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_Tn a fleeping pofture. If a lion were the coat of Ju¬ 
dah, yet were it not a lion rampant, but rather couchant 
and 'dormant. Brown. —Private; not public.-—There were 
other dormant mu fiefs of foldiers throughout all parts of 
the realm, that were put in readinefs, but not drawn to¬ 
gether. Bacon. —Concealed; pot divulged.—It would be 
prudent to referve thefe privileges dormant, never to be 
produced but upon great occafions. Swift. —Belonging to 
a leaning roof: 
Old dormant windows mud confefs 
Her beams : their glimmering fpetlacles, 
Struck with the fplendor of her face, 
Do th’ office of Her burning-glafs. Cleavdand. 
Thefe windows were probably called dormant from being 
fupported by a beam formerly fo named. 
DOR'MANT,/ A large beam ; a fumraer : 
For in that place the Painims rear’d a pod, 
Which late had ferv’d fome gallant dtip for mad. 
And over it another beam they crofs’d, 
Pointed with iron fliarp to it made faff 
With ropes, which, as men would, the dormant tofs’d 
Now out, now in ; now back, now forward cad. Fairfax. 
DOR'MANT-WRITING,yi A deed with a blank to 
put in the name of a perfon. 
DOR'MAR, or Dormer, f. [the common name, per¬ 
haps by corruption, for] A dormant window. Abeam.— 
In a parlour belonging to a farm-houfe there was a re¬ 
markably large dormar of chefnut. Clubb. 
DOR'MITIVE, f. [from dormio , Lat.J A medicine to 
promote deep.—Does any didrefs’d patient want an eme¬ 
tic, a fudorific, an anti-hyp, a diuretic, a purge, or a dormi- 
tive. Ar but knot. 
DOR'MITORY, f. \dorrnitorium , Lat.] A place to deep 
in : iifed commonly for a room with many beds.—Rooms 
that have thorough lights are left for entertainment, and 
thofe that have windows on one fide for dormitories. Mor¬ 
timer. —A burial place.'—The places where dead bodies 
are buried, are in Latin called ccemitcria, and in Englifh 
dormitories. Aylffe. 
DOR'MOUSE, f. \_dormio, Lat. to deep, and vrnfe.'] 
A fmall animal which pafies a large part of the winter in 
deep. See Mroxus. 
Come, we all deep, and are mere dormice dies, 
A little lefs than dead : more dulnefs hangs 
On us than on the moon. Ben Jovfon. 
DORN, f. [from don. Germ, a thorn. ] The name of 
a fifh ; perhaps the fame as the thornback.—The coaft is 
dored both with diell-filh, as fcallops and fheathfifh; and 
flat as turbots, dons, and holybut. Carcw. 
DORNABAD', a town of Perfia, in the province of 
Chorafan : 150 miles north-weft of Herat. 
DOR'NACH, or Dornecic, a bailiwick of SwifTerland, 
in the canton of Soleure, which takes its name fro-m a 
Prong caftle, celebrated for a victory obtained by the 
Swifs over the Andrians in 1499. The Swifs had only 
6000 men, the enemy amounted to 15,000, of whom 300b 
were left dead on the field. This was. almoft decifive of 
the Swifs independence. 
DORN'BERG, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
the Upper Rhine, and principality' of Ileffe Darmftadt: 
eight miles weft-north-weft of Darmftadt. 
DORNBEU'REN, a town of Germany, in the county 
of Bregentz : five miles fouth of Bregentz. 
DORN'BURG, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Upper Saxony, and principality of Weimar: fourteen 
miles eaft of Weimar. 
DORN'BURG, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Upper Saxony, and principality of Anhalt Zerbft, near 
the Elbe : eight miles weft-north-weft of Zorbft. 
DOR'NE, a town of France, in the department of the 
Nyevre : three miles fouth-fouth-weft of Decile. 
DOR'NECY, a town of France, in the department of 
the Nyevre ; two leagues eaft of Clamecy. 
DORN'MEIpT, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
the Upper Rhine, and principality of lieffe Darmftadt : 
five miles weft of Darmftadt. 
DOR'NIC,yi [of Dtornic in Flanders; where firft made.] 
