Gin

jin, n. the name of a variety of machines, esp. one with pulleys for raising weights, . a pump worked by rotary sails: a trap or snare \B.), —v to trap or snare: to clear cotton of its seeds by a machine,—pr.p, ginn'ing pa p ginned'. [Contr. from Engine but in the sense of snare, is derived from Scand., Ice. gintia, to deceive.] Ginger, jin'j^r, «. the root of a plant in the E. and W. Indies, with a hot and spicy taste, so called from being shaped like a horn {Old form in M E. gingiverc—O Ft. gmgibre—L. zingiber— Gr. ztugiberts—Sans, fringa-vera—gnnga, burn, vera shape. (flavoured with ginger