▪ I. dindle, v. Chiefly (now only) Sc. and north. dial.
(ˈdɪnd(ə)l, ˈdɪn(ə)l)
In 5–6 dyn(d)le, 9 dinn'le, dinnel, dinle.
[Derivation obscure; probably more or less onomatopœic: cf. dingle, tingle, and tinkle; also Du. tintelen to ring, and to tickle, to prick or sting lightly, Flem. tinghelen to sting as a nettle (Kilian); also F. tintillant, tinging, ringing, tingling, tintoner to ting often, to glow, tingle, dingle (Cotgr.); in which there is a similar association of the vibration of sound with the thrill of feeling.]
1. intr. To tinkle; to ring or make a noise that thrills and causes vibration.
| c 1440 Promp. Parv. 121/2 Dyndelyn, tinnio. 1808 Mayne Siller Gun i. 115 Wi' that, the dinlin drums rebound. 1827 Tennant Papistry Storm'd 5 Dinnelin Deaf Meg and Crookit Mou [two Cannons] Begoud wi' ane terrific blatter At the great steeple's found to batter. 1893 Stevenson Catriona 165 ‘The voice of him was like a solan's, and dinnle'd in folks' lugs.’ |
b. trans. To thrill or cause to vibrate with sound.
(to dindle the sky = to make the welkin ring.)
| 1513 Douglas æneis x. xiv. 160 Than the Latynis and eyk pepill Troianys The hevynnys dyndlit [1553 dynlyt] with a schowt at anis. 1845 Whistlebinkie (Sc. Songs) Ser. iii. (1890) I. 379 A steeple that dinlit the skye Wi' a clinkin' auld timmer-tongued bell. |
2. intr. To be in a state of vibration from some loud sound, shock, or percussion; to tremble, quiver, reel.
| 1470–85 Malory Arthur v. viii, He dyd commaunde hys trompettes to blowe the blody sownes, in suche wyse that the ground trembled and dyndled. 1513 Douglas æneis viii. iv. 126 The brayis dyndlit [1553 dynlit], and all doun can dusche. 1566 Drant Horace A vij, They made the quaueryng soyle To dindle and to shake again. 1814 Scott Wav. xliv, ‘Garring the very stane and lime wa 's dinnle wi' his screeching.’ 1871 P. H. Waddell Psalm civ. 32 Wha leuks on the lan', an' it dinnles. |
3. intr. To tingle, as with cold or pain.
| 1483 Cath. Angl. 100/1 To Dindylle, condolere. 1577 Stanyhurst in Holinshed Chron. (1587) II. 26/1 His fingers began to nibble..his ears to dindle, his head to dazzle. 1787 Grose Provinc. Gloss., Dindle, to reel or stagger from a blow. 1855 Robinson Whitby Gloss., To Dindle or Dinnle, the thrill or reaction of a part after a blow or exposure to excessive cold. 1892 Northumbld. Gloss., Dinnell, to tingle as from a blow, or in the return of circulation after intense cold. 1893 Stevenson Catriona 173 ‘Young things wi' the reid life dinnling and stending in their members.’ |
Hence ˈdindling vbl. n. and ppl. a.
| 1578 Langham Gard. Health 234 Eares ache and dindling, put in the juice [of Feuerfew] and stope it in. 1635 D. Dickson Pract. Wks. (1845) I. 87 The dinneling of the rod is yet in the flesh. 1669 W. Simpson Hydrol. Chym. 90 He could after a while feel it..run along his arms to his very fingers ends, with a dindling and pricking as it run along. 1808 [see dindle v. 1.] |
▪ II. dindle, n.1 dial.
(ˈdɪnd(ə)l, ˈdɪn(ə)l)
Also dinnle.
[f. dindle v.]
A thrill, a tingle.
| 1818 Scott Hrt. Midl. xxv, ‘At the first dinnle o' the sentence.’ 1858 Mrs. Oliphant Laird of Norlaw III. 90 It's something to succeed..even though you do get a dinnle thereby in some corner of your own heart. |
▪ III. ˈdindle, n.2 dial.
Popular name of various yellow Composite flowers: see quots.
| 1787 W. Marshall E. Norfolk Gloss., Dindles, common and corn sow-thistles; also the taller hawkweeds. 1878 Britten & Holland Plant-n., Dindle..(2) Leontodon Taraxacum. Norf. Suff. |