Whin

n.	1.
	1.	(Bot.) Gorse; furze. See Furze. Through the whins, and by the cairn. - Burns.
	2.	Woad-waxed.
	2.	Same as Whinstone. Moor whin (Bot.) a low prickly shrub (Genista Anglica) common in Western Europe. Whin bruiser a machine for cutting and bruising whin, or furze, to feed cattle on. Whin Sparrow (Zool.) the hedge sparrow. Whin Thrush (Zool.) the redwing.

Noun	1.	whin - very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe Synonyms: furze, gorse, Irish gorse, Ulex europaeus
	2.	whin - small Eurasian shrub having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye; common as weed in England and United States; sometimes grown as an ornamental Synonyms: dyer's greenweed, dyer's-broom, dyeweed, Genista tinctoria, greenweed, woadwaxen, woodwaxen
	3.	whin - any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt) Synonyms: whinstone

bush, furze, genus Ulex, gorse, Irish gorse, shrub, Ulex, Ulex europaeus