Pin

s. (espingle, French.) 1. A short wire with a sharp point and round head, used by women to fasten their clothes (Pope). 2, Any thing inconsiderable or of little value (Spenser). 3. Any thing driven to hold parts together; a peg; a bolt ( Maléon).4. Any slender thing fixed in another body. 5. That which locks the wheel to the axle. 6. The central part (Sh,). 7. The pegs by which musicians intend or relax their strings. 8. A note; a strain (L’Estrange). 9. A horny induration of the membranes of the eye (Shakspeare). 10. A cylin~ drical roller made of wood, with which pastry is wrought (Corbet). 11, A noxious humour in a hawk’s foot.