dintn.

Brit.

/dɪnt/, U.S.

/dɪnt/

Forms: Old English dynt, Middle English dunt /-y-/, Middle English–1500s dynt(e, 1500s dinte, Middle English– dint.

Etymology: Old English dynt , cognate with Old Norse dyntr , dyttr in same sense; compare Swedish dialect dunt . Not recorded in the other Germanic languages. See also dent n.¹ and dunt n.¹ and int. Sense 3 is manifestly influenced by indent and its family.

†1.

a. A stroke or blow; esp. one given with a weapon in fighting, etc.; = dent n.¹ 1. Obsolete or blending with 3.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > impact > striking > [noun] > a stroke or blow

dintc897

swengOE

shutec1000

kill?c1225

swipc1275

stroke1297

dentc1325

touchc1325

knock1377

knalc1380

swapc1384

woundc1384

smitinga1398

lush?a1400

sowa1400

swaipa1400

wapc1400

smita1425

popc1425

rumbelowc1425

hitc1450

clope1481

rimmel1487

blow1488

dinga1500

quartera1500

ruska1500

tucka1500

recounterc1515

palta1522

nolpc1540

swoop1544

push1561

smot1566

veny1578

remnant1580

venue1591

cuff1610

poltc1610

dust1611

tank1686

devel1787

dunching1789

flack1823

swinge1823

looder1825

thrash1840

dolk1861

thresh1863

mace-blow1879

pulsation1891

nosebleeder1921

slosh1936

smackeroo1942

dab-

society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > stroke with weapon > [noun]

dintc897

swengOE

stroke1297

dentc1325

swinga1400

stripec1475

handstroke1488

coup1523

cope1525

handystroke1542

hand stripe1543

c897 K. Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care xlv. 338 Ac ondræden him ðone dynt swæ neah, ða þe noht to gode ne doð.

c950 Lindisf. Gosp. John xviii. 22 An..ðara ðegna salde dynt mið honde uutearde ðæm hælende.

c1175 Lamb. Hom. 153 Þe duntes boð uuel to kepen.

c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 4290 Þurrh adamess gilltess dinnt Wass all mann kinn þurrhwundedd.

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 51 Sweordes dunt dun richt..for sweord..ȝeueð deaðes dunt.

c1320 Cast. Love 1161 Such beo þe duntes of batayle.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 20990 Hefdid he was wit dint o suord.

?1567 M. Parker Whole Psalter lxxxix. 251 Thou hast whole stynt: hys weapons dynt.

1572 (a1500) Taill of Rauf Coilȝear (1882) 514 I sall dyntis deill, quhill ane of vs be deid.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 113 With dint of Sword, or pointed Spears.

1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. xvii. 676 From the dint Shield me of dart and spear.

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. i. i. 17 The dints and bruises of outward battle.

b. The stroke of thunder; = dent n.¹ 1b.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > bad weather > thunder and lightning > [noun] > thunder > thunder-clap

denta1300

dintc1374

thunder-clapc1386

thunder-blasta1400

thunder-crackc1450

clap1509

thundering1526

rear1567

thunder bounce1629

thunder-peal1804

c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde v. 1505 How Cappaneus þe proude with þonder dynt was slayn.

c1386 G. Chaucer Wife of Bath's Prol. 276 With wilde thonder dynt and firy leuene Moote thy welked nekke be to-broke.

1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne xi. xxxi. 201 Like thunders dint or lightnings new.

1808 W. Scott Marmion i. xxiv. 46 The Mount, where Israel heard the law, Mid thunder-dint, and flashing levin.

a. The dealing of blows; hence, force of attack, assault, or impact (literal and figurative); violence, force, attack, impression. Now rare except as in 2c.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > impact > striking > [noun]

buffetingc1240

dintc1330

smitingc1330

dentinga1398

wapping1398

strikingc1400

swippingc1420

dinginga1425

bobbing1526

swappingc1540

nicking1668

hitting1687

biffing1915

society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > stroke with weapon > [noun] > action of

dintc1330

denta1400

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > [noun]

assault1297

venuea1330

scoura1400

wassailc1400

frayc1430

brunta1450

sault1510

onseta1522

attemptate1524

onsetting1541

breach1578

dint1579

objectiona1586

invasion1591

extent1594

grassation1610

attack1655

run1751

wrack1863

mayhem1870

serve1967

the world > space > distance > [noun] > limit of distance or reach > of a stroke or blow

dent1567

dint1579

striking distance1751

blow-reach1871

c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 70 If he wild it wynne with dynt, als duke hardie.

a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) ii. ix. 63 The ald waykly, but forss or dynt, A dart dyd cast.

