Sim, while but Sim, in good repute did live; DI'MPLY. adj. [from dimple.] Full of Was then a knave, but in diminutive. Cotton.

dimples ; sinking in littie inequalities, 2. A small thing. Not in use.

As the smooth surface of the dimply flood
Follow his chariot; monster-like, be shewn

The silver-slipper'd virgin lightly trod. Wartor.
For poor'st diminutives, for doits! Sbaksp.
DIMI'NUTIVELY. adv. (from diminutive.] DIN. n. s. [tyn, a noise ; dýnan, to make
In a diminutive manner.

a noise, Saxon; dyna, to thunder, IsDIMINUTIVENESS. n. s. [from diminu. landick.) A loud noise ; a violent and tive. Smallness; littleness; pettyness;

continued sound. want of bulk; want of dignity.

And all the way he roared as he went, Di'nish. adj. (from dim.] Somewhat

That all the forest with astonishment

Thereof did tremble; and the beasts therein dim; somewhat obscure. Tis true, but let it not be known,

Fled fast away from that so dreadful din.

Hubberd's Tak. My eyes are somewhat dimish grown;

0, 'twas a dir to fright a monster's ear; For nature, always in the right, To your decays adapts my sight. Swift.

To make an earthquake: sure, it was the roar

Of a whole herd of lions. DIMISSORY: adj. [dimissorius, Latin.]

Shaksp. Tempesta

While the cock with lively din That by which a man is dismissed to Scatters the rear of darkness thin; another jurisdiction.

And to the stack, or the barn door, A bishop of another diocess ought neither to Stoutly struts his dame before. Miltor.. ordain or admit a clerk, without the consent of

Now night over heav'n
his own proper bishop, and without the letter's Inducing darkness, grateful truce imposid,
dimissory.

Ayliffe's Parergon. And silence, on the odious din of war. Miltoth
Di'MITTY. 11. S.
A fine kind of fustian,

How, while the troubled elements around, or cloth of cotton.

Earth, water, air, the stunning din resound,

Thro'streams of smoke and adverse fire he rides, I directed a trowze of fine dimitty. Wiseman.

While every shot is levelled at his sides. Smith. Di'mLY. adv. [from dim.]

Some independent ideas, of no alliance to one 1. Not with a quick sight; not with a

another, arc, by, education, custom, and the clear perception.

constant din of their party, so coupled in their Unspeakable! who sitt'st above these heav'ns, minds, that they always appear there together. Tous invisible, or dimly seen

Locke. In these thy lowest works.

Milton. 'To Din. v.a. [from the noun.] 2. Not brightly; not luminously.

1. To stun with noise ; to haráss with In the beginning of our pumping the air, the

clamour, match appeared well lighted, though it had al

Rather live i most filled the receiver with fumes; but by de

Boyle. grees it burnt more and more dimly.

To bait thee for his bread, and din your ears
I saw th' angelick guards from earth ascend, With hungry cries. Otway's Venice Preserved.
Griev'd they must now no longer man attend; 2. To impress with violent and continued
The beams about their temples dimly shone; noise,
One would have thought, the crime had been

What shall we do, if his majesty puts out 2
their own.

Dryden. Di'MNESS. n. s. [from dim.]

proclamation commanding us io take Wood's

halfpence? This hath been often dinned in my 1. Dulness of sight,

Swift. 2. Want of apprehension ; stupidity. Answerable to this d'imness of their perception,

To DINE. v. n. [diner, Fr.) To eat was the whole system and body of their religion.

the chief meal about the middle of the Decay of Piety.

day. 3. Obscurity; not brightness.

Perhaps some merchant hach invited him, DI'MPLE. n. s. (dint, a hole; dintle a

And from the mart he's somewhere gone to

dinner: little hole; by a careless pronunciation

Good sister, let us dine, and never fret. Sbalsp. dimple. Skinner.] A small cavity or

Myself, he, and my sister, depression in the cheek, chin, or other To-day did dine together.

Sbakst. part.

He ivould dine with him the next day. Claren. The dimple of the upper lip is the common

Thus, of your heroes and brave boys, measure of them all.

Grew.

