dingy 
Dingo (Cants dingo), 
1. Foul ; dirty. [Prov. Eng.] 2. Soiled ; tar- 
nished; of a dusky color; having a dull-brown- 
ish tinge. 
Even ttie Postboy and the Postman, which seem to have 
been the Iwst conducted and the most prosperous, were 
wretchedly printed on Hcrajm of '/</,-/// paper, such as would 
not now be thought good enough for street ballads. 
M, ,i I'fu'i, Hist. Eng., xxi. 
The snow-fall, too, looked Inexpressibly dreary (I had 
almost called it dingy) coining down through an atmo- 
sphere of city smoke. 
Hawthorne, Blithedale Romance, p. IS. 
Other men, scorched by sun, and cake<l with layers of 
Bulgarian dust, looked disreputably dingy and travel- 
soiled. A rch. Forbes, Souvenirs of some Continent*, p. 8B. 
= Syn. 2. Tarnished, rusty, dull. 
1 *, w. See dinghy. 
ical (din'i-kal), a. [< Gr. ilvof, a whirling, 
+ -ieal. Cf. dinetical.] Pertaining to giddi- 
ness : applied to medicines that remove giddi- 
ness. Thomas, Med. Diet. 
Dinictis (dl-nik'tis), . [NL., < Gr. iea>6f, ter- 
rible, large, + inTif, a weasel or marten.] A 
genus of fossil feline quadrupeds, having a 
lower tubercular behind the sectorial molar. 
Leidy, 1854. 
Dinifera (di-nif 'e-rS), n. pi. [NL., neut. pi. of 
diniferus: see dtiiiferous.] An order of dino- 
flagellate infusorians which have a transverse 
groove, and also usually a longitudinal one. 
diniferous (di-nif'e-rus), a. [< NL. diniferus, 
< Gr. 6lvof, also iitni, a whirling, + ftpeiv = E. 
fteor 1 .] Pertaining to or having the characters 
of the Dinifera. 
dining-room (di'ning-r6m), n. A room in 
which dinner is eaten, or the principal nieals 
are taken ; the room in which all meals are 
served in a dwelling-house or a hotel, or a room 
specially set apart for public feasts or enter- 
tainments. 
dinitro-. [< *- 2 + nitric.'] In cheni., a prefix 
signifying that the compound of the name of 
which it forms a part contains two nitro-groups 
(N0 2 ). 
dinitrocellulose (di-ni'tro-sel'u-los), n. [< 
rfi- 2 + nitric + cellulose 2 .] A substance, anal- 
ogous to guneotton, but differing from it in 
being soluble in alcohol and ether, produced 
by the action of a mixture of sulphuric and 
nitric acids on cotton. Collodion is a solution 
of this substance in ether and alcohol. Also 
called soluble pyroxylin. 
dink (dingk), f. t. [Origin obscure.] To deck ; 
dress; adorn. [Scotch.] 
Do as you will forme, I am now too old to din* myself 
as a gallant to grace the bower of dames. Scott, Abbot, xx. 
dink (dingk), a. [See dink, t'.] Neatly dressed ; 
trim; tidy. [Scotch.] Also denk. 
My lady's dink, my lady's drest, 
The flower and fancy o* the west. 
Burn*, My Lady's Gown. 
The mechanic, in his leathern apron, elbowed the '/''/.-' 
and dainty dame, his city mistress. 
Scott, Kenilworth, xxv. 
dinman, dinmont (din'man, din'mout), n. [Also 
ililiHona, ili in men t; origin obscure; possibly a 
corruption of twelremonth, equiv. to yearling.] 
A wether between one and two years old, or that 
has not yet been twice shorn. [North. Eng. and 
Scotch.] 
dinna (din'ft). [Sc., < do (Sc. also die) + na 
= E. wo 1 , adv. So Sc. canna, wilna or icinna, 
isna, etc.] Do not. 
Hunt lassie, . . . ilinna be sae dooms down-hearted as 
a' that. Scott, Heart of Mid-Lothian, xx. 
dinner (din'or), . [< ME. diner. dyner, < OP. 
ili.iiier, dinner, or rather breakfast, P. diner, din- 
ner; prop, inf., OF. disncr, F. diner, dine, used 
as a noun: see dine.'] 1. The principal meal 
of the day, taken at midday or later, even in the 
evening. In medieval and modern Europe the common 
n ;_:, 
praetiee, tl.iwn to the lniilille of the eighteenth century, 
wa to take thin nn-al alxint midday, or in more primitive 
times even as early as :i or 10 A. M. In Fnnuv, ntitier the 
old n'-gimi-. the dinner -Imur was at -2 or :i in the after. 
IMM.II ; I nit wile n the CofutitDOBl Assemhly moved to Paris, 
since it sat until 4 or :> o'clock, the hour for dining was 
l.-t]i,,iie,|. Tlie eiiBt. mi,,! dining at U o'clock or later has 
sin.e I,,-, -nine .1,111111,111, except in the country, where early 
dinner in still the general practice. Sec extract under 
dinner-hour. 
