Obverse. Reverse. 
Dinar of Haroun-al-Raschid, struck in A. 
H. 172 (= A. D. 788), British Museum. (Size 
of the original.) 
dinanderie 
tallio vessels of old make and graceful or un- 
usual form, sometimes decorated with coats- 
of-arms and other ornaments executed in re- 
pousse\ (6) By extension, the ornamental 
brass-work of India and the Levant. 
dinar (de-niir'), [Ar., < L. denarius, a silver 
coin: see dena- 
rius.'] The name 
of a gold coin 
issued by the 
califs of Damas- 
cus: it was also 
applied to the 
gold coins of 
various Arab 
dynasties, and 
was the generic 
name of Arab gold coins. The original weight of 
the dinar was 65.4 grains troy. The word is also, incor- 
rectly, used to mean the weight of a mitral (which see). 
Dinas brick. A peculiar kind of fire-brick, con- 
sisting almost exclusively of silica, the material 
for which is obtained from the Dinas rock in 
the Vale of Neath, Wales. The rock is supposed to 
be the equivalent of the millstone-grit, and is closely re- 
lated to the ganister rock. See ganister. 
dindin (din'din), n. [Prob. imitative.] A Hin- 
du musical instrument of the cymbal class. 
dindle 1 (din'dl), v, i. ; pret. and pp. dindled, ppr. 
dindling. [Sc. and prov. Eng. , also dinnle, dinle; 
< ME. dyndelen, tingle (?). Cf. dandle.] 1. To 
tremble; reel; stagger. 2. To tingle, as the 
fingers with cold ; thrill. 
dindle 2 (din'dl), n. [Origin uncertain; prob. 
< dindle^.] 1. The common corn sow-thistle ; 
also, sow-thistle. 2. Hawkweed. [Local, Eng., 
in both senses.] 
dindle-dandle (din'dl-dan'dl), v. t. [A varied 
redn.pl. of dandle.'} To dandle or toss about. 
Judge, whether it be seemly that Christ's body should 
be so dindle-dandled and used as they use it. 
J. Bradford, Works (Parker Soc., 1853), II. 284. 
Dindymene (din-di-me'ne), n. [NL. , < L. Din- 
dymene, < Gr. Aivdvftrrn/, a name of Cybele, per- 
haps < Aivdv/mv, L. Dindynms or Dindymon, a 
mountain in Asia Minor where Cybele was wor- 
shiped.] In 2007. : (a) The typical genus of the 
family Dindymenidce. (b) A genus of Venues. 
Kinball, 1865. 
Dindymenidae (din-di-men'i-de), n. pi. [NL., 
< Dindymene + -idai.] A family of trilobites : 
same as Zethidce. 
dine (din), v. ; pret. and pp. dined, ppr. dining. 
[< ME. dinen, dynen, denen, < OP. disner, some- 
times spelled disgner, digner, P. diner = Pr. 
disiiar, dinar, dinar = It. disinare, desinare 
(ML. disnare, after OP.), dine; origin disputed. 
(1) As conjectured by Diez, Scheler, Littr6, and 
others, < L. (ML.) as if *decenare, < de- inten- 
sive + eenare, dine, sup, < cena, dinner, supper. 
(2) More prob., since OP. disner was used rather 
of breakfast than of dinner, it is a contr. of 
disjuiter, desjuner, desjeuner, desjeusiter, P. de- 
jeuner, breakfast, > E. disjune; if this is so, It. 
disinare, dexiiiare, is of P. origin, the prop. It. 
form, corresponding to OF. desjuner, being di- 
giunare = Pr. dejwiar, fast: see disjune, dejeu- 
ner. Hence dinner.] I. intrans. To eat the 
chief meal of the day ; take dinner ; in a more 
general sense, to partake of a repast ; eat. 
We went all to Mounte Syon to masse ; and the same 
day we dyned with ye warden and freres there, where we 
had a right honest dyner. 