With whom old Homer makes such noise, In her forehead's fair half-round,

The greatest actions I can find, Love siis in open triumph crown'd;

Are, that they did their work, and dir’d. Prie. He in the dimple of her chin,

TO DINE. v. a. To give a dinner to; to In private state, by friends is seen.

Prior. feed. To Di’MPLE. v. n. [from the noun.] To

Boil this restoring root in gen'rous wine, sink in small cavities, or little inequa- And set beside the door the sickly stock to director lities.

Dryden's Virgil. The wild waves master'd him, and suck'd DiNE'TICAL. adj. [dimtıx@] Whirling him in,

round; vertiginous. And smiling eddies dimpled on the main. Dryd.

Some of late have concluded, from spots is
Eternal smiles his emptiness betry,
As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Pope.

the sun, which appear and disappear again, that,

besides the revolution it maketh with its orbs, ic DI'MPLED. adj. [from dimple.] Set with

hat's also a dinetical motion, and rolls upon its dimples.

own poles.
Brown's Vulgar Errcurs

.
On each side her

A spherical figure is most commodious for Stood pretty dimpled boys like smiling Cupids,

dinetical motion, or revolucion upon its own Starp axis,

Region

ears.

3

di lire; Di'uply. adj. [from dimple.] Full of Cetten.

dimples; sinking in littie inequalities,

As the smooth surface of the dimply tood
shewn

The silver-slipper'd virgin lightly trod. Warto.
Sbakso.
Ezutice.] DIN. n. s. (tyn, a noise ; Synan, to make

a noise, Saxon ; dyna, to thunder, Isdirninu. landick.) A loud noise ; a violent and Etyness;

continued sound.

And all the way he roared as he went, mewhat

That all che forest with astonishment

Thereof did tremble; and the beasts therein
Fled tast diay from that so dreadful din.

Hibberd's Tale
O, 'twas a dia to fright a monster's ear;
Srift.

To make an earthquake: sure, it was the roa?

Of a whole herd of lions. Sbakip. Tea Latin)

While the cock with lively din jssed to Scatters the rear of darkness thin;

And to the stack, or the barn door, neither to

Stoutly struts his dame before. onsent of

Now night over heav'n

Inducing darkness, grateful truce imposid, Parergon.

And silence, on the odious din of war. Miles
Eustian,

How, while che troubled elements around,
Farth, water, air, the stunning din resound,
Thro' streams of smoke and adverse fire he rides

, Visenan.

While every shot is levelled at his sides. Saitá

Some independent ideas, of no aliance to one with a

another, are, by education, custom, and the

constant din of their party, so coupled in their heay'ns, minds, that they always appear there together

.

ne letter's

middle of the day.

Go, get it ready

Boule.

licly in the family.

DIN

DIO
To DING. v. a. pret. dung. [dringen, His well-arm’d front against his rival aims,
Dutch.)

And by the dint of war his mistress claims. Gay. 1. To daib with violence.

To Dint. v. a. (from the noun ) TO 2. To impress with force.

mark with a cavity by a blow, or vioTo Ding. V.n. To blaster ; to bounce ;

lent impression.
to huff. A low word.

With greedy force each other both assail,
He huffs and dings, because we will not spend

And strike so fiercely, that they do impress
the little we have left, to get him the title of lord

Deep-dinted furrows in the batier'd mail:
Strut.

Arbuthnot.

The iron walls to ward their blows were weak and frail.

Fairy Queens DING-DONG. n. s. A word by which

Leave, leave, fair bride, vour solitary bone, the sound of bells is imitated.

No more shall vou return to it alone;
Let us all ring fancy's knell;

It nurseth sadness; and our body's print,
Ding
, dong, bella

Sbaksprare.

Like to a grave, the yielding dowu doth dint. DINGLE. n. s. [from den, or din, a hol

Donne. low, Saxon.) A hollow between hills; Deep-dintedwrinkles on her cheeks she draws; a dale.

Sunk are her eyes, and toothless are her jaws. I know each lane, and every alley green,

Dryden's Æneid. Dingle or bushy dell of this wild wood;

DINUMERAʼtion. n. s. (linumer 1110,
And every bosky bourn from side to side, Lat.] The act of numbering out sin ly.
My daily walks and ancient neighbourhood. Dioce'san. n. s. [from diocess.) A bi.

