DAB 
flands for deffus, or the treble part; a, dixtia mani, 
with the right-hand, Is ipl in eaoicegaes ; and D.C, 
implies Da Capo; which fee 
“A, is an Italian preposition, 
wen nee elie as da 
cappella, t forthe chapel; fonate dac atas ; 
Sonate edz chiela, oer the ae c ii aoe 
the firft part from as ra i ng 3 dat fuonare, to be playe 
ina fong where t ial and incidental nhs ga or 
rit ornelli, are inter ted j in a fame line as the voice par 
) 
DAA, in Ancient Geography. See Dauz. 
DA >in Commerce. See Dourar and Corin. 
DAALHAUSEN, in Geography, a town of Germany, 
n the circle of We etphalia, a bifhopric of Paderborn ; 
9 miles N.N.E. of Warbury. 
DAB, in ey a name given by the Englifh to a 
Hn fith o a euronectes kind, called by authors the 
worfhip her ing th 
together, aaa i oo acts of acon fuch as fighs, 
groans, extacies, and th 
or Dar A, in Ancient Geography, a 
village of Paleftine, according te Jofephus, fituated at the 
extremity of Galilee and Sam 
DABAS&, a people of ia, on the other fide of the 
Gan 
nge 
DABASCHET, Daspascuer, or Dabbojet, the fron- 
tier town of the tribe of Zabulon, in Paleftin 
BER, in Agriculture, a term anal in fome di- 
ftricts to the tool ufed in dibbling, or fetting different forts 
of crops, as thofe of wheat, potatoes, and others. It is more 
dia eats cailed a dibble or fetting flick. See Dis 
DABBERETH, in Ancient Geography, a town of cn 
in the ‘ivition of the tribe of Iffachar, according to the book 
‘of Jofhua ; allotted to the Levites of the family of Gerfhon ; 
and probably tuat called by Jerome Dabira, waa places 
towards mount Thabor, in the canton of Diocefi 
ABBING, ia Agriculture, is a word fometimes ufed to 
fignify the operation of dibbling. See Disarine. 
A, in Mujic, a kind of Turkith dieu 
DAB- CHICK, in Rural Economy,a term which is fome- 
times made ufe of to fignify a chick which has been juit 
hatched. 
DABER, in Geography, formerly called Dober, a {mall 
n Pomerania, in the ancient duchy of 
ae eae or Caffub 
or Debir, ‘called Kirjath-Sepher, a town of Pa- 
f H 
leftine, j in the tribe o ah, not far from Hebron. It 
was given to the Levites; after Jofhua had taken it and put 
its king to fan 
DABHAUSEN, a {mall town of Ger ermany, in the 
circle of the U 
under the fapremacy of the king of Weltphalia 
DABIA, in Ancient oes a ie a Africa, in 
oo pa aro near m 
aad in Geogra oh a on of Egypt; 21 
miles s. i Cai vn Gorey = 
n stole, a deity of Japan, in repreentation 
of which, a eee brazen Coloffue, or image, is placed on the 
road from Ofacia to Sonar, To this deity is offered 
DAC 
annually a fpotlefs aa sho, being infruGed to atk the 
god fome er cular queftions, recei =n an antwer from @ 
onze, or a t, eneloted within the hollow of this idol. 
ABLIS, iu Ancient Geography, a town of Alia Minor, 
in Bithyaia; 24 miles from Coenos Gallicacos, according 
to the Iti: ase) of Anton ine. 
DABO. See Dacuspsrc. 
DABRA-SHIN, in Cue, a town of Exypt; 
miles S. of Cairo. —_ 
ABUH, in Zoology, a name given by the Arabs to the 
TS 
hyena 
DABUL, in Geography, a town ef India, on the coal 
= Concan, taken and facked by the Portugucfe, mil the 
| Almeyda, in i t re-taken b 
ane The principal articles of its a are ‘pepper 
and {alt ; 75 miles S. of Bombay. N. lat. E 
long. 72° 53’. 
DA Capo, Ital. mufical terms, implying, 
movement feems finifhed, a return to th 
_ an air 
caneaes when recitatives for the dialogu 
arts Gf a poem began to be terminated by fh 
ofren ene for feveral different ftanzas, like thofe of modern 
ballads. Before the terms da capo were in ufe, the air was 
written over again, as often as it was wanted, fometimes 
in exatly the fame notes, but more frequently, with little 
changes and embellifhments, to the fame bafe, and to dif- 
ferent ftanzas. 
n tbe opera of Orontea, by Cefti, performed at Venice, 
1666, there are frequent returns to particular portions of 
the airs, more, indecd, in the manner ef a refrein, or burden, 
than da capo, or rondo; but in the opera of Enea, per- 
formed at Genoa, 1676; in that of Aurora, fet by Zanetti, 
and performed in the fame city, 1678, th 
N 
a voce fola, di Mon aera, cane oa da capos occu 
about which time they became oo ; and before 1680, 
they appear to have one in aod ufe. 
mong new mufical technica in “the Ariofe Cantate of 
d da 
: the fecond part ors 
porated with the firft, to which, after modulating into the 
sth of the key, he finger generally returns. 
DA »tn Geography, a town of Hindooftan, fituated 
in the eaftern quarter of Bengal, and beyond the principal 
ftream of the Ganges, though a very confiderable branch of 
the fame river runs through it. It is very favourably fta- 
tioned for an in and emporium of trade, as the Dacca river 
