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Ding [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To bluster; to bounce. [A low word.]

Ding [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

preterit tense dung or dinged. To thrust or dash with violence. [Little used.]

Ding [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A thump or stroke, especially of a bell.

Ding [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To strike; to thump; to pound.

2. To sound, as a bell; to ring; to clang.

3. To talk with vehemence, importunity, or reiteration; to bluster.

Ding [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To dash; to throw violently.

2. To cause to sound or ring.

Ding-dong [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

DING-DONG , Words used to express the sound of bells.

Dingdong [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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

2. An attachment to a clock by which the quarter hours are struck upon bells of different tones.

Dinged [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Ding

Dingey [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Dinghy

Dinghy [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A kind of boat used in the East Indies.

2. A ship's smallest boat.

Dingily [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

In a dingy manner.

Dinginess [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A dusky or dark hue; brownness.

Dinginess [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Quality of being dingy; a dusky hue.

Dinging [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Ding

Dingle [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A narrow dale or valley between hills.

Dingle [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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

Dingle-dangle [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

DINGLE-DANGLE . Hanging loosely, or something dangling.

Dingle-dangle [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

In a dangling manner.

Dingo [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

Dingthrift [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A spendthrift.

Dingwall Encyclopedia Britannica

DINGWALL, a royal burgh of Scotland, the county town of Boss-shire, 15 miles north-west of Inverness, at the junction of the Sutherland and Dingwall and Skye railways. It occupies a low situation at the upper end of Cromarty Firth, where the valley of Strathpeffer unites with the alluvial lands at the mouth of the Conan. Though a neatly built and thriving place, it has nothing special to show except the curious old town-house, a few remains of the ancient mansion-house of the powerful family of Ross, and an obelisk 57 feet in height, erected to the memory of George, first earl of Cromarty. Dingwall, like so many towns on the same coast, is of Norse origin, and its name in Scandinavian signifies the Court Hill. In Gaelic it is known as Inbhir-pheoran, or the mouth of the Peffer. Its charter, granted by Alexander II., was renewed by James IV. It unites with Tain, Dornoch, Wick, Kirkwall, and Cromarty in returning one member to Parliament. Population in 1871, 2125.

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 7, p. 243
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Dingy [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Soiled; sullied; of a dark color; brown; dusky; dun.

Dingy [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Dinghy

Dingy [Superlative] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Soiled; sullied; of a dark or dusky color; dark brown; dirty.