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  • noun Plural form of dint.

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Examples

  • Yesh, ai has a teechifyin jawb… dere beh the opin haws onna Toozdai, and start porfeshinal debelopmint on Oargust 31, and stew dints shoz up onna Sebtimber ate.

    epic matrix reloaded - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • Stew dints nawt spost tu test teechur, teechur spost tu test stew dints!

    Ugh. If you didn’t - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • Today we took all the really damaging velcro patches off the wall, cleaned the glue off, washed the walls and spack filled any large dints.

    May 30th, 2009 curufea 2009

  • It is not my place or lore to set free symbols with their encrypted dints but to hold and celebrate all cattle doubly lithe in a dance of ebony.

    An Elegy from the Romanian of Nichita Stanescu, by Elisa Sampedrín Lemon Hound 2007

  • Another remarkable thing in this little old woman was, that the same child seemed to have damaged her face in two or three places with some blunt instrument in the nature of a spoon; her countenance, and particularly the tip of her nose, presenting the phenomena of several dints, generally answering to the bowl of that article.

    Little Dorrit 2007

  • It is not my place or lore to set free symbols with their encrypted dints but to hold and celebrate all cattle doubly lithe in a dance of ebony.

    Archive 2007-11-01 Lemon Hound 2007

  • As to the haedrae (dints or marks?) of sharp and light weapons, when they take place in the bone without fissure, contusion, or depression inwards (and these take place equally in the anterior and posterior part of the head), death, when it does occur, does not properly result from them.

    On Injuries Of The Head 2007

  • There were some marks in it that might have been dimples, if the material had been softer and the instrument finer, but which, as it was, were only dints.

    Great Expectations 2007

  • My stool was such a tower of observation, that as I watched him reading on again, after this rapturous exclamation, and following up the lines with his forefinger, I observed that his nostrils, which were thin and pointed, with sharp dints in them, had a singular and most uncomfortable way of expanding and contracting themselves — that they seemed to twinkle instead of his eyes, which hardly ever twinkled at all.

    David Copperfield 2007

  • He spilled a little of it over the chest which ought to have been so effective, and which had done so little; but on the whole drank it with something of an air, though the coming and going dints got almost as large, the while, as if they had been made by pressure of the teaspoon.

    Our Mutual Friend 2004

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