dint
noun
force; power.
dints
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present tense formof dint (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Maxwell, removing his hat, straightened out the dints in it before he spoke a few words, and then, thrusting his way through the groups which opened up before him, halted beside the fallen man.
From The League of the Leopard by Harold Bindloss
His boughs make music of the winter air, Jewelled with sleet, like some cathedral front Where clinging snow-flakes with quaint art repair The dints and furrows of time's envious brunt.
From Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole by James Russell Lowell
Your great-grandfather had set his heart upon my wearing the breastplate which still bore the dints of the Scottish spears at Dunbar, but on trying it on we found it was too small for me.
From Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
More than once, when these mansions were not far from the road, we were able to perceive the unrepaired dints and fractures on the walls received during the stormy period of the civil troubles.
From Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The dints in her face looked very comely as she answered, "I shall, friend Biddle."
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. by Various
