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feitants of the ports, to plead elfewbere or otherwife than 
as they ought, according to the charters, &c. 28 EJw. I. 
C. 7. See the article Cinque-Ports, vol. iv. p. 606. 
DO'VER STRAITS. See Straits. 
DO'VER, a townfhip of the American States, in Nor¬ 
folk county, Malfachufetts, incorporated anno 1650: fit"-, 
teen miles fouthward of Bofton. 
DO'VER, a confiderable townfhip of the American 
States, in Strafford county, New Hampfhire, and the (hire 
town of the county ; fttuated on the font hern fide of 
Cochecho river, about four miles above its junction with 
Salmon-fall river, which together form the Pifcataq.ua; 
ten miles fouth-by-eaft of Rochefier, fix from Berwick in 
Maine, andfourteen north-weft by north from Portfmonth. 
The Indians named it Winichahanat, and Cochecho; by the 
firft fettlers, it was called Northam. It was incorporated 
in 1633. In this townfhip is a high neck of ldnd, between 
the main branch of Pifcataqua and Back river, about two 
miles long, and half a mile wide, riling gently along a 
fine road, and declining on each fide, like a (hip’s deck. 
It commands an extenfive and variegated profpedt of the 
fivers, bays, adjacent fhores, and diftant mountains. It 
has often been admired by travellers as an elegant fitua- 
tion for a city, and by military gentlemen for a fortrefs. 
The firft fettlers pitched here, but the trade has long 
fince been removed to Cochecho-falls ; and this beautiful 
fpot is almoft delerted of inhabitants. Lat.43. u.N. 
ion. 70. 50. W, 
DO'VER, a townfhip of the American States, in Mon¬ 
mouth county, New J or fey, between Shrewfbury and New 
Stafford, and extends from the fiea to the county line. It 
has but one church, the property-of a generous and bene¬ 
volent individual; who gives liberty to minifters of all 
denominations to preach in it whenever they pleafe. 
DO'VER, a town of the American States, the metro- 
■polis of Delaware (late, in Kent county, on the fouth- 
weft fide of jones’s creek, about four miles and a half 
north-weft from its mouth, in the Delaware ; twelve 
miles from Duck creek, forty-eight from Wilmington, 
■and feventy-fix fouth-fouth-weft of Philadelphia. It con¬ 
tains four ftreets, which interfedt each other at right 
angles, in the center of the town. The area included 
within thefe interfections extends into a fpacious parade, 
•on the eaft fide of which is an elegant ftate-houfe. It has 
a confiderable trade with Philadelphia, chiefly in flour. 
Lat. 39. 10. N. Ion. 75. 34. W. 
DO'VER, a town of the American States, in York coun¬ 
ty, Pennfylvania, on Fox Run, whicli falls into Conewa- 
go creek, near its mouth, in the Sufquehannah. I{,con¬ 
tains a German Lutheran and Calvinift church, united. 
DOVE'RA, a town of Italy, in the duchy of Milan : 
twenty-four miles weft of Milan. 
DO'VETA-IL, /. A form of joining two bodies to¬ 
gether, where that which is inlerted has the form of 
a dove’s tail, or wedge reverfed, and therefore cannot 
■fall out. 
DOUGH, f. [bah, Sax. deegh, Dut.] The pafte of 
bread, or pies unbaked : 
You that from pliant pafte would fabrics arife. 
Expetting thence to gain immortal praife, 
Your knuckles try, and let your finews know. 
Their power to knead, and give the form to (laugh. King. 
My cake is Dough. My affair has mifearried ; my un¬ 
dertaking has never come to maturity : 
My cake is dough, but I’ll in among the reft; 
Out of hope of all, buf-my fhare of the feuft. S/lakefpeare . 
DOLGHBA'KED, adj. Unfinifhed; not hardened to 
perfection; foft: 
For when, through taftelefs flat humility, 
In doughbak'd men fome harmleflncfs we fee, 
Mis but his phlegm that’s virtuous, and not he. Donne. 
DO'UGHTY, adj. [bofrcig, Sax. datght, virtue, Dut.] 
Brave; noble; illuftrious; eminent. Ufed of men and 
“things: 
VoL. VI. No. 329. 
