Pin, subst. 1) a small pointed instrument chiefly used to fasten clothes: Gent. II, 7, 56. As III, 5, 21. Wint. IV, 4, 228. R2 III, 2, 169. H4B III, 2, 156. H6B IV, 10, 32. Lr. II, 3, 16. IV, 7, 56. “--s' heads:” H4A IV, 2, 24. H4B IV, 3, 58.
Used to denote an insignificant trifle: Gent. I, 1, 115. II, 7, 55. Meas. II, 1, 99. II, 2, 45. III, 1, 106. Err. IV, 3, 73. LLL IV, 3, 19. H4B II, 4, 189. Hml. I, 4, 65. “my wretchedness unto a row of --s,” R2 III, 4, 26. Sometimes used to cut short any futile evasion: “you have beaten my men, killed my deer, and broke open my lodge. But not kissed your keeper's daughter? Tut a p.! this shall be answered,” Wiv. I, 1, 117. “I'll tell you what, -- Foh, foh! come, tell a p., you are forsworn,” Troil. V, 2, 22.
2) the middle point of the butt, the centre: “then will she get the upshoot by cleaving the p.” LLL IV, 1, 138. “the very p. of his heart cleft with the blind bowboy's buttshaft,” Rom. II, 4, 15.
3) an induration of the membranes of the eye, cataract: “all eyes blind with the p. and web,” Wint. I, 2, 291. “he gives the web and the p.” Lr. III, 4, 122.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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