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was chofen minifter of the church at Saumur; and in tlie 
following year he was called by the confiftory of Paris 
to take the charge of the church at Charenton. In that 
connection he fpent the remainder of his life ; being 
juftly confidered as one of the brighteft ornaments of the 
proteftant caufe. In 1631, he publilhed a mafterly work, 
intitled, De I’UJage des Peres ; or, Concerning the r ight 
Ufe of the Fathers, which Bayle properly charaCteriles 
as “ a very (trong chain of arguments, that form a moral 
demonftration againft thole who would have differences 
in religion to be decided by the authority of the fathers.” 
This able performance was received with very great ap- 
plaufe ; as appears from the telfimonies in its favour 
from lord Falkland, lord Digby, and Dr. Taylor, pre¬ 
fixed to an Englilh tranflation of it by Mr. Thomas 
Smith, fellow of Chriftchurch-college, Cambridge, and 
lord Clarendon’s excellent apology for it, in his anfvver 
to Serenus Crelfay. In 1733, he publilhed L’Apologie de 
ms Eglijes ; or, An Apology for the reformed Churches; 
alio tranflated into Englilh by Mr. Smith, in 1638. Be- 
fides the works already noticed, Mr. Daille publilhed 
De Pants 6? SatisJaElionibus Humanis, 4to, 1649. De Je- 
juniis & Quadragejnna, 8vo. De Conjirmationz & Extrema- 
UnBione, 4to, 1669. De ObjcFlo Cultus Religioji, in twovols. 
De Fidei ex Scripturis Demonji rat tone, &c. De Libris Suppoji- 
titis Dionyji Areopagitae & Ignatii , &c. together with many 
volumes of fermons, and treatifes of a temporary nature. 
De died at Paris, in 1670, greatly efteemed by the ca¬ 
tholics, as well as proteftants, for his learning, abilities, 
integrity, moderation, and his polite and affable man¬ 
ners.—He had an only fon, who was educated to the mi- 
niftry, and became colleague with his father at Paris. 
When the ediCt of Nantz was revoked, he retired to 
Swilferland, where he publilhed an abridgment of his 
father’s life. He died at Zurich, in 1690. 
DAI'LY, adj. [oaglic, Sax.] Happening everyday, 
or very frequently ; done every day ; quotidian: 
Ceafe, man of woman born ! to hope relief 
From daily trouble, and continued grief. Prior. 
DAI'LY, adv. Every day ; very often.—A man with 
whom I converfed aim oft daily {or years together. Dryden. 
DAIN'TILY, adv. Elegantly; delicately.—Truth is 
a naked and open day-light, that doth not (hew the mafks 
and mummeries and triumphs of the world, half lb 
(lately and daintily as candle-light. Bacon. —Delicioully ; 
pleafantly.—There is no region on earth fo daintily wa¬ 
tered, with fuch great navigable rivers. Howell —Nicely ; 
ceremonioufly; fcrupuloutly. Squeamifhly ; faftidicufly. 
DAIN'TINESS, J. Delicacy; foftnefs: 
What fhould yet thy palate pleafe > 
Daintinejs and fofter eafe, 
Sleeked limbs and fined blood > Ben Jfonfon. 
Elegance ; nicety.—The duke exceeded in the daintinejs 
of his leg and foot, and the earl in the fine fhape of his 
hands. IVottcm.- —Delicacy; delicioufnefs.—It was more 
notorious for the daintinejs of the provilion which he 
ferved in it, than for the maflinefs of the dith. Hakewill. 
—Squeamifhnefs ; faftidioufnefs.—Offand, and lime, and 
clay, Vitruvius hath difcourfed without any daintinejs. 
Wotton. —Ceremonioufnefs ; fcrupulotity. 
DAIN'TY, adj. [derived by Skinner from dain, an 
old French word for delicate .] Pleafing to the palate ; of 
exquifite tufte ; delicious.—Higher conception is required 
for (weetnefs, or pleafure of tatle, and therefore all your 
dainty plumsare a little dry. Bacon. —Delicate ; of acute fen- 
fibility ; nice; fqueamifh ; foft; luxurious; tender.—They 
were a fine and dainty people ; frugal and yet elegant, 
though not military. Bacon. —Scrupulous; ceremonious. 
Which of you all 
Will now deny to dance >. She that makes dainty, 
I’ll fwear hath corns. Shakejpeare. 
