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SPIN, v.t. pret. and pp. spun. Span is not used. [If the sense is to draw out or extend, this coincides in origin with span.]

1. To draw out and twist into threads, either by the hand or machinery; as, to spin wool, cotton or flax; to spin goats' hair. All the yarn which Penelope spun in Ulysses' absence did but fill Ithaca with moths.

2. To draw out tediously; to form by a slow process of be degrees; with out; as, to spin out large volumes on a subject.

3. To extend to a great length; as, to spin out a subject.

4. To draw out; to protract; to spend by delays; as, to spin out the day in the idleness By one delay after another, they spin out their whole lives.

5. To whirl with a thread; to turn or cause to whirl; as, to spin a top.

6. To draw out from the stomach in a filament; as, a spider spins a web.
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Spin (spin)
v. t.(?)
Spin
[imp. *** p. p. Spun (?) (Archaic imp. Span (&?])); p. pr. *** vb. n. Spinning.] [AS. spinnan] akin to D. *** G. spinnen, Icel. & Sw. spinna, D
  1. To draw out, and twist into threads, either by the hand or machinery; as, to spin wool, cotton, or flax; to spin goat's hair; to produce by drawing out and twisting a fibrous material.

    All the yarn she [Penelope] spun in Ulysses' absence did but fill Ithaca full of moths. Shak.

  2. To draw out tediously; to form by a slow process, or by degrees; to extend to a great length; -- with out; as, to spin out large volumes on a subject.

    Do you mean that story is tediously spun out? Sheridan.

  3. To protract; to spend by delays; as, to spin out the day in idleness.

    By one delay after another they spin out their whole lives. L'Estrange.

  4. To cause to turn round rapidly; to whirl; to twirl; as, to spin a top.
  5. To form (a web, a cocoon, silk, or the like) from threads produced by the extrusion of a viscid, transparent liquid, which hardens on coming into contact with the air; -- said of the spider, the silkworm, etc.
  6. To shape, as malleable sheet metal, into a hollow form, by bending or buckling it by pressing against it with a smooth hand tool or roller while the metal revolves, as in a lathe.

    To spin a yarn (Naut.), to tell a story, esp. a long or fabulous tale. -- To spin hay (Mil.), to twist it into ropes for convenient carriage on an expedition. -- To spin street yarn, to gad about gossiping. [Collog.]

  7. To practice spinning; to work at drawing and twisting threads; to make yarn or thread from fiber; as, the woman knows how to spin; a machine or jenny spins with great exactness.

    They neither know to spin, nor care to toll. Prior.

  8. To move round rapidly; to whirl; to revolve, as a top or a spindle, about its axis.

    Round about him spun the landscape,
    Sky and forest reeled together.     Longfellow.

    With a whirligig of jubilant mosquitoes spinning about each head. G. W. Cable.

  9. To stream or issue in a thread or a small current or jet; as, blood spinsfrom a vein.
    Shak.
  10. To move swifty; as, to spin along the road in a carriage, on a bicycle, etc.
    [Colloq.]
  11. The act of spinning; as, the spin of a top; a spin a bicycle.
    [Colloq.]
  12. Velocity of rotation about some specified axis.
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