Milton.
DININGROOM. n. s. (dine and room.)

shop, as he stands related to his own The principal apartment of the house;

clergy or flock. the room where entertainments are

As a diocesan you are like to outdo yourself

in all other capacities, and exemplify every word made.

of this discourse.

South. He went out from the dining-room before he had fallen into errour by the intemperance of

I have heard it has been advised by a dioceran.

to his infericr clergy, that they should read some his raeat, or the deluge of drink. Taylor.

of the most celebrated scrmons printed by DI'NNER. n. s. [diner, French.] The

uikers.

Tatier. chief meal ; the meal eaten about the Di’OCESS. 7. s. (dicecesis; a Greek word,

coinpounded of öld and onorç.] The Let me not stay a jot for dinner :

circuit of every bishop's jurisdiction ; Sbakspeare's King Lear. for this realın has two divisions, one Before dinner and supper, as often as it is cors venient, or can be had let the public prayers of

into shires or counties, in respect of the church, or some parts of them, be said pub

temporal policy ; another into dioceses, The jolly crew, unmindful of the past,

Taylor.
in respect of jurisdiction ecclesiastical.

Cowell.
The quarry share their plenteous dinnir heste.

None ought to be admitted by any bishop, but
DINNER-TIME. n. 5. (dinner and time.]

Dred-n's Incid. such as have dwelt and remained in his diocess a
Convenient time.

Wbitgift.
He should regard the bishop of Rome as the
At dinner-time,

islanders of Jersey and Guernsey do him of I pray you, have in mind where we must meet.

Constance in Normandy, that is, nothing at all; Sbakspeare.

since by that French bishop's refusal to swear unto our king, those isles were annexed to the

diocess of Winchester. Raleigl's Essays. Happy to catch me just at dinner-time. Pope.

St. Paul looks upon Titus as advanced to the dignity of a prince, ruler of the church, and intrusted with a large diocess, containing many particular cities, under the immediate govern

ment of their respective elders, and thuse deYet, kiudling rage, herself she gather'd round.

riving authority from his ordination. South.

DIOPTRICAL. n. s. (diólone..] AfSpenser. DIOʻPTRIC. 5 fording a medium

for the sight; assisting the sight in the view of distant objects.

Being excellently well furnished with dioptriMilton.

cal glasses, he had not been able to see the sun spotted.

Boyle. View the asperities of the moon through a dioptrick glass, and venture at the proportion of her hills by their shadows.

Moore. Dio'PTRICKS, n. s. A part of opticks, Dryden.

treating of the different refractions of the light passing through different me

diums; as the air, water, glasses, &c. bu to wrest the whole Spanish monatch Diorthoʻsis. n. s. [Shop Iwoss, of dresów, .

Harris.
to make straight.) A chirurgical pe.
Addison.

ration, by which crooked or disto tei
members are restored to their primitive
and regular shape.

fia i is.
C

one;

The time of dining

ears.

Then from the mint walks forth the man of

rhyme,

DINT. 1.s. (dýne, Saxon.]
1. A blow; a stroke.

Much daunted with that dirt her sense was

Milton. 'To Dix. v. a. (from the noun.]

1. To stun with noise ; to harass with air, the

clamour, had alby de

Rather live To bait thee for his bread, and din your ears escend,

With hungry cries. Otway's Venct Prezeroad. Litend;

2. To impress with violent and continued

noise. ad been

What shall we do, if his majesty puts out?
Dryden.

proclamation commanding us io take Ward's
halfpence? This hath been often dinned in our

Sajt y.

To DINE. v. 1. [diner, Fr.) To e eption,

the chief meal about the middle of the ligioa. Piety:

day.

Perhaps some merchant hath invited him, entle a

And from the mart he's somewhere gode

dinner: ation

Good sister, let us dine, and never fret. Skalst. y or Mvsels, he, and my sister,

Shala other To-day did dine together.

He irould dine with him the next day. Ciajes

Thus, of your heroes and brave boys,
mmon
Grew.

With whom old Homer makes such noise,
The greatest actions I can find,

Are, that they did their work, and dir’d. Prie.

To DINE. V. Q. To give a dinner to; Prier.

feed. To

Boil this restoring root in gen’scus wire, qua

And set beside the door the sickly stock to Z uick'd DinesTICAL. adj. (dratum.Whirling

round; vertiginous. Oryd.

