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DUE,/ That which belongs to one ; that which may 
be juftly claimed.—The due of honour in no point omit. 
Shakefpeare. 
1 take tlais garland, not as given by youj 
But as my merit and my beauty’s due. Dryden. 
Right ; jufl title : 
The key of this infernal pit by due, 
And by command of heaven’s all-powerful King, 
I keep. Milton. 
Whatever cuftom or law requires to be done.—-They pay 
the dead his annual dues. Dryden. —Cuftom; tribute ; ex¬ 
actions; legal or cuftomary perquifites.—In refpeCt of 
the exorbitant dues that are paid at molt other ports, this 
defervedly retains the name of free. Addifon. 
“ He who lofes his Due, gets no thanks.” Spoken 
of thofe who unpardonably negleCt their own affairs, and 
thus fuffer others to defraud or impofe upon them. The 
Latins fay, Bona nomina male fiunt ., fi no)i cxigas. High 
Germ. Eine gute fehuld verdirbt , die man nichtbald erwirbt. 
The Spanifn fay, Ni tomes cohecho, ni per das derecho: Take 
no bribe, nor lofe no due. 
To DUE, v. a. To pay as due; penhaps for endow: 
found only in this fingle palfage : 
This is tire lateft glory of their praife, 
That I thy enemy due thee withal. Shakefpeare. 
DU'E CASTEL'LI, a town of the Italian republic, in 
the department of the Mincio, on the river Molinella, 
■where an obftinate battle was fought, in the beginning of 
Septemper, 1796, between a detachment of Auftrians, from 
the city of Mantua, and the French republican army ; 
the latter remained mafters of the field : five miles 
north-eaft of Mantua. 
DU'E TOR'RE, a town of Italy, in the kingdom of 
Naples, and province of Bari: fix miles fouth-fouth-weft 
of Bari. 
DU'EFUL, adj. Fit: 
All which that day in order feemly good ’ 
Did on the Thames attend, and waited well 
To do their dueful fervice, as to them befel. Spenfer. 
DUE'GNAS, or Duennas, a town of Spain, in the 
province of Leon, on the Pifuerga, on the frontiers of 
Old Caftile : three leagues fouth of Palencia. 
DU'EL,/ [ ducllum , Lat.] In our ancient law this was 
a legal fight between perfons in a doubtful cafe, for the 
trial of the truth. See the article Battel, vol. ii. p. 
S09. But this kind of duel is difufed ; and what we now 
call a duel, is a fighting between two, upon fome quar¬ 
rel precedent; wherein, if a pcrfon is killed, both the 
principal and his feconds are guilty of murder, whether 
the feconds fight or not. Hawk. P. C. 47, 51. If two per¬ 
fons quarrel over night, and appoint to fight the next 
day ; or quarrel in the morning, and agree to fight in 
the afternoon ; or fuch a confiderable time after, by which 
it may be prefitmed the blood was cooled ; and then they 
meet and fight a duel, and one kill the other, it is in the 
eye of law wilful murder. 3 Inf. 52. And whenever it 
appears, that he who kills another in a duel, or fighting 
on a fudden quarrel, was mafter of his temper at the time, 
he is guilty of murder ; as if after the quarrel he tall in¬ 
to another difcourfe, and talk calmly thereon; or allege 
that the place where the quarrel happens is not conve¬ 
nient for fighting; or that his flioes are too high, if he 
fhould fight at prefent, See. Kel. 56. 1 Lev. 180. If one 
challenge another, who refufes to meet him, but tells 
him that he (hall go the next day to fuch a place about 
bufmefs, and then the challenger meets him on the road, 
and affaults the other ; if the other in this cafe kill him, 
it will be only manftaughter; for here is no acceptance 
of the challenge, or agreement to fight: and if the per- 
fon challenged refufeth to meet the challenger, but tells 
him that he wears a (word, and is always ready to defend 
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himfelf; if then the challenger attack him, and is killed 
by the other, it is neither murder nor manftaughter, if 
neceffary in his own defence. Kel. 56. See the article 
Challenge to Fight, vol. iv. p. 76. 
