DUB 
printed together at Lyons, 2 vols. folio, 1578, and at Ge¬ 
neva, folio, 1603. He died about the age of fifty, in 1559. 
DUARZE, a river of Spain, in the province of Gui- 
pufcoa, which runs into the Orio, at Tolofa. 
DU'AULT-QJJEl.IN, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Not th Coafts, and principal place of a canton, 
in the diftriCt of Roftrenen : three leagues north-weft of 
Roftrenen. 
To DUB, v. a. [bubban zo jiibejie. Sax. addubba till 
riddara, Ilian, to dub a knight. Addubba, in its primary 
fenfe, fignifies to Jfrike, knights being made by a blow on 
the lhoiilder with a fword.] To make a man a knight.— 
The king flood up under his cloth of ftate, took the lword 
from the lord protestor, and dubbed the lord mayor ui 
London knight. Hayward. 
Knight, knight, good mother! Bafilifco like. 
What! I am dubb'd-, I have it on my ilioulder. Shakcfp. 
To confer any kind of dignity or new character.—A plain 
gentleman, of an ancient family, is of better quality than 
a new knight, though the reafon of his dubbing was meri¬ 
torious. Collier. 
A man of wealth is dubb'd a man of worth ; 
Venus fliall give him form, and Anftis birth. Pope. 
DUB,/ A blow ; a knock : 
As (kilful coopers hoop their tubs 
With Lydian and with Phrygian dubs. Hudibras. 
DUB'BA FETTE 1 E, a river of Hindooftan, one of the 
branches of the Sinde. 
DUBCHES'KIA 1 A, a town of Ruffian Siberia, in the 
government of Toboltk, on the Enifei: 164. miles 1101th- 
north-eaft of Enifeifk. 
DUB'DU, a town of Africa, in the country of Fez. It 
was at one time an independent ftate, and governed by a 
prince who took the title of king : eighty miles call of 
Fez. 
DU'BEN, a town of Germany, in the circle of Upper 
Saxony, and circle of Leipfic, on the Mulda : eighteen 
miles north-north-eaft of Leipfic. 
DU'BENINKEN, a town of Pruffian Lithuania : four 
miles eaft of Goldapp. 
DU'BEFOW, a town of the duchy of Courland : twen¬ 
ty miles fouth-eaft of Seelburg. 
DU'BICE, a town of Lithuania, in the palatinate of 
Wilna : twenty miles weft-north-weft of Lida. 
DUBIEC'Z, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of 
Lemberg : fifty-two miles weft of Lemberg. 
DUBIN'KY, a town of Lithuania, in the palatinate of 
Wilna : twenty-four miles north of Wilna. 
DUBIO'SITY,/. A thing doubtful. Not vfed.— Men 
often fwallow falfities for truths, dubiofities for certainties, 
feafibilities for poffibilities, and things impoflible for pof- 
fible. Brown. 
DU'BIOUS, adj. [dubius, Lat.] Doubting; not fettled 
in an opinion. Uncertain ; that of which the truth is not 
fully known.—No quick reply to dubious queftions make. 
Denham. —Not plain ; not clear : 
Satan with lefs toil, and now with eafe, 
Wafts on the calmer wave, by dubious light. Milton. 
Having the event uncertain : 
His utmoft pow’r with adverfe pow’r oppos’d, 
In dubious battle, on the plains of heav’n. Milton. 
DQ'BIOUSLY, adv. Uncertainly; without any deter¬ 
mination.—Authors write often dubioujly , even in matters 
wherein is expected a ftriCt definitive truth. Brown. 
DU'BIOUSNESS, / Uncertainty ; doubtfulnefs.-—• 
She fpeaks with dubioufnefs , not with the certainty of a 
• goddefs. Broome. 
DU'BITABLE, adj. \_duhito, Lat.] Doubtful; uncer¬ 
tain ; what may be doubted. 
DUBITA'TION,/. \_dubitatio, Lat.] The aft of doubt¬ 
ing ; doubt.—Many of the ancients denied the antipodes 5 
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but the experience of our enlarged navigation can now 
allert them beyond all dubitation. Brown. 
