- a variation of gin.
jin
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jins,
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jin
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The recipes rely on two main ingredients: jin and xi.
From Science Magazine ● Aug. 9, 2022
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 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
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
I jins that puro mush better ’n I jins tute, for I was a’ter yeck o’ his raklis yeckorus; he had kushti-dick raklis, an’ he was old Knight Locke.
From The English Gipsies and Their Language by Charles Godfrey Leland
Give up the journey to Wāq, it is full of risk, and the jins there will certainly kill you.’
From The Brown Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
In it there are jins, demons, and peris.
From The Brown Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
In it there are jins, demons, and perīs.
From The Brown Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
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