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<p><b>1.</b> <def>To strike with confused or clanging sound; to stun with loud and continued noise; to harass with clamor; <as>as, to <ex>din</ex> the ears with cries</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To utter with a din; to repeat noisily; to ding.</def>

<blockquote>This hath been often <b>dinned</b> in my ears. <i>Swift.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>To din into</col>, <cd>to fix in the mind of another by frequent and noisy repetitions.</cd></cs>

<i>Sir W. Scott.</i>

<h1>Din</h1> <Xpage=414>

<hw>Din</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To sound with a din; a ding.</def>

<blockquote>The gay viol <b>dinning</b> in the dale. <i>A. Seward.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Dinaphthyl</h1> <Xpage=414>

<hw>Di*naph"thyl</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Pref. <ets>di-</ets> + <ets>naphthyl</ets>ene.]</ety> <fld>(Chem.)</fld> <def>A colorless, crystalline hydrocarbon, <chform>C20H14</chform>, obtained from naphthylene, and consisting of a doubled naphthylene radical.</def>

<h1>Dinar</h1> <Xpage=414>

<hw>Di"nar</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Ar. <ets>d<?/n\'ber</ets>, from Gr. <?/, fr. L. <ets>denarius</ets>. See <er>Denier</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>A petty money of accounts of Persia.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>An ancient gold coin of the East.</def>

<h1>Dinarchy</h1> <Xpage=414>

<hw>Di"nar*chy</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>See <er>Diarchy</er>.</def>

<h1>Dine</h1> <Xpage=414>

<hw>Dine</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Dined</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Dining</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[F. <ets>d\'8cner</ets>, OF. <ets>disner</ets>, LL. <ets>disnare</ets>, contr. fr. an assumed <ets>disjunare</ets>; <ets>dis-</ets> + an assumed <ets>junare</ets> (OF. <ets>juner</ets>) to fast, for L. <ets>jejunare</ets>, fr. <ets>jejunus</ets> fasting. See <er>Jejune</er>, and cf. <er>Dinner</er>, <er>D<?/jeuner</er>.]</ety> <def>To eat the principal regular meal of the day; to take dinner.</def>

<blockquote>Now can I break my fast, <b>dine</b>, sup, and sleep. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>To dine with Duke Humphrey</col>, <cd>to go without dinner; -- a phrase common in Elizabethan literature, said to be from the practice of the poor gentry, who beguiled the dinner hour by a promenade near the tomb of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, in Old Saint Paul's.</cd></cs>

<h1>Dine</h1> <Xpage=414>

<hw>Dine</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed; <as>as, to <ex>dine</ex> a hundred men</as>.</def>

<blockquote>A table massive enough to have <b>dined</b> Johnnie Armstrong and his merry men. <i>Sir W. Scott.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To dine upon; to have to eat.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> "What will ye <i>dine</i>."

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Diner</h1> <Xpage=414>

<hw>Din"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who dines.</def>