DU'BITZA, a town and fortrefs of Croatia on the U11- 
na : eleven miles north-eaft of Kaftanovitz. 
DUB'KI, a town of Ruffia, in the government of Pe- 
terlburg, on the gulf of Finland : fixteen miles north- 
north-weft of Peterfburg. 
DUBLIN, a county of Ireland, bounded on the north 
by the county of Meath, on the eaft by tIre Irilh lea, on 
the fouth by the county of Wicklow, and on the weft by 
the counties of Meath and Kildare ; twenty-five miles 
in extent from north to fouth, and from nine to fixteen 
broad from eaft to weft. It contains about 142,050 acres, 
and, in the year 1790, 25,510 houfes, and 107 pari fires, 
twenty of which are in the city of Dublin. 1 his coun-y 
is in general flat, except towards the fouth, where it is 
mountainous and rocky; towards tire lea it is broken into 
bays and creeks, with feveral places of refort for lea- 
bathing. The principal river is the Liffey. 
DUB'LIN, the metropolis of Ireland, ranks as the fe- 
cond city in the Britifh dominions, and the fifth tor mag¬ 
nitude in Europe, is (ituated in the province ot Leinfter, 
in the county of Dublin, at the bottom of a large bay. 
The river Liffey, which here difembogues itfelt into the 
ocean, divides the town into nearly two equal parts. 
Formerly the city of Dublin was confined to the loath 
fide of the river, and was a place of great antiquity. 
Ptolemy, who flotirifhed in the reign of Antoninus Pius, 
about the year 140, fays, it was anciently called AJckcled. 
In 155, Alpinus, whole daughter Auliana was drowned 
in the Liffey, changed the name from AJdided to Auliana. 
It was afterwards named Dublana, and Ptolemy calls it 
Eblana. Dublana, whence comes Dublinum and Dublin, is 
evidently derived from Dub-leana, “the place of tiie 
black harbour or lake,” or rather “ the lake of the fea,” 
the bay of Dublin being frequently fo called. This city 
has had a variety of names. The Irilh call it Drom-dw/l- 
coil, “the brow of a hazle wood ;” and in iSx,. Bogan 
king of Munffer, being on a royal tour, paid a vifit to this 
place, which was then called Alha CliatluDubb-Linc, “ the 
paftage of the ford of hurdles over the black pool.” 
The city of Dublin is feated in view of the fea on the 
eaft, and a fine country which fvvells into gently riling 
eminences on the north and weft, while it towers boldly 
up in lofty mountains that bound the horizon on the 
fouth. The city itfe.lf cannot be feen to full advantage 
on entering the harbour: but the approach to it from 
thence exhibits a fine profpeCt of the country for im¬ 
provement and cultivation, interfperfed with numerous 
villas, that have a mod agreeable effect to enliven this 
delightful feene, which, beginning at the water’s edge, 
is continued all over the coaft to the northward of the 
bay as far as the eye can reach, and is finely contrafted by 
a diftant view of the W.icklow mountains to the fouth, 
where the conical hills, called th z fugar-loaves, contribute 
not a little, by the lingularity of their appearance, to 
embellilh the landfcape, fo extenlive and picturefque as 
mot to be equalled by any natural feenery in Europe, but 
the entrance of the bay of Naples, to which it bears a 
very ftriking refemblance. The form of Dublin is nearly 
a fquare, a figure that includes the largeft area propor¬ 
tioned to its circumference. The length is two miles and 
an half, and its greateft breadth is computed to be of the 
fame extent: hence the city is about ten miles in circum¬ 
ference. It is laid to contain about 22,000 houfes,. whole 
inhabitants are eftimated at 156,000. 
The river Liffey is crofted by fix bridges ;, the fides are 
embanked with fpacious quays, fo that veffels can load 
and unload before the houfes of the merchants. The 
bay is about feven miles broad, and unfafe in ftormy wea¬ 
ther, bitt the channel is confined for three miles on each 
fide by a broad ftone wall, for the protection of (hips in 
the road. Veliels which draw more than' feven feet can¬ 
not come up to the quay. A floating light has been 
erected .on the north fide of the hat hour, to prevent ac¬ 
cidents. 
