• any of several evergreen perennials of the genus Pyrola
• creeping shrub of eastern North America having white bell-shaped flowers followed by spicy red berrylike fruit and shiny aromatic leaves that yield wintergreen oil
• spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil
• an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant
• A double-edged, leaf-shaped, typically bronze dagger formerly used in Ireland and Scotland.
• A quantity of yarn, thread, or the like, put up together, after it is taken from the reel. A skein of cotton yarn is formed by eighty turns of the thread around a fifty-four inch reel.
• A web, a weave, a tangle.
• The membrane of a fish ovary.
• (wagonmaking) A metallic strengthening band or thimble on the wooden arm of an axle.
• (provincial England) A group of wild fowl, (e.g. geese, goslings) when they are in flight.
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