Some of late have concluded, from spots the sun, which appear and disappear again, thal, besides the revolution it makech with its orbs

, i hach also a dinetical motion, and rolls upon 15 owa poles.

A spherical figure is most commodious for Eds.

dineticel motion, or revdütiare upon its own ispa

axis.

daz'd;

Neither vainly hope
To be invulnerable in these bright arms,
Though temper'd heav'nly; for that mortal dint,
Save he who reigns above, none can resist.
2. The mark made by a blow; the cavity
remaining after a violent pressure.
He embrac'd her naked body o'er;
And, straining hard the statue, was afraid

His hands had made a dint, and hurt the maid.
3. Violence ; force; power.

Now you weep; and, i perceive, you feel

Vryder's Virgin

The dini of pity.

Brown's Vulgar Errista

out of the hands of the enemy; and, in order to
it to work our way into the heart of his coun-
try by dint of arms.

The dewlapt bull now chafes along the plain,
While burning love ferments in ev'ry veini;

'

Vol. II.

Pope

TO DIP. v. a. pret. dipperl; part. dipped, tion of two vowels to forin one sound :

or dipt. [dippan, Sax. ; doopen, Dut.). as, vain, leave, Cæsar. 1. To immerge ; to put into any liquor. We see how many disputes the simple and

The person to be baptized may be dipped in ambiguous nature of vowels created among water ; and such an immersion or dipping ought. grammarians, and how it has begot the mistake to be made thrice, according to the canon. concerning diperbongs : all that are properly só

Aylife's Parergon. are syllables, and not diphthongs, as is intended Old Corineus compass'd thrice the crew, to be signified by that word.

Holder. And dipp'dan olive-branch in holy dew,

Make a diphthong of the second eta and ieta, Which thrice he sprinkled round, and thrice instead of their being two syllables, and the obaloud

jection is gone.

Pope. Invok'd the dead, and then dismiss'd the crowd.

Di'ploe. . s. The inner plate or la.

Dryden's Æneid, He turn'd a tyrant in his latter days,

mina of the skull. And, from the bright meridian where he stood, DIPLOʻMA. 1. s. [dahwuc.] A letter or Descending, dipp'; his hands in lover's blood. writing conferring some privilege ; so

Dryden.

called, because they used formerly to The kindred arts shall in their praise conspire,

be written on waxed tables, and folded One dip the pencil, and one string the lyre.

together. Now, on fancy's easy wing convey'd, Dipper. ". s. [from dip.] One that The king descended to th' Elysian shade;

dips in the water. There in a dusky vale, where Lethe rolls, DIPPING Needle. n. s. A device which Old Bavius sits to dio poetic souls. Pope's Dunc.

shows a particular property of the So fishes, rising from the main, Can soar with moisten'd wings on high;

magnetic needle, so that, besides its The moisture dried, they sink again,

polarity or verticity, which is its direcAnd dip their wings again to fly. Swift. tion of altitude, or height above the 2. To moisten ; to wet.

horizon, when duly poised about an And though not mortal, yet a cold shudd'ring horizontal a is, it will always point to dew

a determined degree of altitude, or Dips me all o'er, as when the wrath of Jove Speaks thunder.

Milton.

elevation above the horizon, in this or 3. To be engaged in any affair.

that place respectively.

Phillips. When men are once dipt, what with the en

Di'psas. n. s. (Latin, from difáw, to couragemerits of sense, custom, facility, and thirst.) A serpent, whose bite proshame of departing from what they have given duces the sensation of unqucnchable themselves up to, they go on till they are stifled. thirst. In Richard's time, I doubt, he was a little dipt

Scorpion, and asp, and amphishæna dire, in the rebellion of the commons. Dryden.

Cerastes horn'd, hydrus, and ellows drear,

Milton. 4. To engage as a pledge: generally used Di'PTOTE. n. so (dumiwe.] A noun confor the first mortgage. Be careful still of the main chance, my son;

sisting of two cases only.

Clark. Put out the principal in trusty hands,

Diptych. N. s. (diptycha, Latin ; two. Live on the use, and never dip thy lands. leaves folded together.] A register of

Dryden's Persius.

bihops ard martyrs. TO DIP. v.n.

