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Rather live 
To bait thee for his bread, and din your ears 
With hungry cries. Otway, 
To jmprefs with violent and continued noife.—What 
fhall we do, if his majefty puts out a proclamation com¬ 
manding us to take Wood’s half-pence ? This hath been 
often dinned in my ears. Swift. 
DI'NABURG, a town of Rulfia, in the government 
of Polotfk, on the Dwina : eighty miles north-weft of 
Polotfk, and 256 fouth-fouth-weft of Peterlburg. Lat.56. 
5.N. Ion. 44..’E. Ferro. 
DINAGEPOU'R, a town of Hindooftan, in the coun¬ 
try of Bengal : eighty-five miles north of Moorfiiedabad, 
and 180 ’eaft of Patna. 
DI'NAH, [Heb. judgment.] A daughter of Ja¬ 
cob ; a woman’s name. 
DIN AN', or Dinant, a town of France, and principal 
place of a diftriCt, in the department of the North Coafts, 
furrounded with thick walls; fititated in a fertile coun¬ 
try, and a healthy foil: the number of inhabitants is 
about four thoufand ; the chief manufactures are of linen 
and thread; near it is a chalybeate fpring : twelve miles 
fouth of St. Malo, and twenty-eight eaft of St. Brieuc. 
Lat. 48. 23. N. Ion. 15. 35. E. Ferro. 
DINA'NT, a town of Germany, in the circle of Weft- 
phalia, and bifliopric of Liege, near the Meufe ; con¬ 
taining eight churches, fix-convents, two hofpitals, and 
a college. The chief trade is in leather; near it are 
quarries of marble and other ftone, with fome mines of 
iron ore. It was taken by the French, in the year 1554, 
and in 1676, but was reftored by the peace of Rifwick : 
twelve miles fouth of Namur, and five north.of Charle- 
mont. Lat. 50. 16. N. Ion. 22. 17. E: Ferro. 
DINA'NT, a bay of France, on the weft coaft of the 
department of Finifterre, in the Englilh channel, between 
Bred Road and the bay of Douarnenez. Lat. 48. 13. 
N. Ion. 13. 2. E. Ferro. 
DI'NAR, f. [dinar, Arab.] A gold coin, which, ac¬ 
cording to Golius, anfwers to the European ducat. 
Monfieur d’Herbelot fays, “it is mod often taken fora 
golden coin, weighing one drachm and half Arabic ; and 
is in value a little more than our crown of gold ; .& repond 
aux Horigres & aux fcquins de Venife .” He adds, that the 
Mahometans had no dinars of gold marked for their coin 
Before the 76th year of the Hegirah, anno 695. Hegiage 
eftablifhed the firft money under the caliphate of Abdo- 
melic : before that,,all the gold money was in the coin 
of the Greek emperors; and that of filver had its in- 
feriptions in Perfian characters. 
DI'N ARCHY, f of S'n;, and ctgyy, Gr. do¬ 
minion.] A government by two perfons. 
DIN ASM AWD'DWY, or Dinasmouthy, a town 
of North Wales, in the county of Merioneth, with a 
weekly market on Friday : thirty-five miles north-weft 
of Montgomery, and 196 weft-north-weft of London. 
D 1 NAW', a town of Poland, in the palatinate of Lem¬ 
berg : fixty miles weft-fouih-weft of Lemberg. 
DINC'KEL, a river of Germany, which runs into the 
Vecht, .about feven miles north from Nienlniys, in the 
county of Bentheim. 
DINC'KEL, a river of Germany, which runs into the 
Emmer, near Wobbel, in the county of Lippe. 
DINDIGUL', a city of India, in the Myfore country, 
capital of a province or drear of the fame name : fifty- 
one miles fouth-weft of Trichihopoly, and feventy fouth- 
eaft of Coimbetore. Lat. 10.23. N. Ion.78.6. E. Green¬ 
wich. The province extends about eighty miles, from 
fouth-weft to north-eaft, and is about thirty-five miles in 
breadth. Its eaftern boundaries are Tinevelly and Ma¬ 
dura; its weftern, Coimbetore. This was one of the 
conquefts of Tippoo Sultan. It is called the valley of 
Dindigul, a trad extremely productive of rice. The 
city is large, and well fortified. Its principal ftrength 
confifts*in a high and almoft inacceflible rock, which the 
Myforeans thought impregnable, but the Englilh took it 
by ftorm in 1783. The valley of Dindigul is feated 
amidft lofty mountains. We pofiefs this, and the other 
ceded countries of Barra-mahal and Selim in full fove- 
reignty : the manufactures of thofe countries produce to 
our Eaft -1 ndia company a complete inveftment of cloth 
for the European markets; their annual produce is efti- 
mated in pagodas, as follows: Baramaul and Selim, 
475 > 5 I2 > Dindigul, 120,000; making in the whole, 
577,512 pagodas, or 231,0041. 16s.Reckoning each pago¬ 
da at eight (hillings. 
