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livered public leCtures in the college of Erfurt; and be¬ 
ing admitted into the number of profeffiors of philofo- 
-phy, taught claflical learning, and particularly the Greek 
tongue,, with .diftinguifhed reputation, for fixteen years. 
In 1574 he removed to Jena to become the fucceffor of 
Lipiius, who had been the profelfor of hiftory and elo¬ 
quence in that univerfity.. His continuance at Jena was 
but fhort, fince, in the following year, he accepted of the 
fituation of head of the college of Meiffen, which he oc¬ 
cupied for fix years. In 1581 he was appointed to the 
profefforfhip of polite learning in the univerfity of Leip- 
fic, and had a particular penfion affigned him to write a 
continuation of the hiftory of Saxony. He fpent the re¬ 
mainder of his life at I.eipfic, and died there in 1607. 
He was the author of feveral publications, of which the 
principal are, 1 . Rhetoric# Inventionis, Difpofitionis, S 3 Elocu¬ 
tionist Libri quatuor, &c. Svo. 1584. 2. Tres Libri Progym- 
nafmatim Literature Grac#, 0 rationally Epiftolarum, (3 c. 8vo. 
3. Ifagoge Hijlorica per Millenaries dijlributa , (3 ad Annum ujque 
ad nonagcfimum primuin fupra mille quingentos deduEla, 8vo. 
1587. 4. M. D. de Fejiis £3 pracipuis Anni Partibus, Liber , 
( 3 c. Svo. 1584; and, 5. Dc Fejiis Dicbus Chriflianonim Ju- 
daorum (3 Etknicorum, Liber , Svo. 1597. 
DRESS'ING, f. in furgery, the application made to a 
fore or wound.—The fecond day after we took off the 
dreffings, and found an- efehar made by the catheretic— 
Wifernan. —Outward appearance : 
Even fo may Angelo, 
In all his drcjfings, charaCts, titles, forms, 
Be an arch villain. Skahefpcarc. 
DRESS'ING-ROOM, f. The room in which clothes 
are put on.—Latin books might be found every day in 
his dr effing-room, if it were carefully fearched. Szuift. 
DRESS'INGS, f. a term in architecture, for certain 
decorations and enrichments introduced on the external 
and internal parts of buildings. 
DRES'SY, adj. Showy in chefs. 
DREST, or Dressed, part, [from to drefs, v. a.~] 
In f.ow’ry wreaths the royal virgin drejl 
His bending horns, and kindly elapt his bread. Addifon. 
DRESVIA’NIA, a town of Ruffian Siberia, in the 
government of Tobolfk, on the Vagai: ftxty miles fouth 
of Tobolfk. 
DREUX, a town of France, and principal place of a 
diftrict, in the department of the Eure and Loire, on the 
Blaife. A battle was fought near this town, on the 18th 
of December, 1562, between the army of the king of 
France, commanded by the conftable Montmorency, mar. 
fhal St. AndrC, and the duke of Guife; and that of the 
proteftants, commanded by the prince of CondC, admiral 
Coligny, and his brother, when the latter were defeated, 
and the prince of Conde taken prifoner. Henry IV. took 
it in the year 1593 : ten pofts and a half weft-fouth-weft 
of Paris. Lat. 48. 45. N. Ion. 19. 2. E. Ferro. 
DRE'YE, or Dreihe, a town of Germany, in the cir¬ 
cle of Weftphalia, and county of Hoya : five miles fouth- 
fouth-eaft of Bremen. 
DRE'YEN, a fmall iftand of Denmark, in the Little 
Belt: three miles fouth-weft of Middalfahrt. 
DREY'G.ELHAUSEN, a town of Germany, in the 
circle of the Lower Rhine, and electorate of Mentz : five 
miles north-weft of Bingen. 
DREYS, or Drf. ysz, a town of Germany, in the circle 
of Weftphalia : four miles weft-fouth-weft of Witlich. 
DREYSAL'LIGKEIT, a town of Germany, in the 
duchy of Stiria : five miles north of Pettau. 
