A sermon of a new beginner. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Gen. i. 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which begins or originates something; the first cause; origin; source. [ 1913 Webster ]

I am . . . the beginning and the ending. Rev. i. 8. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. That which is begun; a rudiment or element. [ 1913 Webster ]

Mighty things from small beginnings grow. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Enterprise. “To hinder our beginnings.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Inception; prelude; opening; threshold; origin; outset; foundation. [ 1913 Webster ]

A bipinnatifid leaf is a pinnatifid leaf having its segments or divisions also pinnatifid. The primary divisions are pinnæ and the secondary pinnules. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hideous grimaces . . . attended this unusual cachinnation. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cachinnatory buzzes of approval. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Min.) Red sulphide of mercury, occurring in brilliant red crystals, and also in red or brown amorphous masses. It is used in medicine. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The artificial red sulphide of mercury used as a pigment; vermilion. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cinnabar Græcorum [ L. Graecorum, gen. pl., of the Greeks. ] (Med.) Same as Dragon's blood. --
Green cinnabar, a green pigment consisting of the oxides of cobalt and zinc subjected to the action of fire. --
Hepatic cinnabar (Min.), an impure cinnabar of a liver-brown color and submetallic luster. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cinnamic acid (Chem.), a white, crystalline, odorless substance. C6H5.C2H2C2H2.CO2H, formerly obtained from storax and oil of cinnamon, now made from certain benzene derivatives in large quantities, and used for the artificial production of indigo. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cinnamon stone (Min.), a variety of garnet, of a cinnamon or hyacinth red color, sometimes used in jewelry. --
Oil of cinnamon, a colorless aromatic oil obtained from cinnamon and cassia, and consisting essentially of cinnamic aldehyde, C6H5.C2H2.CHO. --
Wild cinnamon. See Canella. [ 1913 Webster ]

An exact concinnity and eveness of fancy. Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

The most concinnous and most rotund of proffessors, M. Heyne. De Quiency. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. having a dark color; -- of skin color.
Syn. -- dusky, swart, swarthy. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

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 ]

The dinnerly officer. Copley. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Abounding in fishes. [ 1913 Webster ]

With patient angle trolls the finny deep. Goldsmoth. [ 1913 Webster ]