The commemoration of saints was made out a. To sink ; to immerge.

of the diptycbs of the church, as appears by mulWe have snakes in our cups, and

our

titudes of places in St. Austin. Stilling fleet. dishes; and whoever dips too deep will find death DIRE. adj. [dirus, Latin.) Dreadful;

L'Estrange. 2. To enter ; to pierce.

dismal; mournful; horrible ; terrible; The vulture dipping in Prometheus' side,

evil in a great degrec. His bloody beak with his torn liver dyed.

Women fight,
Granville,

To doft their dire distresses. Sbakspears 3. To enter slightly into any thing.

More by intemperance die When I think all the repetitions are struck

In meats, and drinks, which on the earth shall out in a copy, I sometiines find more upon dip

bring

Diseases dire; of which a monstrous crew ping in the first volume. Pope. Before thee sball appear.

Milton. 4. To take that which comes first; to Hydras, and

L'orgons, and chimeras dire. choose by chance.

Milton. With what ill thoughts of Jove art thou pos

Or what the cross dire-looking planet smises, sess'd?

Or hurtlul worm with canker'd Venom bitcs. Wouldst thou prefer him to some man? Supa

Mikon. pose

Dire was the tossing, deep the groans, desar I dipp'd among the worst, and Staius chose? Tended the sick.

Milton. Dryden's Persius.

Discord! dire sister of the sliurhter'd pows, Di'PCHICK. ' n. s. [from dip and chick.]

Sinall at her birth, but rising ev'ry hour;

While scarce the skies her horrid liead can The name of a bird.

bound, Dipebick is so named of his diving and little

She stalks on earth, aud shakes the world Carew, around.

Pepe. Dipe’TALOUS. adj. [als and titanov.] DIRE'CT, adj. [directus, Latin.] Having two flower leaves.

1. Straight; not crooked. Di'PHTHONG, 18,80 [dyp gay fis,] A coalia 2. Not oblique,

'L'Estrang?

And dipsos.

in the pot.

ness.

death DIRE. adj. [dirus, Latin.) Dreadful

; range.

dismal; mournful; horrible ; terrible;

evil in a great degree. Be,

Women fight, mville. To doft their dire distresses. Stadspasts

More by intemperance die In meats, and drinks, which on the earth shall truck bring

Diseases dire; of which a monstrous crer Pope Before thee shall appear. = Hydras, and gorgons, and chimeras dire.

Or what the cross dire-looking planet sukken pos

Or hurtful worn with canker'd venom bites

Dire was the tossing, deep the groans, dapat
Tended the sick.

Discord! dire sister of the slauchter'd post s

Small at her birthi, but rising ev'ry lwur; -k.]

While scarce the skies her horrid head ca

bound,
She stalks on earthiga

, and shakes the world
around.
..] DIRE'CT, adj. (directus, Latin.)

1. Straight; not crooked. li. 2. Not oblique,

1. One that directs; one that prescribes.
2. An instrument that serves to guide

any manual operation.
Direction, ni s. (directio, Latin.]
1. Aim at a certain point.
judgment, or the consequence of reason; but
the effects of chance and hazard, of a mind
kvating at all adventures, without choice, and
The direction of good works to a gocd end,
is the only principle that distinguishes

charity,
2. Tendency of motion impressed by a

certain inpulse.
of particles, that is, ao body, can either move DIRE'CTNESS.

No particle of macter, not any combination

Suift.

Straightness; tendency to any point; DE'RENESS. n. s. (from dire.) Dismas the nearest way.

ness ; horrour; hideousness. They argued from celestial causes only, the Direness, familiar to my slaught'rous thoughts, constant vicinity of the sun, and the directness Cannot once start me.

Sbalspeare's Macbeth of his rays; never suspecting that the body of DIRE'PTION. n. s. [direptio, Latin.] The the earth had so great an efficiency in the changes

act of plundering: of the air.

Bentley. Dirge. [This is not a contraction of Dire'ctor. 1. s. [director, Latin.)

the Latin dirige, in the popish hymn 1. One that has authority over others; a

Dirige gressus meos, as some pretend; superintendent; one that has the ge

but from the Teutonic dyrke, laudari, neral management of a design or work.

to praise and extol. Whence it is posHimself stood director over them, with nod.

sible their dyrke, and our dirge, was a ding or stamping, shewing he did like or mislike those things he not understand.

