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flowers fprrng from the bofoms of the leaves on the 
branches, and are arranged alternately in little heaps. 
The corolla confifts of three white petals, which are 
large and rounded. Native of Guiana. 
DOLL,/! A contraction of Dorothy.— Doll Tearfheet. 
ShaheJ'peare. —A little girl’s puppet or baby. 
DOLL’S POINT, a cape on the fouth coaft of the 
ifland of Jamaica, between Weft Harbour and Peake Bay. 
DOL'LAR,/! [ daler , Dut.] A Dutch and German coin 
of different value, from about two (hillings and (ixpence 
to four and fixpence : 
He difburs’d 
Ten thoufand dollars for our gen’ral ufe. Shakcfpeare. 
DOL'LART BAY, a large bay or lake of Germany, 
in Eaft Friefeland, formed by an inundation of the (ea, in 
the year 1277, which at the fame time is faid to have de- 
ftroyed thirty-three villages : (ixteen miles weft of Gro¬ 
ningen, and fix fouth-weft of Emden. 
DOL'LENDORF, a town of Germany, in the circle 
of Weftphalia, and county of Blankenheim : three miles 
fouth-eaft of Blankenheim. 
DOL'LEREN, a river of France, in the department 
of the Upper Rhine, which runs into the Ille, about two 
miles north of Mulhaufen. 
DOLL'STADT, a town of Pruflia, in the province of 
Oberland : fix miles north-weft of Preufchmark. 
DOL'MAR, a mountain of Germany, in the circle of 
Franconia, and county of Henneberg : five miles fouth 
of Schmalkalden. 
DOLMATOV', a town of Ruftia, in the province of 
Ekaterinburg, on the Ifet: eighty miles fouth-eaft of 
Ekaterinburg. 
DOLMAYRAC', a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the 'Lot and Garonne : three leagues north of 
Agen. 
DOLN'STEIN, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Franconia, and bifliopric of Aichftat, on the Altmuhl : 
fix miles weft of Aichftat. 
DOLO, in Maritime Auftria, a market town, well 
built, and lituated on the Brenta and Brentone, which 
feparate above this place. Acrofs the latter the govern¬ 
ment has of late caufed a remarkable ftone bridge to be 
built by the architect Thomas Tomanza. The firft fluices 
are conftrufted on the fpot where the Brenta feparates 
from the Brentone, and on both tides of the river ftand 
the mod fplendid palaces and gardens, to which the moft 
opulent of the nobles refort in the fummer feafon. The 
number of the inhabitants amounts to 3000, who carry 
on a good trade. 
' DG'LON, a Trojan, famous for his fwiftnefs. Being 
fent by Hedtor to fpy the Grecian camp by night, he was 
feized by Diomedes and Ulyffes, to whom he revealed 
the fituation, fchemes, and refolutions, of his country¬ 
men, with the hopes of efcaping with his, life. Fie was 
put to death by Diomedes, as a traitor. Homer. 
DOLONOS KOI, a fortrefsof Ruffian Siberia, in the 
government of Kolivan, on the Irkutfch : fixteen miles 
weft of Semipolatnoi. 
DOLO'PES, a people of Theffaly, near mount Pin- 
dus. Peleus reigned there and lent them to the Trojan 
war under Phcenix. They became mafters of Scyros, 
and, like the reft of the ancient Greeks, were fond of 
migration. Virgil. 
DOLORI'FIC, adj. [ dolorifcus , Lat.] That which 
caufes grief or pain.—The pain returned, difiipating that 
vapour which obftrudted the nerves, and giving th e dolc- 
rijic motion free paftage again. Ray. —This, by the foft- 
nefs and rarity of the fluid, is infenfible, and not dolorijic. 
Arbuthnot. 
DO'LOROUS, adj. [from dolor , Lat.] Sorrowful; 
doleful ; difmal ; gloomy ; imprefling forrow.—We are 
taught, by his example, that the prelence of dolorous and 
dreadful objedts, even in minds moft perfedt, may, as 
clouds, overcaft all feafonable joy. Hooker, 
Vol. VI. No. 327. 
