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Ryles three, fnnple, patulous; digmas fimple. Pericar- 
pium : capfule roundifh, covered by the calyx, one-cel. 
led, fmall, clipped round. Seed: fmgle, kidney-form, 
glolTy.— EJfential CharaSer. Calyx, five-toothed; petals 
five ; capfule clipped round, one-feeded. 
Drypis f'pinofa, a fingle fpecies. The Rems are pro¬ 
cumbent, four-cornered, brachiate ; the lad dichotomous 
and flower-bearing. Frefh green branches pufh forth in 
the fpring from, tlie dry ones of the former year, the ex¬ 
treme ones are dichotomous, and bear flowers. Biennial. 
Native of Barbary, Italy, Iftriu, &e. It is named fperage 
thijlle by Johnfon in Gerarde ; in Italy they call it erba 
ciuccia, or afs-herb, becaufe that animal feeds freely on 
it. See CtrcuBALUs and Salsola. 
DRYS'D A LE (John),an eminent minifterofthe churcji 
of Scotland, born at Kirkaldy, in the county of Fife, April 
29,1718. He was the third fon of the rev. J. Dryfdale, mi- 
nifler of Kirkaldy, and ot Anne Fergufon, daughter of 
William Fergufon, e(q. provofl or chief magiftrate of the 
fame town. He received the elements of clallical learn¬ 
ing at a fchool in the fame town, under David Miller, a 
man who had alfo the honour of indrudting the celebrated 
Adam Smith, and James Olwald of Dunikeir, perfons who 
have reflected fo much luftre on their country, the one 
as a philofopher and man of letters, and the other as an 
eminent flatefman. While at fchool, John Dryfdale great¬ 
ly diftinguifhed himfelf as a clafiical fcholar; infomuch 
that he was fent very early to the univerfity of Edin¬ 
burgh. He there profecuted his dudies with great fuc- 
cefs, and foon attracted the notice of the profeflbrs. Af¬ 
ter pafling through the ordinary courfes of languages and 
philofophy, he engaged in the Rudy of divinity, the ulti¬ 
mate object of his repairing to the univerlity; and, in 
1740, he was employed as all;Rant minifler in the college 
church at- Edinburgh. In 1748, he obtained a crown- 
prefentation to the churcbof Kirklifton in Wefl Lothian. 
Won-by his amiable manners, and fedulous to reward 
profeflional piety and virtue, the marifchal'-college of 
Aberdeen, without his felicitation or knowledge, confer¬ 
red on him the degree of doctor in divinity, by diploma, 
bearing date the 15th of April 1765: and the following 
year, 1 lie death of Dr. John Jardine having produced a 
vacancy in the Trcn church, Dr. Dryfdale was tranflated 
thither; and by royal warrant he was appointed one of 
hismajefty’s chaplains, with one-third of the emoluments 
o! the deanry ol the chapel royal, on the recommenda¬ 
tion of the late marquis of Rockingham. In 1773, Dr. 
Dryfdale’s numerous friends thought it due time to raife 
•him to the dignity, of moderator of the general aflembly ; 
the greatefl mark of refpedl which an eccleftaflical com¬ 
monwealth can-bellow on any of its members; and, be¬ 
ing accordingly chofen without oppofition, he difcharged 
the duties of the. office with great fatisfaClion to the ve¬ 
nerable court, and with infinite credit to himfelf. In 
1784, Dr. Dryfdale was, by a very great majority of votes, 
feated a fecond time in the moderator's chair. But he 
did not long furvive this double honour; for he died on 
the 161h of June 1788 ; leaving behind him a mod valu¬ 
able collection of Sermons, publithed in London, in 1793, 
in 2 vols. 8vo. 
DRY'SKOD, adj. Without wet feet j. without tread¬ 
ing above the flioes in th.e water: 
Has honour’s fountain then fuck’d back, the dream ? 
He lias ; and hooting boys may dryjhod pafs, 
And gather pebbles from the naked ford. Dry den. 
To DRY'STITCH, v. a. in fttrgery, is when by means 
of a piece of linen-cloth with ftpong glue, duck on each 
fide a wound, its lips are drawn together. 
DRYSWI'A i Y, a town of Lithuania, in the palati¬ 
nate of Wilna : fixteen miles fouth-wed of Brafiaw. 
DRZEWIC'ZE, a town of Poland, in the palatinate 
of Sandomirz : twenty-four miles wed-north-wed of San- 
domirz. 