To DINE, v.n. [diner, Fr.] To eat the chief meal of 
the day : 
Thus, of your heroes and brave boys, 
With whom old Homer makes fuch noife. 
The greateft adtions I can find, 
Are; that they did their work, and din'd. Prior „ 
To DINE, v. a. To give a dinner to; to feed : 
Boil this reftoring root in gen’rous wine, 
And fet befide the door the fickly ftock to dine. Dryd , 
DI'NESTONS, a town of the American States, in 
Pennfylvania: twenty-five miles eaft of Pittfburg. 
DINE'TIAL, or Dinetical, adj. [^ivvjri y.oc, Gr.] 
Whirling round ; vertiginous.— A fpherical figure is molf 
commodious for dinetical motion, or revolution upon its 
own axis. Ray. 
To DING, v.a. pret .dung: it has alfo pret. and part. 
dinged, and part, dung: [ [dringen, Dut.] To dafh with vio¬ 
lence.—Which paunch’d his horfe and ding'd him to the 
ground. Span. Tragedy. —Is ding'd to hell, and vulture 
eats his heart. Marjlon. —Which hath dung me in a man¬ 
ner down to the infernal bottom of defolation. Najh. —To 
imprefs with force. 
To DING, v.n. To blufter; to bounce ; to huff: a 
low word. —He huffs and dings, becaufe we will not fpend 
the little we have left, to get him the title of lord Strut. 
Arbuthnot. 
DING-DONG, f. A word by which the found of bells 
is imitated : 
Let us all ring fancy’s knell; 
Ding, dong, bell. Shakcfpcare. 
DINGE', a town of France, in the department of the 
I lie and Vilaine, and chief place of a canton, in the dif- 
tricl of Dol: five leagues north of Rennes. 
DIN'GELFINGEN, a town of Germany, in the circle 
of Bavaria, on the Her: forty miles weft of Palfau, and 
forty-eight north-eaft of Munich. 
DIN'GELSTADT, a town of Germany, in the circle 
of the Lower Rhine, and the county of Eichsfeld, on the 
Unftrutt: thirty-three miles north-weft of Erfurt, 
DIN'GLF,, f, [from ben, or bin, a hollow, Sax.] A 
hollow between hills ; a dale : 
I know each lane, and every alley green, 
Dingle or bufhy dell of this wild wood ; 
And every bolky bourn from fide to fide, 
My daily vvalks and ancient neighbourhood. • Milton, 
DTN'GLE, a fea-port town of Ireland,-' in the county 
of Kerry, fituated on the north.coaft of a large bay to 
which it gives name. It w'as once a place of great note and 
commerce, find though the town ftio.ws at prefent iome 
marks of decay, it preserves fome trade, and exports but¬ 
ter, beef, corn, and linen : twenty-one miles weft-fouth- 
weft of Tralee. Lat. 52.8.N. loiv. 10. 8.W. Greenwich. 
DING'MANS, a town of the American Suites, in 
Pennfylvania: feventy-five miles north of Philadelphia. 
DING'WALL, a town of Scotland, in the county of 
Rofs, and a royal borough, with a manufacture ot linen, 
fituated at the bottom of the Frith of Cromarty: nine miles 
weft of Fortrofe. Lat. 5,7.,35. N. Ion. 1. 7.W. Edinburgh. 
DINHA'BAH, [Heb. judgment. ] Mentioned in Gen. 
xxxvi. 32.. 1 Chran. i. 43. A city of the land ot Edom, 
DI'NICS,/; [ dinica, Lat. from Aror, Gr. a giddinefs.] 
Medicines good againft dizzinefs, vertigoes, or fwimming 
in th.e head, 
DTNIN, 