Through many a dark and dreary vale 
They pafs’d, and many a region dolorous, 
O’er many a frozen, many a fiery alp, 
Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and (hades, of death. 
Milton. 
Painful.—Their difpatch is quick, and lefs dolorous than 
the paw of the bear, or teeth of the lion. More. 
DOLOS'ITY, f. [from the Lat. do/cfus, deceitful.] 
Deceitfulnefs. Scott. 
DO'LOUR,/! [dolor, Lat.] Grief; forrow : 
I’ve words too few to take my leave of you. 
When the tongue’s office (hould be prodigal, 
To breathe th’ abundant dolour of the heart. Shakcfpeare. 
Lamentation ; complaint. Pain ; pang.—A mind fixed 
and bent upon fomewhat that is good, doth avert the do - 
lours of death. Bacon. 
DOL'PHIN, f. in ichthyology. See Delphinus, 
vol. V. p. 684. 
DOL'PHIN’s ISLAND, an ifland in the Straits of Ma¬ 
gellan. Lat. 53. 39. S. Ion. 71.41. W. Greenwich. 
DOLPHINET',/! A fmall dolphin, a female dolphin : 
The lion chofe his mate, the turtle-dove 
Her dear, the dolphin his own dolphinct. Spenfer. 
DOLT,/! [dol, Teut. ] A heavy ftupid fellow ; a block¬ 
head ; a thickfcu 11 ; a loggerhead : 
Thou haft not half that power to do me harm, 
As I have to be hurt: 0I1 gull, oh dolt, 
As ignorant as dirt ! Shakcfpeare. 
To DOLT, v. n. To wafte time foolifh 1 y.—Than in 
thefe trifles to have doited fo much. New Cufom. 
DOLT'ISH, adj. Stupid; mean; dull; blockifti.—• 
Dametas, the moft arrant doltijh clown that ever was with¬ 
out the privilege of a bauble. Sidney. 
DOM'ABLE, adj. [ domabilis , Lat.] Tameable. 
DO'MAGE, /. [from domare, Lat.] Subjugation.;— 
Every man naturally endeavours, as far as he dares, to 
extort a greater value from his contemners by domage. 
Hobbes. 
DOMA'IN,/! [ domaine, Fr. Horn dominium, Lat.] Do¬ 
minion ; empire.— Ocean trembles for his green domain. 
Thomfon. 
Rome’s great emperor, whofe wide domain 
Had ample territory, wealth, and pow’r. Milton. 
Pofleflion; eftate : 
A Latian field, with fruitful plains, 
And a large portion of the king’s domains. Dry den. 
The land about a manfion-houfe occupied by the lord. 
DO'MAT (John), an eminent French lawyer, born 
at Clermont, in 1623. He ftudied the law at Bonrges, 
and pleaded with great reputation for feveral years. 
About his thirtieth year he obtained the office of king’s 
advocate in the prefidial court of Clermont, which place 
he occupied for near thirty years. He was entrufted 
with many important affairs by the province, which he 
conducted with great ability. Perceiving the confufion 
prevailing in the laws, he applied himlelf to the fyfte- 
matrc development of their principles ; which produced 
his work, intitlcd, Les Loix Civiles dans leur Ordre nature!, 
which appeared in 1694, in 3 vols. 4to. followed, after 
his death, by three more volumes on public law, &c. It 
is a performance highly efteemed for the juftnefs of its 
principles, and the clearnefs of its method, and has, per¬ 
haps, never been excelled as a fcientific work. Domat 
died at Paris in 1696, in circumftances much inferior to 
his defects. An improved edition of his work, with a 
fupplement by M. de Jouy, appeared in 1777, folio. 
DOMBA'CA, a (mall ifland near the coaft of Ava, in 
the bay of Bengal. Lat. 17. 32. N. Ion. 94. 33. E. Green¬ 
wich. 
DOM'BES, before the revolution, a principality and 
fmall country of France, in Burgundy^ about eight leagues 
E long. 
