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

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

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

n. (Zool.) One of the special jointed organs situated on the under side, and near the end, of the abdomen of spiders, by means of which they spin their webs. Most spiders have three pairs of spinnerets, but some have only two pairs. The ordinary silk line of the spider is composed of numerous smaller lines jointed after issuing from the spinnerets. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) One of the numerous small spinning tubes on the spinnerets of spiders. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who thins, or makes thinner. [ 1913 Webster ]

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n. 1. One who works in a tin mine. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who makes, or works in, tinware; a tinman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who gives birth to twins; a breeder of twins. Tusser. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Zool.) The water spider. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To whinny. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who wins, or gains by success in competition, contest, or gaming. [ 1913 Webster ]