Elegant; tenderly, languifhingly, or effeminately beau¬ 
tiful : 
Vol. V. No. 296. 
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Why fhould ye be fo cruel to yourfelf, 
And to thofe dainty limbs, which nature lent 
For gentle ufage and foft delicacy ? Milton. 
Nice ; affectedly fine ; in contempt: 
Your dainty fpeakers have the curfe, 
To plead bad caufes down to worfe. Prior. 
DAIN'TY, J. Something nice or delicate; adelicacy; 
fomething of exquilite tafte.—Be not defirous of his 
dainties ; for they are deceitful meat. Proverbs, xxiii. 3. 
The fliepherd fwairis, with hire abundance bled, 
On the fat flock and rural dainties feaft. Pope. 
A word of fonanefs formerly in ufe : 
Why, that’s my dainty ; I (hall mifs thee : 
But yet thou (halt have freedom. Shakejpeare. 
DAINU'R, a town of Perfia, in the province of Irak 
Agemi: fifty miles weft of Amadan. 
DAJON', a town of Africa, in the country of Agouna. 
DAIR KAR'RAN, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in the 
province of Kurdiftan : thirty miles fouth-louth-eaft of 
Kerlcuk. 
DAI'RY, f. [from dey, an old word for milk.] The 
occupation or art cf making various kinds of food from 
milk.—Grounds were turned much in England either to 
feeding or dairy ; and this advanced the trade of Englifh 
butter. Temple. —The place where milk is manufactured : 
What (lores my dairies and my folds contain ! 
A thoufand lambs that wander on the plain. Dryden. 
Pa flu rage; milk farm ; ground where milch cattle are 
kept.—Children, in dairy countiies, do wax more tall 
than where they feed more upon bread and flefh. Bacon. 
—For the proper management and advantages ot a dairy, 
fee the articles Butter, vol iii. p. 552; Cheese, vol.iv. 
p. 136 ; and Cow, vol. v. p. 308. See likevvile the article 
Bos, voliii. p. 221, &c. 
DAI'RYMAID, f. The woman fervant whofe bufi- 
nefs is to manage the milk.—Come up quickly, or we 
fliall conclude that thou art in love with one ol fir Roger’s 
dairymaids. Acldijon. 
The pooreft of the fex have dill an itch 
To know their fortunes, equal to the rich : 
The dairymaid enquires if (he (hall take 
The trufty taylor, and the cook forfake. Dryden. 
DA'IS, J. [&2i;, Gr. epulum, pugna, tceda .] In botany, 
a genus of the clals decanaria, order monogynia, natural 
order of vepreculae. The generic characters are—Calyx: 
involucre four-leaved, feflile, many-flowered ; leaflets 
fcariofe, ereCt; perianthium none. Corolla: one-petalled, 
funnel-form, longer than the involucre; tube filiform, 
rude; border five-cleft; divilions lanceolate, obtuie. Sta¬ 
mina : filaments ten, inferted into the throat, (liorter than 
the border, the alternate ones (horter; antherae Ample. 
Piftillum : germ fomewhat oblong, growing on the bafe 
of the corolla; ftyle filiform, lengtfcjjgff the tube; (tigma 
globofe, afeending. Pericarpium: berry ovate, one-celied. 
Seed: (ingle, ovate.— EJJential CharaEler. Involucre four¬ 
leaved ; corolla four or five-cleft; berry one-feeded. 
Species. 1. Dais cotinifolia, or cotinus-leaved dais .- 
flowers five-cleft, ten-ftamened. Leaves oppofite, obo- 
vate, quite entire, fmooth, petioled. Flowers in a bunch, 
aggregate, terminating, pubefeent, with a gemmaceous 
four-valved involucre. It is allied to Paiferina. The 
fruit is a (mall nut of an ovate-acuminate form, with a 
thin bark over it, and clothed with the permanent co¬ 
rolla ; the epidermis is membranaceous, pale, diapha¬ 
nous, thickening on each fide into a prominent whitifh 
edge, eafily feparating; (hell bony, thin, brittle, livid 
white on the outfide, black within, one-celled, and valve- 
lefs. Native of the Cape of-Good Hope. Introduced in 
1776 by Mr. James Gordon; but has long been in the 
Dutch gardens. 
1 . Dais. 