1559 D. Lindsay Test. Papyngo l. 355 in Wks. (1931) I Quho clymith moist heych moist dynt hes of the wedder.

1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Nov. 104 Such pleasaunce now displast by dolors dint.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) iii. ii. 192 I perceiue you feele The dint of pitty.

1687 J. Dryden Hind & Panther iii. 84 But dint of argument is out of place.

1748 J. Mason Ess. Elocution 7 Mechanical Minds..affected with mere Dint of Sound and Noise.

1770 O. Goldsmith Life Bolingbroke 101 He had gone as far..as the mere dint of parts and application could go.

1845 R. W. Hamilton Inst. Pop. Educ. vi. 126 Their soul gathered all dint and courage.

†b. by dint of sword: by attack with weapons of war; by force of arms. Obsolete.Ranging from the literal sense as in 1, to the vague use in 2c.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > [adverb] > by force of arms

with spear and shielda1300

by dint of sworda1330

by force of1611

a1330 Roland & V. 10 Alle the londes that were in Spayne, With dint Of swerd wan Charlmain.

c1440 Gesta Romanorum (Add. MS.) xvii. 330 The sones..goten mekell good by dynte of swerd.

1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 1774/1 With the dint of sword the band of bondage brast.

1602 T. Dekker Satiro-mastix sig. I2^v You haue put all Poetrie to the dint of sword.

1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. ii. 90 He..by his skill, No less then Dint of Sword, could kill.

1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. iv. 262 Even now they [Turks] maintain what they have by mere Dint of Sabre.

c. Hence by (the) dint of: by force of; by means of (with implication of vigour or persistence in the application of the means). (The current idiom.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > by the instrumentality of [phrase]

in virtue ofa1250

by (also with) strength of1340

by the virtue ofa1375

by way ofa1393

by (also through) (the) means (also mean) ofa1398

by remedy ofa1398

by force of1411

by feat of1489

by (occasionally through) the benefit ofa1538

in the way of1622

by the way of1623

by (the) dint of1664

by the force of1697

perforce of1714

1597 J. Payne Royall Exchange 3 I am sturred by dent of Christian dutie.]

1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. iii. 152 Chase evil spirits away by dint Of Cickle, Horse-shoo, Hollow-flint.1685 C. Cotton tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. (1877) I. 36 Subdued by..dint of valour.1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 411. ¶7 Pleasures of the Fancy..which are worked out by Dint of Thinking.1764 O. Goldsmith Hist. Eng. in Lett. (1772) II. 102 Tallard..had risen by the dint of merit alone.1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker II. 34 By dint of cross-examination, I found he was not at all satisfied.1826 W. Scott Jrnl. 25 Dec. (1939) 295 By dint of abstinence..I passed a better night.1871 L. Stephen Playground of Europe i. 64 Schiller endeavours to give the local colour..by dint of inserting little bits of guide-book information.1878 R. Browning La Saisiaz 29 We..Earned, by dint of failure, triumph.

†d. under, within (etc.) the dint of: exposed to, or within the reach or range of assault of. Cf. dent n.¹ 2b. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > distance > [phrase] > that may be reached > within range or reach

within reachc1515

within one's strokea1533

in the (also one's) way1534

within power1548

under the dint of1577

in(to), within, out of shot1635

within arm's reacha1652

within one's force1680

within touch1753

in touch1854

within wind of1865

1577 R. Stanyhurst Treat. Descr. Irelande iii. f. 12/1, in R. Holinshed Chron. I Sparing none that came vnder their dynte.

?a1639 A. Harsnett Gods Summons (1640) 383 We shall be out of the Dint of many a Tentation.

1661 O. Felltham Resolves (rev. ed.) 301 He that comes within the dint on't [sc. noysome breath] dies.

a1734 R. North Examen (1740) i. iii. §71 175 Standing in the Dint of an Air, that was..sure to blast him.