Sidney.

laudatory song to commemorate and In all affairs thou sole director.

applaud the dead. Verstegan. Bacon 2. A rule; an ordinance.

apparently derives it from dirige.] A Common forms were not desn'd

mournful ditty ; a song of lamentation. Directors to a noble mind. a

Swift. Th' imperial jointress of this warlike state 3. An instructor; one who shows the

Have we, as 'twere, with a defeated joy,

With mirth in funeral, and with dirge in marproper methods of proceeding.

riage, They are glad to use counsellors and directors in all their dealings of weight, as contracts, tes

In equal scale weighing delight and dole,

Taken to wife. taments. Hooker.

Shakspeare's Hamlet

Meanwhile the body of Richard, after many 4. One who is consulted in cases of con- indignities and reproaches, the diriges and obsescience.

quies of the common people towards tyrants, I am her director and her guide in spiritual was obscurely buried.

Bacon. affairs.

Dryden. You from above shall hear each day 5. One appointed to transact the affairs One dirge dispatch'd unto your clay; of a trading company.

These your own anthems shall become, What made directors cheat in south-sea year.

Your lasting epicedium.

Sandgo. All due measures of her mourning kep!,

Pope. 6. An instrument in surgery, by which

Did office at the dirge, and by infection wept:

Drysen. the hand is guided in its operation. Di'rigent. adj. [dirigens, Latin.) The manner of opening with a knife, is by

The dirigent line in geometry is that along sliding it on a director, the groove of which pre- which the line describent is carried, in the gene. vents its being misguided. Sharp's Surgery, ration of any figure.

Harrise Dire'CTORY. n. s. [from director.] The DIRK. n. s. [an Erse word.) buok which the factious preachers

of dagger used in the Highlands of published in the rebellion for the di

Scotland. rection of their sect in acts of worship.

In vain thy hungry mountaineers As to the ordinance concerning the directory, Come forth in all their warlike geers, we cannot consent to the taking away of the The shield, the pistol, dirk, and dagger, bock of common prayer:

In which they daily wont to swagger..

Tickles Oxford Reasons against the Gov.

To Dirke.v.a. To spoil; to ruin. ObDIRE'FUL. adj. (This word is frequent solete.

among the poets, but has been cen- Thy waste bigness but cumbers the ground, sured as not analogical : all other words And dirkes the beauties of my blossoms round compounded with full consisting of a substantive and full: as, dreadful, or DIRT. n. s. [dryt, Dutch; dirt, Islanfull of dread; joyful, or full of joy.] dick.) Dire; dreadful; dismal.

1. Mud; filth; mire; any thing that Point of spear it never piercen would,

sticks to the clothes or body. Ne dint of direful sword divide the substance They, gilding dirt in noble verse, could. Fairy Queen. Rustick philosophy rehearse.

Dembam But yet at last, whereas the direful fiend Numbers engage their lives and labours to She saw not stir, off shaking vain affright,

heap together a little dirt that shall bury them She nigher drew, and saw that joyous end; in the end.

Wake. Then God she pray'd, and thank'd her faithful The sea rises as high as ever, though the great knight.

Fairy Queen. heaps of dirt it brings along with it are apt to Direful hap betide that hated wretch

choak up the shallows.

Addison. That makes us wretched by the death of thee. Mark by what wretched steps their glory

Sluzkspeare.

grow's; 'The voice of God himself speaks in the heart From dirt and sea-weed as proud Venice rose; of men, whether they understand it or no; and In each how guilt and greatness equal ran, by secret intimations gives the sinner a foretaste And all that rais'd the hero sunk the man. of that direful cup, which he is like to drink

Pops more deeply of hereafter.

South.
I curs’d the direful author of my woes:

Is yellow dirt the passion of thy life?

Look but on Gripus, or on Gripus' wife. Popse Twas told again, and thence my ruin rose.

Pryden

. 7. Dirt. ww.' a. (from the noun.) To

2. Meanness; Achilles' wrath, to Greeks the direful spring Of woe; unnu nber'd, i.eavenly goddess! sing. foul; to bemire; to make filthy; to

bedaub; to soil; to pollute; to nasty

A kind

Speruer.

a

a

Popa