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BAH 
gers; approach to open violence.—T have heard of a 
quarrel in a tavern, where all were at daggerfdrawing, till 
one defired to know the fubjeft of the quarrel. Swift. 
They always are at dagger [drawing. 
And one another clapperclawing. Hudibras. 
To D AG'GLE, v. a. [from dag, dew ; a word, accord¬ 
ing to Mr. Lye, derived from the Daniflt; according to 
Skinner, from baj, fprinkled, orbeapjan, to dip. They 
are probably all of the fame root.] To dip negligently 
in mire or water ; to bemire ; to befprinkle. 
To D AG'GLE, v.n. To be in the mire ; to run thro’ 
wet or dirt: 
Nor like a puppy, daggled through the town, 
To fetch and carry hng-fong up and down. Pope. 
DAG'GLEDTAIL,/". Bemired ; dipped in the water 
or mud ; befpattered.—-The gentlemen of wit and plea- 
lure are apt to be choaked at the fight of fo many dag. 
gledtail parfons, that happen to fall in their way. Swift. 
DAGISTA'N, or Dahestan, a town of Perfia, and 
capital of a diftri< 5 t of the fame name, fituated on a river 
which runs into the Cafpian Sea: 240 miles north-weft 
of Mefchid. 
DAG'LAN, a town of France, in the department of 
the Dordogne, and chief place of a canton,' in the diftrift 
of Sarlat: eight miles foutli of Sarlat. 
DAG'NO, a town of European Turkey, in Albania, 
on the Drin: fifteen miles fouth-eaft of Scutari. 
DA'GO, or Daghoe, an ifland of Ruffia, in the Bal¬ 
tic, fituated between the gulf of Riga and the gulf of 
Finland, about twenty miles in circumference. Lat. 59. 
N. Ion. 40. E. Ferro. 
DA'GON, the falfe god of Aflidod, or, as the Greeks 
call it, Azotus. He is commonly reprefented as a mon- 
fter, half man and half fith ; whence mod learned men 
derive his name from the Hebrew dag, which fignifies a 
fith. Thofe who make him to have been the inventor 
of bread-corn, derive his name from the Hebrew dagan, 
which fignifies frumentum ; whence Philo Biblius calls 
him Z.eu; Jupiter Aratrius. This deity conti¬ 
nued to have a temple at Aflidod during all the ages of 
idolatry to the time of the Maccabees; for the author 
of the firft book of Maccabees tells us, that “Jonathan, 
one of the Maccabees, having beaten the army of Apol¬ 
lonius, Demetrius’s general, they fied to Azotus, and 
entered into Bethdagon (the temple of their idol) ; but 
that Jonathan fet fire to Azotus, and burnt the temple 
of Dagon and all thofe who had fled into it.” Dagon, 
according to fome, was the fame with Jupiter, according 
to others Saturn/, according to others Venus, and accord¬ 
ing to molt Neptune. 
DAGONVIL'LE, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Meufe, and chief place of a canton, in the 
di ft rift of Commercy : three leagues eaft of Bar-le-Duc. 
DAGOU'A, a town of Egypt, on the Nile, a har¬ 
bour for thieves and pirates: twelve miles north of Cairo. 
DAGS'BOROUGH, a poft town of the American 
States, in Sulfex county, Delaware, fituated on the north- 
weft bank of Peper’s creek, a branch of Indian river, 
nineteen miles from Broad hill, or Clowe’s, and one hun¬ 
dred and twenty-feven fouth from Philadelphia. 
DAGY'SA,/! in zoology, a genus of worms of the 
order mollufca ; the characters of which are as follow : 
body loofe, nayan'c, angular, tubular, and open at each 
extremity. There is only one fpecies known, the da- 
gyia notata, difeovered and deferibed by Banks and So- 
lander, in Hawkefworth’s Voyages, vol. ii. p. 2. It is a 
native of the Spanifti Sea, about three inches long, and 
one thick ; marked at one end of the body with a bright 
brown fpot. They adhere to each other by the tides ; 
and fo nearly refemble the genus falpa, as to be eafily 
miftaken for a fpecies of that worm., 
DAH'Hf, a town of Arabia, in the country of Yemen: 
forty-fix miles fouth-ealt of J-,pheia, 
BAH 
DAHTTLAK, or Dalaka, or Dalaca, an ifland in 
the Red Sea, near the coaft of Abyftinia, about twenty- 
two leagues in length, and four in breadth, celebrated for 
its pearl fifhery. The inhabitants, who are numerous, 
are of the fame religion with the Abyflinians. They are 
black, brave, addidted to piracy, and fworn enemies to 
the Mahometans. Lat. 15. 40. N. Ion. 39. 20. E. Green¬ 
wich. 
