Mahomet puts his chief substance into certain boats, to be conveyed down the river, as purposing to fly. Knolles.

An admonition from a dead author, or a caveat from an impartial pen, will prevail more than a downright advice, which may be mistaken as spoken magisterially. Bacon.

I would rather have a plain downright wisdom, than a foolish and affected eloquence.

Ben Jonson's Discoveries. Lord of much riches, which the use renowns : Seven thousand broad-tailed sheep grazed on his Sandys. The idolatry was direct and downright in the people, whose credulity is illimitable.

downs.

Browne's Vulgar Errors. No bread will down with them, save that which the earth yields; no water but from the natural wells or rivers. Bp. Hall. Contemplations.

To come from all things to nothing, is not a descen* but a downfall; and it is a rare strength and conId. stancy, not to be maimed at least. We can naturally like no view of ourselves, unless we look downwards, to teach us what humble admirers we ought to be of our own value.

He shared our dividend o' the crown, We had so painfully preached down; And forced us, though against the grain, To' have calls to preach it up again.

A giant's slain in fight,

Butler.

Hudibras.

Or mowed o'erthwart, or cleft downright. Id. Whom they hit, none on their feet might stand, Though standing else as rocks: but down they fell By thousands. Milton's Paradise Lost. But first I mean

Milton.

To exercise him in the wilderness, There he shall first lay down the rudiments Of his great warfare. Not all the fleecy wealth That doth enrich those downs is worth a thought, To this my errand, and the care it brought. Id. Look downward on that globe, whose hither side, With light from hence, shines.

Id. It is downright madness to strike where we have no L'Estrange. power to hurt. Down sinks the giant with a thundering sound, His pond'rous limbs oppress the trembling ground. Dryden.

We have seen some, by the ways by which they had designed to rise uncontrollably, to have directly procured their utter downfall. Id.

The hidden beauties seemed in wait to lie, To down proud hearts that would not willing die. Sidney.

On the downs we see, near Wilton fair, A hastened hare from greedy greyhound go. Id. Wanton languishing borrowed of her eyes, the downcast look of modesty.

Id.

There are few, very few, authors, that will own themselves in a mistake, though all the world see them to be in downright nonsense. Tatler.

There is not a more melancholy object in the learned world, than a man who has written himself down. Addison. Thy downcast looks, and thy disordered thoughts, Tell me my fate: I ask not the success My cause has found.

Id. Cato.

It is then (in old age) we have nothing to manage, as the phrase is; we speak the downright truth, and whether the rest of the world will give us the privilege or not, we have so little to ask of them, that we Steele. can take it.

What remains of the subject, after the decoction, is continued to be boiled down, with the addition of fresh water, to a sapid fat. Arbuthnot on Aliments. And the first steps a downhill greensward yields.

Congreve.

O happy plains, remote from war's alarms, And all the ravages of hostile arms! And happy shepherds! who, secure from fear, Guy. On open downs preserve your fleecy care.

To compass this, his building is a town, His pond an ocean, his parterre a down. Pope. What would this man? Now upward will he soar, And, little less than angel, would be more; Now looking downwards, just as grieved appears To want the strength of bulls, the fur of bears. Id. Religion seems not in danger from downright atheism, since rational men must reject that for want of proof. Rogers.

Who shall dispute what the reviewers say? Their word 's sufficient; and to ask a reason, In such a state as theirs, is downright treason. Churchill.

This structure in some degree obtains in the esophagus or throat of cows, who by similar means convey their food first downwards and afterwards upwards by a retrograde motion of the annular muscles or cartilages, for the purpose of a second mastication of it. Darwin.

A more unsafe and uncertain rule could hardly be laid down, than this of estimating property according to its value at some remoter period of our history. Sir S. Romilly.

of wa: rendezvous in time of war. It affords excellent anchorage; and is defended by the castles of Deal, Dover, and Sandwich, as well as by Goodwin Sands.

DOWNTON, or DUNKTON, an ancient borough in Wiltshire, which sends two members to parliament. The returning officer is the deputysteward of the lessee of the manor; and the right of election is in burgage-holders. Its chief trade is in malt, paper, leather, laces, &c. It has a neat church, the tower of which has been raised about thirty feet, at the expense of the earl of Radnor. Here is a good free-school, chiefly supported by the produce of the fairs, and also a well-regulated workhouse. It is seated on the Avon, six miles south-east of Salisbury, and eighty-four W.S.W. of London. Lon. 1° 36′ W., lat. 51° 0' N.

