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Bacon. —To ladders; to make melancholy, To hebetate j 
to weaken : 
Now forc’d to overflow with brackifh tears, 
The troublous noife did dull their dainty ears. Spcnfcr. 
To damp ; to clog.—Prayers were (fort, as if darts thrown 
out with a hidden quicknefs, left that vigilant and ereft 
attention of mind, which in prayer is very necedary, 
Ihonld be waded or du'lcd through continuance. Hooker. 
•—To make heavy, cr flow of motion.—Ufury dulls and 
damps all induftries, wherein money would be flirting, if 
it were not for the tlug. Bacon .—To fully brightnel's.— 
The breath dulls the mirror. Bacon. 
DULLAB'RT (Heyman), a Dutch painter of merit, 
born in 1636 at Rotterdam, where his father was a pitture- 
ir.erchant. He early difplayed a lively genius, and made 
a proficiency in languages and the fciences, but his pecu¬ 
liar turn was to painting. His father fent him to the 
fcliool of Rembrandt, and he caught the manner and 
fiyle of his mafler fo happily, that their works are fcarcely 
diftinguifhable. Dnllaert painted with a free and bold 
pencil, and in an admirable tone of colouring; but the 
delicate ftate of his health would not allow him to apply 
clofely, whence his pieces are rare. One of the fined is 
a hermit on his knees, in Rembrandt’s bed manner. He 
amufed himfelf with mufic and poetry, in both of which 
he excelled. He died in 1684. 
DUL'LARD,y. A blockhead ; a dolt; a flupid fel¬ 
low ; a dunce.—What! mak’fl thou me a dullard in this 
adt ? ShakeJ'peare. 
DUL'LY, ado. Stupidly ; doltifhly.—.It is not fuffi- 
cient to imitate nature in every circumftance dully , lite¬ 
rally, and meanly ; but it becomes a painter to take what 
is moft beautiful. Dryden. —Slowly; fluggilhly.—The 
air, if it be rnoifl, doth in a degree quench the flame, and 
hovvfoever maketh it burn more dully. Bacon .—Not vigo- 
roiifly; not gaily ; not brightly ; not keenly : 
Not that I think thofe pantomimes, 
Who vary action with the times, 
Are lefs ingenious in their art 
Than thofe who dul/y aCt one part. Hudibras. 
DUL'MEN, or Dolman, a town of Germany, in the 
circle of Weltphalia, and billiopric of Munlter: thirteen 
miles fouth-welt of IVIunfter. 
DUL'NES 3 ,y. Stupidity; weaknefs of intelledt; in¬ 
docility : flownefs of apprehenfion.—Nor is the dulnefs of 
the fcholar to extinguilh, but rather to enflame, the cha¬ 
rity of the teacher. South. 
Shadwell alone my perfect image bears, 
Mature in dulnefs from his tender years. Dryden. 
Want of quick perception.—Nature, by a continual ufe 
of any thing, groweth to a fatiety and dulnefs either of 
appetite or working. Bacon .—Drcwlinefs ; inclination to 
lleep : 
Here ceafe more queflions; 
Thou art inclin’d to deep. ’Tis a good dulnefs. 
And give it way. Shakfpeare. 
Sluggiflmcfs of motion. Dimnefs; want of luflre. Blunt- 
nefs; want of edge. 
DULO'CRACY, f. [of a fervant, and xgaroc, 
power, Gr.] A government where fervants and Slaves 
have fo much licence and privilege, that they domineer. 
DUL'VERTON, a fmall town of Somerfetlhire, on the 
borders of Devonlhire, with a bridge on the Dunfbrook, 
near its fall into the Exe ; 169 miles from London, twen¬ 
ty-four from Barnftaple, and Pwenty-feven from Bridge- 
water. It is a place of good accommodation ; and has a 
market on • Saturdays, and fairs on July 10 and Novem¬ 
bers. There are fome lead-mines near this town; but 
the ore is hard and barren, and the lead that comes from 
it harder than that of the Mendip-hiils. Here is like¬ 
wise a manufactory of coarfe woollen cloth and blankets. 
