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oe damafk, fee the articles Desicn, and Draw-Loom. 
MASKEENI NG, the art, or act, of adorning iron, 
fteel, &e. by making incifions therein, and filling them up 
with gold or filver wire 5 chiefly ufed in oe {word- 
blades, guards and gripes, locks of piftole, & 
ts name fhews the place of its origin, or, at ee. the a 
where it has been praétifed in the greateft perfection, viz. 
the ciiy of Damafcus in Syria j though M. Felibien ae: 
butes the perfection of the art to his ails Curfinet, 
‘who iso under the ae of king 
mafkeening 18 partly mofaic ac pay su Sioa 
and partly carving 5 es mofaic work it confilts of ae s in- 
indented, or cut in 
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There ere two ways sof damafkeening ; in the on which 
is bes moft beautiful, the artifts cut into the meta! with a 
ver, and other tools proper for engraving on feel « 3; and 
Saas fill up the incifions, or notches, with a pretty 
thick filver or gold wire. e other, which is only 
fuperficial, they content ica Gen to make hatches, or 
itrokes acrofs the iron, &c, with a cutting- kn'fe, fuch as is 
i As to the frit, it is neceflary 
e gravings, or incifions, be made in the dovetail form; 
that the gold or filver wire, whichis thruft forcibly into them, 
may achere the more ftrongly o the fecond, which is 
to a violet, or blue colour, they hatch it over 
and acrofs with the knife; then draw the enfign, o 1a 
ment, intended, on this hatching, with a fine brafs point, or 
i This done, they take fine gold wire, and condu- 
ing or chafing it according to the figures already defigned, 
they fink it carefuliy into the hatches of the metal with a 
copper tool. 
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DAMASQUITTE, a kind of ftuff made at Venice, of 
which there are two forts; one vile gold, the other a 
filk ; the pieces are eighteen ells 
DAMASS a kind of cael with gold and mate 
oe made in ‘warp and woof, or wrought, and not ra 
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DAMASUS L, Pors, in Biography, fuppofed to be a 
Spaniard by birth, obtained the high rank of bifhop of Rome 
inthe year 366. In competition “for this office he had for a 
rival Urfinus, to whoma large body of the people and clergy 
‘was attached. The conteft on this occafion involved the 
See Atisma and Stra- 
s at length proved triumphant ; 
» having firft {uffered 
confifcation, Damafus 
he pomp, parade, and luxury of the 
temporal ftate, than to the decorum and difcipline which he 
owed to his rank as bifhop of fou's. He feemed to be totally 
regardlefs of the morals of the people entrusted to his care ; 
but againft herefy, as it was called, he difplayed the vigilance 
and zeal of a bitter perfecutor. In five different councils 
held at Rome between the years 368 and 381, he procured 
a againft the Arians, and other feéts who had dep arted 
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ended the power and 
authority of the bihops af Rone, aaa "aid the foundation of 
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the cuftiom of agin upon certain bifhops the title of 
vicars to the pope, by which they were enabled to perform 
feveral authoritative aQs, w hich eu could not by the mere 
virtue of epifcopal power : the rights of bifhops and 
fynods became Seng ane: meee dependent on the au- 
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fhoprics of Brixen and a nleia in fueceflion, before he at- 
tained to the fee of Rome, which happeved upon the death of 
Clement II. ‘To this any he was raifed by the emperor 
Henry III., who fent him to Rome to maintain the imperial 
right of nomination to the pocedom, ‘in oppoati on to the 
claims of Bened iA IX., who had feized on it, but who quit- 
ted his pretenfions in favour of one who had fo powerful a 
protector. Damafus enjoyed his office only a few days, 
dying at ‘Prenc clte in 1048, fuppofed to have been poifoned. 
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DAMAT CORENSIS, in anid Geography, aa epil- 
copal city of Proconfular Afric 
©R, or Deus in seieie 4 the os 
vali Dyparne. 7 
She derived tis 
pame from her having firlt taught men the art of cultivat- 
ing the earth. 
DAMATRIUS, in Ancient Chronology, the Bootian 
name of the Athenian morth P yanepfion, which was the fifth 
of their year, and correfponded to the Jatter part of our Oc- 
tober dss beginning a November. See Pyanersion and 
Mon 
DA MAZAN, in Geography. 
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See Damasan. 
DAMBACH, a town of France, in the department of 
the Lower Rhine; 6§ leagues S.S.E. of Strafburg.—A io, 
a town of Germany, : the arch-duchy of Auftria; & 
ae E.S.E. of Freutta 
DAMBANNA, a on of Africa, in the kingdom of 
Contu. 
DAMBEK, or Damxe, a town of Germany, in the 
circle of Upper oe and Old M fe of Brandenburg ; 4 
miles S. of Saltwedel 
I,a country of Africa, in the kingdom of Kongo, 
which, together with other inferior provinces, followed the 
of Ovando off the yoke ‘of 
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promifes of being lefs oppreffed, and of enjoying “greater 
liberty under thefe than they did under their own mo- 
AIN, a town of France, in the department of 
the Vofges and diftri& of La Marche; 5 miles E. of La 
Marche. 
Tr pataining eee a town pf Poland, in the palatinate 
of Lemberg ; 8 miles N.E. of Lemberg. 
E was onal a title of honour, and is age fed ia 
the Englith law to denote a lady ; but in common accepta- 
tion it fignifies the miftrefs a a family of the lower ani in 
the ah 
» (from domna, the abbreviation of Domina,) the 
title of 1 nuns 0 Ld the BenediGtine and certain other ancient 
orders. See Domnus and Nun. 
Dauwe’s- ‘Viale, Sce HESPERISe 7 ; 
DAMEL, 