BSAP'RONG, or Tchaprong, a town of Afia^ in the 
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country of Thibet, on the Lantchau : 343 leagues weft 
of Lalfa. D 
DSA'RIN, a lake of Thibet, about twelve leagues in 
circumference. Lat. 32. 10. N. Ion. 95. 10, E. Ferro. 
DSAT'CHOU, or Tsatch.ou, or Salchou, a river 
of Alia, which rifes in Thibet, and pades into the Chi- 
nefe province of Yun-nan, where jt changes its name to 
I.ant-fan ; after eroding the province o-f Yun-nan, it takes 
the name of Kiou-long. 
DSEP'TONG, or Septong, a town of Ada, in Tin-, 
bet: eight leagues wed-north-wed of Rimbou. 
DSCHIK'KET AEI, or wild mule. See Eouus. 
DSJAB'BE TAR, a fmall ifland of Arabia, in the 
Red Sea, about forty miles wed-fouth-wed of Loheia. 
Lat. 15. 32. N. Ion. 41. 33. E. Greenwich. 
DSJAB'BEL, a fmall ifland in the Red Sea, about 
eight leagues from the coad of Arabia. Lat. 14. 4. N„. 
Ion. 43. 34. E. Greenwich. 
DSJ A'LIE, a town of Arabia: twenty-four milesYouth-, 
ead of Loheia. 
DSJAR, a town of Arabia: eighty miles fouth-wed 
of Medina. 
DSJE'BI, a town of Arabia, in the country of Yemen ; 
fifty-fix miles ead of Hodeida. Lat. 14. 44. N. Ion. 43. 
40. E. Greenwich. 
DSJEL'LEDI, a town of Arabia, in the country of 
Yemen : twenty-four miles ead-fouth-ead of Chamir. 
DSJOB el ALA, a town of Arabia, in the country of 
Yemen: forty miles fouth-wed of Sana. 
DSJO'BLA, a town of Arabia, in the country of Ye¬ 
men : fixty miles north-ead of Mocha. 
DSOU'KIOAG, a lake ot Thibet, fifteen leagues in 
circumference. Lat. 30. 30. N. Ion. 92. 10. E. Ferro. 
DU'AL, adj. \_dualis, Lat.] Expreding the number 
two.—‘Modern languages have only one variation, and fo 
the Latin; but the Greek and Hebrew have one to fig. 
nify two, and another to fignify more than two : under 
one-variation, the noun is faid to be of the dual numler s 
and under the other of the. plural. Clarke. 
DUA'BOS (Los), a.town of the idand of Cuba : thirty- 
fix miles ead of Villa del Principe.- 
DUA'NESBURGH, atownfhip of the Aimerica-n States, 
in Albany county, New York, containing 1470 inhabitants; 
of whom 260 are electors. 
DU'ARCHY, f. [of ova and apyyi, Gr.] A form of 
government where two rule jointly. 
DUA'RE, a town of Venetian Dalmatia, taken from 
tire Turks in 1.646, and lod to them again foon after. It 
was again taken by the Venetians in 1652: twenty miles 
ead-north-ead of Spalatzo. 
DUA'REN (Francis), an eminent French lawyer., born 
near the beginning of the lixteenth century, at St. Brie.u 
in Britany. He was an -intimate friend of the learned. 
Bude, and acquired from him much knowledge of the 
Greek tongue, and of Roman antiquities, which he re¬ 
paid by indrudting the children of Bude. He dudied the 
civil law at Bourges under Alciatus, and afterwards prac- 
tifed at the bar. of the parliament of Paris. At length lie 
became profelTor of law at Bourges, w! ere he acquired 
great fame as a teacher and writer. De Thou accounts 
him the mod learned jurid of the age, next to Alciatus. 
When advanced in life lie had to fudain a warm compe¬ 
tition from Cujas, then riling- into notice ; and the uni¬ 
verfity of Bourges was fo divided between their diici- 
ples, that fe.rio.iis effects might have followed, had not 
Cujas retired to Valence. Duaren had an indifferent 
memory, fo that he was obliged to read his harangues, 
which in fome meafure injured his reputation abroad. 
His works were much efteemed, even by his rival Cujas; 
though after bis death fome pieces, not meant for the 
prefs, were injudicioafiy added from notes taken by his 
fcholars. The principal are -. 1. Pro hbertate Ecclcfue Gal- 
Hear adverfus Romanam, Defer,f>o Parifunfxs Curia. 2. DeJ'a- 
crif Ecclcjics Minijlcriis ac Benfciis. 3.. Commentaries on 
the Code and the Diged, Lite works, of Duaren were- 
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