din (din)

[ = My mither she is fast asleep, And I darena mak na din . Willie and May Margaret (Child's Ballads, II. 173). The guests are met, the feast is set- May'st hear the merry din . Cole ridge, Ancient Mariner. The din of war resounds throughout more than seven hundred years of Roman history, with only two short lulls of repose. Sumner , True Grandeur of Nations. din (din), v .; pret. and pp. dinned , ppr. dinning . [ dunnen , dinien , dynien , dunien, intr., dynian , make a noise, resound, = OS. dunian , rumble, = Icel. dynja , pour, rattle down, like hail or rain (cf. dun a , thunder), = Sw. dâna = Dan. döne , rumble, boom; cf. Skt. dhvan , roar, sound, buzz. See the noun.] I. trans. 1. To strike with contin ued or confused noise; vex with noise; hara with clamor or persistent protestations. To bait thee for his bread, and din your ears With hungry cries. Otway, Venice Preserved. You are ever dinning my Ears with Notions of the Arts of Men. Steele , Conscious Lovers, ii. 1. 2. To pre or force with clamor or with persistent repetition: as, to din one's complaints into everybody's ears. II. in trans. To make a noise or clamor. Of Arowes & Awblasters the aire wex thicke, And dynnyt with dyntes, that delte were that tyme. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 5708. The gay viol dinning in the dale. IMG:content-2670.png:[graphic] Seward , Sonnets, p. 25. To be curious, to speculate much, to be dinning always in argument. Bushnell , Sermons for New Life, p. 181. Dinacrida (di-nak'ri-da), n. [NL., also Deina crida, δεινός , terrible, + ἀκρίς ( ἀκριδ- ), α locust.] A genus of saltatorial orthopterous insects, of the family Locustida , containing New Zealand crickets inhabiting decaying trees and holes in old wood. They are of large size and carnivorous habits, and their bite is severe. dinanderie (dē-non'dė-rē), n. [F., Dinant , a city in Belgium, formerly celebrated for its copper ware.] Utensils of copper for the kitchen and other common uses; especially - ( a ) Me IMG:content-2671.png:[merged small][merged small][ocr errors] rius.] The name of a gold coin i ued by the califs of Damascus: it was also applied to the gold coins of various Arab Dinar of Haroun-al-Raschid, struck in A. dynasties, and H. 172 (A. D. 788), British Museum. (Size was the generic Obverse. of the original.) Reverse. name of Arab gold coins. The original weight of the dinar was 65.4 grains troy. The word is also, incorrectly, used to mean the weight of a mitcal (which see). Dinas brick. A peculiar kind of fire-brick, consisting almost exclusively of silica, the material for which is obtained from the Dinas rock in the Vale of Neath, Wales. The rock is supposed to be the equivalent of the millstone-grit, and is closely related to the ganister rock. See ganister.