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ffie firft many fuppofed this plant to be tender, and planted 
it in warm fituations and nurfed it too much, whereby 
the plants were often killed ; but by experience it is 
found to be fo hardy, as not to be hurt by the fevered 
cold of this country ; but it will not thrive in a very 
dry foil, or where it is greatly expofed to the fun. 
fo DODGE, v.n. [probably corrupted from dog; to 
fhift, and play fly tricks, like a dog.] To ufe craft; to 
deal with tergiverfation ; to play mean tricks; to ufe low 
drifts.—If in good offices and due retributions we may 
not be pinching and niggardly, it argues an earthly and 
ignoble mind, where we have apparently wronged, to 
higgle and dodge in the amends. Hale. —To fhift place as 
another approaches : 
For he had, any time this ten years full, 
Dodg'd with him betwixt Cambridge and the Bull. 
Milton. 
To play fad and loofe ; to raife expeditions and difap- 
point them.—You know my padion for Martha, and 
what a dance die has led me; die dodged with me above 
thirty years. Addifon. —-This word, in all its fenfes, is 
low and vulgar. 
DOD'KIN, /. [ duytken , Dut.] A doitkin or doit; a 
contemptuous name for a bafe coin. See Doit.—I would 
not buy them for a dodkin. Lily's Grammar conjlrucd. 
DO'DC), /. in ornithology. See Didus. 
DODO'ENS (Rembert), in Latin Dodonaus a phyfi- 
cian and eminent botanid, born in 1518 at Staveren in 
Friefeland. He dudied medicine at Louvain, and after¬ 
wards vifited the principal univerfities of France and 
Italy. He became phyfician to the emperors Maximili¬ 
an II. and Rodolph II. and was a profedbr at Leyden, 
where he died in 15S5. His-botanical works are : 1. Hif- 
toria Frugum, Antw. 1552, 8vo. 2. Herbarium Belgicum, 
1553, 1557 ; the figures of this are modly from Fuchs, 
the hidories and enumeration of qualities, brief: this 
work was trandated into French by L’Eclufe, and into 
Englifli by Lyte. 3. De Stirpium Hijloria Comment, imagines, 
8vo. two vols. fome of the figures of the fird volume, 
and one hundred and thirty-three of the fecond, are by 
Dodoens, and are fuperior to thofe of Fuchs. 4. Fru- 
mentorum , Lcguminum , Palujlrium, £? Aquatilium Herbarum 
Hijloria, 1566, 1569, 8vo. of thefe the figures are for the 
mod part new. 5. Coronariarum Odoiatarunique nonull. 
Herb. Hijl. 1568, 8vo. the figures of thefe are fuperior to 
all that had hitherto appeared, except thofe of Gefner. 
6. Purgantium, aliarumque eo facientium, S3c. Hijl. 1574, 
8vo. very valuable for its beautiful plates. 7. Hijloria 
Vttis, Vinique, &c. Colon. 1580, 8vo. 8. Hijloria Stirpium 
pemptades vi. J'eu Libr. xxx. Antw. 1583, folio; this is a 
collection of all the former. An improved edition of it, 
after the author’s death, was publifhed by Raphelengius, 
in Dutch. Dodoens alfo wrote a Praxis Mcdica, and a 
book of Medical Obfervations. 
DODO'NA, anciently a town of Thefprotia in Epirus, 
or, according to others, in Thetfaly ; famous for a cele¬ 
brated oracle of Jupiter. 
DODONZE'A, f. [fo'named in honour of Rembert Do¬ 
donaus or Dodoens , profeffor of medicine, a famous bota¬ 
nid of the fixteenth century; author of Frugum Hijloria, 
&c.] In botany, a genus of the clafs oCtandria, order 
monogynia, natural order dumofte, (terebintaceae, JuJJ.) 
The generic characters are—-Calyx : perianthium four¬ 
leaved, flat; leaflets ovate, obtufe, concave, deciduous. 
Corolla: none. Stamina: filaments eight, very fhort; 
antherae oblong, bowed, converging, length of the calyx. 
Piftillum : germ three-fided, length of the calyx ; dyle 
cylindric, three furrowed, upright; digma {lightly three- 
cleft, a little acute. Pericarpium : capfule three-fur¬ 
rowed, inflated, three-ceiled ; with large membranaceous 
corners. Seed: in couples, roundidi.— ■EJfentialCkaraBer. 
