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DUCKINSHAHABAZPOOR, a large island of Hindustan, in the province of Bengal, situated at the junction of the great river Meyna with the sea, thirty miles in length by fifteen in average breadth. It lies low, and during the rains is almost wholly submerged.
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DUCKUP, at sea, is a term used by the steersman when the mainsail, foresail, or spritsail hinders his seeing to steer by a landmark; upon which he calls out, Duchup the clew-lines of these sails, that is, haul the sails out of the way.
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DUCKUP
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DUCLOS, Charles Pineau, a French author of some celebrity, was born at Dinant, in Bretagne, in the year 1704. At an early age he was sent to study at Paris. The imprudence of youth, and his love of pleasure, led him at first to contract certain intimacies which were little .suited to his circumstances; but having after...
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DUCT, in general, denotes any tube or canal. It is a term much used by anatomists.
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DUCT
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DUCTILITY, in Physics, a property possessed by certain solid bodies; it consists in their yielding to percussion or pressure, and receiving different forms, without breaking. Some bodies are ductile both when they are hot and when they are cold, indeed in all circumstances. Such are metals, particularly gold and silve...
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DUCTILITY
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DUDLEY, Edmund, a celebrated lawyer and statesman in the reign of Henry VI1., who with Sir Richard Empson, another lawyer of the same stamp, assisted in filling that rapacious monarch’s coffers by arbitrary prosecutions of the people on old penal statutes. Dudley and Empson were beheaded on the accession of Henry VIII....
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DUDLEY
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DUEL, a combat between two persons. To distinguish it from the unpremeditated combat or rencontre, it must take place at a time and place appointed in consequence of a cartel or challenge, and generally in presence of two or more witnesses or umpires. The word is derived from duellum, used by the barbarous Latin write...
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DUEL
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DUERO, or Douro, a river of Spain and Portugal. It rises in the Sierra de Urbion, not far from Durcula, in Soria, and empties itself into the ocean at St João da Foz, below Oporto. Its course through Spain is 306 miles, and through Portugal 185. In the latter kingdom it is not navigable more than seventy-four miles, on...
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DUERO
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DUFF’S GROUP, a range of islands in the South Pacific Ocean, about eleven in number, extending fourteen or fifteen miles in a direction north-west to south-east. These islands were discovered by Captain Wilson in the course of his missionary voyage in the ship Duff. The largest two were covered with wood, the others ap...
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DUFF’S GROUP
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DUGDALE, Sir William, an eminent English antiqua[7:8:255]ry and historian, was born at Shustoke, near Coleshill, in Warwickshire, in 1605. He was introduced into the herald’s office by Sir Christopher Hatton, and ascended gradually through all the degrees, until he became garter principal king at arms. His chief work i...
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DUGDALE
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DUHAMEL, de l’rigny le Monceau, Henri Louis, author of many valuable works on agriculture, natural history, and the arts, son of Alexander du Hamel, lord of Denainvilliers, and of Ann Trottier, was born at Paris in 1700. His family had formerly emigrated to Holland, but returned to France as early as the year 1400, wit...
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DUHAMEL
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DUILLIUS Nepos, C., a Roman consul, the first who obtained a victory over the naval power of Carthage, in the year of Rome 492. He captured fifty of the enemy’s ships, and was honoured with a naval triumph, the first of the kind ever granted at Rome. The senate rewarded his valour by permitting him to have music playin...
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DUILLIUS
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DUISBURG, a city of the Prussian province of Westphalia, on the river Ruhr. It is an active manufacturing place, and carries on a regular trade by weekly passage vessels with Arnheim, Dort, and other places in Holland. There was formerly a university here, which is now reduced to a gymnasium. In 1817 it contained 4510 ...
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DUISBURG
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DUKE (Dux), a sovereign prince, without the title or quality of king. The word is borrowed from the Latin through the medium of the modern Greek. Some sovereigns have the title of grand duhe, as the Grand Duke of Tuscany and the Grand Duke of Muscovy. The title of grand duke belongs to the heir apparent of Russia; and ...