DOXOLOGY, n. s. Aóžá and Xóyoç. A form of giving glory to God.

David breaks forth into these triumphant praises anu doxologies, Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, who has kept me this day from shedding blood, and from avenging myself with my own hand. South.

Little did Athanasius imagine, that ever it would have been received in the Christian church, to conclude their books with a doxology to God and the blessed virgin. Stilling fleet.

DOXOLOGY, an hymn used in praise of the Almighty, distinguished by the title of greater and lesser. Both the doxologies have a place in the church of England, the former being repeated after every psalm, and the latter used in the comnunion service.

DOXOLOGY, THE GREATER, or the angelic hymn, was of great note in the ancient church. It began with these words, which the angels sung at our Saviour's birth, Glory be to God on high, &c. It was chiefly used in the communion service, and in private devotions.

DOXOLOGY, THE LESSER, was anciently only a single sentence, without response, running in these words, Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost, world without end, Amen. Part of the latter clause, As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, was inserted some time after the first composition. Some read this ancient hymn, Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, with the Holy Ghost: others, Glory be to the Father, in or by the Son, and by the Holy Ghost. This difference of expression occasioned no disputes in the church, till the followers of Arius began to make use of the latter as a distinguishing character of their party, when it was entirely laid aside by the Catholics, and the use of it was sufficient to bring any one under suspicion of heterodoxy. The doxology was used at the close of every solemn office. The western church repeated it at the end of every psalm. Many of their prayers were also concluded with it, particularly the solemn thanksgiving or consecration prayer at the eucharist. It was also the ordinary conclusion of their sermons.

DOX'Y, n. s. A whore; a loose wench. A diminutive of DUCK, which see.

When daffodils begin to pure,
With heigh the dory o'er the dale.

Shakspeare.

DOYEN (François), a celebrated painter, born at Paris in 1726, was, while a boy, continually disfiguring his school-books with sketches. Some of these being seen by an amateur, he persuaded the parents of the lad to place him under C. Vanloo, and at twenty years of age he contended for the prize of the academy and gained it. By virtue of this he went to Rome, where he attached himself principally to the works of Annibal Caracci, but became equally enamoured, afterwards, of the style of Pietro da Cortona. On his return to Paris he employed himself two years on a large picture of the death of Virginia. His principal object was to gain the approbation of Vanloo. But that artist had been prejudiced against him, and it was with difficulty he could be prevailed upon to look at it. At last, after regarding it silently for some time, he embraced Doyen affectionately, and applauded the performance every where. From this time Doyen rose rapidly into fame. One of his best paintings was a representation of winter, of which there is an engraving. He visited Petersburgh at the invitation of the Empress Catharine, and was chosen professor of the academy of painting there, where he died in 1806. DOZE, v. n. & v. a. Doz'INESS, n. s. Do'zy, adj.

Sax. dræs; Dutch daes; Teut. dosen; Swed. dasa. See DAZE.

To slumber; sleep lightly; become confused or drowzy. The active verb signifying to stupify, make dull, seems derived from the neuter verb: doziness is sleepiness; and figuratively stupidly; dozy, drowsy.

He was now much decayed in his parts, and with immoderate drinking dozed in his understanding.

How to the banks, where bards departed doze, They led him soft. Pope's Dunciad. DOZ'EN, n. s. Fr. dousaine; Teut. dutzend; Ital Span. and Port. dozzena; probably a corruption of Lat. duodecim. Twelve, taken collectively. Dr. Johnson says, it is seldom used but on light occasions. But see the definition of Locke: its convenience in fact has occasioned it to be in constant use in modern times, both on serious as well as light occasions.

We cannot lodge and board a dozen or fourteen gentlewomen, but we keep a bawdyhouse straight. Shakspeare.

That the Indian figs bear such huge leaves, or delicate fruit, I could never find; yet I have travelled a dozen miles together under them. Raleigh.

We have more words than notions, and half a dozen words for the same thing. Sometimes we put a new signification o an old word, as when we call a piece a gun. Selden,

By putting twelve units together, we have the complex idea of a dozen. Locke.

The number of dissenters was something under a dozen with them.

Swift. DRAAIYA, or DREHYEH, a well-built town of Arabia, the capital of the Wahabees sect. It is represented as 160 leagues south-east of Jerusalem. It is situated at the base of lofty mountains, in a fertile country. DRAB, n. s.

a strumpet.

