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    Spin \Spin\ (sp[i^]n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Spun}(Archaic imp.
    {Span}); p. pr. & vb. n. {Spinning}.] [AS. spinnan; akin to
    D. & G. spinnen, Icel. & Sw. spinna, Dan. spinde, Goth.
    spinnan, and probably to E. span. [root]170. Cf. {Span}, v.
    t., {Spider}.]
    1. To draw out, and twist into threads, either by the hand or
    machinery; as, to spin wool, cotton, or flax; to spin
    goat's hair; to produce by drawing out and twisting a
    fibrous material.

    All the yarn she [Penelope] spun in Ulysses' absence
    did but fill Ithaca full of moths. --Shak.

    2. To draw out tediously; to form by a slow process, or by
    degrees; to extend to a great length; -- with out; as, to
    spin out large volumes on a subject.

    Do you mean that story is tediously spun out?
    --Sheridan.

    3. To protract; to spend by delays; as, to spin out the day
    in idleness.

    By one delay after another they spin out their whole
    lives. --L'Estrange.

    4. To cause to turn round rapidly; to whirl; to twirl; as, to
    spin a top.

    5. To form (a web, a cocoon, silk, or the like) from threads
    produced by the extrusion of a viscid, transparent liquid,
    which hardens on coming into contact with the air; -- said
    of the spider, the silkworm, etc.

    6. (Mech.) To shape, as malleable sheet metal, into a hollow
    form, by bending or buckling it by pressing against it
    with a smooth hand tool or roller while the metal
    revolves, as in a lathe.

    {To spin a yarn} (Naut.), to tell a story, esp. a long or
    fabulous tale.

    {To spin hay} (Mil.), to twist it into ropes for convenient
    carriage on an expedition.

    {To spin street yarn}, to gad about gossiping. [Collog.]


    Spun \Spun\ (sp[u^]n),
    imp. & p. p. of {Spin}.

    {Spun hay}, hay twisted into ropes for convenient carriage,
    as on a military expedition.

    {Spun silk}, a cheap article produced from floss, or
    short-fibered, broken, and waste silk, carded and spun, in
    distinction from the long filaments wound from the cocoon.
    It is often mixed with cotton.

    {Spun yarn} (Naut.), a line formed of two or more rope-yarns
    loosely twisted.

    1. Jeyes was spun off in a leveraged management buy-out in 1986 from Cadbury Schweppes PLC, a Unilever spokeswoman noted, saying that over the past few years, "in profit terms it has grown substantially."
    2. Ametek spun off its Straza division and 13 others in 1988 to create Ketema Inc., which in turn has sold the marine products operations involved in the investigation, Ametek said.
    3. When City Investing began liquidating in 1985, he notes, "nobody would buy Home;" thus it was spun off to shareholders.
    4. The company was the first to be spun off from MCC, a consortium of high-technology companies that owns an equity interest in Evolutionary.
    5. Vernon, Ky., now is a thriving manufacturer that has generated 400 jobs, spun off three new machine shops and helped multiply the size of several truckers and other suppliers many times over.
    6. Pirelli spun off its tire-making activities into a Dutch holding company, Pirelli Tyre Holding N.V., last year, and the group has been seeking to boost market share through foreign acquisitions or alliances.
    7. They just love to hear the tumble and grind of the concrete mixer at a new building site, and because they do they often end up in the washing machine instead, tumbled about and spun dry.
    8. The yarn is made on some of the same machines that spun thread for Cheshire Mills fabrics.
    9. But one of the suspects spun around and killed Buczek with two blasts from a semiautomatic weapon, Ward said.
    10. But Bechtel, which in 1986 spun off a subsidiary with hundreds of millions in assets partly to safeguard family wealth, isn't quietly shrinking.
    11. It spun through town in four minutes, devouring the Rays' home at Riverview Trailer Park in seconds.
    12. Masco Corp. created Masco Industries in a similar move four years ago, when it spun off into Masco Industries its industrial and energy products businesses.
    13. Playmates, a subsidiary of Hong Kong-based Playmates Holdings Ltd., also is aggressively promoting its line spun off from the upcoming Dick Tracy movie.
    14. Richland is a unit of Houston-based Pennzoil Co., from which Pogo was spun off.
    15. Conceicao then spun around and shot Silva, wounding him in the leg.
    16. The 2,500 headquarters' staff employed two years ago are being cut to 100 people who will manage the central holding company. Headquarters departments such as finance, personnel, distribution and corporate affairs are being spun out as service units.
    17. In April it spun off to its shareholders three manufacturing companies: Eljer Industries Inc., Scotsman Industries Inc. and Schwitzer Inc.
    18. The settlement also provided that the Warner stake in BHC that is being spun off to Warner shareholders will comprise 40 percent of the equity and 6.25 percent of the voting power in new BHC. Chris-Craft controls the rest.
    19. There is usually a trio in which some poor creature is tugged into sexually crass positions - do these choreographers fear women? - and spun on her poor knees on the ground, or made to slide face-down over the stage.
    20. Grow Group Inc., which earlier this year spun off two unprofitable subsidiaries to holders, reported fiscal fourth-quarter net income fell 40%.
    21. Police in five riverside cities, including Pittsburgh, watched as the barges spun downstream, rebounding off the shore at times.
    22. Zayre spun TJX off in 1987 as a separate company from its apparel chain.
    23. The rest is speculation, theories as exotic as those in fiction, spun by a troubled populace.
    24. Home Oil was spun off from Interhome Energy Inc. earlier this year.
    25. Promus said it assumed responsibility for any future liability related to the suit at the time it was spun off from Holiday Corp.
    26. In 1988, GM spun its Detroit Diesel heavy engine operation into a joint venture controlled by entrepreneur Roger Penske.
    27. Maxus, the renamed Diamond Shamrock Corp., spun off its oil refining and marketing operations as Diamond Shamrock R&M Inc., with Maxus retaining the exploration and production business.
    28. Adelaide Steamship agreed in 1985 to deliver to a Bell unit 110 million shares in BHP and 30 million shares in BHP Gold Mines Ltd., which was spun off from BHP.
    29. There is a lot of Irish chitchat, no doubt quite realistic, some routine invective and folk-singing, and several quaintly spun yarns. We realise early on that something nasty must happen on Useless Island to bring matters to a head.
    30. Mr. Beasley, a former president of Northwest Industries in Chicago, joined Lone Star in 1985, after it was spun off by Northwest.
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