shin : Idioms & Phrases

Clear"-shin`ing adjective

Definitions

1. Shining brightly. Shak.

Webster 1913

• noun the Israeli domestic counterintelligence and internal security agency
  General Security Services.
  
  • the Shin Bet also handles overall security for Israel's national airline

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• noun a cut of meat from the lower part of the leg
  shin.
  
• noun the inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle
  shin; shinbone; tibia.
  

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• (Anat.), the tibia.

Webster 1913

• noun a stiff protective garment worn by hockey players or a catcher in baseball to protect the shins
  shinpad.
  

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• (Bot.), a perennial ericaceous herb (Pyrola elliptica) with a cluster of radical leaves and a raceme of greenish white flowers.

Webster 1913

• noun painful inflammation of the muscles around the shins; frequent among runners
  

WordNet

• noun a variety of club moss
  Lycopodium lucidulum.
  

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• noun a terrorist group formed in Peru in the late 1960s as a splinter group from the communist party of Peru; is among the most ruthless guerilla organizations in the world; seeks to destroy Peruvian institutions and replace them with a Maoist peasant regime; is involved in the cocaine trade
  Sendero Luminoso; SL.
  
  • Shining Path has been responsible for 30,000 deaths

WordNet

• noun common nonpoisonous shrub of eastern North America with compound leaves and green paniculate flowers followed by red berries
  black sumac; dwarf sumac; Rhus copallina; mountain sumac.
  

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• noun common North American shrub with shiny lanceolate leaves
  Salix lucida.
  

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• to play pranks. Slang, U.S.

Webster 1913