To attach or fasten, as if with a pin or pins
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "pin" in the following sentence: Why, this refractory young individual couldn't be persuaded to walk towards home in any other way, when they had him out for an airing, and what does this old friend of mine do, but allow a handkerchief to be "pinned" to his coat-tail, and go dawdling along with the said young man, to see the last of the urchin
To fasten with a pin or pins
To hold down by placing a knee on the body
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "pin" in the following sentence: Dorothy gave her to understand that when her little sister Malvina was sick, and Miss Amy with the Parson came to see her, she wanted a pink which Miss Amy had "pinned" on her breast, and that having got possession of it she would not part with it when Malvina died, though it was a present from Miss Amy
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "pin" in the following sentence: There -- we think we have "pinned" the Bludgeon man to the wall, and now we'll dispose of him of the Trumpet, by suggesting whether it wouldn't be better for him to buy a copy of the works of Mr. Joseph Miller at once, and take such of his own Trumpets as he can get, on second thought, to the `` pin '' of the Chapter on `` Hints to Young Men on How to be Heard in a Crowd
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "pin" in the following sentence: These, however, our two dogs, (of whom more hereafter,) soon smelled and finally gnawed clean off; when we "pinned" on thick half tanned leather, which swagging till the door dragged on the earth, we at last manufactured wooden hinges, on which, with a stone for a counterpoise, we balanced the whole affair, and there it swung, a grim and ghastly sign, enough to make one shudder, in the very midst of our lively and noisy throng
To fasten or secure with a pin or pins
To hold down or in place with a pin or pins
To fasten with a pin or pins
Fasten or secure with a pin or pins
To hold down by pinning
To set a trap ( of the sort mentioned at pin 1 )
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "pin" in the following sentence: I may as well go, while she sleeps so quietly, and gather a dish of the crimson berries she loves so well, for her breakfast; they will be nice with a dish of old Crummie's sweet milk; " and, "pinning" a green blanket over her, I went out into the kitchen, and found the old man sitting with a dish of water before him, and his breakfast, all hot, ready on the table
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "pin" in the following sentence: So she left the door-step on which she had been sitting, and went in the house, to see what she wanted to take; and, as she had so few things, the preparations were not long, but she soon found herself with her blanket "pinned" over her shoulder, and her hat on her head, and ran out of the door
Fasten or hold in place with a pin or pins
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "pin" in the following sentence: " The only answer was a long strain at the door -- till at last the door was forced a little open, and the rascal got his whole hand in and would soon have worked in all his arm; when, with a single thrust, I dashed my dirk right through his heart -- for I was pin 'd, and could not draw back my arm till I had struck
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "pin" in the following sentence: Full at this opening the wolf dashed, as fresh, Tom said, as though he had not run a yard; but as he struggled through it, his efforts shook the top rails from the yokes, and the huge piece of timber falling across his loins, "pinned" him, as Tom expressed it, to the wolf's back
To seize and hold as if by a pin
Fasten or secure with a pin or pins, especially to a clothesline to prevent the clothes from blowing away
To fasten or affix with a pin or pins
To pierce with a pin or sharp point
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "pin" in the following sentence: Untying a piece of crape which she had wound around her throat, (for she was never without some badge of mourning,) she stooped and gently wiped the tears from Jane's cheek, saying, in a low tone, " Bottles full of odours, which are most powerful stimulants to the brain, are what the Greeks and Romans were in the habit of using
To fasten or hold in place with a pin or pins
Attach or fasten with a pin or pins
Hang up ( a garment ) on a pin or pins
To fasten or hold in place with a pin or pins
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "pin" in the following sentence: The throstle can also, with more ease, and at less expense, be altered to "pin" the different grists of yarn; only a few movements require to // be changed in it to produce this end, while in the spinning-frame there are a great many. The pinning of the grist is effected by a pin, of the same size and kind as is used in the finishing bobbins, which is fixed in the middle of the throstle, and the grist is drawn through this pin in the same manner as it is drawn through the pin in the finishing bobbins
