- a variation of gin.
jin
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jins,
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jin
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Pollard and Liu propose these two alloys, which could have been prefabricated as ingots and distributed to bronze foundries, are jin and xi.
From Science Magazine ● Aug. 9, 2022
The recipes rely on two main ingredients: jin and xi.
From Science Magazine ● Aug. 9, 2022
The dish, called khao kan jin and often eaten as a snack in northern Thailand, suggests a blood sausage with the ratios radically recalibrated, more rice than pork.
From New York Times ● May 10, 2018
The wiry team captain and a first baseman, he carries himself like a yakyu jin, someone who devotes himself to baseball, not unlike a devotee of the martial arts.
From New York Times ● Jul. 9, 2011
He reflected an instant, and then replied, artlessly— “I don’t jin many o’ them.
From The English Gipsies and Their Language by Charles Godfrey Leland
He ran away from his Massa en his Daddy en jins the U.S.
From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Kentucky Narratives by Work Projects Administration
I del it some ballovas to hatch his bavol and I bikened it for 9 bar, to a rye that you jins kushto.
From The English Gipsies and Their Language by Charles Godfrey Leland
Asura, a general term for various supernatural beings not regarded as gods, but in general hostile to them, nearly the same as the jins or genii of the "Arabian Nights."
From Hindoo Tales Or, the Adventures of Ten Princes by P. W. Jacob
Tute jins the chais are only kérri arātti te Kūrrkus.”
From The Gypsies by Charles Godfrey Leland
My friend accosted him on his coming up with us, and the good-natured chief immediately desired his jins to rest upon their oars, for he was rowed by his wives.
From Peter Parley's Tales About America and Australia by T. Wilson
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