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Gin is a strong alcoholic beverage made from spirit and juniper berries. The most commonly seen gin is London dry gin, where London doesnot denote origin but style.[W]

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[W] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gin

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Whitestone Logging Camp CDP, Alaska:
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Total households 36, total housing units: 45
Land area: 10.497698 square miles, water area 0.000000 miles
Latitude: NORTH 58.085264, longitude: WEST 135.44845 MAP
Population:116, male 69 female 47
Races in Whitestone Logging Camp CDP, Alaska:

White/Non-Hispanic (92.24%)
Asian (0.86%): Korean(0.86%)

Elgin CDP, Arizona:
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Total households 123, total housing units: 153
Land area: 48.514130 square miles, water area 0.000000 miles
Latitude: NORTH 31.629095, longitude: WEST 110.57195 MAP
Population:309, male 166 female 143
Races in Elgin CDP, Arizona:

White/Non-Hispanic (82.85%)
Hispanic (13.59%):

Higginson town, Arkansas:
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Total households 145, total housing units: 165
Land area: 0.765834 square miles, water area 0.000000 miles
Latitude: NORTH 35.197323, longitude: EAST -91.71231 MAP
Population:378, male 185 female 193
Races in Higginson town, Arkansas:

White/Non-Hispanic (95.50%)
Hispanic (1.85%)
Asian (0.26%): Asian-Other(0.26%)

Wiggins town, Colorado:
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Total households 265, total housing units: 279
Land area: 0.893000 square miles, water area 0.000000 miles
Latitude: NORTH 40.230273, longitude: WEST 104.07336 MAP
Population:838, male 420 female 418
Races in Wiggins town, Colorado:

White/Non-Hispanic (73.15%)
Hispanic (25.06%)
Black (1.19%):

Virginia Gardens village, Florida:
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Total households 890, total housing units: 925
Land area: 0.300233 square miles, water area 0.000000 miles
Latitude: NORTH 25.809175, longitude: EAST -80.29669 MAP
Population:2348, male 1159 female 1189
Races in Virginia Gardens village, Florida:

Hispanic (67.25%)
White/Non-Hispanic (28.58%)
Black (2.26%)
Asian (1.53%): Asian-Other(1.06%) Chinese(0.43%) Japanese(0.04%)

Riggins, Idaho:
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Total households 204, total housing units: 253
Land area: 0.301183 square miles, water area 0.000000 miles
Latitude: NORTH 45.422125, longitude: WEST 116.31584 MAP
Population:410, male 205 female 205
Races in Riggins, Idaho:

White/Non-Hispanic (98.29%):

Virginia township, Cass County, Illinois:
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Total households 799, total housing units: 881
Population:1931, male 915 female 1016
Races in Virginia township, Cass County, Illinois:

White/Non-Hispanic (98.34%)
Hispanic (0.78%)
Asian (0.21%): Asian-Other(0.10%) Korean(0.10%)
Black (0.10%)

Elgin township, Kane County, Illinois:
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Total households 30121, total housing units: 31167
Population:90384, male 45258 female 45126
Races in Elgin township, Kane County, Illinois:

White/Non-Hispanic (58.33%)
Hispanic (30.95%)
Black (6.26%)
Asian (3.29%): Asian-Other(2.88%) Chinese(0.23%) Korean(0.13%) Japanese(0.05%)
Hawaiian or Pacific Islander (0.05%)

Edgington township, Rock Island County, Illinois:
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Total households 609, total housing units: 637
Population:1547, male 762 female 785
Races in Edgington township, Rock Island County, Illinois:

White/Non-Hispanic (98.71%)
Hispanic (0.90%)
Black (0.13%)
Asian (0.06%): Korean(0.06%)

Elgin, Illinois:
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Total households 31543, total housing units: 32665
Land area: 25.002572 square miles, water area 0.386144 miles
Latitude: NORTH 42.039426, longitude: EAST -88.28862 MAP
Population:94487, male 47213 female 47274
Races in Elgin, Illinois:

White/Non-Hispanic (53.80%)
Hispanic (34.32%)
Black (6.80%)
Asian (3.88%): Asian-Other(3.43%) Chinese(0.26%) Korean(0.13%) Japanese(0.07%)
Hawaiian or Pacific Islander (0.06%)

South Elgin village, Illinois:
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Total households 5565, total housing units: 5657
Land area: 6.287903 square miles, water area 0.123128 miles
Latitude: NORTH 41.992283, longitude: EAST -88.30785 MAP
Population:16100, male 8059 female 8041
Races in South Elgin village, Illinois:

White/Non-Hispanic (80.09%)
Hispanic (10.34%)
Asian (5.47%): Asian-Other(4.81%) Chinese(0.34%) Korean(0.27%) Japanese(0.06%)
Black (2.58%)
Hawaiian or Pacific Islander (0.01%)

Virginia, Illinois:
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Total households 724, total housing units: 794
Land area: 1.084637 square miles, water area 0.012174 miles
Latitude: NORTH 39.949022, longitude: EAST -90.21179 MAP
Population:1728, male 807 female 921
Races in Virginia, Illinois:

White/Non-Hispanic (98.15%)
Hispanic (0.87%)
Asian (0.23%): Asian-Other(0.12%) Korean(0.12%)
Black (0.12%)

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Webster Unabridged

Gin (?), prep. [AS. geán. See Again.] Against; near by; towards; as, gin night. [Scot.] A. Ross (1778).

Gin, conj. [See Gin, prep.] If. [Scotch] Jamieson.

Gin (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Gan (?), Gon (&?;), or Gun (&?;); p. pr. & vb. n. Ginning.] [OE. ginnen, AS. ginnan (in comp.), prob. orig., to open, cut open, cf. OHG. inginnan to begin, open, cut open, and prob. akin to AS. gīnan to yawn, and E. yawn. &?; See Yawn, v. i., and cf. Begin.] To begin; -- often followed by an infinitive without to; as, gan tell. See Gan. [Obs. or Archaic] "He gan to pray." Chaucer.

Gin (?), n. [Contr. from Geneva. See 2d Geneva.] A strong alcoholic liquor, distilled from rye and barley, and flavored with juniper berries; -- also called Hollands and Holland gin, because originally, and still very extensively, manufactured in Holland. Common gin is usually flavored with turpentine.

Gin (?), n. [A contraction of engine.]

1. Contrivance; artifice; a trap; a snare. Chaucer. Spenser.

2. (a) A machine for raising or moving heavy weights, consisting of a tripod formed of poles united at the top, with a windlass, pulleys, ropes, etc. (b) (Mining) A hoisting drum, usually vertical; a whim.

3. A machine for separating the seeds from cotton; a cotton gin.

&fist; The name is also given to an instrument of torture worked with screws, and to a pump moved by rotary sails.

Gin block, a simple form of tackle block, having one wheel, over which a rope runs; -- called also whip gin, rubbish pulley, and monkey wheel. -- Gin power, a form of horse power for driving a cotton gin. -- Gin race, or Gin ring, the path of the horse when putting a gin in motion. Halliwell. -- Gin saw, a saw used in a cotton gin for drawing the fibers through the grid, leaving the seed in the hopper. -- Gin wheel. (a) In a cotton gin, a wheel for drawing the fiber through the grid; a brush wheel to clean away the lint. (b) (Mining) the drum of a whim.

Gin, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ginned (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Ginning.] 1. To catch in a trap. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

2. To clear of seeds by a machine; as, to gin cotton.

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