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "pin" in the following sentence: Next was a sacking of clapboards "pinned" down; and then a very thick straw bed, and over that a sumptuous feather bed; the whole very comfortable for the good old folks, especially as Uncle Tommy used to say of themselves, that they were " pretty soft" in the middle
To attach or fasten
To hold down or crush with one's body
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "pin" in the following sentence: Unless the bees cluster at a considerable distance from the place where they are intended to be permanently stationed, the new hive which receives them may stand on the Protector in its proper place, with the sheet tacked or "pinned" to the alighting-board, and spread out over the floor of the stand, so as to form a kind of canopy or shelter over the board
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "pin" in the following sentence: Next in order come little children; and the boy will put a napkin about his neck for a cravat, and the girl supply her ideal of a veil by "pinning" a pocket handkerchief to her bonnet, while we laugh at the self-deception of these young lovers
To pierce with a pin, or as if with a pin
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "pin" in the following sentence: A white veil, carelessly "pinned" about her brow, fell over her shoulders in graceful drapery; and as she glided along, the loose white robe, that constituted the uniform of her order, displayed to the utmost advantage that undulating outline of beauty, which the Creator alone can give, and which the fairest of his works have realized
To make fast
Fasten or hold in place with a pin or pins
To fasten a ballot to a person's clothing so that it can not be removed without being noticed
To fasten or hold in place with a pin or pins
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "pin" in the following sentence: Until Cabaco's published discovery, the sailors had little foreseen it, though to be sure when, after being a little while out of port, all hands had concluded the customary business of fitting the whaleboats for service; when some time after this Ahab was now and then observed loitering near the pin of the mainmast, apparently deep in thought
To pierce with a pin, or as if with a pin
To hold down or keep in place as if with a pin or pins
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "pin" in the following sentence: It had caught, as if by providential direction, in the very chaos of combat, the figure that had sent forth the cry of affliction; and as he bestrid the body of Abdalla, and caught up the childish minstrel from his person, he shuddered to think what had become of the pin that should have been there
To fasten with a pin or pins
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "pin" in the following sentence: As he bent down to examine his wounds and staunch the blood, his eye fell upon a piece of white paper, "pinned" upon his body, on which was writing in a legible hand; at the same moment the wounded man gave a groan, a gasp, and was silent
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "pin" in the following sentence: The dangers arising from great standing armies to the liberties of nations, appear thickly strewed in almost every page of history, and the present condition of the people of Europe, "pinned" to the earth by the bayonets of two millions of hireling soldiers, " is a strong confirmation of the truth of the predictions of the wisest of the statesmen of the last century
Place all one's hopes on ( someone or something ) as a means of salvation or success
To fasten or attach using a pin or pins
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "pin" in the following sentence: Having survived the operation, Captain Bailey, who was really disposed to do the best he could, "pinned" a towel against his vest, and took hold of the churn, saying, " Now, my dears, I'll make the butter, while you arrange the dinner-table
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "pin" in the following sentence: At last rose in answer the voice of an invisible wood-nymph, and that was followed shortly by the appearance among the bushes of the hamadryad in the shape of an athletic woman with a red head; who girding up her loins -- (anglic, pinning up her petticoats ) -- with a flowery girdle, stood out in the clear moonlight with the rich tints of a faery
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "pin" in the following sentence: With that he came in (' t was a little dark, with the shawl "pinned" at the windy): -- Don't go too near her face, for fear her breath's infractious,'sis I. I didn't bring a light, sir,'sis I, 'being as how I knew the way, and it being a dark night, and the stars shining, and the moon not yet up, and the wind blowing, and the trees creaking -- '... ) as he went on to explain the pinning of the shawl, and the darkness, and the way his man had left him at the park wall
