Thin

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THIN, adj., sb. and v. Var. dial. uses in Sc. Irel. and
Eng. Also in form tin Sh.I. [þin.] 1. adj. In comb.
(1) Thin cake, see below; (2) Thin-chopped, small-faced; (3)
Thin drink, small beer; (4) Thin fur or Thin furrow, (a) a shallow
furrow; (b) to plough land with a shallow furrow; (5) Thin land,
land having very shallow soil; (6) Thin nose, a nose
keenly susceptible to smells; (7) Thin-nosed, keen-scented;
(8) Thin pikeing, poor living; (9) Thin-skinned, of land: having
a thin surface-soil.
(1) Wm. A cake baked on a girdle (B.K.). w.Yks. Cake made
from ordinary dough without any fruit or preserves. ‘What hev
we fer breckfast?’ ‘Thin cake and bacon’ (B.K.). (2) Cum. The thin-chop'd,
hawf-neak'd beggars, Gilpin Ballads (1874) 175. (3)
N.Cy.1, w.Yks.1 s.Cy. Grose (1790). (4, a) Mid. Then ploughed
these ashes in with a very thin furrow (to avoid bringing up to
the surface the wretched subsoil), Middleton Agric. (1798) 122.
(b) n.Lin.1 I thin-furr'd them seeds fur wheät e'steäd o' breäkin
'em up, an' ther' wasn't hairf a crop. (5) n.Lin.1 (6) Cum.
(E.W.P.) Wm. He's a gay thin nooaze when ther's owt ta eat
stirrin' (B.K.). w.Yks. Shoe said I'd a thin nose, and ah 'ed a thin
nose to smell a dirtiness like that (F.P.T.). (7) w.Yks. Leeds Merc.
Suppl. (Jan. 28, 1899). (8) w.Yks. (J.W.) s.Lan.1 It's bin thin-pikein'
at eawr heawse o' lat'. (9) s.Chs.1, nw.Der.1, Suf.1
2. Phr. (1) thin of clothes, scantily clothed; (2) to be thin
i't kit, to break one's word or engagement; (3) to make
thin linings, of the wind: to be cold and piercing; lit. to
make one's clothes feel thin.
(1) Dmb. The poor wha're thin o' claise, And pining in starvation,
Taylor Poems (1827) 9. (2) w.Yks. Scatcherd Hist. Morley
(1830) Gl.; w.Yks.5 (s.v. Runs-thin). (3) Chs.1, s.Chs.1
3. Few, scarce.
Frf. John Tamson's bairns ─ ah! whaur are they? Amang us noo
they're grown sae thin That ye micht search frae Tweed to Spey
Ere ony trace o' them ye fin', Watt Poet. Sketches (1880) 73.
Lnk. Originals hae now worn thin, Watson Poems (1853) 20.
4. Of the wind or weather: cold, keen, piercing.
Ir. Barlow East unto West (1898) 315; During a cold easterly
wind the clay is said to be thin, Flk-Lore Rec. (1881) IV. 106.
w.Yks.2 Chs.1 One frequently hears it said, ‘My word! but it's
a thin wind this morning; it'll go through you before it'll go round
you.’ s.Chs.1 Der. The wind blows thin, it's in the East (H.R.).
s.Wor. The wind blows thin (H.K.).
5. sb. In phr. the thin of the side, the waist.
Sh.I. Yon pain at shü gits i' da tin o' her side is gaein ta finish
her, Sh. News (Oct. 5, 1901); (J.S.)
6. v. To lessen in numbers; to diminish.
Sh.I. Dis ill wadder 'ill tin da sheep, i.e. kill them (J.S.). Edb.
They're Satan's traps To thin the Kirk, Learmont Poems (1791) 44.
7. To pick out the bones of fish.
Sh.I. To tin a fish head (J.S.); Sh.&Ork.1 To pick the bones
out of the boiled heads of fish and collect the fleshy parts.

THIN, see Then, adv., conj.

THIN, adj. Wm. In comb. (1) Thin drink, home-brewed beer; (2)
(2) Thin drink nights, obs., see below.
(1) (B.K.) (2) The thin drink nights meant special gatherings
which were held, and the evenings passed in... the public-houses,
Nicholls Hist. Rowen Stonedale (1877) 97.