Sir R. Guylforde, Pylgrymage, p. 39. 
There came a bird out o' a bush, 
On water for to dine. 
The Water ' Wearie's Well (Child's Ballads, I. 198). 
The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, 
And wretches hang that jurymen may dine. 
Pope, B. o the L., iii. 25. 
Serenely full, the epicure would say, 
Fate cannot harm me, I have dined to-day. 
Siiilney Smith, Receipt for Salad. 
To dine out, to take dinner elsewhere than at one's own 
residence. To dine with Duke Humphrey, to be din- 
nerless : a phrase said to have originated from the circum- 
stance that a part of the public walks in Old St Paul's 
London, was called Duke Humphrey's Walk (being near 
his tomb), and that those who could not pay for a dinner 
at a tavern were accustomed to promenade there, In the 
hope of meeting an acquaintance and getting an invita- 
tion to dine. The phrase, however, may be connected 
with the report that Duke Humphrey, son of Henry IV., 
was starved to death. 
II. trans. 1. To give a dinner to ; furnish with 
the principal meal ; entertain at dinner : as, the 
landlord dined a hundred men. 
A table massive enough to have dined Johnnie Arm- 
strong and his merry men. Scott. 
I was never so effectually deterred from frequenting a 
man s house by any kind of Cerberus whatever as by the 
parade one made about dining me. 
Thorcau, Walden, p. 15S. 
1624 
2f. To dine upon ; have to eat. 
What wol ye dene? Chaucer, Summoner's Tale, 1. 129. 
dine (din), n. [<.dine,v. Cf. dinner.] 1. Dinner. 
" And dinna ye mind, love Gregor," she says, 
*' As we twa sat at dine, 
How we chang'd the rings frae our fingers, 
And I can shew thee thine." 
Fair Annie of Lochroyan (Child's Ballads, II. 102). 
2. Dinner-time ; midday. 
And by there came a harper flue, . . . 
That harped to the king at dine. 
The Twa Swters (Child's Ballads, II. 242). 
We twa hae paidl't i* the bum 
From mornin' sun till dine. 
Burns, Auld Lang Syne. 
dingy 
ding 2 (ding), r. [Imitative; cf. ding-dong and 
ring.] I. intrans. To sound, as a bell; ring, 
especially with wearisome continuance. 
The din of carts, and the accursed dinging of the dust- 
man's bell. Irving, Sketch- Book, p. 146. 
II. truns. To keep repeating; impress by 
reiteration : with reference to the monotonous 
striking of a bell. 
If I'm to have any good, let it come of itself ; not keep 
dinging it, dinging it into one so. 
Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer, ii. 
ding 3 (ding), v. t. Same as dang" 2 . 
ding 4 t, n. An obsolete variant of dungl. Com- 
pare dingy 1 
[Obsolete or provincial in both senses.] ding-dong (ding'doug), n. [A reduplication of 
dinero (de-na'ro), n. [Sp., < L. denarius, a sil- ding 2 , in imitation of the sound of a bell. Cf . 
-'P', 
ver coin: see denarius.] A Peruvian silver 
coin, the tenth of a sol, or about one United 
States dime. 
diner-Out (di'ner-ouf), n. One who is in the 
habit of dining from home, and in company; 
one who accepts many invitations to dinner. 
A liberal landlord, graceful diner-out. Mrs. Browning. 
This is a very tiresome device, savouring too much of 
the professional diner-out. 
The Athenaeum, No. 3141, p. 15. 
dineticalt (di-net'i-kal), a. [< Gr. 
whirled around, verbal adj. of dtveiv, whirl 
around; cf. iivr/, divof, a whirling.] Whirling 
round ; turning on an axis ; spinning. 
It hath ... a dinetical motion and rowls upon its own 
poles. Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., vi. 5. 
A spherical figure is most commodious for dinetical mo- 
tion, or revolution upon its own axis. 