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DUKE
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DUKLA, a city in the circle of Jaslow, of the Austrian kingdom or province of Galicia. It stands on the river Ja-sielka, on the great road to Hungary, in a fertile district, in which are manufactories for cloth, flannels, and baizes.
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DUKLA
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DULVERTON, a market-town in the hundred of Willer-ton and Freemanners, in the county of Somerset, 168 miles from London. The town is well built, and clean, having two streams of water running through it. It was formerly a manufacturing town for coarse woollen goods, but the trade has greatly declined. The market is hel...
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DULVERTON
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DUMARSAIS, Cesar Chesnau, a French writer, who distinguished himself as a philosophical grammarian, was born at Marseilles on the 7th of July 1676. His life consisted of a succession of misfortunes; and his merits, considerable as they were, seem to have been entirely overlooked and neglected by his contemporaries. His...
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DUMARSAIS
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DUMBARTON, a county in Scotland, situated between 55. 53. and 56. 25. north latitude, and between 3. 55. and 4. 53. west longitude from Greenwich, consists of two districts, six miles distant from each other, part of Lanarkshire running between them. The western, which is much the larger, is about forty miles long and ...
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DUMBARTON
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DUMBLANE, a town of Scotland, in the south-western portion of Perthshire. It is delightfully situated on the eastern bank of the river Allan, at the distance of forty-one[7:8:261] miles from Edinburgh. In the middle ages this place was distinguished as being the seat of a convent of Culdees, and continued to be so till...
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DUMBLANE
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DUMBNESS, the privation of speech. See Deaf and Dumb.
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DUMBNESS
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DUMBOWITSKA, a circle in the western part of Wallachia, between the rivers Ardfisch and AIuta. It is watered by the streams of the Ardfisch, Jalomitza, and Dumbowitska, and contains one city, Tergovst, and 164 villages.
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DUMBOWITSKA
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DUMFRIES, a county in the south of Scotland, is situated between 55. 2. and 55. 31. north latitude, and 3. 53. west longitude. Its greatest length is nearly sixty miles, and its greatest breadth from thirty to thirty-one. The boundaries are Galloway and part of Ayrshire on the south-west; Roxburgh, Selkirk, and Peebles...
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DUMFRIES
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DUMONT, Etienne, or Stephen, the friend, and often the Mentor, of Mirabeau, the rédacteur of the principal works of Jeremy Bentham, and one of the most remarkable men of his time, was born in the month of July 1759 at Geneva, of which his family had been citizens of good repute from the days of Calvin. Shortly after hi...
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DUMONT
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DUMPALIS, a spacious bay on the west coast of the island of Celebes, into which flow two considerable rivers. Good anchorage is found here, and the bay is much resorted to on account of the great quantity of fish which are found in it. At the bottom of this bay is situated the town of Dumpalis, which has a considerable...
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DUMPALIS
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DUN, or Burgh, the name of an ancient species of building, of a circular form, common in the Orkney and Zetland Islands, the Hebrides, and the northern parts of Scotland. The latter term points out the founders, who at the same time bestowed on them their native name of borg, a Sueo-Gothic word signifying a defence Qr ...
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DUN
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DUNABURG, a circle in the Russian government of Witebsk or Witepsk, formerly a part of Lithuania. It is bounded on the north by Livonia, on the east by Rcsitka, on the south-east by Wilna, and on the west by Courland. It is watered by the Düna, which is joined by other streams, and fertilizes the land, which is highly ...
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DUNABURG
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DUNBAR, a royal burgh, post, and market town of Scotland, in the county of Haddington, is pleasantly situated on a gentle acclivity rising from the shores of the German Ocean, near the mouth of the Frith of Forth. It consists of one main street, which runs the length of the town, with several others of smaller dimensio...
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DUNBAR
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DUNCAN, Adam, Lord Viscount, an illustrious naval commander, the second son of Alexander Duncan, of Lundie, in the county of Angus, Scotland, by Helen, daughter of Haldane of Gleneagles, in the county of Perth, was born in the month of July 1731. He received the rudiments of his education at Dundee, which is only about...
