DIMPLY
DIMPLY, adjective Full of dimples, or small depressions; as the dimply flood.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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DIN
DIN, noun [Latin This word probably belongs to the root of tone and thunder, and denotes a rumbling or rattling noise.] Noise; a loud sound; particularly, a rattling, clattering...
DINE
DINE, verb intransitive [Latin, to cease. Gr., to feast.] To eat the chief meal of the day. This meal seems originally to have been taken about the middle of the day, at least i...
DINETICAL
DINETICAL, adjective [Gr.] Whirling round. [Not used.]
DING
DING, verb transitivepreterit tense dung or dinged. To thrust or dash with violence. [Little used.]DING, verb intransitive To bluster; to bounce. [A low word.]
DING-DONG
DING-DONG, Words used to express the sound of bells.
DINGINESS
DINGINESS, noun [See Dingy.] A dusky or dark hue; brownness.
DINGLE
DINGLE, noun A narrow dale or valley between hills.
DINGLE-DANGLE
DINGLE-DANGLE. Hanging loosely, or something dangling.
DINGY
DINGY, adjective Soiled; sullied; of a dark color; brown; dusky; dun.
DINING
DINING, participle present tense Eating the principal meal in the day.
DINING-ROOM
DINING-ROOM, noun A room for a family or for company to dine in; a room for entertainments.
DINNER
DINNER, noun [See Dine.]1. The meal taken about the middle of the day; or the principal meal of the day, eaten between noon and evening.2. An entertainment; a feast.Behold, I ha...
DINNER-TIME
DINNER-TIME, noun. The usual time of dining.
DINT
DINT, noun1. A blow; a stroke.2. Force; violence; power exerted; as, to win by dint of arms, by dint of war, by dint of argument or importunity.3. The mark made by a blow; a cav...
DINTED
DINTED, participle passive Marked by a blow or by pressure; as deep-dinted furrows.
DINTING
DINTING, participle present tense Impressing marks or cavities.
DINUMERATION
DINUMERATION, noun The act of numbering singly. [Little used.]
DIOCESAN
DIOCESAN, adjective [See Diocese. The accent on the first and on the third syllable is nearly equal. The accent given to this word int he English books is wrong, almost to ridic...
DIOCESE
DIOCESE, noun [Gr., administration, a province or jurisdiction; residence; to dwell; a house. diocese is a very erroneous orthography.] The circuit or extent of a bishops jurisd...
DIOCTAHEDRAL
DIOCTAHEDRAL, adjective [Dis and octahedral.] In crystalography, having the form of an octahedral prism with tetrahedral summits.
DIODON
DIODON, noun The sun-fish; a genus of fishes of a singular form, appearing like the fore part of the body of a deep fish amputated in the middle.
DIOMEDE
DIOMEDE, noun An aquatic fowl of the webfooted kind, about the size of a common domestic hen, but its neck and legs much longer.
DIOPSIDE
DIOPSIDE, noun [Gr.] A rare mineral, regarded by Hauy as a variety of augite, and called by Jameson a subspecies of oblique-edged augite, occurring in prismatic crystals, of a v...
DIOPTASE
DIOPTASE, noun Emerald copper ore, a translucent mineral, occurring crystalized in six-sided prisms.
DIOPTRIC
DIOPTRIC, DIOPTRICAL, adjective [Gr., to see through; to see.]
DIOPTRICAL
DIOPTRIC, DIOPTRICAL adjective [Gr., to see through; to see.]1. Affording a medium for the sight; assisting the sight in the view of distant objects; as a dioptric glass.2. Pert...