Webster's Dictionary 1913

3376

Dimorphous

Di‐mor″phous (?), a. [Cf. F. dimorphe.] 1. (Biol.) Characterized by dimorphism; occurring under two distinct forms, not dependent on sex; dimorphic.2. (Crystallog.) Crystallizin...

3377

Dimple

Dim″ple (?), n. [Prob. a nasalized dim. of dip. See Dip, and cf. Dimble.] 1. A slight natural depression or indentation on the surface of some part of the body, esp. on the chee...

3378

Dimple (2)

Dim″ple, v. i. [imp. & p. p.Dimpled (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Dimpling (?).] To form dimples; to sink into depressions or little inequalities.And smiling eddies dimpled on the main. D...

3379

Dimple (3)

Dim″ple, v. t. To mark with dimples or dimplelike depressions. Shak.

3380

Dimplement

Dim″ple‐ment (?), n. The state of being dimpled, or marked with gentle depressions.The ground's most gentle dimplement. Mrs. Browning.

3381

Dimply

Dim″ply (?), a. Full of dimples, or small depressions; dimpled; as, the dimply pool. Thomson.

3382

Dimya

‖Dim″y‐a (?), Dim′y‐a″ri‐a (�), n. pl.(Zoöl.) An order of lamellibranchiate mollusks having an anterior and posterior adductor muscle, as the common clam. See Bivalve.

3383

Dimyarian

Dim′y‐a″ri‐an (?), a.(Zoöl.) Like or pertaining to the Dimya. — n. One of the Dimya.

3384

Dimyary

Dim″y‐a‐ry (?), a. & n.(Zoöl.) Same as Dimyarian.

3385

Din

Din (?), n. [AS. dyne, dyn; akin to Icel. dynr, and to AS. dynian to resound, Icel. dynja to pour down like hail or rain; cf. Skr. dhuni roaring, a torrent, dhvan to sound. Cf. ...

3386

Din (2)

Din, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Dinned (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Dinning.] [AS. dynian. See Din, n.] 1. To strike with confused or clanging sound; to stun with loud and continued noise; to ha...

3387

Din (3)

Din, v. i. To sound with a din; a ding.The gay viol dinning in the dale. A. Seward.

3388

dinaphthyl

di‐naph″thyl (?), n. [Pref. di- + naphthylene.] (Chem.) A colorless, crystalline hydrocarbon, C20H14, obtained from naphthylene, and consisting of a doubled naphthylene radical.

3389

Dinar

Di″nar (dī″nẽr or dē̍‐när″), n. [Ar. dīnār, from Gr. δηνάριον, fr. L. denarius. See Denier.] 1. A petty money of accounts of Persia.2. An ancient gold coin of the East.

3390

dinarchy

di″nar‐chy (?), n. See Diarchy.

3391

Dine

Dine (dīn), v. i. [imp. & p. p.Dined (dīnd); p. pr. & vb. n.Dining.] [F. dîner, OF. disner, LL. disnare, contr. fr. an assumed disjunare; dis- + an assumed junare (OF. juner) to...

3392

Dine (2)

Dine, v. t. 1. To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed; as, to dine a hundred men.A table massive enough to have dined Johnnie Armstrong and his merry men. ...

3393

Diner

Din″er (?), n. One who dines.

3394

Diner-out

Din″er–out′ (?), n. One who often takes his dinner away from home, or in company.A brilliant diner-out, though but a curate. Byron.

3395

Dinetical

Di‐net″ic‐al (?), a. Revolving on an axis. Sir T. Browne.

3396

Ding

Ding (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Dinged (?), Dang (Obs.), or Dung (Obs.); p. pr. & vb. n.Dinging.] [OE. dingen, dengen; akin to AS. dencgan to knock, Icel. dengja to beat, hammer, S...

3397

Ding (2)

Ding, v. i. 1. To strike; to thump; to pound.Diken, or delven, or dingen upon sheaves. Piers Plowman.2. To sound, as a bell; to ring; to clang.The fretful tinkling of the conven...

3398

Ding (3)

Ding, n. A thump or stroke, especially of a bell.

3399

Dingdong

Ding″dong′ (?), n. [See Ding.] 1. The sound of, or as of, repeated strokes on a metallic body, as a bell; a repeated and monotonous sound.2. (Horol.) An attachment to a clock by...

3400

Dingdong theory

Ding″dong′ the″o‐ry. (Philol.) The theory which maintains that the primitive elements of language are reflex expressions induced by sensory impressions; that is, as stated by Ma...

3401

Dingey

{ Din″gey (?), Din″gy, Din″ghy }, n. [Bengalee dingi.] 1. A kind of boat used in the East Indies. [Written also dinghey.] Malcom.2. A ship's smallest boat.

3402

Dingily

Din″gi‐ly (?), adv. In a dingy manner.