Spin (?), v. i. 1. To practice spinning; to work at drawing and twisting threads; to make yarn or thread from fiber; as, the woman knows how to spin; a machine or jenny spins with great exactness.
They neither know to spin, nor care to toll. Prior.
2. To move round rapidly; to whirl; to revolve, as a top or a spindle, about its axis.
Round about him spun the landscape,
Sky and forest reeled together. Longfellow.
With a whirligig of jubilant mosquitoes spinning about each head. G. W. Cable.
3. To stream or issue in a thread or a small current or jet; as, blood spinsfrom a vein. Shak.
4. To move swifty; as, to spin along the road in a carriage, on a bicycle, etc.