SPIN Copy link • SPINTransitively, nere. Cf, Stamina nere: stamina ducere versato fuco, stamina torta ducere manu, are found in the poets, but are admissible in prose; but fila deducere, stamina torquere digitis or pollice are purely poetical: lanam tractate (as a business): pensum facere or peragere (as a task). To spin a web (of the spider), texere telam: to spin off, deducere stamina colo (Tibullus, 1, 3, 86): to spin out, deducere (to spin to the end; PROP., or figuratively); excogitare; comminisci (to think out): to spin out a thing; i. e., to unfold it copiously, uberius or fusius disputare de re; pluribus docere, exponere aliquid. Intransitively = To turn round quickly, in orbem agi, circumagi, or circumferri (☞ rotari is rather poetic); gyros variare (to make circles, as birds do in the air).