Kay, Works of Creation, ii. 
dinette (di-nef), . [P., dim. of diner, dinner, 
< diner, dine : see dine, v.] A sort of prelimi- 
nary dinner; a luncheon. See extract under 
dinner-hour. 
ding 1 (ding), v. ; pret. and pp. dinged or dung, 
ppr. dinging. [< ME. dingen, dyngen (strong 
verb, pret. dang, dong, pp. dungen), strike, 
throw, beat ; not in AS., the alleged "dencgan 
being unauthenticated ; prob. of Scand. origin : 
Icel. dengja, hammer, = Sw. danoa = Dan. 
dwnge, bang, beat (weak verbs).] I. trans. 1. 
To strike ; beat ; throw or dash with violence. 
We sail noght byde, but dyng tham doune, 
Tylle all be dede, with-outen drede. 
York Plays, p. 91. 
Christe suffered most mekely and paciently his enemies 
for to dinge out with sharpe scourges the bloude that was 
betwene his skyu and his flesh. 
State Trials, W. Thorpe, an. 1407. 
Sur. Down with the door. 
Kas. 'Slight, ding it open. 
B. Jonson, Alchemist, v. 3. 
Then Willie lifted up his foot, 
And dang him down the stair. 
Sweet Willie and Fair Maisry (Child's Ballads, II. 337). 
Every acute reader, upon the first sight of a pedantick 
licence, will be ready with these like words to ding the 
book a coits distance from him. 
Milton, Areopagitica, p. 32. 
To see his poor auld mither's pot 
Thus dung in staves. 
Burns, Prayer to the Scotch Representatives. 
2. To prove too much for; beat; nonplus. 
[Scotch.] 
The stream was strung, the maid was stout, 
And laith, laith to be dang, 
But, ere she wan the Lowden banks, 
Her fair colour was wan. 
Young Benjie (Child's Ballads, II. 301). 
But a' your doings to rehearse . . . 
Wad ding a Lawland tongue, or Erse. 
Burns, Address to the Deil. 
3. To beat; thrash. [Scotch.] 
As fair greets [cries) the bairn that is dung after noon 
as he that is dung before noon. 
Scotch Proverb (Ray, Proverbs, 2d ed., 1678, p. 358). 
I'd just like to ding that man o' a shoemaker sending 
me home a pair o' boots like this when well he knew what 
state my feet were in. W. Black, In Far Lochaber, vii. 
Dinged work, embossed work, done by means of blows 
which raise one surface and depress the other. 
II. intrans. If. To strike. 
Jason grippede graithly to a grym sworde, 
Danffe on the deuyll with a derffe wille. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 931. 
2. To bluster ; storm. 
He huffs and dings, because we will not spend the little 
we have left to get him the title of Lord Strut. Arbuthnnt. 
3. To descend; fall; come down: used as in 
the phrase " It's dingin? on," applied to a fall of 
rain or snow. [Scotch.] 
He headlong topsie turvie dimid downe. 
Marston, Antonio and' Mellida, II., iv. 3. 
4. To be defeated or overturned; yield. 
[Scotch.] 
But facts are chiels that wiuna ding 
And dowiia be disputed. Burns, A Dream. 
equiv. Sw. dingdang, dingelidang = Dan. ding- 
dong.'] 1. The sound of a bell, or any simi- 
lar sound of repeated strokes. 2. A device in 
which two bells of different tone are struck 
alternately, used in striking the quarter-hours 
on a clock To go at or to it ding-dong, to fight in 
good earnest. 
His courage was flush'd, he'd venture a brush, 
And thus they went to it ding-dong. Old Ballad. 
dinged (dingd), a. or adv. [A weak form of 
danged, pp. of dang 2 , which is a compromise 
with damn.'} Darned: a mild form of damned. 
[U. S.] 
If I ever takes another (thrashing) . . . may I be dinged, 
and dug up and dinged over again. 
