Pin

(pin.) [A.S. pinn.] (Manuf.) A well-known small pointed instrument made of bra wire and headed; used chiefly by females for fastening and adjusting their dre . The perfection of pins consists in the stiffne of the wire and its whitene , in the heads being well turned, and in the finene of the points. The machines by which the head is formed from the pin itself, and the machine for sticking the pins in paper, are American inventions. The consumption in the U. States is calculated at 20 millions a day. [s. 711]