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DUNCAN
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DUNCAN’S Sugar Loaf, an, island in the Mergui Archipelago, of a triangular form, about six miles in circuit, near the south coast of the island of St Matthew. Lat. 9. 42. N.
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DUNCAN’S
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DUNCHURCH, a small town of the hundred of Knight-low, in the county of Warwick, eighty-one miles from London. It is situated on what was once a heath, celebrated for an ancient legend of the Dun Cow, some of whose bones are still affirmed to be preserved there. The inhabitants amounted in 1801 to 1087, in 1811 to 789, ...
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DUNCHURCH
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DUNCOMBE, William, younger, son of John Duncombe of Stocks, in Hertfordshire, was born in London in January 1690. He published in 1722 a translation of Racine’s Atltalie, which was well received by the public, and has gone through three editions. In 1724 he was editor of the works of Mr Needier; in 1735, of the poems o...
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DUNCOMBE
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DUNDALK, a seaport town of Ireland, in the county of Louth, about forty miles from Dublin. It is a large and thriving town, with a wide street nearly a mile in length, and a very fine market-house near the entrance from Dublin. In the reign of Edward II. it was a royal city, the last we read of where a monarch of all I...
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DUNDALK
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DUNDAS, Henry, Viscount Melville, a late eminent British statesman, was born about the year 1741. He was a younger son of the Right Honourable Robert Dundas, lord president of the Court of Session in Scotland, by Miss Gordon, a daughter of Sir William Gordon of Gordonston, Bart. He was educated at the High School and U...
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DUNDAS
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DUNDEE, a seaport town in Forfarshire, situated on the north bank of the river Tay, about twelve miles from its mouth. It is forty-two miles from Edinburgh, twenty-two miles from Perth, and eighteen south-west from Arbroath, being in latitude 56. 2. 23. north, and longitude 3. 2. 55. west. The history of Scotland narra...
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DUNDEE
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DUNFERMLINE, a royal burgh of Scotland, situated in the western district of the county of Fife, fifteen miles north-west of Edinburgh, in longitude 3. 27. 11. west, latitude 56. 5. 3. north. The town is built on an extensive eminence, having a pretty steep and uniform declivity towards the south, and likewise declining...
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DUNFERMLINE
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DUNGALLY, a town on the western coast of the island of Celebes, situated on the south point of land which forms one side of Parlow Bay, which affords good anchorage. It is defended by a fort, and carries on a considerable trade.
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DUNGALLY
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DUNGANNON, a town of Ireland, in the county of Tyrone, situated on a hill. It is of some extent, and contains a charter school liberally endowed, also barracks for a troop of horse. This place is said to have been the chief residence of the O’Neils, monarchs of Ulster. There are coal mines in the neighbourhood of the t...
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DUNGANNON
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DUNGARVON, a town of Ireland, in the county of Waterford, situated on the south side of a bay of the same name. The principal article of export is potatoes. This place is much resorted to in summer for sea-bathing. It lies twenty-two miles west-south-west of Waterford, and a hundred miles south-south-west of Dublin. Th...
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DUNGARVON
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DUNGYE, a town of Hindustan, province of Bahar, district of Shahabad, sixty-eight miles south-west from Patna. Long. 84. 17. E. Lat. 24. 55. N.
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DUNGYE
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DUNKELD, a town of Scotland, in the county of Perth, situated on the northern bank of the river Tay, in a truly romantic spot, embosomed among lofty crags, now almost wholly covered with wood. It is the chief market-town of the Central Highlands. The immediate vicinity has been greatly improved by the Dukes of Atholl, ...
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DUNKELD
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DUNKIRK, an arrondissement of the department of the [7:8:283] North, in France, extending over 310 square miles, divided into seven cantons, and these subdivided into fifty-nine communes, containing 86,580 inhabitants. Dunkirk, a city in the department of the North, in France, at the end of a harbour which is nearly d...
