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h noise; a loud, continuous, rattling or clanging sound; clamor; roar. Think you a little din can daunt mine ears Shak. He knew the battle's din afar. Sir W. Scott. The dust and din and steam of town. Tennyson.

A colorless, crystalline hydrocarbon, C20H14, obtained from naphthylene, and consisting of a doubled naphthylene radical.

A petty money of accounts of Persia.

See Diarchy.

To eat the principal regular meal of the day; to take dinner. Now can I break my fast, dine, sup, and sleep. Shak. To dine with Duke Humphrey, to go without dinner; -- a phrase common in Elizabethan literature, said to be from the practice of the poor gentry, who beguiled the dinner hour by a promenade near the tomb of…

One who dines.

One who often takes his dinner away from home, or in company. A brilliant diner-out, though but a curate. Byron.

Revolving on an axis. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

To dash; to throw violently. [Obs.] To ding the book a coit's distance from him. Milton.

The sound of, or as of, repeated strokes on a metallic body, as a bell; a repeated and monotonous sound.

The theory which maintains that the primitive elements of language are reflex expressions induced by sensory impressions; that is, as stated by Max Müller, the creative faculty gave to each general conception as it thrilled for the first time through the brain a phonetic expression; -- jocosely so called from the analo…

A kind of boat used in the East Indies. [Written also dinghey.] Malcom.

In a dingy manner.

Quality of being dingy; a dusky hue.

A narrow dale; a small dell; a small, secluded, and embowered valley.

In a dangling manner.

A wild dog found in Australia, but supposed to have introduced at a very early period. It has a wolflike face, bushy tail, and a reddish brown color.

A spendthrift. [Obs.] Wilt thou, therefore, a drunkard be, A dingthrift and a knave Drant.

Soiled; sullied; of a dark or dusky color; dark brown; dirty. "Scraps of dingy paper." Macaulay.

A genus of large extinct Devonian ganoid fishes. In some parts of Ohio remains of the Dinichthys are abundant, indicating animals twenty feet in length.