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blin

verb
/blɪn/

Etymology

From Middle English blinnen, from Old English blinnan (“to stop, cease”), from Proto-Germanic *bilinnaną (“to turn aside, swerve from”), from Proto-Indo-European *ley-, *leya- (“to deflect, turn away, vanish, slip”); equivalent to be- + lin. Cognate with Old High German bilinnan (“to yield, stop, forlet, give away”), Old Norse linna (Swedish dialectal linna, “to pause, rest”). See also lin.

  1. derived from *ley-✻
  2. inherited from *bilinnaną✻
  3. inherited from blinnan
  4. inherited from blinnen

Definitions

  1. To cease (from)

    To cease (from); to stop; to desist, to let up.

    • nathemore for that spectacle bad, / Did th'other two their cruell vengeaunce blin [...].
    • One while the little foot page went, / And another while he ran; / Until he came to his journey's end / The little foot page never blan.
    • A child may cry for half an hour, and never blin ; it may rain all day, and never blin ; the train ran 100 miles, and never blinned.

  2. Cessation

    Cessation; end.

  3. A blintz or blini.

    • The cook raised an immense amount of dough for the bliny. […] “Hey, a blin for me!” one would call, holding out an empty plate with a hand dripping with butter and sour cream.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. An ethnic group from Eritrea.

    2. The Cushitic language spoken by the Blin people.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA