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Hell-ward bending o’er the beach defcry 
The dokjbme pafiage to th’ infernal fky. Pope. 
DO'LESOMELY, adv. In a dolefome manner. 
DO'LESOMENESS, f. Gloom; melancholy; dif- 
malnefs. 
DO'LET (Stephen), a learned Frenchman, born at 
Orleans, about the year 1509. By fonte writers he is 
faid to have been a natural fon of Francis I. but the re¬ 
port, for chronological a$ well as other reafons, wants 
probability. By his labours the iriterefts of literature 
were much benefited; the ftudy of the Latin language 
in particular, in Ciceronian purity, was confiderably pro¬ 
moted in France, and his-native tongue improved and 
poliflied. But he appears to have avowed lax notions 
refpedting religion, and to have excited the hatred of 
the monks in that fuperftitious age, by expoling and ri¬ 
diculing their impoftures. The confequence was, that 
he was more than once arrefted and thrown into prifon ; 
whence he was delivered, and preferved for a time,from 
a feverer fate, by the great intereft which men of learning 
and rank exerted in his behalf. But his enemies, who were 
watchful to take advantage againft him, obtained an order 
for his being again imprifoned, in 1544. After efcaping 
from confinement, and taking refuge in Piedmont, he ap¬ 
pears in a fliort time to have returned into France ; and 
was again arrefted, and fent to Paris ; where he was 
abandoned to the fury of the inquifitors. In their tinjuft 
and mercilefs court he was convifted of atheifm, and 
condemned to be burnt; which fentence was carried into 
execution in 1546, when he was only thirty-feven years 
of age. The following are the titles of the mod curious 
or important of his numerous works: 1. Sie'phani Dokti 
Orationes dua in Tholojanos, (3c. Svo. 2. Dialogus de lmita- 
tionc Ciceroniana adverfus Dcfderium Erajmum, (3c. 4to. 1535. 
3. Commentariorum Lingua Latina, Tomi duo, lolio, 1536, 
1538. 4. De Re Navali Liber, (Sc. 4to. 1537. 5. Stcphani 
Doled Galli Aurelii Carminum, Libri quatuor, 4to. 1538. 6. 
Gcnethliacum Claudii Dokti, Stephani Filii, Liber Vita communi 
in primis utilis (3 necejfarius, Autorc Patre, 4to. 1539. 7. 
Formula Latinarum Locutionum lllujlriorum, in tres Partes di- 
vifa, &c. folio, 1339. 8. Francijci Vakfi, Gallorum Regis, 
Fatorum, Libri tres, Carminibus Latinis confcripti, 4to. 1539. 
9. Objcrvationes in Terentii Andriam (3 Eunuchum, 8vo. 1540. 
10 . Liber de Imitatione Ciceroniana, adverfus Floridum. Sabi- 
num, &c. 4to. 1540. 
DOLG A'lA, a bay of Ruffian Lapland, in the White 
Sea. Lat. 73. 25. N. Ion. 38. E. Fkrro. 
DOLGANO'VA, a town of Ruffian Siberia: thirty- 
two miles north-north-eaft of Nertfchinfx. 
DOLG'BOTE.y. [from the Sax. bolg, a wound, and 
bo'ce, a recompence. 1 A recompence for a wound or fear. 
DOL'GELLY, or Dolgeth, the chief and largeft 
town of the county cf Merioneth, in North Wales. It 
is ten miles eaft of the port of Barmouth, forty fouth of 
Caernarvon, thirty-five from Montgomery, and 203 from 
London. It is lituated on the river Avon, at the bot¬ 
tom of that romantic hill called Kader-lriS, well known 
as one of the loftieft mountains in Wales, and on a good 
road leading from Shrewsbury to Caernarvon and Holy- 
head. As it is furrounded with mountains, they are 
commonly called its walls-, i has a fteeple that grows 
in it, and its bell hangs in a yew-tree. About five miles 
from the town is the cataract.of Dol y Myllyn, which 
falls thirty-five feet into a large bafon, and from thence 
twenty feet more, with a loud and awful roar. The 
markets are on Tuefdays and Saturdays; and there are 
feven fairs in the year. The tide flows within a mile of 
the town. Here is a large manufatfture of what is called 
webbing, white plains, or Welih flannel, chiefly for ex¬ 
portation. 
DOLGENSE'E, a lake of Germany, in the circle of 
Upper Saxony, and Ucker Mark of Brandenburg, a little 
to the north of Templin. 