Sax. nabbe, lees. A whore;

If your worship will take order for the drabs and the knaves, you need not fear the bawds. Shakspeare. Cursed be the wretch so venal and so vain, Paltry and proud as drabs in Drury-lane. Pope. DRABA, in botany, a genus of the siliculosa order, tetradynamia class of plants; natural order thirty-ninth, siliquosæ. The silicula is entire, and oval oblong; with the valves a little plain, parallel to the partition: there is no style. There are sixteen species; of which the one chiefly worthy of notice is the D. verna, or early

whitlow grass. It has naked stalks with leaves a little serrated. The blossoms are white, and at night the flowers hang down. It grows on old walls and dry banks. It is one of the earliest flowering plants we have, and is good to eat as a salad. Goats, sheep, and horses eat it: cows are not fond of it; swine refuse it.

DRABRICIUS (Nicholas), a celebrated enthusiast, born in Moravia in 1587. He was admitted minister in 1616; but, on account of the severe edicts against the Protestants, he retired to Hungary in 1629. He then commenced woollendraper; and, when about fifty years of age, assumed the prophetical office, and had his first vision on the 23d February, 1638, by which he was promised in general great armies from the north and east, which should crush the house of Austria. In 1654 Drabricius was restored to his ministry, and had more visions than ever, which he communicated to his coadjutor Comenius, that he might publish them to all nations. Comenius, fearing that if he did not print them he should disobey God, and if he did he would be exposed to the ridicule of men, printed them, but would not distribute the copies, and entitled the book Lux in Tenebris. Some say Drabricius was burnt as a false prophet; others, that he died in Turkey.

DRABLER, in the sea language, a small sail in a ship, which is the same to a bonnet, that a bonnet is to a course, and is only used when the course and bonnet are too shoal to clothe the mast. See BONNET and COURSE.

DRABLING, in angling, is a method of catching barbel. Take a large line of six yards; which, before fastening it to the rod, must be put through a piece of lead, that, if the fish bite, it may slip to and fro, and that the water may something move it on the ground; bait with a lob-worm well secured, and so by its motion the barbel will be enticed into the danger without suspicion. The best places are in running water, near piles, or under wooden bridges, supported with oaks floated and slimy.

DRABS, in the salt works, a kind of wooden boxes for holding the salt when taken out of the

boiling pan; the bottoms of which are made shelving or inclining forwards, that the briny moisture of the salt may drain off.

DRAC, an imaginary being, formerly much dreaded by the country people in many parts of France. The dracs were supposed to be malicious, or, at least, tricksome demons; said to lay gold cups and rings over the surface of pits and rivers, as baits to draw women and children in.

DRACENA, in botany, a genus of the monogynia order, and hexandria class of plants: COR. sexpartite and erect; the filaments a little thicker about the middle; the berry trilocular and monospermous. Species, one only, a native of the West Indies.

DRACHM, n. s. Į Fr. dragme; Span. and DRAM, n. s. & v. n. Port. drama; Lat. drach ma; Arab. drahm; Gr. dpaxμn; Heb. 17, from 1777, a way, , to spend; i. e. as much as would be expended by a traveller. Or, says Parkhurst, because anciently equal to six oẞolo, thus deriving it from the verb dparow, ded paypal, or bars of iron, that a man could grasp in his hand, to clutch. A coin; a weight; the eighth part of an ounce; a small definite quantity; a dose. The verb is sometimes used, vulgarly, for to

drink drams.

True be it said, whatever man it said, That love with gall and honey doth abound; But if the one be with the other weighed, For every dram of honey therein found, A pound of gall doth over it redound. Spenser. I could do this, and that with no rash potion, But with a lingering dram, that should not work Maliciously like poison. Shakspeare. Winter's Tale. See here these movers, that do prize their honours At a cracked drachm, Id. Macbeth.

The trial being made betwixt lead and lead, weigh ing severally seven drams in the air, the balance in grains, and abateth of the weight in the air two drams the water weigheth only four drams and forty-one and nineteen grains: the balance kept the same depth in the water. Bacon.

No hallowed oils, no gums I need, No new-born drams of purging fire, One rosy drop from David's seed Was worlds of seas to quench thine ire: O, precious ransom! which, once paid, That consummatum est was said. He that has not religion to govern his morality, is not a dram better than my mastiff-dog. Selden.

Wotton.