To fasten or secure with a pin or pins
Fasten with a pin or pins
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "pin" in the following sentence: When the copy was finished, Mary Erskine cut it off from the top of the paper and "pinned" it up against the side of the room, where she could look at it and study the names of the letters in the intervals of her work during the day. The pin was a long one, and the paper was kept stretched by a drawing-pin that went through the whole width of it
Place all one's hope or trust in ( someone or something )
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "pin" in the following sentence: We shall advert frequently to him, not because we "pin" our faith upon his sleeve, great and good as he was, nor because /z/ we wish others to do it, but for the purpose of awakening a desire carefully to investigate his principles, believing he has done more for the world than any other man now living, and perhaps more than any other who has lived in the same period of the world's history
Place all one's hopes or trust in
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "pin" in the following sentence: Time makes sad havoc in twenty years, " she continued addressing herself to Mr. Redwood; " I think it is little more than that since my beautiful friend, Mary Erwine, was staying with me, and you were almost constantly at our house -- bless me, Caroline, I'm sure I should have been pinning you to my side these twenty years if you hadn't been so dreadfully, dreadfully in love with that detestable man
To fasten with a pin or pins
Hold ( someone ) down by pushing them against the ground with one's arms or legs
To hold down
To fasten with pins
To bet
Fasten or attach with a pin or pins
To hold down or keep in place with a pin or pins
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "pin" in the following sentence: at that booby, Bill Jeffrey, for the girls to laugh at, nor to draw any more pictures on her slate of the Dame Sobriety, as she called Julia, and lastly, not to "pin" any more chalk rags on the boys'coats
To fasten or attach with a pin or pins
Fasten with a pin or pins
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "pin" in the following sentence: The features were radiant with benevolence; the cap, close-fitted about her venerable face, bore upon it the faded black ribbon, the memento of ancient woe; the close-folded kerchief about her neck was "pinned" with mathematical exactness, as were the folds of her gown
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "pin" in the following sentence: Carefully covering him with the thin, tattered blankets, she "pinned" a shawl over her head, and, softly closing the door behind her, stole forth into the biting night air, and directed a hasty tread toward Mr. Pimble's great brick house on the other side of the street
To fasten or fix in place with a pin or pins
To fasten or hold in place with a pin or pins
Apprehend or fasten
Attach or fasten with a pin or pins
To hold down or restrain, as with a pin
To fasten or fix in place with a pin or pins
To fasten with a pin or pins
To fasten or secure with a pin or pins
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "pin" in the following sentence: Whatever the cause, matters but little; but the fact itself was of considerable importance to Ella; who took advantage of her freedom, in passing the bushes before noticed, to snatch a leaf unperceived, whereon, by great adroitness, she managed to trace with a pencil several lines, which she pinned on the inside of her bodice, close to the spot where the leaf had been attached
Fasten or hold in place with a pin or pins
To make fast, as if with a pin
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "pin" in the following sentence: Indians consists of a petticoat, worn much shorter by the unmarried than by those that are married, and a scarf of sundry colors round the shoulders, which is "pinned" on one side of the chest with a topa, a large silver pin; but the married women have their scarf pinned on both sides of the chest, and their petticoat gathered up into the middle of the body
To lean on
To attach or fasten with a pin or pins
To impale on a sharp object
To set or place upon
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "pin" in the following sentence: For eighteen centuries and upwards, the human family, estranged from each other, albeit "pinned" within the fold of // one faith, have striven in deadly feud like the fierce beasts in the Roman arena, or like the iron knights of crusading " chivalry " who rent and tore each other with sharp point of lance, for the mastery of the world, and the supremacy of their own private and exclusive faith, each deeming and claiming it to be the only true and perfect way to heaven, while all other ways were damnable, and their adherents reprobate and damned
