Definition of Whin

Noun: whin win

Very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe
- gorse, furze, Irish gorse, Ulex europaeus
Small Eurasian shrub having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye; common as a weed in Britain and the United States; sometimes grown as an ornamental
- woodwaxen, dyer's greenweed, dyer's-broom, dyeweed, greenweed, woadwaxen, Genista tinctoria
Any of various hard coloured rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt)
- whinstone