I hey washed togyder ami wyped bothe, 
And set tyll theyr dynere. 
Lytell Geite o/ Jiobyn Ilode (Child's Ballads, V. 60). 
Let me not stay a Jot for dinner : go, get It ready. 
Shak., Lear, i. 4. 
2. An entertainment ; a feast ; a dinner-party. 
Thenne Nychodemus receyued hym in to his house and 
made hym a grete dyner. 
Joteph of Ariwathic (E. E. T. 8.), p. 29. 
He that will make the Feste will seye to the HoBtellere, 
Arraye for me, to morwe, a gode Dyner, for so many folk. 
Slaiuleinlle, Travels, p. 214. 
Behold, I have prepared my dinner. Mat xxii. 4. 
To-morrow, if we live, 
Our ponderous squire will give 
A grand political dinner 
To hall the squirelings near. 
Tennytun, Maud, xx. 
dinner (din'er), v. i. [< dinner, n.] To take 
dinner; dine. [Scotch.] 
Sae far I sprachled up the brae, 
I dinner'd wi' a lord. 
Burnt, On Meeting Lord Der. 
dinner-hour (din'er-our), n. The hour at which 
dinner is taken ; dinner-time. See dinner. 
The Court dinner-hour, in the reign of Oeorge III., was 
at the Hanoverian hour of four o'clock. During the reign 
of Oeorge IV. it gradually crept up to six o'clock, and 
finally became steady at the Indian hour of seven, and so 
remained until the reign of Her Most gracious Majesty, 
when the formal Court dinner-hour became eight o'clock. 
These innovations on the national hours of meals did not 
meet the approval of the medical faculty, and in conse- 
quence a dinette at two o'clock was prescrilied. This has 
ever since been the favourite Court meal, being in reality 
a substantial hot repast, which has exploded the old-fash- 
ioned luncheon of cold viands. 
The Queen (London newspaper). 
dinnerless (din'er-les), a. [< dinner + -less.] 
Having no dinner or food; fasting. 
To dine with Duke Humphrey, importing to be dinner- 
leei. Fuller, Worthies, London. 
Then with another humorous ruth remark'd 
The lusty mowers labouring dinnerlet*. 
Tennyson, Oeraint. 
dinnerly (din'er-li), a. [< dinner + -fyi.] Of 
or pertaining to dinner. Copley. 
dinner-table (din'er-ta'bl), n. The table at 
which dinner is eaten, 
dinner-time (din'er-tim), . The usual time 
of dining ; the dinner-hour. See dinner. 
At dinner-time, 
I pray you, have in mind where we must meet 
Shak., M. of V., i. 1. 
Alt. What hour is 't, Lollio? 
Lot. Towards belly-hour, sir. 
A K. Dinner time i thou means't twelve o'clock ? 
Xiddleton, Changeling, i. 2. 
Move on ; for it grows towards dinner-time. 
Cotton, in Walton's Angler, ii. 249. 
dinner-Wagon (din 'er-wag'on), n. A set of light 
shelves, as a dumb-waiter, usually mounted on 
casters and easily movable, for the service of 
a dining-room. Compare ditnib-u-aiter. 
dinnery (din'er-i), a. [< dinner + -i.] Sug- 
gesting dinner ; having the odor of dinner. 
I ... disliked the dinnery atmosphere of the salle ii 
manger. Mrs. Gaskell, Curious if True. 
dinnle (din'nl), r. i. ; pret. and pp. diimled, ppr. 
dinnlimj. [Sc. : see dindle 1 .] I. Same as din- 
rfte 1 . 2. To make a great noise. 
The dinlin drums alarm our ears, 
The .sergeant screeches fu' load. 
F erytuton, Poems, II. 28. 
dinnle (din'nl), n. [Sc.,<rf('nfe, r.] A tremu- 
lous motion, especially with reverberation; a 
vibration; a thrill. [Scotch.] 
Ane aye thinks, at the first dinnle o' the sentence, they 
hae heart encugn to die rather than bide out the sax 
weeks, but they aye bide the sax weeks out for a' that. 
Scott, Heart of Mid-Lothian, xxv. 
dino-. [NL., etc., also sometimes dcino-, < Gr. 
6uv6q, terrible, fearful, mighty, < (Woe, fear, ter- 
ror.] An element in many scientific words of 
Greek origin, meaning ' terrible, mighty, huge.' 
dinobryian (din-6-bri'i-an), a. and M. [< Dino- 
bryon + -IOH.] 1. a. Pertaining to or having 
the characters of the Dinobryina. 
U. n. A member of the Dinobryina. 
Dinobryidae (din-o-bri'i-de), . pi. [NL., < 
Dinobryon + -/(/'.] A family of flagellate in- 
fusorians, represented by the genera Dinobryon 
and Ejripyxit. 
Dinopis 
Dinobryina (di-uob-ri-i'uji), . y>.. [NL., < Di- 
iiobryoii + -iwa 2 .] 1. In Ehrenberg'g system 
of classical ion ( l>:i(i), a family of loricate uii- 
appendaged iiifiisoriiiiiH of changeable form. 
