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did:riel of Chateau-neuf: the houfes are generally built 
of done, and covered with date; tanning is the chief 
trade : five leagues and a half north-ead of Angers. 
DURVES, a town of Alia, in the country of Candahar : 
130 miles fouth-ead of Candahar. 
DU'RY (John), a learned Scots divine, in the feven- 
teenth century, early educated to the minidry in his na¬ 
tive country. Reflefting on the divilions which exided 
in the reformed churches, he conceived it po.fliblc to re¬ 
unite the Lutherans and the Calvinids in the fame tenets. 
He obtained the approbation of the archbifhop of Can¬ 
terbury, and was countenanced by Bedell bilhop of Kil- 
more, and Hall bilhop of Exeter. He foon publilhed 
his plan for a re-union, which was-difperfed overall pro- 
tedant Europe ; and opened a correfpondence with learned 
men in different churches. Afterwards he fet out on his 
travels to try the effeff of his perfonal labours, and held 
conferences with the divines of the German evangelic 
union at their affembly at Frankfort, in 1634. He after¬ 
wards treated with the divines of Sweden and Denmark ; 
traverfed Holland, Germany, and Swifferland ; applied 
to the crowned heads and princes as well as divines ; con- 
fulted the univerfities., and communicated their anfwers; 
and fpared no pains during innumerable journeys which 
he took until the year 1631, when he had the mortification 
to find that the project which lie had undertaken was as 
far as ever from its completion. He was not difeouraged, 
however, but.ftill determined to perfevere in his delign. 
It was fome time during the year 16.61, that Mr. Dury 
publifiied at Arrifterdam, his work entitled Johlannis Du - 
rai Irenicorum TraElatuurn prodromus, in quo praliminarcscon- 
tinentur TraElatus de I. Pads ecclejiajlica Rcinoris e ricdio tol- 
lendis. A II. Concordia Evangelica Fundamentis Jufficienter jaElis, 
( 3 c. After the appearance of this work, he again fet 
about his grand delign, and laboured incefiantly at pro¬ 
moting an union among the proteflant churches, until the 
year 1674, when he appears to have been difheartened at 
the failure of all his former plans, and had recourfe to a 
new expedient, which was to.re-unite all Chriftians. 
This was to labour on a new explication of the Apoca- 
lypfe, which he publilhed at Frankfort in 1675. On the 
dreams and chimeras to which this new expedient gave 
rife, he appears to have dwelt at a pleafant retreat pro¬ 
vided for him'' in the country of Heife, by Hedwige So¬ 
phia, the landgrave’s confort, who had the regency of 
the country, and who generoully fupplied Dury with a 
maintenance till the time of his death, the prccife time 
of which feerns not to be known. 
DUSK, adj. [duyjler, Dut.] Tending to darknefs. See 
Dusky, Tending to blacknefs; dark-coloured: 
The hills, to their fupply, 
• Vapour and exhalation, dujk and moift. 
Sent up amain. ‘ Milton. 
DUSK,/ Tendency to darknefs; incipientobfeurity. 
.*—I will wait on you in the dujk of the-evening, with my 
fhow upon my back. Spectator. —Darknefs of colour ; ten¬ 
dency to blacknefs: 
Some fprinkled freckles on his face were feen, 
Whofe dujk let off the vvhitenef's of the fkin. Dryden. 
To DUSK, v. a. To make dufkifli. 
To DUSK, v. n. To grow dark; to begin to lofe light 
or brightnefs ; to have luffre diminifhed. 
DUSK'ILY, adv. With a tendency to darknefs or 
blacknefs. 
DUS'KINESS, / Tendency to darknefs.—The dujlii- 
nejs and dews of the evening had rendered his walk un¬ 
comfortable. Shcnjlone. 
DUS'KISH, adj. Inclining to darknefs; tending to ob¬ 
feurity : 
From hrs infernal furnace forth he threw 
Huge flames, that dimmed all the heaven’s light, 
^Enroll’d in dyjhijk imoke, and brimftone blue. Spenfer. 