3. A mark or impression made by a blow or by pressure, in a hard or plastic surface; an indentation; = dent n.¹ 4. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > [noun] > action of making indentation > an indentation on a surface

hollowc897

printa1387

impression1398

puncha1430

dent1565

dint1590

dinge1611

doke1615

impressurea1616

depressure1626

depression1665

dawk1678

swage1680

indent1690

sinking1712

dunkle1788

indenture1793

delve1811

subsidation1838

indention1839

recess1839

indentation1847

incavation1852

deepening1859

sink1875

malleation1881

ding1922

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. i. sig. A3 Ycladd in mightie armes and siluer shielde, Wherein old dints of deepe woundes did remaine.

1612 J. Brinsley Ludus Lit. v. 47 The very little ones..may make some secret markes..with some little dint with their naile.

1653 R. Austen Treat. Fruit-trees 47 Make this cut smooth, and even..without dints, or ridges.

1700 J. Dryden tr. Ovid Pygmalion in Fables 166 Afraid His Hands had made a Dint.

1819 Ld. Byron Mazeppa xvii. 658 Nor dint of hoof, nor print of foot, Lay in the wild luxuriant soil.

1847 S. Wilberforce in A. R. Ashwell Life S. Wilberforce (1880) I. 402 The single opportunity of making..a dint in a character.

1856 E. B. Browning Aurora Leigh ii. 76 Beside her bed, Whose pillow had no dint.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

dintv.

Brit.

/dɪnt/, U.S.

/dɪnt/

Etymology: Middle English dynt- , dünt- , dint-en , < dint n. Not recorded in Old English; compare Icelandic dynta to dent, Swedish dialect dunta to strike, shake; and see also dent v. and dunt v.¹

†1.

a. transitive. To strike, beat, knock. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > impact > striking > beating or repeated striking > beat [verb (transitive)]

abeatOE

beatc1000

dingc1300

dintc1300

bulka1400

batc1440

hampera1529

pommel1530

lump1546

pummel1548

bebatter1567

filch1567

peal-pelt1582

reverberate1599

vapulate1603

over-labour1632

polt1652

bepat1676

flog1801

quilt1822

meller1862

tund1885

massage1924

c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 2448 He [pl.]..dunten him, so man doth bere, And keste him on a scabbed mere.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 4302 To bidint [read bi dint] of his mangonele.

a1400 Leg. Rood (1871) 138 Wiþ sharpe nayles dunted and driue.

1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene vi. x. sig. Hh5^v His wounds worker, that with louely dart Dinting his brest, had bred his restlesse paine.

a1649 W. Drummond Wks. (1711) 50/2 Ye who with gawdy Wings and Bodies light Do dint the Air.

†b. intransitive or absol. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > impact > striking > beating or repeated striking > beat [verb (intransitive)] > beat heavily or severely

dingc1300

poundc1390

dinta1500

jackhammer1975

a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xxiv. 311 In alle this warld..Is none so doughty as I, the best, Doughtely dyntand on mule and on stede.

†2. intransitive. To make a dint or impression in something; = dent v. 4. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > recede or form recess [verb (intransitive)] > be or become indented > make indentation

dent1398

dint1495

1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) xvii. lxxiv. sig. Qij^v/2 Yf þ^e fynger dynteth [a1398 BL Add. dyueþ] in therto & finde it nesshe.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. viii. sig. G7 The ydle stroke..So deepely dinted in the driuen clay, That three yardes deepe a furrow vp did throw.

a. transitive. To mark or impress with dints; to make a dint or dints in.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > form a recess in [verb (transitive)] > form as an indentation > make indentation(s) in

denta1398

indentc1595

dint1597

dinge1611

indenturec1770

dunkle1822

1597 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 1st 3 Bks. i. ix. 20 Let your floore with horned Satyrs hoofe Be dinted and defiled euery morne.

1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre iv. i. 167 This Emperours heart was..furrowed, dinted, and hollowed at last.

1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II i. xlix. 32 Wide scatter'd hoof-marks dint the wounded ground.

1851 H. W. Longfellow Golden Legend iii. 112 He dints With his impatient hoofs the flints.

b. To impress or drive in with force.