To DRIB, v. a. [contracted from dribble . J To Crop; 
to cut off; to defalcate. A cant word: 
Merchants gains come ffiort of half the mart; 
For he who drives their bargains dribs a part. Dry den, 
'Fo DRIB-'BLE, v. n. [This word feems to have come 
from drop by fucc.effive alterations. Inch as are ufual in 
living languages: drvjjj drip, dripple, dribble, from thence 
d r r 
drive!, and driveller. Drip may indeed be the original 
word, from the Danifti drypp. ] To fall in drops!"—A 
dribbling, difficulty, and a momentary fuppreffion of urine, 
may be caufed by the (tone's (hutting up the orifice of 
the bladder. Arbuthnot. —To fall weakly and fiowly : 
Believe not that the dribbling dart of love 
Can pierce a complete bofom. Skake/pcare„ 
To fiaver as a child or idiot. 
7 bDRIB'BI.E, v. a. To throw down in drops_.Let 
the cook follow with a ladle full of foup, and dribble i'c 
all the way up (fairs. Swift. 
DRI'BENTZ, a river of Pruffia, which runs into the 
Viftula : fix miles fouth-eaft of Thorn. 
DR I'BLET, /. A fmall fum ; odd money in a fum : 
Twelve long years of exile borne, 
Twice twelve we number’d fince hisbleft return ; 
So ftriCtly wert thou juft to pay. 
Even to the driblet of a day. Dryden. 
DRI'EDO, or Dridoens (John), a learned Flemifh 
divine, in the fixteenth century, native of Turnhout in 
Brabant. He was a pupil of Adrian Florent, afterwards 
pope Adrian VI. who, when he obferved him almoft 
wholly attached to the ftudy of human fciences, knowing 
that he was defigned for the church, advifed him to pay 
his principal attention to the ftudy of theology, the mif- 
trefs of fcicnce, and more particularly fo in the profefiion 
on which he was about to enter. This advice lie fol¬ 
lowed with diligence and fuccefs ; and, by the progrefs 
which he made, became qualified for the theological 
chair in the univerfity of Louvain. At the Lime time 
that he filled that pod, he was reCtor of St. James’s, and 
canon of St. Peter’s, in that city. In the controverfy be¬ 
tween the Lutherans and Catholics he took an aCtive and 
vigorous part; and, according to the teftimony of Eraf- 
mus, difputed both coolly and learnedly. He died at 
Louvain in 1535. He was the author of a variety of 
treatifes on theological fubjeCts, of which the mod im¬ 
portant are intitled, 1. Lib. IF. De Scripturis (3 Dogmaticis 
Ecclefiajlicis. 2, Lib. II. De Gratia 13 Libtro Arbitrio. 3. De 
Concordia Libai Arbitrii 13 Preedejlinalions. 4. De Captivitate 
(3 Redemptione Generis Humani. 5. De Liberiate Chrijliana, 
They have been frequently printed at Louvain in quarto 
and in folio, in four volumes. 
DRI'ER,yi That which has the quality of abforbing 
moifture ; a deficcative.—There is a tale, that boiling of 
daify roots in milk, which it is certain are great driers , 
will make dogs little. Bacon, 
DRIE'SEN, or Dresno, a town of Germany, in the 
circle of Upper Saxony, and New Mark of Brandenburg, 
This town was betrayed to the Swedes in the year 1639, 
but reftored in 1650: twenty miles north-north-eaft of 
Schwerin, and ninety eaft-north-eaft of Berlin. 
DRIFF'BOR, a town of Norway ; forty-fix miles eaft 
of Romfdal. 
DRIFTTELD, or Great Driffield, a town in 
Yorkfhire, formerly called Dryjield, fituated in a fine 
fporting part of the Eaft Riding, twenty-three miles from 
the port of Scarborough, fourteen from the port of Brid¬ 
lington, twenty-three from that of Hull, thirty from the 
city of York, and 195 from London. Upwards of 30,000 
quarters of corn are annually fent by the navigation from 
this town into the river Humber, and fo into the^weft of 
Yorkfhire, from whence they return with coals. About 
a mile from the town is a large woollen manufactory, 
eredted in 1792 ; alfa a large bleaching-ground, and a 
cotton manufactory of conftderable extent, employs th© 
poor of the town and neighbourhood, Here is a good 
market on Thurfdays for corn, calves, pigs. See, and is 
well fupplied with fea-ft-fh. It has four annual fairs, viz, 
Eafter-Monday, Whit-Monday, Auguft 36, and Septem„ 
her 39, for (heep, black cattle, horfes, &c. In 5784, 
the fociety of antiquarians, having had information that 
the remains of king Alfred the Greats who died in 905, 
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