H. Watterson, quoted in Trans. Amer. Philol. Ass., XIV. 47. 
dinghy, dingey (ding'gi), n. [< Beng. dingi, a 
boat, wherry, passage-boat, dingd (cerebral d"), 
a ship, sloop, coasting-vessel.] An East Indian 
name for a boat varying in size in different lo- 
calities. The dinghies of Bombay are from 12 to 20 feet 
long, 5 to 7 feet broad, and about 2 feet deep, with a raking 
mast, and are navigated by three or four men. The din- 
ghies of Calcutta are small passage-boats for the poorer 
classes, rarely used with a sail ; they are not painted, but 
merely rubbed with nut-oil. The name is also applied to a 
ship's working-boat, especially to the smallest boat of a 
man-of-war ; and in some parts of the United States it is 
used for a flat-bottomed boat, which is also called a dory. 
Also written dtiingy, dingy, dingee, and dinky. 
The Commissioner was fain to set out sleepy and break- 
fastless towards the shore in the dingy, accompanied by 
guns, ammunition, false birds, and the paraphernalia of 
the fatal art. Shore Birds, p. 30. 
dingily 1 (din'ji-li),a*\ [< dingy* + -ly?.] In a 
dingy manner ; so as to give a dingy appearance. 
A kind of careless peignoir of a dark-blue material, 
dimly and dingily plaided with black. 
Charlotte Bronte, Villette, xxi. 
dingily 2 ! (ding'i-li), adv. [< "dingy (irreg. < 
dingi + jyi) + -ly2.~\ Forcibly, as one that 
dings a thing down ; downright. 
These be so manifest, so plain, and do confute so dingily 
the sentence and saying of Floribell. 
Philpot, Works (ed. Parker Soc.), p. 370. 
dinginess (din'ji-nes), n. The quality of being 
dingy or tarnished; a shabby or soiled appear- 
ance. 
dingle 1 (ding'gi), . [Supposed to be another 
form of dimble, q. v.] 1. A small, secluded, 
and embowered valley. 
I know each lane, and every alley green, 
Dingle, or bushy dell of this wild wood. 
Milton, Comus, 1. 312. 
The stream thenceforward stole along the bottom of the 
dingle, and made, for that dry land, a pleasant warbling in 
the leaves. R. L. Stevenson, Silverado Squatters, p. 129. 
2. The protecting weather-shed built around the 
entrance to a house. [North. New Eng.] 
dingle 2 (ding'gi), v. i. ; pret. and pp. dingled, 
ppr. dingling. [Sc., var. of dinnle and dindk 1 . 
Cf. Dan. dingle = Sw. dingla, dangle, swing, 
vibrate.] To shake; vibrate. 
Garring the very stane-and-lime wa's dingle wi' his 
screeching. Scott, Waverley, xliv. 
dingle-dangle (ding'gl-dang'gl), adv. [Re- 
duplication of dangle. Cf. Dau. dingeldangel, 
n., gewgaws, bobs.] Loosely; in a dangling 
manner. 
Boughs hanging dimilr-dnwile- over the edge of the dell. 
T. W'arton, On Milton's Juvenile Poems. 
Dingley Act. See act. 
dingo (ding'go), n. [Native Australian name.] 
The Australian dog, Cains dingo, of wolf-like 
appearance and extremely fierce. The ears an- 
short and erect, the tail is rather bushy, and the hair is of 
a reddish-dun color. It is very destructive to flocks, and 
is systematically destroyed. See cut on following page. 
dingthriftt (ding'thrift), n. [< dingi + O bj. 
thrift.] A spendthrift. 
Wilt tnou. therefore, a drunkard be, 
A dingthrift and a knave? 
Drant. tr. of Horace's Satires, i. 
dingy 1 (diu'ji), a. [< ding* for dung + -yl : 
being thus equiv. to dungy: see dung, dungy.] 
