calin

See also: câlin and călin

English

Etymology

From French calin, calain, from Portuguese calaim, from Arabic قَلَعِيّ (qalaʕiyy).

Noun

calin (uncountable)

1. An alloy of lead and tin.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “calin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• linac

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Catalan

Verb

calin

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Mapudungun

Verb

calin (using Raguileo Alphabet)

1. to greet
2. first-person singular realis form of calin