DOL 
DOLHINO'W, a town of Lithuania, in the palatinate 
of Wilna : eighty miles eaft of Wilna. 
DOLIC'ZA, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of 
Podolia : twenty-fix miles north-weft of Kaminiec. 
DO'LICHOS, _/". [from £oAi%o$, Gr. long, the pod or 
legume being generally lengthened out.] In botany, a 
genus of the clafs diadelphia, order decandria, natural 
order papilionaceae, or leguminofae. The generic charac¬ 
ters are—Calyx : perianthium one-leafed, very fliort, 
four-toothed, equal; the fuperior tooth emarginate. Co¬ 
rolla : papilionaceous; ftandard roundifh, large, emargi¬ 
nate, the whole reflex ; two callufes oblong, parallel and 
longitudinal, growing to the ftandard beneath towards 
the bafe, compreffing the wings, not hollowed on the 
back ; wings ovate, obtufe, length of the keel ; keel lu- 
nulate, comprefted, beneath converging clofely, length 
of the wings afeending at the tip. Stamina: filaments dia- 
delphous, (fimple and nine-cleft,) the fimple one curved 
at the bafe ; Antherae fimple. Piftillum : germ linear, 
comprefted; ftyle afeending ; ftigma bearded, running on 
inwardly from the middle to the tip of the ftyle, which 
on the fore part is callous, obtufe. Pericarpium : le¬ 
gume acuminate, large, oblong, two-valved, two-celled. 
Seeds : feveral, elliptic, ufually comprefted.— FJJential 
CharaEler. Two parallel oblong callufes at the bafe of 
the ftandard, comprefling the wings underneath. 
Species. I. Twining. 1. Dolichos Benghalenfis, or Ben¬ 
gal dolichos: fhrubby, legumes ending in long dagger 
points. This is perennial, with a ftem fonte what roughifh 
to the touch, and fcadent, as well as producing feveral 
branches ; leaves roundifh-ovate, ending in a point, fur- 
riifhed with a brittle ; ftipules lanceolate ; peduncles ra- 
cemofe, four or five inches long ; flowers feated on very 
fliort peduncles, uncertain as to number; fnow-white, 
and lightly odorous. Legume oblong, pointed, com- 
pretted, firft green, afterwards growing pale ; feeds few, 
roundifh-oblong, comprefted, brown, witit deeper co¬ 
loured points, and with a long, protuberant, fnow-white, 
hilurn. 
2. Dolichos lablab, or black-feeded dolichos : legumes 
ovate-fabre-ftiaped; feeds ovate, with a bowed eye towards 
one end. Stems and branches round, fcabrous backward- 
Dolichos enfiformis of Tlninberg approaches nearer to 
this than to the dolichos enfiformis of Linnaeus, from 
which it is certainly different. Alpinus fays that this 
grows wild in Egypt. Haflelquift, however, is certain 
that it does not grow wild in Lower Egypt, but is only 
cultivated there in gardens. The Egyptians call it ful 
Frangi, or European bean : hence we might conjecture 
that the Europeans firft brought it into Egypt. The 
inhabitants make pleafant arbours of it; they not only 
fupport it with trellisAvork, but fatten it with twine, by 
which means the leaves form an excellent covering, and 
an agreeable (hade. Cultivated in 1714 by the duchefs 
of Beaufort. 
3. Dolichos Sinenfis, or Chinefe dolichos: legumes 
pendulous, cylindric, torulofe; peduncles erect, many- 
flowered. Stem annual, long, round, flender, twining, 
fomewhat branched. Native of India, Amboyna, China, 
and Cochin-china. 
4. Dolichos uncinatus, or hook-podded dolichos : le¬ 
gumes cylindric, hirfute, with a hooked fubulate claw 
at the end ; peduncles many-flowered ; ftem rough with 
hairs. This is removed by Browne and Swartz to a new 
genus, under the name of teramnus, becaufe it wants tine 
callufes at the bafe of the ftandard in the corolla, and 
hitters in other refpetts. See Teramnus. It is a na¬ 
tive of Jamaica. 
3. Dolichos luteolus, or yellowilh dolichos : legumes 
in feveral cylindric heads ; feeds rounded. Stem rather 
angular, branches round; a fcandent plant; branches 
three or four cubits long. Native of the Society Illes. 
6. Dolichos unguiculatus, or bird’s-foot dolichos : le¬ 
gumes in fubcylindric heads, recurved, and concave at 
the 