ΚΠ

1631 T. Powell Tom of All Trades 142 The scars which my unthriftines hath dinted upon their fortunes.

1826 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae xxviii, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 635 Dinna dint the pint o' your crutch into my instep, Mr. North.

1855 Ld. Tennyson Maud i. ii, in Maud & Other Poems 2 A body was found,..Mangled, and flatten'd, and crush'd, and dinted into the ground.

†4. To take the sharp edge off; to reduce the acrimony of (corrosive liquids). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > chemistry > chemical reactions or processes > subject to chemical reactions or processes [verb (transitive)] > subject to named chemical reaction or process > subject to miscellaneous other processes

reduce?a1425

weaken1540

projecta1550

brown1570

spiritualize1593

colliquate1603

redisperse1621

imbibe1626

educe1651

to cant off1658

part1663

regalize1664

dint1669

roche1679

subtilizea1722

neutralize1744

develop1756

evolve1772

extricate1790

separate1805

unburn1815

leach1860

methylate1864

nitrate1872

nitre1880

sweeten1885

deflocculate1909

hybridize1959

1669 W. Simpson Hydrologia Chymica 27 Those corrosive fretting, pontick, and acid juyces..are I say dinted, softned and sweetned.

1669 W. Simpson Hydrologia Chymica 101 The waters of the spaw may..help to dint the acrimony.

Derivatives

ˈdinted adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > [adjective] > having (an) indentation(s)

dented1552

dinted1590

indented1635

dinged1853

malleated1881

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. v. sig. D8 They doe impresse Deepe dinted furrowes in the battredd mayle.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis vii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 417 Deep dinted Wrinckles on her Cheek she draws.

1808 W. Scott Marmion vi. xxix. 360 With dinted shield, and helmet beat.

a1881 D. G. Rossetti Rose Mary iii. 142 On either hand There hung a dinted helm and brand.

ˈdinting adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > impact > striking > [adjective] > that strikes

