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

<hw>Din"er-out`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who often takes his dinner away from home, or in company.</def>

<blockquote>A brilliant <b>diner-out</b>, though but a curate. <i>Byron.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Dinetical</h1> <Xpage=414>

<hw>Di*net"ic*al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ to whirl round.]</ety> <def>Revolving on an axis.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Sir T. Browne.</i>

<h1>Ding</h1> <Xpage=414>

<hw>Ding</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Dinged</er> <tt>(?)</tt>, <er>Dang</er> (<mark>Obs</mark>.), or <er>Dung</er> (<mark>Obs</mark>.); <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Dinging</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OE. <ets>dingen</ets>, <ets>dengen</ets>; akin to AS. <ets>dencgan</ets> to knock, Icel. <ets>dengja</ets> to beat, hammer, Sw. <ets>d\'84nga</ets>, G. <ets>dengeln</ets>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To dash; to throw violently.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>To <b>ding</b> the book a coit's distance from him. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To cause to sound or ring.</def>

<cs><col>To ding (anything) in one's ears</col>, <cd>to impress one by noisy repetition, as if by hammering.</cd></cs>

<h1>Ding</h1> <Xpage=414>

<hw>Ding</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To strike; to thump; to pound.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Diken, or delven, or <b>dingen</b> upon sheaves. <i>Piers Plowman.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To sound, as a bell; to ring; to clang.</def>

<blockquote>The fretful tinkling of the convent bell evermore <b>dinging</b> among the mountain echoes. <i>W. Irving.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To talk with vehemence, importunity, or reiteration; to bluster.</def> <mark></mark>

<h1>Ding</h1> <Xpage=414>

<hw>Ding</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A thump or stroke, especially of a bell.</def>

<h1>Dingdong</h1> <Xpage=414>

<hw>Ding"dong`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Ding</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>The sound of, or as of, repeated strokes on a metallic body, as a bell; a repeated and monotonous sound.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Horol.)</fld> <def>An attachment to a clock by which the quarter hours are struck upon bells of different tones.</def>

<h1>Dingey, Dingy, Dinghy</h1> <Xpage=414>

<hw><hw>Din"gey</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Din"gy</hw>, <hw>Din"ghy</hw><hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Bengalee <ets>dingi</ets>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>A kind of boat used in the East Indies.</def> <altsp>[Written also <asp>dinghey</asp>.]</altsp>