2016, Saraswati Raju, Santosh Jatrana,Women Workers in Urban India, page280:
Among those who derive information related to work from personal contacts, nonkins, rather thankins, constitute the most important sources even for women.
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(uncommon) Related by blood or marriage, akin.(It is more common to form sentences using the noun instead.)
It turns out my back-fence neighbor iskin to one of my co-workers.
1914, Zona Gale,Neighborhood Stories, page155:
... and our feeling together had made us forget what-ever there'd been between us to forget about. And I ain't ever in my life felt sokin to folks. I feltkinner than I knew I was. That night, tired as I was, I walked[…]
How serenely Earth keeps on her business![…] Yielding powers to man's hand / While he burrows in her sand, /[…] Howkin is she to man, who sips / Nourishment with boasting lips, / Detached, but inalienably bound /To be suckled[…]
Alternative form ofqin(“Chinese string instrument”).
1899, Hugo Riemann,Catechism of Musical History: History of musical instruments and history of tone-systems and notation:
Originally they had only two cither-like instruments, which had flat sound-boxes without fingerboards, over which were strung rather a large number (25) of strings of twisted silk — the kin and tsche.
1840, Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Samuel Wells Williams,The Chinese Repository, page40:
If a musician were going to give a lecture upon the mathematical part of his art, he would find a very elegant substitute for the monochord in the Chinesekin.
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