To fasten or secure
To fasten or hold in place with a pin or pins
Kill ( a butterfly or other insect ) by catching it in a pin
To fasten with a pin or pins
To fasten or secure with a pin or pins
To attach or fasten with a pin or pins
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "pin" in the following sentence: Her face, too, always so broad, bright, and benevolent in its changes-is chastely framed in a crape border, so nicely crimped, so nicely tucked under her benevolent chin at one end, and so nicely "pinned" under the virtuous matron's cap at the other
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "pin" in the following sentence: Here they entered, and found themselves in a low-roofed apartment lighted by various glittering and resplendent reflectors "pinned" against the upright posts at the side; around the whole room there was a narrow bench, and at the farther extremity was a very handsome and highly-polished mahogany case, inlaid with ivory, and mounted on a pedestal of the same wood
Attach or fasten with a pin or pins
To blame someone ( for a crime )
Fix in position with a long pin or bolt, especially so as to prevent movement or access to something dangerous or secret
To hold someone down with one's physical strength
Attach or fasten with a pin or pins
To hold down with multiple pins
Keep ( someone ) in a particular place or situation by shooting at them or using a weapon to threaten them
Hold in place with a pin or pins
Attach or fasten with a pin or pins
( of fish ) be or become entangled in a school of baitfish
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "pin" in the following sentence: Some of the dust landed on my hands and tingled painfully, as magic started to work there too, but I couldn't run away screaming the way I wanted to; I just forced Bob to the ground, "pinned" his arm to his side, and kneeled on it, holding his wrist in a vice grip
To hold ( a person ) down by pinning their arms or legs
To be or become stuck
Identify the exact location of ( something )
To hold in place with a pin or pins
To hold down or keep in place with or as if with a pin or pins
Keep ( someone ) in a specified position or place by holding them down with one's arms or legs, or by propping them up with a pillow, for example
To hold or keep in a specified position or state, as if with a pin
To determine, establish or clarify something
To hold down with or as if with a pin
To fasten with a pin or pins
Grasp
Attach or fasten with a pin or pins
To hold down or keep in place with or as if with a pin or pins
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "pin" in the following sentence: A French army general, "pinning" a medal on a one-armed Senegalese, is not my idea of a joke, nor is it Barthes's, for that matter, and he uses it to illustrate an act of attenuation wherein the subject has become an object, `` reduced to being looked at, '' and `` deprived of the exercise of his freedom
To pierce or impale
To fasten with a pin or pins
To hold down or keep in place with a pin or pins
To execute by nailing to a cross
Lie or be fixed down by being pierced with a pin or pins
To affix as if with a pin
To fasten or secure with a pin or pins
To hold ( a person ) down by placing an arm or leg against ( a body part ) while grappling or fighting
To fasten with a pin or pins
To fasten with a pin or pins
To assign, as a nickname
To hold down or keep in place with a pin or pins
Fasten or attach with a pin or pins, especially to a noticeboard
Rest or rely on ( something ) as a basis for support or argument
To identify or point out
Impale or pierce with a long, thin object or with something resembling such an object
To confine
Fasten or decorate with a pin or pins
To fasten with a pin or pins
To fasten or hold in place with a pin or pins
Identify the exact location of ( something )
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "pin" in the following sentence: (40-2) pinned Calvin Kliner, Mountain View, Sr. (33-12), 1:18; Heavyweights - Aaron Philips, Greeley West, Sr. (44-2) "pinned" David Muckel, Pueblo South, Jr
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "pin" in the following sentence: Anyway, this office works directly for the Director of Central Intelligence, which has advantages, because we don't have a lot of bureaucratic hoops to jump through, and a big disadvantage, since there's nobody else to "pin" the screwups on, so it's a bit of a lonely existence
Fasten or attach with a brooch or similar device
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "pin" in the following sentence: As Detroit's ghetto burned our President went on national television more to "pin" blame on poor old Governor Romney than to inspire or offer solutions, (Never saying, of course, that he had recently rejected a private proposal by New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller to call a national conference of governors and cabinet officers to deal with the rioting, now spreading to other cities, and to the threat of a national draft