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DUNMOW, Great, a market-town of the hundred of the same name, in the county of Essex, thirty-seven miles from London, and situated on the river Roding. It is a town of very ancient date, supposed to be the Caesaro-magus of the Romans, and where remains of the road to Colchester, constructed by that people, arc still vi...
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DUNMOW
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DUNNING, John, Lord Ashburton, a celebrated English counsellor, was the second son of Mr John Dunning of Ashburton, Devonshire, an attorney. He was born at Ashburton, on the 18th of October 1731, and was educated at the free grammar school of his native place, where he soon distinguished himself by his proficiency in c...
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DUNS, John, a schoolman of the highest reputation, is said to have been born in the year 1274, but the place of his birth has been long and much disputed. Dempster has asserted the claims of Scotland by twelve arguments;^[1. Dempsteri Asserti Scotìae Cives esse sui; S. Bonifacius rationibus iχ. Joannes Duns rationibus ...
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DUNS
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DUNSE, a market-town of Scotland, in the district of Merse, Berwickshire. It is situated on a rising ground in the middle of the shire, and though not the county town, is by far the largest and most respectable place in Berwickshire. It is a burgh of barony, and is governed by a bailie. The town is of great antiquity, ...
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DUNSE
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DUNSTABLE, a market-town in the hundred of Mans-head, in the county of Bedford, thirty-three miles from London. This neighbourhood was celebrated formerly for the size of its larks, and for the great number of straw and chip hats made by the females, a trade which is still extensively carried on. It was a Roman station...
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DUNSTABLE
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DUNSTAN, Saint, a famous archbishop of Canterbury. He was descended from a noble family in Wessex, and educated in the abbey of Glastonbury, where he studied so hard that it threw him into a violent fever, which brought him to the very point of death. When the whole family were standing about his bed, dissolved in tear...
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DUNSTAN
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DUNSTER, a borough-town in the hundred of Car-hampton, in Somersetshire, 163 miles from London. It is situated in a beautiful vale at the foot of the Quartoch Hills, about one mile from the Bristol Channel. It has ceased to send members to parliament for many years. The market is held on Friday. The inhabitants amounte...
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DUNSTER
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DUNTEEWARAH, a town of Hindustan, belonging to independent chiefs, in the province of Gujerat. Long. 72. 45. E. Lat. 24. 55. N.
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DUNTEEWARAH
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DUNUM, a Celtic term, denoting a hill or eminence, and often concurring to form the names of towns, as well as to indicate their elevated situation as places of strength or citadels; hills or eminences being adapted to such structures. See Dun.
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DUNUM
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DUNWICH, a small borough-town of the hundred of Blything, in Suffolk, once a city, and remarkable only from having sent two members to parliament, but it is now disfranchised. The inhabitants amounted in 1801 to 184, in 1811 to 208, in 1821 to 200, and in 1831 to 232.
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DUNWICH
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DUPIN, Louis Ellies, doctor of the Sorbonne, and professor of philosophy in the Royal College, one of the greatest critics of his time, especially in ecclesiastical matters, was born at Paris in 1657. When he published the first volume of his Bibliothèque Universelle des Auteurs Ecclesiastiques , in 1686, the liberty w...
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DUPIN
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DUPINASCHA, a city of Turkey in Europe, in the province of Kostendill. It stands at the foot of a mountain of it⅛own name, which is watered by the Isker, and contains about 6000 inhabitants, chiefly employed in the iron mines of the mountains near them.
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DUPINASCHA
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DUPLE, among mathematicians, denotes the ratio of 2 to 1. Thus the ratio of 8 to 4 is duple, or as 2 to 1. Sub-duple ratio is just the reverse of the former, or as 1 to 2. Thus the ratio of 4 to 8, or 6 to 12, is sub-duple, or as 1 to 2.
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DUPLE
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DUPLICATE, among lawyers, denotes a copy of any deed, writing, or account. It is also used for the second [7:8:286]letters-patent granted by the Lord Chancellor in a case wherein he had done the same before. A second letter written and sent to the same party, and of the same tenor as a former one, from fear of the firs...