smitinga1382

swappingc1450

dinting1566

denting1575

bobbing1581

striking1625

hitting1632

jutting1776

pucking1922

1566 T. Drant tr. Horace Medicinable Morall sig. Iv^v When he with dyntyng axe Is hewed rounde aboute.

1579 Poor Knt.'s Pallace No feare of dinting death.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	dint
释义	dintn. Brit. /dɪnt/, U.S. /dɪnt/ Forms: Old English dynt, Middle English dunt /-y-/, Middle English–1500s dynt(e, 1500s dinte, Middle English– dint. Etymology: Old English dynt , cognate with Old Norse dyntr , dyttr in same sense; compare Swedish dialect dunt . Not recorded in the other Germanic languages. See also dent n.¹ and dunt n.¹ and int. Sense 3 is manifestly influenced by indent and its family. †1. a. A stroke or blow; esp. one given with a weapon in fighting, etc.; = dent n.¹ 1. Obsolete or blending with 3. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > [noun] > a stroke or blow dintc897 swengOE shutec1000 kill?c1225 swipc1275 stroke1297 dentc1325 touchc1325 knock1377 knalc1380 swapc1384 woundc1384 smitinga1398 lush?a1400 sowa1400 swaipa1400 wapc1400 smita1425 popc1425 rumbelowc1425 hitc1450 clope1481 rimmel1487 blow1488 dinga1500 quartera1500 ruska1500 tucka1500 recounterc1515 palta1522 nolpc1540 swoop1544 push1561 smot1566 veny1578 remnant1580 venue1591 cuff1610 poltc1610 dust1611 tank1686 devel1787 dunching1789 flack1823 swinge1823 looder1825 thrash1840 dolk1861 thresh1863 mace-blow1879 pulsation1891 nosebleeder1921 slosh1936 smackeroo1942 dab- society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > stroke with weapon > [noun] dintc897 swengOE stroke1297 dentc1325 swinga1400 stripec1475 handstroke1488 coup1523 cope1525 handystroke1542 hand stripe1543 c897 K. Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care xlv. 338 Ac ondræden him ðone dynt swæ neah, ða þe noht to gode ne doð. c950 Lindisf. Gosp. John xviii. 22 An..ðara ðegna salde dynt mið honde uutearde ðæm hælende. c1175 Lamb. Hom. 153 Þe duntes boð uuel to kepen. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 4290 Þurrh adamess gilltess dinnt Wass all mann kinn þurrhwundedd. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 51 Sweordes dunt dun richt..for sweord..ȝeueð deaðes dunt. c1320 Cast. Love 1161 Such beo þe duntes of batayle. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 20990 Hefdid he was wit dint o suord. ?1567 M. Parker Whole Psalter lxxxix. 251 Thou hast whole stynt: hys weapons dynt. 1572 (a1500) Taill of Rauf Coilȝear (1882) 514 I sall dyntis deill, quhill ane of vs be deid. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 113 With dint of Sword, or pointed Spears. View more context for this quotation 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. xvii. 676 From the dint Shield me of dart and spear. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. i. i. 17 The dints and bruises of outward battle. b. The stroke of thunder; = dent n.¹ 1b. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > bad weather > thunder and lightning > [noun] > thunder > thunder-clap denta1300 dintc1374 thunder-clapc1386 thunder-blasta1400 thunder-crackc1450 clap1509 thundering1526 rear1567 thunder bounce1629 thunder-peal1804 c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde v. 1505 How Cappaneus þe proude with þonder dynt was slayn. c1386 G. Chaucer Wife of Bath's Prol. 276 With wilde thonder dynt and firy leuene Moote thy welked nekke be to-broke. 1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne xi. xxxi. 201 Like thunders dint or lightnings new. 1808 W. Scott Marmion i. xxiv. 46 The Mount, where Israel heard the law, Mid thunder-dint, and flashing levin. 2. a. The dealing of blows; hence, force of attack, assault, or impact (literal and figurative); violence, force, attack, impression. Now rare except as in 2c. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > [noun] buffetingc1240 dintc1330 smitingc1330 dentinga1398 wapping1398 strikingc1400 swippingc1420 dinginga1425 bobbing1526 swappingc1540 nicking1668 hitting1687 biffing1915 society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > stroke with weapon > [noun] > action of dintc1330 denta1400 the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > [noun] assault1297 venuea1330 scoura1400 wassailc1400 frayc1430 brunta1450 sault1510 onseta1522 attemptate1524 onsetting1541 breach1578 dint1579 objectiona1586 invasion1591 extent1594 grassation1610 attack1655 run1751 wrack1863 mayhem1870 serve1967 the world > space > distance > [noun] > limit of distance or reach > of a stroke or blow dent1567 dint1579 striking distance1751 blow-reach1871 c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 70 If he wild it wynne with dynt, als duke hardie. a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) ii. ix. 63 The ald waykly, but forss or dynt, A dart dyd cast. 1559 D. Lindsay Test. Papyngo l. 355 in Wks. (1931) I Quho clymith moist heych moist dynt hes of the wedder. 1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Nov. 104 Such pleasaunce now displast by dolors dint. a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) iii. ii. 192 I perceiue you feele The dint of pitty. View more context for this quotation 1687 J. Dryden Hind & Panther iii. 84 But dint of argument is out of place. 