Such rcftlefs paflion did all night torment 
The flattening courage of that fairy knight, 
Deviling llow that doughty tournament 
With greateft honour he achieveu might. Spenjer. 
It is now feldom ufed but ironically, or in burlefque.— 
If this doughty hiftorian hath, any honour or conlcience 
left, he ought to be pardoned. Stilling fleet. 
She fmil’d to fee the doughty hero flain ; 
But, at her finite, the beau reviv’d again. Pope. 
DOUGH'TY-HAND'ED, adj. Powerful: 
I thank you all, 
For doughty-handed are you. Shakcfpcare. 
DOUG FEY,, adj. Unfound; foft; unhardened.—A out* 
fon was milled with a fnipt tafia fa fellow there, whofe 
Villainous faffron would have made all the unbaked and 
doughy youth of a nation in his colour. Shakcfpeare. 
DOUGIELIS'KI, a town of Lithuania, in the palati¬ 
nate of Wilna : fix teen miles north-north-eaft of Wilna. 
DOU'GLAS (Gawin), a Scotch prelate diftinguifhed 
for poetical talents, the third fon of Archibald earl of 
Angus, born in 1474-5. He received a liberal education, 
firft in his own'country, and afterwards at the univerfity 
of Paris. On his return from his travels he entered into 
the church, and obtained the bifhopric of Dunkeld. Such 
was the violence of the times, that lie was induced to re¬ 
tire into England ; and as at that juncture war broke out 
between the two kingdoms, his enemies took advantage 
of his retreat to -a hoftile country, to reprefent him as a 
di fa fleeted perfon. A profecution was commenced againft 
him on this account, which ended in a fentence of pro- 
feription, and fequeftration of his epifcopal revenues. He 
was refpedt fully received in England, and Henry VIII. 
granted him a liberal penfion, as a man of learning, and 
as a fufferer fer attachment to the Englifti intereft. He 
died of the plague at London in 1521, and was buried in 
the Savoy church. Bifliop Douglas has the merit of be¬ 
ing a confiderable improver of the language and verfitica- 
tion of his country, and Scottifii poetry is indebted to 
him for a degree of elegance which, allowing for differ¬ 
ence of dialed!, places it on a level with the Englifh of 
the time. In his youth he mandated Ovid De Remedio 
Amoris, not without a view, it is thought, to fuggeft to 
his own mind fome defence agairrft that importunate paf- 
fion. But his greateft work is a tranflation of Virgil’s 
Eneid, with the additional book of Maplreus Vegius, into 
Scottifh heroic verfe. This is laid by Mr. Warton to 
have been the firft metrical tranflation of a claftic in the 
language of Great Britain, unlel’s one of Boethius can be 
called an exception. It was written -about 1512, and was 
completed in the fpace of fixteen months. A new edi¬ 
tion of this tranflation was printed, with a glollary, at 
Edinburgh in 1710, fmall folio. The bifliop likewife 
compofed an original poem, intitled The Palice of Ho¬ 
nour, which is a moral vilion in the manner of the Table 
of Cebes ; and an allegorical poem called King Hart, firft: 
publiflied in Mr. Pinkerton’s Ancient Scottifh Poems. 
DOU'GLAS (James, M. D.) an able anatomift, born 
in Scotland in 1675. He fettled in London, and made 
liimfelf known by various writings, Haller, who was 
perfonally acquainted with him, calls him a learned and 
fkilful man, and a very diluent diftedtor. Befides feve- 
ral papers in the Philofophical Tranf’adtions, he wrote, 
1. Myographice Comparat# Specimen, or a Comparative De- 
feription of all the Muffles in a Man and a Quadruped, 
London, 1707, 1.2mo., which is the beft myography extant 
down to his time, and is particularly accurate in the in- 
fertions of the mufcles into the bones. 2. Bibliographic 
.Anatomic# Specimen, London, 1715, Svo. a brief account, 
■in I.atin, of all • anatomifts from Hippocrates to Harvey, 
with their works and difeoveries : of this an improved edi¬ 
tion was publilhed at Leyden in 1734. 3. A Defcripticn of 
the Peritoneum, &c. London, 1730, 4to. an accurate and 
■minute piece of anatomical examination. He alfo pub. 
.liftied, 4. A Hiftory of the Lateral Operation for the Stone.,- 
L- 1726^ 