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DUPLICATE
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DUPLICATION, in general, signifies the doubling of any thing, or multiplying it by 2; also the folding of any thing back again on itself.
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DUPLICATION
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DUPLICATURE, among anatomists, is a term used to denote the folds of any membrane or vessel. Thus we say the duplicatures of the intestines, peritonaeum, and the like.
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DUPLICATURE
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DUPONDIUS, in Antiquity, a weight of two pounds, or money of the value of two asses. See As. Since the as at first weighed a pondo or libra, the dupondius must have weighed two; and hence the name. Though the weight of the as was afterwards diminished, and consequently that of the dupondius, yet they still retained th...
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DUPONDIUS
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DUPPA, Brian, a learned English bishop, was born in 1589, at Lewisham, in Kent, of which place his father was then vicar. In 1634 he was constituted chancellor of the church at Sarum, and soon afterwards made chaplain to Charles I. He was appointed tutor to Charles prince of Wales, and his brother James duke of York; a...
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DUPPA
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DUPPAU, or Daupow, a town in the circle of Ellbogen, in the Austrian kingdom of Bohemia. It is situated in a vale watered by the river Auboche, and has a castle, a monastery, and about 1200 inhabitants, chiefly employed in the cloth manufacture.
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DUPPAU
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DUPUIS, Charles Francis, an eminent French writer, and member of the Institute, was born of poor parents, at Tryé-Château, between Gisors and Chaumont, on the 26th of October 1742. His father, who was a teacher, instructed him in mathematics and land-surveying. The Duke de la Rochefoucault, who accidentally became acqu...
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DUPUIS
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DUQUELLA, a province of Morocco, about seventy-five miles long and sixty broad. It is chiefly remarkable in an agricultural point of view for the production of a species of water melon, which grows to a prodigious size. Grain is also raised, but not in such quantities as in some other parts of the empire. Goats are bre...
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DUQUELLA
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DURADSCH, the ancient Dyrrachium, a sea-port in Greece, in the country of the Arnauts. It is the sec of a Greek archbishop and of a Catholic bishop, is fortified, and contains 5000 inhabitants. There is a good harbour, whence both commerce and piracy have long been carried on. The air is most unwholesome.
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DURADSCH
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DURAKAH, a small island in the Red Sea, about sixteen miles from the coast of Arabia. Long. 4L 31. E. Lat. 16. 48. N.
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DURAKAH
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DURANDUS, William, one of the most learned lawyers of the thirteenth century, was born at Puimois-sion, in Provence. He was a pupil of Henry of Susa, and taught canon law at Modena. He was afterwards made chaplain and auditor of the sacred palace, legate of Gregory X. at the council of Lyons, and bishop of Mende in 128...
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DURANDUS
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DURANGO, a town of Spain, in the province of Biscay. It stands twenty miles south-east of Bilboa, on one of those numerous streams which, when united, form its river. It contains 2800 inhabitants. Manufactories of iron and steel goods are carried on here. Durango, or New Biscay, an intendancy of Mexico in North Americ...
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DURANGO
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DURATION, an idea obtained by attending to the succession of feelings and thoughts in the mind. Duration, as marked by certain periods and measures, is what we most properly call time.
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DURATION
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DURBUNGAH, a town of Hindustan, province of Bahar, district of Tirhoot, fifty-five miles north-north-east from Patna. The inhabitants are chiefly Mahommedans, who support themselves by breeding horses. Long. 85.54. E. Lat. 25. 7. N.
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DURBUNGAH
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DUREN, a circle in the Prussian government of Aix-la-Chapelle, extending over 122 square miles, and containing 38,048 inhabitants, in three cities, one market-town, and twenty-seven villages. The chief place, a city of the same name, is situated on the river Roer, and is a manufacturing place for fine cloths, blankets,...
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DUREN
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DURER, Albert, descended of an Hungarian family, and born at Nuremberg in May 1471, was one of the best engravers and painters of his age. He was a man of letters and a philosopher, and an intimate friend of Erasmus, who revised some of the pieces which he published. He was a man of business also, and for many years th...