Duel isalfo ufed for any contention between two: 
Victory and triumph to the Son of God. 
Now ent’ring his great dud, not of arms. 
But to vanquifh by wildom hellifh wiles. Milton. 
To DU'EL, v. n. To fight a fingle combat.—He muff 
at length, poor man! die dully at home, when here he 
might fo fafhionably and genteely have been duelled or 
fluxed into another world. South. —.The challenging and 
fighting witlj a man is called duelling. Locke. 
To DU'EL, v. a. To attack or fight with fingly : 
Who fingle 
DuelPd their armies rank’d in proud array, 
Himfelf an army, now unequal match 
To fave himfelf againft a coward arm’d. 
At one fpear’s length. Milton. 
DU'ELLA,/. The third part of an ounce. Scott. 
DU'ELLER,/ A fingle combatant.—They perhaps 
begin as fingle duellers , but then they foon get their troops 
about them. Decay of Piety. 
DU'ELLIST,/ A fingle combatant: 
Henceforth let poets, ere allow’d to write, 
Be fearch’d like duelhfs before they fight. Dryden. 
One who profeffes to ftudy the rules of honour : 
His bought arms Mung not lik’d ; for his firft day 
Of bearing them in field, he threw ’em away; 
And hath no honour loft, our duellifts fay. Ben jfonfon . 
DUEL'LO,/ [Ital.] The duel ; the rule of duelling. 
—The gentleman will for his honour’s fake, have one 
bout with you : he cannot by the duello avoid it. Shakcf. 
DUEN'NA,/ [Span.] An old woman kept to guard 
a younger.—I felt the ardour of my paflion increafe as 
the feafon advanced, till in the month of July I could no 
longer contain : I bribed her duenna, was admitted to the 
bath, faw her undreffed, and the wonder difplayed. Ar- 
buthnot. 
DUE'REN, or Duren, a town of Germany, in the 
circle of Weftphalia, and duchy of Juliers, one of the 
handfomeft and richeft in the duchy# furrounded with 
walls in 1124, and confidered as an imperial town. It 
is a place of fome trade, and has a manufacture of cloth : 
feven miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Juliers. Lat. 50. 52. N. 
Ion. 24. E. Ferro. 
DUE'RO, Douero, or Douro, a river which rifes 
near Agreda, in Spain, and taking its courfe weftvvardly, 
paffes Ofma, Aranda-de-Duero, Toro, Zamora, &c, in 
Spain; reaching the borders of Portugal, it paffes by 
Miranda, when, taking a direction fouth-weft, it fepa- 
rates the province of Tra-los-Montes from Spain, till, a 
little below Efpadacenta, it again takes a wefterly courfe 
acrofs the kingdom of Portugal, having the province of 
Tra-los-Montes, and Entre-Duero-e-Minho, on the north, 
and Beira on the fouth, and difeharges its waters into the 
Atlantic a little below Oporto. 
DUE'ROZHOF, a town of Germany, in the duchy of 
Carniola : four miles eaft of Gurkfield. 
DUE'SME, a town of France, in the department of 
the Cote d’Or: ten miles weft of Chatillon fur Seine. 
DU'ET,/ [from due, Ital. two.] A fong or air in two 
parts. 
DUF'FEL, a free town of Brabant, between Malines 
and Liere : four miles from the latter. 
DUF'HORN, a village of Germany, in the circle of 
Lower Saxo-ny, and principality of Luneburg, having a 
very celebrated medicinal fpring : three miles fouth of 
Walfrode. 
DUG, / [ deggia , Iflan. to give fuck.] A pap; a'nip-' 
pie ; a teat: fpojjten of beafts, or in malice or contempt 
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