a trifle.
9. pin ·noun caligo. ·see caligo.
10. pin ·noun that which resembles a pin in its form or use.
11. pin ·noun the bull's eye, or center, of a target; hence, the center.
12. pin ·noun a short shaft, sometimes forming a bolt, a part of which serves as a journal.
13. pin ·noun a peg in musical instruments, for increasing or relaxing the tension of the strings.
14. pin ·noun an ornament, as a brooch or badge, fastened to the clothing by a pin; as, a masonic pin.
15. pin ·noun one of a row of pegs in the side of an ancient drinking cup to mark how much each man should drink.
xvi. pin ·noun to fasten with, or as with, a pin; to join; as, to pin a garment; to pin boards together.
xvii. pin ·vt to inclose; to confine; to pen; to pound.
xviii. pin ·noun especially, a small, pointed and headed piece of brass or other wire (commonly tinned), largely used for fastening clothes, attaching papers, ·etc.
xix. pin ·noun a piece of wood, metal, ·etc., generally cylindrical, used for fastening separate articles together, or as a support by which one article may be suspended from another; a peg; a bolt.