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DURER
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DURESSE, Hardship, in Law, is where a person is kept in prison or restrained of his liberty contrary to order of law; or is threatened to be killed, maimed, or beaten. In which case, if a person so in prison, or in fear of such threats, make any specialty or obligation, by reason of such imprisonment or threats, such d...
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DURESSE
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D’URFEY, Thomas, more generally known by the familiar name of Tom d’Urfcy, an English satirist and songster, of whom, though his name was as well known as that of any writer extant, yet few particulars have been collected. He was born in Devonshire; but when, where, or of what family, is uncertain. He was bred to the l...
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D’URFEY
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DURHAM, Bishopric of, one of the counties of England. Before the arrival of the Romans it was included in the British principality of the Brigantes, and after their arrival made part of the province of Maxima Coesariensis. During the heptarchy it formed part of the kingdom of Northumberland, the fifth established, whic...
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DURHAM
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DURKHEIM, a city, the chief place of a canton in the circle of the Rhine, in the kingdom of Bavaria. It stands on the river Isenach, and contains 500 houses, with 3081 inhabitants, who grow much wine.
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DURKHEIM
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DURLACH, a circle in the grand duchy of Baden, containing one city, two market-towns, and twelve villages, with 12,626 inhabitants. The capital is of the same name, situated on the river Pfing. It contains 471 houses, and 3873 inhabitants employed in making linen cloth, China ware, and other goods, and in growing fruit...
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DURLACH
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DUROCHSKOI, a town of Asiatic Russia, in the government of Irkutsk, on the confines of China, near the Argun, 160 miles south-south-east of Nertchinsk.
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DUROCHSKOI
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DURON, an island in the Straits of Malacca, about twelve miles in length and three in breadth. Long. 103. 30. E. Lat. 0. 42. N.
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DURON
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DUROTRIGES, an ancient British nation, established [7:8:292] in that part of the country which is now called Dorsetshire. Their name is derived from the two British words dur, water, and trigo, to dwell; and it seems pretty evident that they obtained their name from the situation of their country, which lies along the ...
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DUROTRIGES
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DUROUR'S Island, in the East Indian Ocean, discovered by Captain Carteret in 1767. Long. 143. 21. E. Lat. 1. 15. S.
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DUROUR'S Island
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DURRAJAH, a town of Hindustan, belonging to the Mahrattas, in the province of Malwah, twenty-five miles north-west from Bopal. Long. 77. 9. E. Lat. 23. 28. N.
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DURRAJAH
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DURRAMPOOR, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Aurungabad, fifty miles south-south-east from Surat. Long. 73. 23. E. Lat. 20. 34. N.
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DURRAMPOOR
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DURRESTEIN, a town of Austria, in the province of the Lower Fins, and circle of Upper Manhartsberg. It is situated on the banks of the Danube, and belongs to Count Staremburg. Above it are the ruins of a castle in which Richard king of England was kept a prisoner. Near to it are extensive quarries of millstones and gri...
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DURRESTEIN
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DURSLEY, a market-town of the hundred of Berkeley, in the county of Gloucester, 108 miles from London. It is a corporate town, but has long ceased to elect members of parliament. A considerable quantity of broad cloth is made, chiefly for the China trade. A market, held on Thursday, is well supplied. The inhabitants am...
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DURSLEY
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DURY, Joh N, a Scotch divine, who travelled much, and laboured with great zeal to reunite the Lutherans with the Calvinists. His discouragements in this scheme started another still more impracticable, namely, to reunite all Christians by means of a new explication of the Apocalypse, which he published at Frankfort in ...
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DURY
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DUSKY Bay, on the west coast of Tarai Poenammoo, one of the islands of New Zealand. It is of considerable extent, and affords good anchorage in coves and harbours near the shore. In other parts of it the water is very deep. This bay was discovered by Captain Cook in 1769. Long. 166. 48. E. Lat. 45. 40. S.
