shin

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. The front part of the leg below the knee and above the ankle.
2. n. The shinbone.
3. n. The lower foreleg in beef cattle. Used of cuts of meat.
4. v. To climb (a rope or pole, for example) by gripping and pulling alternately with the hands and legs.
5. v. To kick or hit in the shins.
6. v. To climb something by shinning it.
7. v. To move quickly on foot.
8. n. The 22nd letter of the Hebrew alphabet. See Table at alphabet.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. The front part of the human leg from the knee to the ankle, along which the sharp edge of the shin-bone or tibia may be felt beneath the skin.
2. n. The shin-bone.
3. n. The lower leg; the shank: as, a shin of beef.
4. n. In ornithology, the hard or scaly part of the leg of a bird; the shank. See sharp-shinncd.
5. n. In entomology, the tibia, or fourth joint of the leg. Also called shank. See cut under coxa.
6. n. A fishplate.
7. To use the shins in climbing; climb by hugging with arms and legs: with up: as, to shin up a tree.
8. To go afoot; walk: as, to shin along; to shin across the field.
9. To climb by grasping with the arms and legs and working or pulling one's self up: as, to shin a tree.
10. To kick on the shins.
11. n. A god, or the gods collectively; spirit, or the spirits; with a capital, the term used by many Protestant missionaries in China, and universally among Protestant Christians in Japan, for the Supreme Being; God. (See kami.) Sometimes the adjective chin, ‘true,’ is prefixed in Chinese. See Shangti and Shinto.
12. n. In a modern turning-plow, the lower front corner of the mold-board, next the share and forming part of the cutting edge. It replaces in part the head or sheath of old plows.
13. n. An adapted pronunciation of the abbreviation sinh, used as a colloquial substitute for ‘hyperbolic sine.’
14. n. The twenty-first letter of the Hebrew alphabet, corresponding in sound to the English sh. Its numerical value is 300.

Wiktionary

1. n. The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone; the lower part of the leg; the shank.
2. v. UK To climb a mast, tree, rope, or the like, by embracing it alternately with the arms and legs, without help of steps, spurs, or the like; -- used with up.
3. v. To strike with the shin.
4. n. The twenty-first letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone; the lower part of the leg; the shank.
2. n. (Railbroad) A fish plate for rails.
3. v. Slang To climb a mast, tree, rope, or the like, by embracing it alternately with the arms and legs, without help of steps, spurs, or the like; -- used with up.
4. v. Slang, U.S. To run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as for the payment of one's notes at the bank.
5. v. Slang To climb (a pole, etc.) by shinning up.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling
2. n. the inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle
3. n. the 22nd letter of the Hebrew alphabet
4. n. the front part of the human leg between the knee and the ankle
5. n. a cut of meat from the lower part of the leg