Nin"ny (?), n.; pl. Ninnies (#). [Cf. It. ninno, ninna, a baby, Sp.
niño, niña, child, infant, It. ninna, ninna nanna, lullably, prob. fr.
ni, na, as used in singing a child to sleep.] A fool; a simpleton.
Shak.
Nin"ny*ham`mer (?), n. A simpleton; a silly person. [Colloq.] Addison.
Ninth (?), a. [From Nine; cf. AS. nigoða.] 1. Following the eight and
preceding the tenth; coming after eight others.
2. Constituting or being one of nine equal parts into which anything is
divided.
Ninth, n. 1. The quotient of one divided by nine; one of nine equal
parts of a thing; the next after the eighth.
2. (Mus.) (a) An interval containing an octave and a second. (b) A
chord of the dominant seventh with the ninth added.
Ninth"ly, adv. In the ninth place.