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Isin

[is-in]
noun
  1. an ancient Sumerian city in S Iraq: archaeological site.
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  • Most o' they candidates did all their 'tisin' with rubbishy flags and balloons—made in Japan, Sir, every blamed one o' them!

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 108, March 9th 1895

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  • Most o' they candidates did all their 'tisin' with rubbishy flags and balloons—made in Japan, sir, every blamed one o' them!

  • A new dynasty from the town of Isin seized the throne, and ruled for 132 years and six months.

  • Nothing can be more absurd than the fiction that the power of judging Scripture isin the Church.

  • Isin, whose site has not yet been determined, but which lay probably to the north of Uruk, was another political center.