Dimyary (a. & n.) Same as Dimyarian.
Din (n.) Loud, confused, harsh noise; a loud, continuous, rattling or clanging sound; clamor; roar.
Dinned (imp. & p. p.) of Din
Dinning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Din
Din (n.) To strike with confused or clanging sound; to stun with loud and continued noise; to harass with clamor; as, to din the ears with cries.
Din (n.) To utter with a din; to repeat noisily; to ding.
Din (v. i.) To sound with a din; a ding.
Dinaphthyl (n.) A colorless, crystalline hydrocarbon, C20H14, obtained from naphthylene, and consisting of a doubled naphthylene radical.
Dinar (n.) A petty money of accounts of Persia.
Dinar (n.) An ancient gold coin of the East.
Dinarchy (n.) See Diarchy.
Dined (imp. & p. p.) of Dine
Dining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dine
Dine (v. i.) To eat the principal regular meal of the day; to take dinner.
Dine (v. t.) To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed; as, to dine a hundred men.
Dine (v. t.) To dine upon; to have to eat.
Diner (n.) One who dines.
Diner-out (n.) One who often takes his dinner away from home, or in company.
Dinetical (a.) Revolving on an axis.
Dinged (imp. & p. p.) of Ding
Dang () of Ding
Dung () of Ding
Dinging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ding
Ding (v. t.) To dash; to throw violently.
Ding (v. t.) To cause to sound or ring.
Ding (v. i.) To strike; to thump; to pound.
Ding (v. i.) To sound, as a bell; to ring; to clang.
Ding (v. i.) To talk with vehemence, importunity, or reiteration; to bluster.
Ding (n.) A thump or stroke, especially of a bell.
Dingdong (n.) The sound of, or as of, repeated strokes on a metallic body, as a bell; a repeated and monotonous sound.
Dingdong (n.) An attachment to a clock by which the quarter hours are struck upon bells of different tones.
Dingey (n.) Alt. of Dinghy
Dingy (n.) Alt. of Dinghy
Dinghy (n.) A kind of boat used in the East Indies.
Dinghy (n.) A ship's smallest boat.
Dingily (adv.) In a dingy manner.
Dinginess (n.) Quality of being dingy; a dusky hue.
Dingle (n.) A narrow dale; a small dell; a small, secluded, and embowered valley.
Dingle-dangle (adv.) In a dangling manner.
Dingo (n.) A wild dog found in Australia, but supposed to have introduced at a very early period. It has a wolflike face, bushy tail, and a reddish brown color.
Dingthrift (n.) A spendthrift.
Dingy (superl.) Soiled; sullied; of a dark or dusky color; dark brown; dirty.
Dinichthys (n.) A genus of large extinct Devonian ganoid fishes. In some parts of Ohio remains of the Dinichthys are abundant, indicating animals twenty feet in length.
Dining (n. & a.) from Dine, a.
Dink (a.) Trim; neat.
Dink (v. t.) To deck; -- often with out or up.
Dinmont (n.) A wether sheep between one and two years old.
Dinner (n.) The principal meal of the day, eaten by most people about midday, but by many (especially in cities) at a later hour.
Dinner (n.) An entertainment; a feast.
Dinnerless (a.) Having no dinner.
Dinnerly (a.) Of or pertaining to dinner.
Dinoceras (n.) A genus of large extinct Eocene mammals from Wyoming; -- called also Uintatherium. See Illustration in Appendix.
Dinornis (n.) A genus of extinct, ostrichlike birds of gigantic size, which formerly inhabited New Zealand. See Moa.
Dinosaur (n.) Alt. of Dinosaurian
Dinosaurian (n.) One of the Dinosauria.
Dinosauria (n. pl.) An order of extinct mesozoic reptiles, mostly of large size (whence the name). Notwithstanding their size, they present birdlike characters in the skeleton, esp. in the pelvis and hind limbs. Some walked on their three-toed hind feet, thus producing the large "bird tracks," so-called, of mesozoic sandstones; others were five-toed and quadrupedal. See Illust. of Compsognathus, also Illustration of Dinosaur in Appendix.
