(v. t.) To draw out, and twist into threads, either by the hand or
machinery; as, to spin wool, cotton, or flax; to spin goat's hair; to
produce by drawing out and twisting a fibrous material.
(v. t.) To draw out tediously; to form by a slow process, or by
degrees; to extend to a great length; -- with out; as, to spin out
large volumes on a subject.
(v. t.) To protract; to spend by delays; as, to spin out the day
in idleness.
(v. t.) To cause to turn round rapidly; to whirl; to twirl; as, to
spin a top.
(v. t.) To form (a web, a cocoon, silk, or the like) from threads
produced by the extrusion of a viscid, transparent liquid, which
hardens on coming into contact with the air; -- said of the spider, the
silkworm, etc.
(v. t.) To shape, as malleable sheet metal, into a hollow form, by
bending or buckling it by pressing against it with a smooth hand tool
or roller while the metal revolves, as in a lathe.
(v. i.) To practice spinning; to work at drawing and twisting
threads; to make yarn or thread from fiber; as, the woman knows how to
spin; a machine or jenny spins with great exactness.
(v. i.) To move round rapidly; to whirl; to revolve, as a top or a
spindle, about its axis.
(v. i.) To stream or issue in a thread or a small current or jet;
as, blood spinsfrom a vein.
(v. i.) To move swifty; as, to spin along the road in a carriage,
on a bicycle, etc.
(n.) The act of spinning; as, the spin of a top; a spin a bicycle.
(n.) Velocity of rotation about some specified axis.
