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or the .like, with half the eafe and expedition that glafs- 
Iptnners do thread's of th.is brittle matter. We have fome 
or them vfed in plumes for children’s heads, and divers 
other works, much finer than any hair, and which bend 
arid v.-ave like it with every wind. Yet nothing is more 
fiinple and eafy than the method of making them : there 
are two workmen employed ; the firft holds one end of a 
piece of glafs over the flame of a lamp ; and, when the 
heat has foftened it, a fecond operator applies a glafs 
hook to tire metal thus in fufion; and, withdrawing the 
hook again, it brings with it a thread of glafs, which (fill 
adheres to the mafs: then, fitting his hook on tire cir¬ 
cumference of a wheel about two feet and a half in dia. 
meter, he turns tire wheel as faft as he pleafes; which, 
drawing out the thread, winds it on its rim ; till, after a 
certain number of revolutions, it is covered with a (kain 
of glafs-thread. 
1 he mafs in fufion over the lamp diminiflies infenfibly: 
being wound out, as it were, like a pelotoon, or clue of 
filk, upon the wheel ; and the parts, as they recede from 
the flame, cooling, become more coherent to thofe next 
to them ; and this by degrees: the parts neareft the fire 
are always the leaft coherent, and, of confequence, muff 
give way to the effort the reft make to draw them to¬ 
wards the wheel. The circumference of thcfe threads is 
ufually a flat oval, being three or four times as broad as 
thick : fome of them feem no bigger than the thread of 
a filk-worm, and are furprifingly flexible. If the two 
ends of fuch threads be knotted together, they may be 
drawn and bent, till the aperture, or fpace in the middle 
of the knot, doth not exceed one-fourth of a line, or one- 
forty-eighth of an inch diameter. Hence M. Reaumur 
advances, that the flexibility of glafs increafes in pro¬ 
portion to the finenefs of the threads ; and that, proba¬ 
bly, had we but the art of drawing threads as fine as a 
fpider’s web, we might weave fluffs and cloths of them 
for wear. Accordingly lie made fome experiments this 
way ; and found he could make threads fine enough, viz. 
as fine, in his judgment, as fpider’s thread, but he could 
never make them long enough to life in a loom. The 
dmStility and finenefs of the fpider’s web, furpaftes all 
that has been (fated above ; and fome of them are fo fine, 
as fcarcely to be difeerned without.a microfccpe. See 
the article Aranea, vol. ii. p. 31. 
DUC'TION,y~. The aft of leading. Not much ufed. 
DUD, a town of Africa, in the country of Mofam- 
bique, where the king refides. 
DU'D A, a town of Lithuania, in the palatinate of Wil- 
na : twenty-eight miles eaft-north-eaft of Lida. 
DU'DAIM,/ in botany. See Cucumis. 
DUD'DEN, a river of England, which runs into the 
Irifli fea, about three miles fouth from Dalton, in Lanca- 
ihire. 
DU'DEN, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in the province 
of Caramania : ten miles north of Satalia. 
DU'DEN, a river of Afiatic Turkey, which runs into 
the fea near Satalia. 
DU'DENHOFEN, a town of Germany, in the circle 
of the Upper Rhine, and county of Hanau Munzenberg : 
feven miles fouth of Hanau. 
DU'DERSTADT, a town of Germany, in the circle 
of the Lower Rhine, and territory of Eichsfield ; con¬ 
taining three churches ; ceded to the debtor of Mentz 
in 1365, by Otlio, fon of Henry, duke of Brunfwick. The 
principal trade is in beer and tobacco : forty-fix miles 
north weft of Erfurt, and twenty weft of Nordhaufen. 
DUD'GEON,y. [ dolch , Germ.] A fmall dagger: 
It was a ferviceable dudgeon. 
Either for fighting or for drudging. Hudibras. 
Malice; fullennefs; malignity; ill will.—The cuckoo 
took this a little in dudgeon. L' EJlrange. 
Civil dudgeon firft grew high, 
And men fell out they knew not why. Hudibras. 
