n. The time just after dinner. “An after-dinner's sleep.” Shak. [ Obs. ] -- a. Following dinner; post-prandial; as, an after-dinner nap. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who begins or originates anything. Specifically: A young or inexperienced practitioner or student; a tyro. [ 1913 Webster ]

A sermon of a new beginner. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The member of a family whose labor supplies the food of the family; one who works for his living. H. Spencer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Certainty. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a chin; -- used chiefly in compounds; as, short-chinned. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. (Zool.) The common gazelle (Gazella dorcas). See Gazelle. [ Written also korin. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. same as colored. [ Narrower terms: black (vs. white) ]
Syn. -- colored, coloured. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. having a dark color; -- of skin color.
Syn. -- dusky, swart, swarthy. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F. dîner, fr. dîner to dine. See Dine. ] 1. The principal meal of the day, eaten in some countries about midday, but in others (especially in the U. S. and in large cities) at a later hour. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An entertainment; a feast. [ 1913 Webster ]

A grand political dinner. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Dinner is much used, in an obvious sense, either adjectively or as the first part of a compound; as, dinner time, or dinner-time, dinner bell, dinner hour, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having no dinner; as, the naughty child was sent to bed dinnerless. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to dinner. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The dinnerly officer. Copley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the time when people eat dinner, usually the time for the evening meal.
Syn. -- suppertime. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖ n.; pl. djinn r djinns A spirit believed by Muslims to inhabit the earth and influence mankind by appearing in the form of humans or animals. Same as djinni and Jinnee. See Jinnee, Jinn.
Syn. -- genie, jinn, jinni, jinnee, djinn, djinni. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Having a fin, or fins, or anything resembling a fin. Mortimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A finback whale. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Ginn See Jinnee. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Genet, a horse. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who grins. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Trade name. ] a kind of bitter stout, also called Guiness' stout; as, a glass of Guinness. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ See Inconcinnous. ] Dissimilar; incongruous; unsuitable. [ Obs. ] Cudworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. & prep. In. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

And eke in what array that they were inne. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ AS. innera, a compar. fr. inne within, fr. in in. See In. ] 1. Further in; interior; internal; not outward; as, an inner chamber. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of or pertaining to the spirit or its phenomena. [ 1913 Webster ]

This attracts the soul,
Governs the inner man, the nobler part. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Not obvious or easily discovered; obscure. [ 1913 Webster ]

Inner house (Scot.), the first and second divisions of the court of Session at Edinburgh; also, the place of their sittings. --
Inner jib (Naut.), a fore-and-aft sail set on a stay running from the fore-topmast head to the jib boom. --
Inner plate (Arch.), the wall plate which lies nearest to the center of the roof, in a double-plated roof. --
Inner post (Naut.), a piece brought on at the fore side of the main post, to support the transoms. --
Inner square (Carp.), the angle formed by the inner edges of a carpenter's square. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. More within. [ Obs. ] Baret. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ A corruption of inmost due to influence of inner. See Inmost. ] Farthest inward; most remote from the outward part; inmost; deepest within. Prov. xviii. 8. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In the innermost place. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

His ebon cross worn innermostly. Mrs. Browning. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ See Innerve. ] (Anat.) To supply with nerves; as, the heart is innervated by pneumogastric and sympathetic branches. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. innervation. ] 1. The act of innerving or stimulating. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Physiol.) Special activity excited in any part of the nervous system or in any organ of sense or motion; the nervous influence necessary for the maintenance of life, and the functions of the various organs. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Anat.) The distribution of nerves in an animal, or to any of its parts. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Innerved p. pr. & vb. n. Innerving. ] [ Pref. in- in + nerve. ] To give nervous energy or power to; to give increased energy, force, or courage to; to invigorate; to stimulate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Jinn [ Ar. ] (Arabian & Muslim Myth.) A genius or demon; one of the fabled genii, good and evil spirits, supposed to be the children of fire, and to have the power of assuming various forms. [ Written also djinnee, genie, etc. ]
Syn. -- jinn; jin; djinn. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Jinn is also used as sing., with pl. jinns [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Lansquenet. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. having skin of a light colored hue. [ Narrower terms: white (vs. black) ] WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } prop. a. Of or pertaining to Linnæus, the celebrated Swedish botanist. [ 1913 Webster ]

Linnaean system,
Linnean system (Bot.), the system in which the classes of plants are founded mainly upon the number of stamens, and the orders upon the pistils; the artificial or sexual system. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Flax. See Linen. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. linot, linotte, from L. linum flax; or perh. shortened from AS. līnetwige, fr. AS. līn flax; -- so called because it feeds on the seeds of flax and hemp. See Linen. ] (Zool.) Any one of several species of fringilline birds of the genera Linota, Acanthis, and allied genera, esp. the common European species (Linota cannabina), which, in full summer plumage, is chestnut brown above, with the breast more or less crimson. The feathers of its head are grayish brown, tipped with crimson. Called also gray linnet, red linnet, rose linnet, brown linnet, lintie, lintwhite, gorse thatcher, linnet finch, and greater redpoll. The American redpoll linnet (Acanthis linaria) often has the crown and throat rosy. See Redpoll, and Twite. [ 1913 Webster ]

Green linnet (Zool.), the European green finch. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ G., fr. minne love + singen to sing. ] A love-singer; specifically, one of a class of German poets and musicians who flourished from about the middle of the twelfth to the middle of the fourteenth century. They were chiefly of noble birth, and made love and beauty the subjects of their verses. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. A resident of Minnesota. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a project that generates a continuous flow of money.
Syn. -- moneymaker, cash cow. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, pins or fastens, as with pins. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Costume) (a) A headdress like a cap, with long lappets. (b) An apron with a bib; a pinafore. (c) A cloth band for a gown. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

With kerchief starched, and pinners clean. Gay. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A pin maker. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Pin to pound. ] One who pins or impounds cattle. See Pin, v. t. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A pinnacle. [ R. ] Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being plain. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ CF. Shindy. ] The game of hockey; -- so called because of the liability of the players to receive blows on the shin. Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who has sinned; especially, one who has sinned without repenting; hence, a persistent and incorrigible transgressor; one condemned by the law of God. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To act as a sinner. [ Humorous ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Whether the charmer sinner it or saint it. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A woman who sins. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Sennit. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who skins. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who deals in skins, pelts, or hides. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a smooth chin; beardless. Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Having the fin rays cartilaginous or flexible; without spines; -- said of certain fishes. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Having fine supported by spinous fin rays; -- said of certain fishes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, spins one skilled in spinning; a spinning machine. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A spider. “Long-legged spinners.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Zool.) A goatsucker; -- so called from the peculiar noise it makes when darting through the air. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Zool.) A spinneret. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ring spinner, a machine for spinning, in which the twist, given to the yarn by a revolving bobbin, is regulated by the drag of a small metal loop which slides around a ring encircling the bobbin, instead of by a throstle. [ 1913 Webster ]