a. Spun thinly; drawn out in spinning to a slender thread. Also fig.

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1637.  Milton, Lycidas, 76. Comes the blind Fury with th’ abhorred shears, And slits the thin spun life.

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1642.  H. More, Song of Soul, II. iii. IV. ix. Thin-spun reason and exile discourse.

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a. 1785.  R. Glover, Jason, II. viii.

        For me your thin-spun magic do you spread,
Audacious demons, under sacred forms
Of messengers from him who lights the world.

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1821.  Clare, Vill. Minstr., I. 93. How thin-spun clouds glide swiftly by. Ibid., 120. Nor broken seam, nor thin-spun screen.

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