DULWICH, a delightful village of Surrey, in the pa- 
of Camberwell, on the borders of Kent, live miles 
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from London, celebrated for its medicinal waters, called 
the Sydenham wells. Here is alio a noble charity, called 
Dulwich college, founded in 1614, by Mr. Edward Al¬ 
leyn, who named it the College of God's Gift. This gentle, 
man was an adtor in the reign of queen Elizabeth, and 
the principal performer in many of Shakefpcare’s plays. 
He founded this college for a mafler and wardens, who 
were always to be of the name of Alleyn or Allen, with 
four fellows, three of whom were to be divines, and the 
fourth an organifl ; and for fix poor men, as many poor 
women, and twelve poor boys, to be educated by two of 
the fellows. When the boys arrive at a proper age, they 
are fent to the univerfities, or placed out apprentices. 
Mr. Alleyn conflituted for vifitors, the churchwardens of 
St. Botol; h, Bilhopfgate ; St. Giles, Cripplegate ; and 
St. Saviour, Southwark; who, upon occaiion, were to 
appeal to the archbilhop of Canterbury, before whom all 
the members were to be fworn at their admifiion. To 
this college belongs a chapel, in which the founder him¬ 
felf is buried. 
The Dulwich waters are remarkably clear, obfcttrely 
brackifh, and tafte a little bitter in the throat. A gallon 
at one time yielded two, at another three, drams of folid 
matter, containing a fmall portion of calcareous earth, 
and a vitriolated magnefia, mixed with a portion of ma¬ 
rine fait. From one to two pints in a morning is a dole. 
DU'LY, adv. Properly ; fitly ; in the due manner.—• 
In the body, when the principal parts, as the heart and 
liver, do their offices, and all the inferior fmaller veffels 
adt orderly and duly, there arifes a fweet enjoyment upon 
the whole, which we call health. South. —Regularly ; ex¬ 
actly : 
Seldom at church, ’twas fuch a bufy life ; 
But duly fent his family and wife. Pope. 
DUM FU'IT IN'FRA JE'T ATEM, in law, a writ 
whereby an infant who had made a feoff ment of his lands, 
when he came of full age, might recover thole lands and 
tenements which were fo aliened : and within age, lie 
might enter into the land, and take it back again, and by 
his entry he fliould be remitted to his anceftor’s right. 
New Nat. Br. 426. If the hufband and wife alien the 
wife’s land, during the nonage of both of them, the wife 
at her full age after the death of the hufband, fhall have 
a writ of dum fuit infra atatem. M. 14. Edw. III. By this 
writ to the fheriff, he fhall command A. that he render 
to B. who is of full age, two mefluages and lands, &c. 
which B. demifed to him, while he was within age, as he 
faith; or into which the faid A. hath not entered, but 
by C. to whom the faid B. the famedemifed, &c. F. N. B . 
477 - 
DUM NON FU'IT COM'POS MEN'TIS, in law, a 
writ that lay where a man not of found memory aliened 
any lands or tenements, again!! the alienee. And lie (hall 
allege that he was not of fane memory, but being vifited 
with infirmity, loft his diferetion for a time, fo as not to 
be capable of making a grant, See. New Nat. Br. 449. 
DU'M A, a town of Arabia: 240 miles weft of Cathem. 
DU'MA, a town of Germany, in the circle of Weft- 
pha! ia, on a river of the fame name, which foon after 
runs into the Wipper: fourteen miles fouth-loulh-eaft of 
Dnlfeldorp. 
DU'MAH, [from the Hebrew, fignifying filence.] A 
city of Paleltine, in the tribe of Judah : lituated in the 
mountains. Jofi. xv. 52. 
DU'MAH, fjaiah xxi. n.) A city of the Iftunaelites, 
fo named, it is thought, from Dumak, Ion of Ilhmael. 
Gen. xxv. 14. 
DU'MAL, adj. [from the Lat. dumus, a bufh.J Per- 
taming to briars, bulky. 
DU'M As (Hilary), a French ecclefiaffic and doctor of 
the Sorbonne, in the fevenreenrh and beginning of the 
eighteenth century. Although we ate ,ot furniftied with 
any particulars refpedting his life and character, he is 
entitled to this brief notice on account of his being tiie 
author of a well-written Hiltory of the Five Proportions 
