Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A Middle English form of
gin .
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Examples
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And, when she had finished her discourse, Surius again employs the simile for the purpose of turning a neat compliment, saying, "Lady, if the Tortoise you spoke of in India were as cunning in swimming, as you are in speaking, she would neither fear the heate of the sunne nor the ginne of the Fisher."
John Lyly John Dover Wilson 1925
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