Loin
[lɒɪn] or [lɔɪn]
Definition
(noun.) either side of the backbone between the hipbone and the ribs in humans as well as quadrupeds.
(noun.) a cut of meat taken from the side and back of an animal between the ribs and the rump.
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Definition
(n.) That part of a human being or quadruped, which extends on either side of the spinal column between the hip bone and the false ribs. In human beings the loins are also called the reins. See Illust. of Beef.
Checked by Hillel
Definition
n. the back of a beast cut for food: (pl.) the reins or the lower part of the back.—n. Loin′-cloth a piece of cloth for wearing round the loins.—Gird up the loins to prepare for energetic action—the clothes tucked up before running &c.
Checker: Witt
Examples
- Ni les élèves ni les parents ne regardent plus loin; ni, par conséquent, moi non plus. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Mon beau voyage encore est si loin de sa fin! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Quite an elegant dish of fish; the kidney-end of a loin of veal, roasted; fried sausage-meat; a partridge, and a pudding. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- On the last Sunday, they invited me to dinner; and we had a loin of pork and apple sauce, and a pudding. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- There will be the leg to be salted, you know, which is so very nice, and the loin to be dressed directly in any manner they like. Jane Austen. Emma.
- We had loin of pork for dinner, and greens grown on the estate; and I nodded at the Aged with a good intention whenever I failed to do it drowsily. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Again the moon shone with faint luminosity on his white wet figure, on the stooping back and the rounded loins. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Gird up thy loins, and seek out this Wilfred, the son of Cedric. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Oh, and the beauty of the subjection of his loins, white and dimly luminous as he climbed over the side of the boat, made her want to die, to die. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- She traced with her hands the line of his loins and thighs, at the back, and a living fire ran through her, from him, darkly. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- She saw his back, the movement of his white loins. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He could feel his position was ridiculous, his loins exposed behind him. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The beauty of his dim and luminous loins as he climbed into the boat, his back rounded and soft--ah, this was too much for her, too final a vision. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Kneeling on the hearth-rug before him, she put her arms round his loins, and put her face against his thigh. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- With perfect fine finger-tips of reality she would touch the reality in him, the suave, pure, untranslatable reality of his loins of darkness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- An unclean starveling wrapped a gaudy table-cloth about his loins, and hung a white rag over my shoulders. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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