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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.

An epithet applied to editions (chiefly of the classics) which proceeded from the press of Aldus Manitius, and his family, of Venice, for the most part in the 16th century and known by the sign of the anchor and the dolphin. The term has also been applied to certain elegant editions of English works.…

The common red variety of garnet.

See Almandine

The vegetable casein of almonds.

Andean; as, Andine flora.

Abounding with reeds; reedy.

Obscenity; lewdness.

Of or pertaining to St. Bernard of Clairvaux, or to the Cistercian monks. -- n.

Disposition to shed blood; bloodthirstiness. All that bloodiness and savage cruelty which was in our nature. Holland.

also brigantine.] Jer. xlvi. 4. Then put on all thy gorgeous arms, thy helmet, And brigandine of brass. Milton.

A floss or waste obtained from the cocoon after the silk has been reeled off, used for shag.

rid saffron-colored juice is used to cure warts and the itch; -- called also greater celandine and swallowwort. Lasser celandine, the pilewort (Ranunculus Ficaria).

See Quinaldine.

See Quinodine.

A compound of chlorine and iodine. [R.]

, crystalline dye, C6H5N2.C6H3(NH2)2. Also, one of a group of dyestuffs resembling chrysoïdine proper.