Pinned down
Establish ( something ) in a particular place or position with precision or ease
To affix a medal to a person's clothing
To hold down by placing a pin or pins on a person's clothing, especially on a child's clothes to prevent the child from escaping
Fasten or decorate with a pin or pins
To immobilize a vehicle by pinning its wheels
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "pin" in the following sentence: She wasn't a flapper or a hussy, she wasn't a meek little housewifey blob, she wasn't a schoolmarm or a virgin battle-ax -- but somehow a bit of all of them, which meant that you could never quite "pin her down" as to how she 'd act or what she 'd say in any given situation
Award ( a medal ) to someone, or depict someone as having been awarded a medal
To fasten with a pin or pins
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "pin" in the following sentence: @@361704 If I had to explain the bottomless public fascination with the story of the Titanic, I wouldn't "pin" it on the idea that the sunken ship represented a moral tale of hubris or of careless luxury but rather on the fact that it was both a technological wonder and a maritime disaster, a `` how it happened '' story of human error and miscalculation
To identify or classify something precisely
To identify or locate someone or something
To identify, locate, or determine ( something ). Also put down
Hold ( something ) in place with a pin or pins, especially on the head or clothing
To fasten with a pin or pins
To keep open
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "pin" in the following sentence: Other sources said the investigators plan to call witnesses who can "pin" down the date and details of the " hush money " payment to H, Howard Hunt on March 21, 1973, including a " mystery man " who helped the special prosecutor establish the date. The `` mystery man '' is believed to be a former CIA agent who worked with Hunt in the 1960s
To push or shove ( someone ) as if with a pin
Fasten or hold in place with a pin or pins, or as if with a pin or pins
To hold fire on an enemy with machine guns
To place all or part of ( something ) on, as if on a pin
To hold down with a pin or pins
To determine or narrow down exactly
To attach or fasten with a pin or pins
To keep ( an enemy ) under fire
Attach or fasten with a pin or pins
Identify or attribute something to ( someone or something ) precisely or with certainty
To hold down or keep in place as if with a pin or pins
Fasten or decorate with a pin or pins
To identify
Hold ( someone ) in a wrestling match with one's arms or legs
To affix a pin to one's clothing
To fasten with a pin or pins
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "pin" in the following sentence: cardboard banner, plastic bags, rubber bands, hardplastic bands, molded plastic covers, glue, wires, string sewing the hair to the cardboard, a plastic tab imbedded in the heads and "pinning" them to the cardboard, and a rigid plastic manacle around the neck
To attach a notice to a bulletin board or other surface, by means of a pin
To hold in a firefight
Attach ( a label ) to someone or something, especially in a way that is intended to have a particular effect on how they are perceived
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "pin" in the following sentence: Now, honey, " she explained to me, " if you were walking downtown and you were run over by a truck and they took you to the hospital and they saw that your panties were all torn and ragged and your slip was "pinned" at the shoulder by a brooch, well, honey, you just keep quiet about it, because if you don't, they might take you for a whore and they might not fix you up properly
To determine a value precisely
To attach a flower to a garment with a pin
Fasten or hold in place with a pin or pins, especially for decorative purposes
Restrain
To hold down with a pin or pins
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "pin" in the following sentence: We had had an extra fishing license made out in the name of Blanche DuBois (a fact Ribbo had not liked at all), and when we "pinned" it to Lenore's shirt, she climbed into the metaphor so quickly I wondered for a minute who the real pin-up was
To hold down by lying on top of
To affix to a noticeboard with a pin
To fasten with a pin or pins
Please provide a concise definition for the meaning of the word "pin" in the following sentence: Circular decals "pinned" to their waists announced them as Maxine, Victoria and Inez -- waitTHEELECTRIC COTILLION 29resses, not apparitions; their bare shoulders smelled of jasmine, and gorgeously colored plumes rose from their heads. Pinning, too, was an art with them
To hold down
