dine, dyne, dynyn

i. . [Fr. diner; O. Fr. disner, from Low Lat. dis no; Ital. desi no, supposed to be from Lat. * decæno, from decœna=a supper. (Skeat.) Or from Lat. * disjejuno, from dis =apart, away, and jejuno =to fast. (Mahn.)] A. In trans .: To take dinner; to eat the principal meal of the day. "Has he dined , canst thou tell?"- Shakesp .: Coriolanus 7.2. B. Transitive: *To eat, to feed on. "Laborers denyed noght to dyne a day Nyght-olde wortes." P. Plowman , 4,417. 2. To give a dinner to; to provide a dinner for. "Boil this restoring root in gen'rous wine, And set beside the door the sickly stock to dine ." Dryden: Virgil ; Georgic iv. 399, 400. 2. To drive. 1408 "The hale schoure hoppis and ding is In furdis schald, and bray is here and thare." Douglas: Virgil , 302, 3 3. To rush violently, to attack fiercely. "Than thai, that saw sua sodanly Thair fay is dyng on thaim, war sa rad, That thai na hart to help thaim had." Barbour, xiv. 439. 4. To fall or descend heavily, as rain or snow. 5. To bluster, to bounce. "He huffs and dings , because we will not spend the little we have left, to get him the title of Lord Strut."-Arbuthnot. (1) To ding back : To beat back; applied to a state of warfare. "But all thir arguments misgave this noble marquis; for the earls come in, and were dung back again." 3. To afford room or convenience for dining; to Spalding , ii. 167. accommodate at dinner. "A table ma ive enough to have dined Johnny Armstrong and his merry men."-Scott. (1) To dine with Duke Humphrey: (See ex tract.) ter "This proverb [To dine with Duke Humphrey] hath altered the original meaning thereof, for first it signified alien a vivere quadrá , to eat by the bound or feed by the favor of another man, for Humphrey, Duke of Glouceswas so hospitable that every man of fashion, otherwise unprovided, was welcome to dine with him. But after the death of good Duke Humphrey (when many of his former alms-men were at a lo for a meal's meat) this proverb did alter its copy: to dine with Duke Humphrey importing to be dinnerle ."-Fuller: Worthies; London . (2) To dine out: To dine at another person's house; to dine away from home. IMG:content-2533.png:[blocks in formation] (2) To be dung by : To be confined by some ailment. (3) To ding doun: To overthrow "The toun Wes takyn thus, and dongyn doun." Barbour, ix 473. (4) To ding off , or aff : To drive from. "Quhilk maanfully schupe thaim to with stand At the coist syde, and dyng thaym of the land." Douglas: Virgil , 325, 8. (5) To ding on : It is used impersonally, and ap- plied to rain, hail, or snow. "Upon the 3d of October in the afternoon there fell out in Murray a great rain, dinging on night and day."- Spald- IMG:content-2534.png:[blocks in formation] (7) To ding out: (a) To expel. overcome. "Then Ajax, wha alane gain stood Gods, Trojans, sword and fire:- See him that cudna be o'ercome Dung o'er by his ain ire." body. "He dang hym throw the body with ane swerd afore the alter of Sancte John."- Bellenden : Chron., bk. xv., ch. ix. (10) To ding to dede : To kill with repeated strokes. "Sone entrit thai quhar Sotheroune slepand war, Apon thaim set with strak is sad and sar; Feill frekis thar thai freris dang to dede." (11) To ding up : To break up, to force open. At the ludgings chosen men were plant it to ding up durres, and bring out prisoner is." - Hist. James the Sext p. 147. IMG:content-2535.png:[blocks in formation] dang his self with ane dagger to the the sound of bells. heart."- Bellenden: Chron., bk. ix., ch. xiv. 4. To drive, to thrust out, to expel. "The valiant Grieks furth frae thair ruins dang ." Bellenden: Virtue and Vice; Evergreen , i. 46. "I'll begin it- Ding dong , bell, Ding dong, bell." Shakesp.: Merchant of Venice , iii. 2. 2. Horol .: A striking arrangement in which two bells of different tones are used and struck in suc- lowed by in ). "The causeway was railed frae the Nether bow to the Stinking Style, with stakes of timber dung in the end."Spalding: Troubles , i. 25. B. As adv.. Pell-mell, helter-skelter. "Falling down helter-skelter, ding - dong."-Sterne: The Fragment, ch. ii. 6. To beat, to subdue, to overcome. "We'll ding Jock o' Dawston Cleugh now, after a'!"- drives away thrift, that is prudence and economy. Scott : Guy Manner ing , ch. xxxviii. IMG:content-2536.png:[blocks in formation] *ding-thrift, s. A spendthrift; one who dings or "No, but because the ding - thrift now is poore, And knowes not where i' th' world to borrow more." Herrick: Works , p. 186. *dinged, pa . par . & a. [DING.] dinged-work, 8. Work embo ed by blows which B. Intransitive: 1. To hit, to strike, to beat. "The gleymen on the tabour dinge ." Havelok , 2,329. din-ghỹ, ding hi, dinghee, dingey, s. [Mah- ratta dingé , dungé .] Nautical : 1. A row-boat of the Hoogly, which probably gave the name to the little jolly-boat of the merchant service, mentioned under 3. dinitro 2. A boat of Bombay, propelled by paddles, and having one mast and a settee-sail. 3. An extra boat of a ship for common uses. It is clinker-built, from twelve to fourteen feet long, and has a beam one-third of its length. The name is also applied, on the Thames especially, to any small rowing-boat not outrigged. "The water being found partly fresh, Mr. Chaffers took the dingey and went up two or three miles."-Darwin: Voyage round the World (1870), ch. viii., p. 69. din-gì-lỹ (1), adv . [Eng. dingy; -ly.] In a dingy, soiled, or dirty manner or state. *din'-gì-lý (2), adv. [DING, v .] Forcibly. "Do confute so dingily the sentence and saying of Floribell."- Philpot : Works , p. 370. ( Davies .)