1748 J. Mason Ess. Elocution 7 Mechanical Minds..affected with mere Dint of Sound and Noise. 1770 O. Goldsmith Life Bolingbroke 101 He had gone as far..as the mere dint of parts and application could go. 1845 R. W. Hamilton Inst. Pop. Educ. vi. 126 Their soul gathered all dint and courage. †b. by dint of sword: by attack with weapons of war; by force of arms. Obsolete.Ranging from the literal sense as in 1, to the vague use in 2c. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > [adverb] > by force of arms with spear and shielda1300 by dint of sworda1330 by force of1611 a1330 Roland & V. 10 Alle the londes that were in Spayne, With dint Of swerd wan Charlmain. c1440 Gesta Romanorum (Add. MS.) xvii. 330 The sones..goten mekell good by dynte of swerd. 1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 1774/1 With the dint of sword the band of bondage brast. 1602 T. Dekker Satiro-mastix sig. I2^v You haue put all Poetrie to the dint of sword. 1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. ii. 90 He..by his skill, No less then Dint of Sword, could kill. 1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. iv. 262 Even now they [Turks] maintain what they have by mere Dint of Sabre. c. Hence by (the) dint of: by force of; by means of (with implication of vigour or persistence in the application of the means). (The current idiom.) ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > by the instrumentality of [phrase] in virtue ofa1250 by (also with) strength of1340 by the virtue ofa1375 by way ofa1393 by (also through) (the) means (also mean) ofa1398 by remedy ofa1398 by force of1411 by feat of1489 by (occasionally through) the benefit ofa1538 in the way of1622 by the way of1623 by (the) dint of1664 by the force of1697 perforce of1714 1597 J. Payne Royall Exchange 3 I am sturred by dent of Christian dutie.] 1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. iii. 152 Chase evil spirits away by dint Of Cickle, Horse-shoo, Hollow-flint.1685 C. Cotton tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. (1877) I. 36 Subdued by..dint of valour.1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 411. ¶7 Pleasures of the Fancy..which are worked out by Dint of Thinking.1764 O. Goldsmith Hist. Eng. in Lett. (1772) II. 102 Tallard..had risen by the dint of merit alone.1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker II. 34 By dint of cross-examination, I found he was not at all satisfied.1826 W. Scott Jrnl. 25 Dec. (1939) 295 By dint of abstinence..I passed a better night.1871 L. Stephen Playground of Europe i. 64 Schiller endeavours to give the local colour..by dint of inserting little bits of guide-book information.1878 R. Browning La Saisiaz 29 We..Earned, by dint of failure, triumph. †d. under, within (etc.) the dint of: exposed to, or within the reach or range of assault of. Cf. dent n.¹ 2b. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > space > distance > [phrase] > that may be reached > within range or reach within reachc1515 within one's strokea1533 in the (also one's) way1534 within power1548 under the dint of1577 in(to), within, out of shot1635 within arm's reacha1652 within one's force1680 within touch1753 in touch1854 within wind of1865 1577 R. Stanyhurst Treat. Descr. Irelande iii. f. 12/1, in R. Holinshed Chron. I Sparing none that came vnder their dynte. ?a1639 A. Harsnett Gods Summons (1640) 383 We shall be out of the Dint of many a Tentation. 1661 O. Felltham Resolves (rev. ed.) 301 He that comes within the dint on't [sc. noysome breath] dies. a1734 R. North Examen (1740) i. iii. §71 175 Standing in the Dint of an Air, that was..sure to blast him. 3. A mark or impression made by a blow or by pressure, in a hard or plastic surface; an indentation; = dent n.¹ 4. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > [noun] > action of making indentation > an indentation on a surface hollowc897 printa1387 impression1398 puncha1430 dent1565 dint1590 dinge1611 doke1615 impressurea1616 depressure1626 depression1665 dawk1678 swage1680 indent1690 sinking1712 dunkle1788 indenture1793 delve1811 subsidation1838 indention1839 recess1839 indentation1847 incavation1852 deepening1859 sink1875 malleation1881 ding1922 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. i. sig. A3 Ycladd in mightie armes and siluer shielde, Wherein old dints of deepe woundes did remaine. 1612 J. Brinsley Ludus Lit. v. 47 The very little ones..may make some secret markes..with some little dint with their naile. 1653 R. Austen Treat. Fruit-trees 47 Make this cut smooth, and even..without dints, or ridges. 1700 J. Dryden tr. Ovid Pygmalion in Fables 166 Afraid His Hands had made a Dint. 1819 Ld. Byron Mazeppa xvii. 658 Nor dint of hoof, nor print of foot, Lay in the wild luxuriant soil. 1847 S. Wilberforce in A. R. Ashwell Life S. Wilberforce (1880) I. 402 The single opportunity of making..a dint in a character. 1856 E. B. Browning Aurora Leigh ii. 76 Beside her bed, Whose pillow had no dint. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2022). dintv. Brit. /dɪnt/, U.S. /dɪnt/ Etymology: Middle English dynt- , dünt- , dint-en , < dint n. Not recorded in Old English; compare Icelandic dynta to dent, Swedish dialect dunta to strike, shake; and see also dent v. and dunt v.