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DU'LAS, a river of Wales, in the county of Caer- 
marthen, which runs into the Briftol Channel, four miles 
fouth-eafl of Kidwelly. 
DU'LAS, a river of Wales, in the county of Caer- 
marthen, which runs into the Towy, about one mile and 
a half fouth-fouth-weft of Langadok. 
DU'LAS, a river of Wales, in the county of Breck¬ 
nock, which runs into the Wye, near Hay. 
DU'LAS, a river, of Wales, in the county of Radnor, 
which runs into the Ithon, near Llaiibeder. 
DU'LAS, a river of Wales, in the county of Montgo¬ 
mery, which runs into the Severn, near Llanidios. 
DU'LAS, a river of Wales, in the county of Montgo¬ 
mery, which runs into the Severn, near Newtown. 
DU'LAS, a river of North Wales, in the ifland of An- 
glefea, which runs into the Irifh Sea, forming a bay and 
harbour at its mouth, with a village of the fame name : 
ten miles north-weft of Beaumaris. 
DULA'SHR, a river of South Wales, in the county 
of Caermarthen, which runs into the Towy, feven miles 
above Caermarthen. 
DUL'BRAINED, adj. Stupid; doltifh ; foolifh : 
This arm of mine hath chaftis’d 
The petty rebel, dulbrain'd Buckingham. ShakcJpeare. 
DULCAMA'RA, / in botany. See Solanum. 
DULCAR'NON,/. [Arab.] A certain propofition, 
found out by Pythagoras, upon the account of which he 
facrificed an ox to the gods, in token of thankfulnefs. 
Whence Chaucer, &c. ufq it to fignify any knotty point 
or queftion. Bailey .. 
To be at DULCAR'NON, v.n. To be nonplulfed ; to 
be at one’s wits end. 
DUL'CET, adj. [ dulcis , Lat.] Sweet to the tafte ; luf- 
cious : 
From fweet kernels prefs’d, 
She tempers dulcet creams ; northefe to hold 
Wants (he fit velfels pure. Milton. 
Sweet to the ear ; harmonious; melodious; 
I fat upon a promontory, 
And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin’s back, 
Uttering fuch dulcet and harmonious breath, 
That the rude fea grew civil at her fong. Shakcfpcare. 
DULCIFICA'TION, J. The a£t of fweetening; the 
a£t of freeing from acidity, faltnefs, or acrimony.—In col- 
cothar, the exadteft calcination, followed by an exquifite 
dulcification, does not reduce the remaining body into ele¬ 
mentary earth. Boyle. 
To DUL'CIFY, v. a. [.dulcifier , Fr.] To fweeten ; to fet 
free from acidity, faltnefs, or acrimony of any kind.— 
Spirit of wine dulcifies fpirit of fait. Ar but knot. 
DULCl'GNO, a town of European Turkey, in the 
province of Albania, on the coaft of the Adriatic, con¬ 
taining about 7000 or Sooo fouls. The harbour ferves as 
a retreat for corlairs : fifteen miles fouth-weft of Scutari. 
Lat. 42. 23. N. Ion. 36. 42. E. Ferro. 
DULCI'LOQUY, f. [from the Lat. dulcis , fweet, and 
loquor, to fpe; k ] A loft and fweet manner of fpeaking, 
DUL'CIMER, J. \_dolcimello, Skinner.] A mufical in¬ 
strument played by (triking the brafs wires with little 
flicks.—Ye hear the found of the cornet, flute, harp, 
fackbut, pfaltery, dulcimer, and all kindsof mufic. Dan.Vn. 
5. —In Beverly minder is an elegant fcnlpture-example 
of a female figure playing on the dulcimer. 
DULCI'NOj [Ital.] A (mail kind of bafibon. 
