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See Jinnee.

See Genet, a horse.

One who grins. Addison.

Dissimilar; incongruous; unsuitable. [Obs.] Cudworth.

e children of fire, and to have the power of assuming various forms. [Written also jin, djinnee, etc.]

See Lansquenet.

Of or pertaining to Linnæus, the celebrated Swedish botanist. Linnaean system (Bot.), the system in which the classes are founded mainly upon the stamens, and the orders upon the pistils; the artificial or sexual system.

Flax. See Linen. [Obs.]

imson. The feathers of its head are grayish brown, tipped with crimson. Called also gray linnet, red linnet, rose linnet, brown linnet, lintie, lintwhite, gorse thatcher, linnet finch, and greater redpoll. The American redpoll linnet (Acanthis linaria) often has the crown and throat rosy. See Redpoll, and Twite. Green…

A love-singer; specifically, one of a class of German poets and musicians who flourished from about the middle of the twelfth to the middle of the fourteenth century. They were chiefly of noble birth, and made love and beauty the subjects of their verses.

A cloth band for a gown. [Obs.] With kerchief starched, and pinners clean. Gay.

A pinnacle. [R.] Sir W. Scott.

The quality or state of being plain.

The game of hockey; -- so called because of the liability of the players to receive blows on the shin. Halliwell.

One who has sinned; especially, one who has sinned without repenting; hence, a persistent and incorrigible transgressor; one condemned by the law of God.

A woman who sins. [Obs.]

See Sennit .

One who skins.

Having a smooth chin; beardless. Drayton.

Having the fin rays cartilaginous or flexible; without spines; -- said of certain fishes.