dinglel (dinggl)

[Supposed to be another form of dimble, q. v.] 1. A small, secluded, and embowered valley. I know each lane, and every alley green, Dingle, or bushy dell of this wild wood. Milton, Comus, 1. 312. The stream thenceforward stole along the bottom of the dingle, and made, for that dry land, a pleasant warbling in the leaves. R. L. Stevens on, Silver a do Squatters, p. 129. 2. The protecting weather-shed built around the entrance to a house. [North. New Eng.] Burns , Addre to the Deil. dingle2 (ding'gl), v . i.; pret. and pp. dingled , [Scotch.] As fair greets [cries] the bairn that is dung after noon as he that is dung before noon. Scotch Proverb (Ray, Proverbs, 2d ed., 1678, p. 358). I'd just like to ding that man o' a shoemaker-sending me home a pair o' boots like this when well he knew what W. Black , In Far Lochaber, vii. state my feet were in. Dinged work, embo ed work, done by means of blows which raise one surface and depre the other. II. in trans. 11. To strike. Jason grippede graithly to a grym sworde, Dange on the deuyll with a derffe wille. ppr. dingling. [Sc., var. of dinnle and dindle1. Cf. Dan. dingle = Sw. dingla, dangle, swing, vibrate.] To shake; vibrate. Garring the very stane-and-lime wa's dingle wi his screeching. Scott , Waverley, xliv. dingle-dangle (ding'gl-dang'gl), adv . [Reduplication of dangle . Cf. Dan. din geld angel , n., gewgaws, bobs.] Loosely; in a dangling manner. Boughs hanging dingle - dangle over the edge of the dell. T. Warton, On Milton's Juvenile Poems. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 931. Dingley Act. See act . 2. To bluster; storm. He huffs and dings , because we will not spend the little we have left to get him the title of Lord Strut. Arbuthnot . 3. To descend; fall; come down: used as in the phrase "It's ding in ' on," applied to a fall of rain or snow. [Scotch.] He headlong topsie turvie dingd downe. Marston, Antonio and Mellida, II., iv. 3. 4. To be defeated or overturned; yield. [Scotch.]