DU'DITH (Andrew), a learned Hungarian prelate, 
DUD 
born at Buda in 1533. Being defeended from a noble 
and opulent family, lie enjoyed all the advantages ofa 
liberal education, and foon diftinguidled liimfelf by the 
brightnefs of his parts, and the proficiency which lie made 
in the different branches of literature. He was fent to 
Breflau in Silefia, to-be initiated in clafiicai learning, and 
to become acquainted with the German tongue. At 
eighteen years of age he was removed to Verona, where 
he made fuch a rapid progrefs in the Latin and Greek 
languages, in the ftudy of eloquence, and in other de¬ 
partments of the belles-lettres, that he acquired very 
high reputation among the Italian literati. From Italy 
lie went to France, to make himfelf mafter of the Hebrew 
and the other oriental languages. From Paris he returned 
again to Italy, and find ied for fome years at Padua. When, 
in the year 1534, cardinal Pole was nominated papal le¬ 
gate to the court of England, Dudith was engaged by 
him to become ene of his train, and recommended him¬ 
felf to the notice and efteem of queen Mary and her lifter 
Elizabeth. Not l-ong afterwards he returned into his na¬ 
tive country, and was appointed provoft of Oberbaden, 
and canon of Gran. Here he tranflated into Latin, The 
Judgment of Dionyfius Halicarnaflenfis on the Hiftory of 
Thucydides, and laid the foundation of fome other lite¬ 
rary works. In 1560, Dudith repaired to the court of 
Vienna, where his merits occafioned his being appointed 
one of the privy-councillors to the emperor Ferdinand II. 
and were, in a fhort time, further honoured by his nomi¬ 
nation to the bifliopric of Tina in Dalmatia. In 1662, 
hewasdepiued by the clergy of Hungary to be one of 
their reprefentatives in the council of Trent. The em¬ 
peror afterwards fent him his ambaffudor into Poland, to 
the court of Sigifmund Auguftus; and on his return 
tranflated him to the bifhopric of five churches. After 
the death of Ferdinand, his fon and fucceftbr, Maximi¬ 
lian II. who entertained the fame opinion of his charafter 
and abilities with his father, fent him alfo as his ambaf- 
fador into Poland. By this time Dudith had undergone 
a revolution in his religious opinions, and was determined 
to withdraw from the communion of the church of Rome. 
This event drew on his h ad the thunders of the Vatican ; 
but lie treated them with contempt, and, retaining ftill 
the efteem and confidence of the emperor, was appointed 
his refident in Poland, where he publicly profeiled the 
proteftant religion. From hence he returned to Breflau, 
where he died in 1589, i the fixtieth year of his age. 
Dudith was unqueftionably one of the moft learned and 
eminent men of the fixteemh century. His life was re¬ 
gular and virtuous, his manners polite and conciliating, 
and his benevolence warm and unconfined. He was the 
author of numerous treatifes in controverfy, phyfles, and 
poetry. His Difcourfes pronounced at the Council of 
Trent, An Apology for the Emperor Maximilian II. A 
Treatife in Favour of the Marriage of the Clergy, toge¬ 
ther witli fome other pieces, and his Life by Reuter, 
were publifhed in quarto, in 1610. The principal of his 
other works are, A Treatife on Comets, with Diflerta- 
tions on the fame Subject, 1579 ; Epijlota Medicinales, pub- 
1 idled in the Epijlola Philofophica, Med/Ca , & Chymica, of 
Laurence Scholzius, 159S ; Latin Poems, inferted in the 
two volumes of The Beauties of German Poetry; Not# 
Duplices in Faujli Socini DiJ'putationem de Baptifmo Aqua , &c. 
1613, 8vo. and other controverflal pieces, letters, &c. 
DUDLEY, an ancient town in Worcefterfliire, diftant 
120 miles from London, with a market on Saturdays; 
fairs May 8, Augufts, Oftober 2. The inhabitants have 
an extenfive manufacture for nails and other iron-wares. 
Here are three charity fchools, one for fifty boys, another 
for fifty girls, and the other a free grammar fchool. At 
a little diftance from the town are the ruins of Dudley 
priory, built in 1160. It is fituated on the road from 
Birmingham 10 Bridgnorth, ten miles from the former, 
and fixteen from the latter. Dudley caftle is adjacent to 
the town, though in the county of Stafford. It was ori¬ 
ginally built in the year 700, but was demolifhed by Hen¬ 
ry II. 