DULCI'NUS, a bold leader of a religious feet who op- 
pofed the authority of the church of Rome in the four¬ 
teenth century, was a native of Novara, in the duchy of 
Milan. The original founder of this feCt, who are fome- 
tirties called by the name of the fedl of the Apafllcs, and 
Sometimes by that of Du/cinifis, was Gerard Sagarelli, 
who was burnt alive for his herefy at Parma, in the year 
1300. Upon the cruel death of Sagarelli, Dulcinus be¬ 
came the head of his followers, and not only publicly 
profeUed his opinions, hut took up arms to defend him- 
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felf and fellow-believers againd their perfecutors. The 
confequence was, a dreadful druggie for more than two 
years, between the Dulcinids and the fupporters of the 
papal intereds, which terminated in the overthrow of the 
former, and the capture of their leader after he had fig- 
nalifed his courage and intrepidity in feveral obdinate 
and bloody battles. He was put to death at Vercelli, in 
the mod barbarous manner, in the year 1307. The tra¬ 
gical end of Dulcinus was not immediately followed by 
the entire extirpation of his fefl, of which there were 
fome remains in France, in Germany, and in other coun¬ 
tries, until the beginning of the fifteenth century. 
DUL'CIS R A'DIX, J. in botany. SeqGLYC yrrhiza. 
DULCl'SONANT, adj. [ dulcifonans , Lat.] Sounding 
fweetly. 
DUL'CITUDE, f. \_dulcitudo, Lat.] Sweetnefs. 
To DUL'CORATE, v. a. [from dulcis, Lat.] To 
fweeten.—The ancients, for the dulcorating of fruit, do 
commend fwine’s dung above all other dung. Bacon. —To 
make lefs acrimonious.—Turbith mineral, as it is fold in 
the fliops, is a rough medicine ; but, being fomewhat 
dulcoratcd, fird procureth vomiting, and then falivation. 
Wifeman. 
DULCOR A'TION, f. The a6l of fweetening.—Malt 
gathereth a fweetnefs to the tade, which appeareth in the 
wort: the du/coration of thingsls worthy to be tried to the 
full ; for aulcoration importeth a degree to nourifliment. 
Bacon. 
DUI/HEAD, f. A blockhead; a wretch foolifli and 
dupid ; a dolt.—This people be fools and dulheads to all 
goodnefs ; but fubtle, cunning, and bold in any mifehief. 
Afcham. 
DU'LIA, f. [oeAsta.] An inferior kind of adoration. 
—Paleotus faith, that the fame worfhip which isgiven.to 
the prototype may be given to the image ; but with the 
different degrees of latria and dulia. Stilling fleet. 
DULI'CHIUM, in ancient geography, an ifland of the 
Ionian fea, oppofite the Achelous. It was part of the 
kingdom of Ulyfles. Martial. 
DUL'KEN, or Dulcken, a town of Germany, in the 
circle of Wedphalia, and duchy of Juliers : twenty miles 
north-north-weft of Juliers. 
DULL, adj. \_dwl, Welih ; bole, Sax. dol, mad, Dut.] 
Stupid; doltifh; blockith; unapprehenfive; indocile; 
flow of underftanding.—He that hath learned no wit by 
nature, nor art, may complain of grofs breeding, or comes 
of a very dull kindred. Shakefpearc.— Blunt; obtufe : 
Meeting with Time, flack thing, faid I, 
Thy feythe is dull ; whet it, for fhame. llerbert. 
Unready; awkward.—Memory is fo neceflary to all 
conditions of life, that we are not to fear it fhould grow 
dull for want of exercife, if exercife would make it ftrong- 
er. Locke. —Hebetated ; not quick.—This people’s heart 
is waxed grofs, and their evirsare dull of hearing. Matt. xiii. 
15.—Sad ; melancholy. Sluggifli; heavy; flow of motion: 
Thenceforth the waters.waxed dull and flow,* 
And all that drunk thereof did faint and feeble grow’. 
Spenjer. 
Grofs; cloggy; vile: 
She excels each mortal thing 
Upon the dull earth dwelling. ShakcJpeare. 
Not exhilarating ; not delightful : as, to make di&ionarics is 
dull work. Not bright : as, the mirror is dull, the f.re is 
dull. Drowfy ; fleepy : 
I’ll not be made a foft and du/l-e yed fool, 
To (hake the head, relent, and figh, and yield 
To Chriftian interceffors. ShakcJpeare , 
To DULL, v. a. To ftupify ; to infatuate : 
Thofe drugs fhe has 
'Will ftupify and dull the fenfe awhile. ShakcJpeare, 
To blunt; to obtund.—Borrowing dulls the edge of in- 
duftry. ShakcJpeare. —This entrance of the battle did whet 
the courage of the Spaniards, though it dulled their fwords. 
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