Dindymenidæ (dindimenide)

pl. [NL., dine (din), v.; pret. and pp. dined, ppr. dining. [ E. disjune; if this is so, It. dis in are, des in are, is of F. origin, the prop. It. form, corresponding to OF. desjuner, being di giunare = Pr. dejunar, fast: see disjune, déjeu ner. Hence dinner.] I. in trans. To eat the chief meal of the day; take dinner; in a more general sense, to partake of a repast; eat. We went all to Mounte Syon to ma e; and the same day we dyned with ye warden and freres there, where we had a right honest dyner. Sir R. Guylforde , Pylgrymage, p. 39. There came a bird out o' a bush, On water for to dine . The Water o' Wearie's Well (Child's Ballads, I. 198). The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang that jurymen may dine. Pope, R. of the L., iii. 25. Serenely full, the epicure would say, Fate cannot harm me, I have dined to-day. Sydney Smith, Receipt for Salad. To dine out, to take dinner elsewhere than at one's own residence. To dine with Duke Humphrey, to be dinnerle : a phrase said to have originated from the circumstance that a part of the public walks in Old St. Paul's, London, was called Duke Humphrey's Walk (being near his tomb), and that those who could not pay for a dinner at a tavern were accustomed to promenade there, in the hope of meeting an acquaintance and getting an invitation to dine. The phrase, however, may be connected with the report that Duke Humphrey, son of Henry IV., was starved to death. II. trans. 1. To give a dinner to; furnish with the principal meal; entertain at dinner: as, the landlord dined a hundred men. A table ma ive enough to have dined Johnnie Armstrong and his merry men. Scott . I was never so effectually deterred from frequenting a man's house by any kind of Cerberus whatever as by the parade one made about dining me. Thoreau, Walden, p. 155. 1624 2t. To dine upon; have to eat. What wol ye dene ? Chaucer, Summoner's Tale, 1. 129. dine (din), n. [ dine , v. Cf. dinner.] 1. Dinner. "And dinna ye mind, love Gregor," she says, "As we twa sat at dine , How we chang'd the rings frae our fingers, And I can shew thee thine. Fair Annie of Lochroyan (Child's Ballads, II. 102). 2. Dinner-time; midday. And by there came a harper fine,... That harped to the king at dine . The Twa Sisters (Child's Ballads, II. 242). We twa hae paidl't i' the burn From morn in' sun till dine. Burns , Auld Lang Syne. [Obsolete or provincial in both senses.] dinero (de-nā'ro), n. [Sp., denarius , a silver coin: see denarius .] A Peruvian silver coin, the tenth of a sol, or about one United States dime.