| • | To peen. |
| • | To inclose; to confine; to pen; to pound. |
| • | A piece of wood, metal, etc., generally cylindrical, used for fastening separate articles together, or as a support by which one article may be suspended from another; a peg; a bolt. |
| • | Especially, a small, pointed and headed piece of brass or other wire (commonly tinned), largely used for fastening clothes, attaching papers, etc. |
| • | Hence, a thing of small value; a trifle. |
| • | That which resembles a pin in its form or use |
| • | A peg in musical instruments, for increasing or relaxing the tension of the strings. |
| • | A linchpin. |
| • | A rolling-pin. |
| • | A clothespin. |
| • | A short shaft, sometimes forming a bolt, a part of which serves as a journal. |
| • | The tenon of a dovetail joint. |
| • | One of a row of pegs in the side of an ancient drinking cup to mark how much each man should drink. |
| • | The bull's eye, or center, of a target; hence, the center. |
| • | Mood; humor. |
| • | Caligo. See Caligo. |
| • | An ornament, as a brooch or badge, fastened to the clothing by a pin; as, a Masonic pin. |
| • | The leg; as, to knock one off his pins. |
| • | To fasten with, or as with, a pin; to join; as, to pin a garment; to pin boards together. |