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DUSKY
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DUSSARA, a fortified town of Hindustan, province of Gujerat,- which contains about 1300 houses, which are chiefly possessed by Kurbatties; the remainder of the population being Coolees, Rajpoots, and other castes, besides a few Banyans. This place, with twelve surrounding villages, is the property of a Mahommedan zemin...
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DUSSARA
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DUSSAULX, John, a French writer, best known as the translator of Jzwenal, was born at Chartres, on the 28th of December 1728. He studied first at La Fleche, and afterwards at Paris; and having obtained the situation of a commissary in the gendarmerie, he served under the Marshal de Richelieu, in Hanover, during the sev...
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DUSSAULX
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DUSSELDORF, a circle of the Prussian province of Westphalia, on the right bank of the Rhine. Its extent is 144 square miles, and it comprehends three cities, two market-towns, and thirty-four villages, with a population of 28,500 inhabitants. Dusseldorf, a city, the capital of the circle of the same name, in the Pruss...
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DUSSELDORF
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DUST, or Dustee, a river of Persia, flowing from the interior through the province of Mekran, from the southern shore of which it is discharged into the Indian Oeean. Its course is supposed to extend, under different appellations, about 1000 miles.
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DUST
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DUTENS, Louis, a late French writer of some celebrity, was born at Tours, of Protestant parents, on the 15th of January 1730. In his youth he addicted himself to poetry; and in 1748 he repaired to Paris and composed a tragedy, entitled The Return of Ulysses to Ithaca, which he showed to the comedian Lanoue, requesting ...
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DUTENS
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DUTCHY. See Duchy.
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DUTCHY
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DUTY, in general, denotes any thing that one is obliged to perform. [7:8:294] Duty, in commerce, signifies an impost laid on merchandise, at importation or exportation, commonly called the duties of customs; also the taxes of excise, stamp duties, &c. See Political Economy, and Taxation.
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DUTY
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DUUMVIRI, in Roman antiquity, a general appellation given to magistrates, commissioners, and officers, where two were joined together in the same functions. Duumviri Capitales were the judges in criminal causes. From their sentence it was lawful to appeal to the people, who alone had the power of condemning a citizen ...
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DUUMVIRI
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DWAL, in Heraldry, the herb nightshade, used by such as blazon with flowers and herbs, instead of metals and colours, for sable or black.
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DWAL
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DWARACA, a town and celebrated temple of Hindustan, province of Gujerat, situated at the south-west extremity of the peninsula. There are twenty-one villages belonging to Dwaraca, containing 2500 houses, and, on the most accurate calculation, 100,000 inhabitants. The inhabitants were formerly much addicted to piracy, b...
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DWARACA
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DWARF, in general, an appellation given to things greatly inferior in size to that which is usual in their several kinds. Thus there are dwarfs of the human species, dwarf dogs, dwarf trees, and the like. The Romans were passionately fond of dwarfs, whom they called nani or nance, insomuch that they often used artific...
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DWARF
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DYEING Is the art of communicating a new and permanent colour to any substance whatever; but it is usually confined to the art of giving colours to wool, silk, feathers, cotton, or flax, or the thread or cloth formed of any of these substances. To this more limited signification we shall restrict ourselves in the foll...
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DYEING
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DYER, Sir James, an eminent English lawyer, chief judge of the court of common pleas in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. He died in 1581; and about twenty years afterwards was published his large collection of Reports, which have been highly esteemed for their succinctness and solidity. He also left other writings behind ...
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DYER
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DYNAMICS. 1. This name marks that department of physicomathematical science which contains the abstract doctrine of movingforces ; that is, whatever necessarily results from the relations of our ideas of motion, and of the immediate causes of its production and changes. 2. All changes of motion are considered by us a...
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DYNAMICS. 1
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DYNANOMETER, an instrument for ascertaining the relative strength of men and animals. * Of an instrument of this kind, invented by Regnier, and of which a description is given in the Journal de l ’ Ecole Polytechnique, tom. ii. the author thus speaks: “Some important knowledge might be acquired, had we the easy means o...
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DYNANOMETER