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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:

  Lin \Lin\ (l[i^]n), v. i. [AS. linnan. See {Lithe}.]
     To yield; to stop; to cease. [Obs. or Scot.] --Marston.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:

  Lin \Lin\, v. t.
     To cease from. [Obs. or Scot.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:

  Lin \Lin\, n. [Ir. linn, or Gael. linne; akin to W. llyn a pool,
     pond, lake, but in senses 2 and 3 prob. from AS. hlynn
     torrent. Cf. {Dunlin}.]
     1. A pool or collection of water, particularly one above or
        below a fall of water.
  
     2. A waterfall, or cataract; as, a roaring lin.
  
     3. A steep ravine.
  
     Note: Written also linn and lyn.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:

  Arecoline \A*re"co*line\, n. Also -lin \-lin\ . [From NL. Areca,
     a genus of palms bearing betel nut.]
     An oily liquid substance, {C8H13O2N}, the chief alkaloid of
     the betel nut, to which the latter owes its anthelmintic
     action.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Lin
       n : United States sculptor and architect whose public works
           include the memorial to veterans of the Vietnam War in
           Washington (born in 1959) [syn: {Maya Lin}]

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