A fpecies of linen-cloth ufed in Scotland for the table. ■ 
DCIRN'KRELL D’EBERHERTZ (James), a Ger¬ 
man Lutheran divine, born at Lunenburg,in 1643. After 
purfuing his ftudies in the univerfities of Helmftadt and 
Thiel, he was for fome time fettled in the paftoval charge 
at Holdenftadt. He was a man of confiderable erudition, 
and. publifiled feveral works which were favourably re¬ 
ceived. The titles of the principal of them are: x. Spe¬ 
cimen Bibliorum Harmonicorum. 2. Biblia hiflorico-harmonica , 
five opus divines Confonantiee integrum. 3. TraElatus contra pa- 
rum Utilitatis habenies condones eccUfiaJUcas. 4. Epijlolee Cu- 
riofes, publifhed under the name of Polymufus. He died 
in 1704. 
DORN'NUM, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Weftphalia, and county of Eaft Frifeland : fix miles weft, 
fouth-weft of Efens. 
DOR'NOCK, a fea-port town of Scotland, fituafed on 
the fouth-eaft coaft of the county of Sutherland, on a 
frith or arm of the German fea, called the Frith of Dor- 
nock) formerly the refidence of the bilhops of Caithnefs, 
but now much decayed from its former grandeur. It is 
the county town. It was taken by the young chevalier 
in 1746 : twenty-four miles north of Inverneis. Lat. 57. 
51. N. Ion. o. 44. W. Edinburgh. 
DOR'NOLL, a river of Wales, which runs into the 
Wye, in the fouthern part of the county of Montgomery. 
DO'ROBOI, or Dorohoi, a town of European Tur¬ 
key, in the province of Moldavia: fixty-eight miles north- 
north-weft of Jafli, and 142 north-weft of Bender. 
DO'ROG, a town of Hungary: fix miles fouth-eaft of 
Nanas. 
DOROGOBUZ', a town of Ruflia, in the government 
of Smolenfk : forty miles eaft-north-eaft of Smolenfk, and 
320 fouth-fouth-eaft of Peterfburg. 
DOROJ KIEWIC'ZE, a town of Lithuania, in the pa¬ 
latinate of Brzefc : ninety miles eaft of Brzefc. 
DO'RON,y. [Gr.] A gift, a prefent; a meafure in 
antiquity of about three inches. Phillips. 
DORON'ICUM, f. [ Doronigi or Dorungi ; an 1 Arabic 
name.] Leopard’s Bane ; in botany, a genus of the clafs 
fyngenefia, order polygamia fuperflua, natural order com- 
pofitEe difeoideae, (corymbiferas, Jiff.) Thegeneric cha¬ 
racters are—Calyx : common with leaflets -lance-fubu- 
late, about twenty in number, equal, upright, of a dou¬ 
ble feries, length generally of the ray of the corolla. 
Corolla: compound fayed; corollules hermaphrodite, 
tubular, numerous in thedifk; females ligulate, of the 
number of calycular leaves, in the ray.; proper of the 
hermaphrodite funnel-form: border five-cleft, patulous; 
female ligulate, lanceolate, three-toothed. Stamina : in 
the hermaphrodites ; filaments five, capillary, very fhort; 
anther cyiindric, tubular. Pitiillum : in the herma¬ 
phrodites; germ oblong ; ftyle filiform, length of the 
ftamens ; .fiigma emarginate. In the females ; germ ob¬ 
long; ftyle filiform, length of the hermaphrodite.; ftig- 
mas two, reflex. Pericarpium : none ; calyx flightly con¬ 
verging. Seeds: in the hermaphrodite falitary, obevate, 
furrowed, a little comprefted; down hairy. In the fe¬ 
males lolitary, obovate, furrowed, a little comprefted; 
down none. Receptaculum naked, flat.— Kfaitial Cha- 
radlcr. Calyx, feales in two rows equal, longer than the 
dilk ; feeds of the ray naked and deftitute of down ; down 
to thofe of the difk Ample; receptaculum naked. 
Species. 1. Doronicum pardalianches, or great: leopard’s 
bane: leaves cordate, obtufe, toothletted ; thofe next 
the root petioled, on the item embracing. Great leo¬ 
pard’s bane has thick flefhy roots, divided into many 
knots, fending out ftrong flefhy fibres, which penetrate 
deep into the ground ; root-leaves heart-fhaped, hairy, 
petioled : among thefe arife the flower-ftalks, which are 
channelled and hairy, near three feet high, putting out 
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