DINES
Verb
dines
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dine
Anagrams
• Denis, Sinde, denis, enids, nides, snide, snied
Source: Wiktionary
DINE
Dine, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Dined; p. pr. & vb. n. Dining.] Etym: [F.
dîner, OF. disner, LL. disnare, contr. fr. an assumed disjunare; dis-
+ an assumed junare (OF. juner) to fast, for L. jejunare, fr. jejunus
fasting. See Jejune, and cf. Dinner, D.]
Definition: To eat the principal regular meal of the day; to take dinner.
Now can I break my fast, dine, sup, and sleep. Shak.
To dine with Duke Humphrey, to go without dinner; -- a phrase common
in Elizabethan literature, said to be from the practice of the poor
gentry, who beguiled the dinner hour by a promenade near the tomb of
Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, in Old Saint Paul's.
Dine, v. t.
1. To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed; as,
to dine a hundred men.
A table massive enough to have dined Johnnie Armstrong and his merry
men. Sir W. Scott.
2. To dine upon; to have to eat. [Obs.] "What will ye dine." Chaucer.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition