Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Lin

Lin (lin) , intransitive verb

[Anglo-Saxon linnan. See Lithe.]

To yield; to stop; to cease. [Obsolete or Scottish] — Marston

Lin , transitive verb

To cease from. [Obsolete or Scottish]

Lin , noun

[Ir. linn, or Gael. linne; akin to Welsh llyn a pool, pond, lake, but in senses 2 and 3 prob. from Anglo-Saxon hlynn torrent. Compare Dunlin.]

1.
A pool or collection of water, particularly one above or below a fall of water.
2.
A waterfall, or cataract; as, a roaring lin.
3.
A steep ravine.

Written also linn and lyn.