The garden pool's dark surface . . .
Breaks into dimples small and bright.
Wordsworth.
Dim"ple, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Dimpled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Dimpling (?).] To form dimples; to sink into depressions or little inequalities.
And smiling eddies dimpled on the main.
Dryden.
Dim"ple, v. t. To mark with dimples or dimplelike depressions. Shak.
Dim"ple*ment (?), n. The state of being dimpled, or marked with gentle depressions. [R.]
The ground's most gentle dimplement.
Mrs. Browning.
Dim"ply (?), a. Full of dimples, or small depressions; dimpled; as, the dimply pool. Thomson.
Dim"-sight`ed (?), a. Having dim sight; lacking perception. -- Dim"-sight`ed*ness, n.
||Dim"y*a (?), Dim`y*a"ri*a (&?;), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; = &?; + &?; to close.] (Zoöl.) An order of lamellibranchiate mollusks having an anterior and posterior adductor muscle, as the common clam. See Bivalve.
Dim`y*a"ri*an (?), a. (Zoöl.) Like or pertaining to the Dimya. -- n. One of the Dimya.
Dim"y*a*ry (?), a. & n. (Zoöl.) Same as Dimyarian.
Din (?), n. [AS. dyne, dyn; akin to Icel. dynr, and to AS. dynian to resound, Icel. dynja to pour down like hail or rain; cf. Skr. dhuni roaring, a torrent, dhvan to sound. Cf. Dun to ask payment.] Loud, confused, harsh 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.
Din, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dinned (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Dinning.] [AS. dynian. See Din, n.] 1. To strike with confused or clanging sound; to stun with loud and continued noise; to harass with clamor; as, to din the ears with cries.