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from Dine, a.

Trim; neat. [Scot.] Burns. -- Dink"ly, adv.

A wether sheep between one and two years old. [Scot.]

An entertainment; a feast. A grand political dinner. Tennyson.

Having no dinner. Fuller.

Of or pertaining to dinner. [R.] The dinnerly officer. Copley.

A genus of large extinct Eocene mammals from Wyoming; -- called also Uintatherium. See Illustration in Appendix.

A genus of extinct, ostrichlike birds of gigantic size, which formerly inhabited New Zealand. See Moa. [Written also Deinornis.]

One of the Dinosauria. [Written also deinosaur, and deinosaurian.]

An order of extinct mesozoic reptiles, mostly of large size (whence the name). Notwithstanding their size, they present birdlike characters in the skeleton, esp. in the pelvis and hind limbs. Some walked on their three-toed hind feet, thus producing the large "bird tracks," so-called, of mesozoic sandstones; others wer…

A large extinct proboscidean mammal from the miocene beds of Europe and Asia. It is remarkable fora pair of tusks directed downward from the decurved apex of the lower jaw.

Same as Dioxide.

Full of din. [Scot.] Burns.

A blow; a stroke. [Obs.] "Mortal dint." Milton. "Like thunder's dint." Fairfax.

Enumeration. [Obs.] Bullokar.

Continuing; lasting.

Permanently. Carlyle.

A foreboding. [Obs.]

Agreeing; in agreement or harmony; harmonious. "This according voice of national wisdom." Burke. "Mind and soul according well." Tennyson. According to him, every person was to be bought. Macaulay. Our zeal should be according to knowledge. Sprat.

Agreeably; correspondingly; suitably; in a manner conformable. Behold, and so proceed accordingly. Shak.