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Din"ing (?), n. & a. from Dine, a.

Used either adjectively or as the first part of a compound; as, dining hall or dining-hall, dining room, dining table, etc.

Dink (?), a. [Etymol. uncertain.] Trim; neat. [Scot.] Burns. -- Dink"ly, adv.

Dink, v. t. To deck; -- often with out or up. [Scot.]

Din"mont (?), n. (Zoöl.) A wether sheep between one and two years old. [Scot.]

Din"ner (?), n. [F. dîner, fr. dîner to dine. See Dine.] 1. The principal meal of the day, eaten by most people about midday, but by many (especially in cities) at a later hour.

2. An entertainment; a feast.

A grand political dinner.

Tennyson.

Dinner is much used, in an obvious sense, either adjectively or as the first part of a compound; as, dinner time, or dinner-time, dinner bell, dinner hour, etc.

Din"ner*less, a. Having no dinner. Fuller.

Din"ner*ly, a. Of or pertaining to dinner. [R.]

The dinnerly officer.

Copley.

||Di*noc"e*ras (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; terrible + &?;, &?;, horn.] (Paleon.) A genus of large extinct Eocene mammals from Wyoming; -- called also Uintatherium. See Illustration in Appendix.

They were herbivorous, and remarkable for three pairs of hornlike protuberances on the skull. The males were armed with a pair of powerful canine tusks.

||Di*nor"nis (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; terrible + &?; bird.] (Paleon.) A genus of extinct, ostrichlike birds of gigantic size, which formerly inhabited New Zealand. See Moa. [Written also Deinornis.]

{ Di"no*saur (?), Di`no*sau"ri*an (?), } n. [Gr. &?; terrible + &?; lizard.] (Paleon.) One of the Dinosauria. [Written also deinosaur, and deinosaurian.]

||Di`no*sau"ri*a (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; terrible + &?; lizard.] (Paleon.) 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.

{ Di"no*there (?), ||Di`no*the"ri*um (?), } n. [NL. dinotherium, fr. Gr. deino`s terrible + qhri`on beast.] (Paleon.) 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.

Din*ox"ide (?), n. (Chem.) Same as Dioxide.

Din"some (?), a. Full of din. [Scot.] Burns.

Dint (?), n. [OE. dint, dent, dunt, a blow, AS. dynt; akin to Icel. dyntr a dint, dynta to dint, and perh. to L. fendere (in composition). Cf. 1st Dent, Defend.] 1. A blow; a stroke. [Obs.] "Mortal dint." Milton. "Like thunder's dint." Fairfax.

2. The mark left by a blow; an indentation or impression made by violence; a dent. Dryden.

Every dint a sword had beaten in it [the shield].

Tennyson.

3. Force; power; -- esp. in the phrase by dint of.

Now you weep; and, I perceive, you feel The dint of pity.