Dinothere (n.) Alt. of Dinotherium
Dinotherium (n.) A large extinct proboscidean mammal from the miocene beds of Europe and Asia. It is remarkable fora pair of tusks directed downward from the decurved apex of the lower jaw.
Dinoxide (n.) Same as Dioxide.
Dinsome (a.) Full of din.
Dint (n.) A blow; a stroke.
Dint (n.) The mark left by a blow; an indentation or impression made by violence; a dent.
Dint (n.) Force; power; -- esp. in the phrase by dint of.
Dinted (imp. & p. p.) of Dint
Dinting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dint
Dint (v. t.) To make a mark or cavity on or in, by a blow or by pressure; to dent.
Dinumeration (n.) Enumeration.
Diocesan (a.) Of or pertaining to a diocese; as, diocesan missions.
Diocesan (n.) A bishop, viewed in relation to his diocese; as, the diocesan of New York.
Diocesan (n.) The clergy or the people of a diocese.
Dioceses (pl. ) of Diocese
Diocese (n.) The circuit or extent of a bishop's jurisdiction; the district in which a bishop exercises his ecclesiastical authority.
Diocesener (n.) One who belongs to a diocese.
Diodon (n.) A genus of spinose, plectognath fishes, having the teeth of each jaw united into a single beaklike plate. They are able to inflate the body by taking in air or water, and, hence, are called globefishes, swellfishes, etc. Called also porcupine fishes, and sea hedgehogs.
Diodon (n.) A genus of whales.
Diodont (a.) Like or pertaining to the genus Diodon.
Diodont (n.) A fish of the genus Diodon, or an allied genus.
Dioecia (n. pl.) A Linnaean class of plants having the stamens and pistils on different plants.
Dioecia (n. pl.) A subclass of gastropod mollusks in which the sexes are separate. It includes most of the large marine species, like the conchs, cones, and cowries.
Dioecian (a.) Alt. of Dioecious
Dioecious (a.) Having the sexes in two separate individuals; -- applied to plants in which the female flowers occur on one individual and the male flowers on another of the same species, and to animals in which the ovum is produced by one individual and the sperm cell by another; -- opposed to monoecious.
Dioeciously (adv.) In a dioecious manner.
Dioeciousness (n.) The state or quality of being dioecious.
Dioecism (n.) The condition of being dioecious.
Diogenes (n.) A Greek Cynic philosopher (412?-323 B. C.) who lived much in Athens and was distinguished for contempt of the common aims and conditions of life, and for sharp, caustic sayings.
Dioicous (a.) See Dioecious.
Diomedea (n.) A genus of large sea birds, including the albatross. See Albatross.
Dionaea (n.) An insectivorous plant. See Venus's flytrap.
Dionysian (a.) Relating to Dionysius, a monk of the 6th century; as, the Dionysian, or Christian, era.
Diophantine (a.) Originated or taught by Diophantus, the Greek writer on algebra.
Diopside (n.) A crystallized variety of pyroxene, of a clear, grayish green color; mussite.
Dioptase (n.) A hydrous silicate of copper, occurring in emerald-green crystals.
Diopter (n.) Alt. of Dioptra
Dioptra (n.) An optical instrument, invented by Hipparchus, for taking altitudes, leveling, etc.
Dioptre (n.) A unit employed by oculists in numbering glasses according to the metric system; a refractive power equal to that of a glass whose principal focal distance is one meter.
Dioptric (a.) Of or pertaining to the dioptre, or to the metric system of numbering glasses.
Dioptric (n.) A dioptre. See Dioptre.
Dioptric (a.) Alt. of Dioptrical
Dioptrical (a.) Of or pertaining to dioptrics; assisting vision by means of the refraction of light; refractive; as, the dioptric system; a dioptric glass or telescope.
Dioptrics (n.) The science of the refraction of light; that part of geometrical optics which treats of the laws of the refraction of light in passing from one medium into another, or through different mediums, as air, water, or glass, and esp. through different lenses; -- distinguished from catoptrics, which refers to reflected light.