Calyx, four-leaved ; corolla, none ; capfule, three-celled, 
inflated ; feeds, in couples. 
Species, 1. Dodontea vifeofa, or broad-leaved dodonaea; 
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leaves oblong. This fends up feveral ftalks from the 
root, about the fize of a man’s arm, with feveral upright 
branches, covered with a light brown bark, which fre¬ 
quently feparates from the wood, and hangs loofe ; leaves 
did', varying greatly in fliape and fize, fome being four 
inches long, and an inch and a half broad ; others not 
three inches long, and a quarter of an inch broad ; they 
are fpear-fliaped, entire, and of a light green, growing 
with their points upward, and have very fhort foot-dalks. 
The flow'ers are produced at the end of the branches in 
a fort of raceme, each danding upon a flender foot-dalle 
about an inch long. This upright branched fhrub, fays 
Jacquin, growing about five feet in height, is entirely 
vifeid and fetid; the younger branches are angular; 
leaves oblong, with a bluntifh point, attenuated at the 
bafe, alternate, with fcarcely any petiole on tender plants 
that come out in the fird months, ufually repand or fer¬ 
rate ; flowers in rqcemes, frequently varying much on the 
fame branches ; the natural number of leaflets in the 
calyx feems to be four; it is feldom found with five, and 
when it has only three, which is frequently the cafe, one 
of the leaflets is always larger than the red, and fcored 
with a longitudinal groove ; the piftil is frequently defi¬ 
cient in one third part, and then the capfule has only two 
cells ; fometimes there are only feven damens, and even 
fix, but that happens very feldom ; one feed in a cell is 
frequently abortive, and fometimes both. According to 
Gaertner the feeds are rouritiifh, turgidly lenticular, but 
very fharp-edged towards the back, hard, fmooth, black. 
Browne fays that this flender fhrub feldom rifes more than 
fix or feven feet, (ten or twelve, Sloane;) both the trunk 
and branches are very flexile and tapering ; the tade of 
the whole plant is acerb and bitterifh. In Jamaica it is 
called the JwitckJbrrcl. Native of the countries between 
the tropics. In the Society iiles it is dioecous,fin.Hew 
Zealand hermaphrodite. Introduced in 1690, by Mr. 
Bentick. 
2. Dodonaea angudifolia, or narrow-leaved dodonsea; 
leaves linear. This refembles the foregoing, but the 
leaves are lanceolate-linear ; the fructification is polyga¬ 
mous. Native of the Cape of Good Hope ; flowers from 
May to Augud. 
Propagation and Culture. The fird is a plant propagated 
by feeds, which, if obtained frefh from abroad, will rife 
eafily upon a hot-bed : when the plants are fit to remove, 
they fhould be each planted in a feparate fmall pot filled 
with light loamy earth, and plunged into a hot-bed of 
tanners’ bark, fhading them from the fun till they have 
taken new robt; then they fhould have free air admitted 
to them, every day, in proportion to the warmth of the 
feafon, for they mud not be drawn up weak, nor fhould 
they have too much water. In the autumn the plants 
mud be removed into the dove, where they fhould have 
a temperate warmth in winter, but during that feafon lit¬ 
tle water fhould be given them; nor fhould they have 
too much heat, for either of thefe will foon deflroy them : 
as the plants obtain drength, they will become more 
hardy, and may be fet abroad in the open air for two or 
three months in the heat of fummer, but it fhould be in 
a fheltered fituation ; in winter they mud be placed in a 
dove, kept to a moderate temperature of warmth, for 
the plants will not live in a green-houfe here: This was 
formerly (hewn for the tea-tree in many of the European 
gardens, where it many years pafled for it among thofe 
who knew no better. The fecond fort is lefs tender, and 
requires only the protection of a green-houfe or glafs cafe. 
DODO'NIDES, priedeffes who gave oracles in the 
temple of Jupiter in Dodona. According to fome tradi¬ 
tions the temple was originally inhabited by the feven 
daughters of Atlas, who nurfed Bacchus; 
DO'DRANS, yi \_dodrantalis menjura, Lat.] Thefpace 
between the end of the thumb and of the little finger, 
both extended. About nine Paris inches. This meafure 
may be called in Englifh the long J'pan , and Jpitkama the 
fhort fpan. 
DODS'LEYj 