¹ †1. a. transitive. To strike, beat, knock. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > beating or repeated striking > beat [verb (transitive)] abeatOE beatc1000 dingc1300 dintc1300 bulka1400 batc1440 hampera1529 pommel1530 lump1546 pummel1548 bebatter1567 filch1567 peal-pelt1582 reverberate1599 vapulate1603 over-labour1632 polt1652 bepat1676 flog1801 quilt1822 meller1862 tund1885 massage1924 c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 2448 He [pl.]..dunten him, so man doth bere, And keste him on a scabbed mere. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 4302 To bidint [read bi dint] of his mangonele. a1400 Leg. Rood (1871) 138 Wiþ sharpe nayles dunted and driue. 1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene vi. x. sig. Hh5^v His wounds worker, that with louely dart Dinting his brest, had bred his restlesse paine. View more context for this quotation a1649 W. Drummond Wks. (1711) 50/2 Ye who with gawdy Wings and Bodies light Do dint the Air. †b. intransitive or absol. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > beating or repeated striking > beat [verb (intransitive)] > beat heavily or severely dingc1300 poundc1390 dinta1500 jackhammer1975 a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xxiv. 311 In alle this warld..Is none so doughty as I, the best, Doughtely dyntand on mule and on stede. †2. intransitive. To make a dint or impression in something; = dent v. 4. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > recede or form recess [verb (intransitive)] > be or become indented > make indentation dent1398 dint1495 1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) xvii. lxxiv. sig. Qij^v/2 Yf þ^e fynger dynteth [a1398 BL Add. dyueþ] in therto & finde it nesshe. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. viii. sig. G7 The ydle stroke..So deepely dinted in the driuen clay, That three yardes deepe a furrow vp did throw. 3. a. transitive. To mark or impress with dints; to make a dint or dints in. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > form a recess in [verb (transitive)] > form as an indentation > make indentation(s) in denta1398 indentc1595 dint1597 dinge1611 indenturec1770 dunkle1822 1597 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 1st 3 Bks. i. ix. 20 Let your floore with horned Satyrs hoofe Be dinted and defiled euery morne. 1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre iv. i. 167 This Emperours heart was..furrowed, dinted, and hollowed at last. 1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II i. xlix. 32 Wide scatter'd hoof-marks dint the wounded ground. 1851 H. W. Longfellow Golden Legend iii. 112 He dints With his impatient hoofs the flints. b. To impress or drive in with force. ΚΠ 1631 T. Powell Tom of All Trades 142 The scars which my unthriftines hath dinted upon their fortunes. 1826 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae xxviii, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 635 Dinna dint the pint o' your crutch into my instep, Mr. North. 1855 Ld. Tennyson Maud i. ii, in Maud & Other Poems 2 A body was found,..Mangled, and flatten'd, and crush'd, and dinted into the ground. †4. To take the sharp edge off; to reduce the acrimony of (corrosive liquids). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > chemical reactions or processes > subject to chemical reactions or processes [verb (transitive)] > subject to named chemical reaction or process > subject to miscellaneous other processes reduce?a1425 weaken1540 projecta1550 brown1570 spiritualize1593 colliquate1603 redisperse1621 imbibe1626 educe1651 to cant off1658 part1663 regalize1664 dint1669 roche1679 subtilizea1722 neutralize1744 develop1756 evolve1772 extricate1790 separate1805 unburn1815 leach1860 methylate1864 nitrate1872 nitre1880 sweeten1885 deflocculate1909 hybridize1959 1669 W. Simpson Hydrologia Chymica 27 Those corrosive fretting, pontick, and acid juyces..are I say dinted, softned and sweetned. 1669 W. Simpson Hydrologia Chymica 101 The waters of the spaw may..help to dint the acrimony. Derivatives ˈdinted adj. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > [adjective] > having (an) indentation(s) dented1552 dinted1590 indented1635 dinged1853 malleated1881 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. v. sig. D8 They doe impresse Deepe dinted furrowes in the battredd mayle. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis vii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 417 Deep dinted Wrinckles on her Cheek she draws. 1808 W. Scott Marmion vi. xxix. 360 With dinted shield, and helmet beat. a1881 D. G. Rossetti Rose Mary iii. 142 On either hand There hung a dinted helm and brand. ˈdinting adj. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > [adjective] > that strikes smitinga1382 swappingc1450 dinting1566 denting1575 bobbing1581 striking1625 hitting1632 jutting1776 pucking1922 1566 T. Drant tr. Horace Medicinable Morall sig. Iv^v When he with dyntyng axe Is hewed rounde aboute. 1579 Poor Knt.'s Pallace No feare of dinting death. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c897v.c1300
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