■DU S 
Tending to blacknefs ; dark-coloured.—Sight is-not-con¬ 
tented with hidden departments frorp one extreme to ano. 
ther ; therefore rather a dujkijli tindhire than an abfolute 
black. Wotton. 
DUS’KISHLY, adv. Cloudily; darkly.—The faw- 
duft burned fair, till part of the candle conhnned : the 
duft gathering about the fnaft, made the fnaft to burn 
dujliifhly. Bacon. 
DUSKY, adj. [from dujk ; duyjlcr, Dut.] Tending to 
darknefs; obfeure; not luminous : 
Through the plains of one continual day, 
Six fliining months purfue their even way ; 
And fix fucceeding urge their dujhy flight, 
Obfcur’d with vapours and o’erwiielm’d in night. Prior. 
Tending to blacknefs; dark-coloured; not clear; not 
bright.—It is not green, but of 51 dujky brown colour. 
Bacon. 
When'Jove in dufny clouds involves the fkies, 
-And the faint crefcent Atoots by fits before their eyes. 
Dryden. 
Gloomy ; fad ; intellectually clouded.—While he conti¬ 
nues in iife, this dujky feene of horror, this melancholy 
profpeft of final perdition, will frequently occur to his 
fancy. Bentley. 
Umbriel, a dujhy, melancholy fprite. 
As ever fu 1 lied the fair face of light, 
Down to the central earth, his proper feene, 
Repairs to fearch the gloomy cave of fpleen. Pope. 
DUSK'Y BAY, a bay on the fouth-weft coafi of the 
fouthernmoft ifland of New Zealand. Lat.45.40. S. Ion. 
166. 18. E. Greenwich. 
DUS'RACH, a town of Perfia, in the province of Ker¬ 
man : 156 miles fouth of Sirgian. 
DUS'SAC, a town of France, in the department of the 
Dordogne, and chief place of a canton, in the diltriCt of 
Exideuil : four miles north of Exideuil. 
DUS'SEL, a river of Germany, in the circle of Weft, 
phalia, which runs into the Rhine at Duffeldorp. 
DUS'SELDORP, a city of Germany, in the circle of 
Weftphalia, and duchy of Berg, fituated on the river 
Duffel, at its conflux with the Rhine; ftrong and well- 
built : it contains about ten thoufand folds. The palace 
belonging to the elector-palatine is a noble edifice. This 
town was taken by the French revolutionifts, on the 10th 
of September 1795, foon after which the whole duchy of 
Berg fubmitted to the troops of the republic. Lat.51. 
15. N. Ion. 28.10. E. Ferro. 
DUS'SEMONT, a village of Germany, in the circle 
of the Upper Rhine, and county of Veldentz, on the 
Mofelle; celebrated for its excellent wine: four miles 
north-weft of Veldentz. 
DUST, / [bup?, Saxon ; dunjl, Erfe.] Earth or other 
matter reduced to fmall particles .—Dujl helpeth the fruit* 
fulnefs of trees, infomuch as they caft dujl upon them. 
Bacon. —The grave ; die ftate of diffolution : 
The feeptre, learning, phyfic, mud 
All follow this, and come to dujl. Skahefpeare. 
A mean and dejedled ftate.—God raifeth up the poor out 
of the dujl, to fet them among princes. 1 Sam. ii. S. 
To DUST, v. a. To free from duft. To fprinkle with 
duft 
DUST'CART, /. A cart in which duft is carried out 
of the (beets. 
DU'STEDj^arL Sprinkled with duft, cleaned from duft. 
LUS' F 1 NESS, / The ftate of' being dufty. Scott. 
DdS'TIN G, part. adj. Sprinkling with dull; cleaning 
from duft. 
DU'STMAN, / One whofe employment is to carry 
away the duft : 
The dujl.man' s cart offends thy clothes and eyes, 
When through the ftreet a cloud of allies flies. Gay. 
DUS'TUCK, 