2. In Stein's BVsteiu of claHsiticatioii (1878), a 
family of flagellate iuf utiorians, represented by 
the genera /*(////////// nn<l i:/,ijii/xis. 
Dinobryon (di-nol/ri-on), . [NL., < Gr. Alvof, 
a whirling, a round area, + lipiw, seaweed, 
t ivc-moss, lichen.] A genus of collar-bearing 
monads or flagellate infuHoriang, type of the 
family Dinobryida: These animalcules Inhabit fr.-i.li 
water. They are biflaKellate, with one lone :ui,l ,,ne short 
the.'ellimi. attached by a |Nterlor ci.ntraetlle liiiument 
uithin tlie individualeells or loricie of a compound branch- 
ing polytheclnm, built up by successive terminal gem 
iiiutiun of loolds. The cndoplasm contains two lateral 
color-bands and usually an anterior pigment-spot like an 
eye. The bat-known species is I), lertvlaria, Ai.vj writ- 
ten Dinobryum. Khrenoery, Ib34. 
Dinoceras (di-nos'e-ras), n. fNL., < Gr. ittvof, 
terrible, mighty, +po<-, horn.] Oneof the gen- 
era of the Dinocerata, giving name to the group : 
so called from the extraordinary protuberances 
of the skull, representing three pairs of horn- 
cores. The siiecles, as I), tuiraliilf, D. lattceja, were huge 
uugulates, with 5-tued feel and 3 pairs of horns, V molars, 
Skull of Dittoceras mfrabilr. 
long, trenchant upper canines, and no upper Incisors. 
Tluir remains occur In the early Tertiary deposits of 
North America. 
Dinocerata (di-no-ser'a-tft), M. pi. [NL., pi. 
of Dinocera(t-)s.'] ' A group of extinct Eocene 
perissodactyl mammals. By some the forms are 
held to constitute an order ; by others they are referred 
to an order AmUt/poda (which sec), or placed in a family 
l T iniftthfriidaf (which see). The leading genera are Uinta- 
therium, Dinowrats, Tinocercu, and Loxolophodon. 
dinocerate (di-nos'e-rat), a. and n. I. a. Per- 
taining to the Dinocerata. 
U. n. One of the Dinoeerata. 
Dinoflagellata (din-o-flaj-e-la'ta). n. pi. [NL., 
neut. pi. of dinoflagellatus : see "dinoftagcllate.] 
Those flagellate infusoriaus commonly called 
Cilioflaflellata (which see). The name was given 
because the structure l>efure regarded as a girdle of cilia 
seemed to be a second flagellum lying in the transverse 
groove which nearly all these iiifusorians possess In ad- 
dition to the longitudinal one. The Dinojlatiellata are 
named as a class, and divided into Adinida and Dinifera. 
Riitichli. 
dinoflagellate (din-6-flaj'e-lat), a. [< NL. di- 
noflagellatiu, < Gr. 'rfivoc, a whirling, a round 
area, + NL. flagellum: see flagellum.] Per- 
taining to or having the characters of the Dino- 
flagellata ; cilioflagellate, in the usual sense of 
that word. 
dinomic (di-nom'ik), a. [< Gr. <(<-, two-, + vo- 
/i6f, a district (or vo/J'/, distribution), < vtptiv, 
distribute.] Belonging to two of the great 
divisions of the earth : used in relation to the 
distribution of plants. 
Dinomyidae (di-uo-mi'i-de), n. pi. [NL., < Di- 
nomys + -idee.] A family of hystricomorphic 
rodents of South America, combining charac- 
ters of the cavies, agoutis, and chinchillas with 
the general appearance of the paca. They have 
four toes on each foot with somewhat hoof-like nails, and 
the upper lip cleft, contrary to the rule in this series of ro- 
dents. There is but one genus, Dimnnyg. 
Dinomys (dl'no-mis), . [NL. (Peters, 1873). 
< Gr. Aeivof , terrible, mighty, + HIT = E. mouse. ] 
The typical and only genus of the family Di- 
iiomyida: D. branidri, the only species, resembles the 
paca ; it is aliout 2 feet long, with a bushy tail 9 inchen 
long, the body stout, the ears and limbs short, and the 
pelage harsh, of a grizzled color, with two white stripe* 
and many white spots on the back and head. It inhabits 
Peru. 
Dinopidae (di-nop'i-de), n. pi. [NL., < Dinopis 
+ -idn:] A family of saltigrade spiders dis- 
tinguished by very long and fine extremities. 
They build a long irregular web, generally between trees, 
and sit In the middle with the front pair of legs stretched 
out. 
Dinopis (di-no'pis), n. [NL., < Gr. itivuvAf, 
Anrail> (-twr-), fierce-eyed (of the Erinyes), < iei- 
if, terrible, fierce, 4- ity, eye.] A genus of 
spiders, typical of the family Dlnopidte. 