DAIIH'MAK, a town of Arabia, in the country of 
Yemen: fixteen miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Abu-Arifch. 
DAHL, or Dal, a river of Sweden, which runs 
through the provinces of Dalecarlia and Geftricia, and 
empties itfelf in the gulf of Bothnia, four leagues eaft- 
fouth-eaft of Geffle. 
DAHL'BERG (Eric), a celebrated Swedilli general, 
who rofe by his merit and talents to the rank of count, 
field-marfhal, and governor of Livonia, born in Oftober, 
1625. Having loft his parents at an early age, he applied 
liimfelf chiefly to fortification ; and to his knowledge in 
that fcience he was indebted for the principal part of his 
fuccefs in life. He performed his firft military fervice 
under Guftavus Adolphus, and in 1648 was appointed 
engineer. He fpent fome years in travelling, and in 1656 
joined the Swedifh army in Poland, and was appointed 
lieutenant-general quarter-mafter of the main divifion. 
He was difpatched by the king to Thorn, to fuperintend 
the conftruftion of fome fortifications; and afterwards 
attended his fovereign during the mod remarkable events 
of the war in Poland. In 1657, when the king found it 
necelfary to truofport his army to Denmark, Dahlberg 
was fent, on the 30th of January, to furvey the Great 
Belt, then frozen over; and it was in confequence of 
Dahlberg’s report, that his Swedifh majefty refolved to 
march his army over the ice, by which bold manoeuvre,, 
the Swediih troops made a conqueft of Langeland, Falf- 
ter, Laland, and Zealand, as far as the walls of Copen¬ 
hagen. After the death of Charles Guftavus, in 16C0, 
he vvas promoted to be lieutenant-colonel of the regiment 
of Sudermania, and the fame year was ennobled at the 
diet. In. 1667 he was lent to France on an important po¬ 
litical million ; and in x6S7 he was appointed infpedtor- 
general of all the forts and fortrefles in Sweden. Thefe 
were fo much improved by the genius of Dahlberg, that 
lie may with juftice be ftyled the Swedilli Vauban. In 
1696 he w r as promoted to be governor of Livonia, w hich 
he defended when invaded by the Saxons in 1700; and 
died at Stockholm in 1703, in the feventy-eighth year 
of his age. Dahlberg was an excellent draftfman, as ap¬ 
pears by a. work inti tied Suecia Antigua & Hodierna, pub- 
liflied at Stockholm, about the year 1700, in three vols. 
folio. This fuperb work confifts entirely of plates, with¬ 
out any text, and the drawings from which they were 
executed were almoft all taken on the fpot by Dahlberg. 
DAHL'BERGI A, f. in botany. See Dalbergia. 
DAH'LEN, a town of Germany, in the circle of Upi 
per Saxony, and margraviate of Meilfen : twenty-three 
miles north-weft of Meiflen. 
DAH'ME, a town of Germany, in the circle of Upper 
Saxony, and principality of Qjoerfort: forty miles fouth 
of Berlin. 
DAI-FMEC, a town of Alia, in the country of Canda- 
har : twenty-eight miles fouth-weft of Catidahar. 
DAHN, a town of France, in the department of the 
Lower Rhine, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrift . 
of Vdeiflembourg : thirteen miles weft of Landau. 
DAHO'MY, or Dauma, a country of Africa, on the 
Slave Coaft, fituated about fixty or feventy miles from 
the Atlantic; called alio Fouin. Dahomy, as known at 
pirefent, is fuppofed to reach from the fea coaft about one 
hundred and fifty or two hundred miles inland, though 
no European has penetrated above half that diftance. 
The capital, Abomey, lies in about ni ,.e degrees and. fifty 
minutes of north latitude, and between the third and 
fourth degree of eaft.longitude, reckoned from the me¬ 
ridian of Greenwich. The foil is a deep rich clay, of 
a red- 
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