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Di*net"ic*al (?), a. [Gr. &?; to whirl round.] Revolving on an axis. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

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, Sw. dänga, G. dengeln.] 1. To dash; to throw violently. [Obs.]

To ding the book a coit's distance from him.

Milton.

2. To cause to sound or ring.

To ding (anything) in one's ears, to impress one by noisy repetition, as if by hammering.

Ding, v. i. 1. To strike; to thump; to pound. [Obs.]

Diken, or delven, or dingen upon sheaves.

Piers Plowman.

2. To sound, as a bell; to ring; to clang.

The fretful tinkling of the convent bell evermore dinging among the mountain echoes.

W. Irving.

3. To talk with vehemence, importunity, or reiteration; to bluster.

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

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 which the quarter hours are struck upon bells of different tones.

{ 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.

Din"gi*ly (?), adv. In a dingy manner.

Din"gi*ness, n. Quality of being dingy; a dusky hue.

Din"gle (?), n. [Of uncertain origin: cf. AS. ding prison; or perh. akin to dimble.] A narrow dale; a small dell; a small, secluded, and embowered valley.

Din"gle-dan`gle (?), adv. In a dangling manner.

Din"go (?), n. (Zoöl.) 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.

Ding"thrift` (?), n. A spendthrift. [Obs.]

Wilt thou, therefore, a drunkard be, A dingthrift and a knave?

Drant.

Din"gy (?), a. [Compar. Dingier (?); superl. Dingiest.] [Prob. fr. dung. Cf. Dungy.] Soiled; sullied; of a dark or dusky color; dark brown; dirty. "Scraps of dingy paper." Macaulay.

||Di*nich"thys (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; terrible + &?; fish.] (Paleon.) 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.