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with wagers purpofed to be loft before they were pur¬ 
posed to be made. Afchain. 
DAL'LOP/yi [of unknown etymology.] A tuft, or 
clump ; not in life: 
Of barley the fined and greened ye find, 
Leave Handing in dallops till time ye do bind. Tvjfer. 
To DAL'LY, v. n. \_dollen, Dut. to trifle.] To trifle; 
to play the fool ; to amufe one’s felf with idle play; to 
lofe time in trifles ; to procradinate idly.—We have tri¬ 
fled too long already : it is madnefs to dally any longer, 
when our fouls are at (take. Calamy. —To exchange ca¬ 
rdies ; to play the wanton ; to fondle : 
He is not lolling on a lewd love bed. 
But on his knees at meditation ; 
Not dallying with a brace of courtezans, 
But meditating with two deep divines. Shakefpeare. 
To fport; to play; to frolic : 
She her airie buildeth in the cedar’s top, 
And dallies with the wind, and fcorns the fun. Shakcfp. 
To delay.—They that would not be reformed by that 
correction, wherein he dallied with them, Audi feel a 
judgment worthy of God. Wifdpm, xii. 26. 
To DAL'LY, v. a. To put off; to delay ; to amufe 
till a proper opportunity.—He fet down to perform fer- 
vice, not by the hazard of one fet battle, but by dallying 
olf tire time with often (kirmidies. Knolles. 
DALMACKER'RY, a town of Mindoodan, in the. 
Myfore country : ninety-five miles north-ead ot Banga¬ 
lore, and eighty-fix north-weft of Madras. 
DALMANU'THA, [Heb. a branch.] The part of 
the Holy Land where Chrid retired with his difciples, 
after the miracle of feeding the four thoufand. Mark, viii, 
10. It is called the coads of Magdala, Matt. xv. 39. 
DALMA'TIA, a territory of Maritime Audria, 
bounded on the north and fouth by Croatia and Bofnia; 
on the ead and wed by the Adriatic and the- river Mo- 
razza or Bojana ; and is watered by the rivers Kerka, 
Cetina, and Narenta. Dalmatia, or, as it is written in old 
coins and infcriptions, Delmatia, takes its name from its 
ancient capital Delmiutn, or Delminium, which the Ro¬ 
mans took and dedroyed in the 597th year from the build¬ 
ing of the city. If the Romans brought it under the 
yoke, Dalmatia fliook it olf no lefs than five times, and 
for the fpace of 220 years, to Augudus’s reign, gave 
them a great deal of trouble. On the divifion of the 
provinces between Augufius and the fenate, Dalmatia 
fell to the fenate as one of the proconfular provinces ; 
but they voluntarily ceded it to the emperor, who ap¬ 
pointed a quedor over it. At the demife of Condantine 
the Great, it was reckoned among the wedern parts of 
Illyricum. It differed extremely by the inroads of the 
northern Barbarians, and the Goths reduced it in their 
way to Italy. After this, Judinian, emperor of the Ead, 
conquered Italy and alfo Dalmatia; but, in 1548, the 
Sclavi entered it, and, about the end of Heraclius’s reign, 
edabliihed themfelves in it. The country had then its 
particular kings, of which Zlodomir, or Zaromyr, the 
lad, dying without iflite, left the kingdom to his confort, 
who bequeathed it to her brother, St. Ladiflaus, king 
of Hungary ; but the Venetians continued maders of the 
maritime parts. In the wars which the kings of Hungary 
had both with theVenetians and the turbulent Dalmatians, 
they were for a confiderable time fuccefsful; but, in the 
fifteenth century, the Venetians reduced the whole king¬ 
dom of Dalmatia, though they were afterwards difpof- 
fefled by the Turks of a confiderable part. The prefent 
territory of Dalmatia is partly lituated on the continent, 
and confids partly of iflands. That part of this province 
which the late republic of Venice pofleffed under the 
name of Dalmatia, confided of the iflands Cherlb and 
Ofero, Veglia, Arbe, Pago, Brazza, Lefina, and Curzola; 
and on the continent, the counties of Zara, Sebenico, 
Trau, Spalatro, Nona, and the didridb of Novegradi, 
DAL 
Cliffa, Knin, Scing, Cadell Nuovo, Macarfca, Almida, 
Imofchi, Cattaro, and Budua. The coad is replete with 
harbours, and the navigation is very fafe on the canals 
formed by the various iflands, the gulf del Quarnero 
excepted, which in fiormy weather proves very danger¬ 
ous and fatal to the /hipping. The foil is rather unpro¬ 
ductive of corn, and upon the whole badly cultivated ; 
but there are enormous forefls, and many large paflure- 
grounds, very favourable for the breeding of cattle. Here 
is alfo plenty of wine, oil, and fruit, a fmall quantity of 
filk, but much wool ; and the coads, as well as the har¬ 
bours, afford an abundance of delicious fifli. The inha¬ 
bitants, 250,000 in number, are a fpirited and martial 
people ; they Ipeak the Sclavonian language, and are 
loyal towards every government that treats them with 
mildnefs, refpedts their nobles, and fupplies them with 
the neceffaries of life. The inhabitants, diflinguifhed by 
the appellation of Morlachs, live in the fertile vales of 
Chotar, near the fea, along the rivers Kerka, Cetina, 
and Narenta, and between the mountains, in the fouth of 
Dalmatia, and in the plains of Scogra and Knin ; but in 
the caverns, and the woods of the rocky mountains, live 
the rapacious Haiducks, four of whom will attack and 
overcome fifteen to twenty travellers. The Morlachs, 
w ho are alfo known by the name of Uhlans, are good-na¬ 
tured and hofpitable, yet extremely vindictive when of¬ 
fended. The men abhor agriculture, and occupy thern- 
felves merely with their flocks, and with pottery, or en- 
lid in the armies. The women make various kinds of 
embroidery, knit, weave, &c. They alfo perform the 
labour in the field, and other painful work. The conti¬ 
nent of Dalmatia, together with the iflands belonging to 
it, were divided into fix counties, three didricts, and 
one maritime province. 
Lower DALMATIA, or the territory of Albania, is 
divided from Venetian Dalmatia by the territory of Ra- 
gufa, and by a part of the dominions of the Porte, and 
comprehends that long crooked bay, called the Canal of 
Cattaro, which extends eighteen miles up the country, 
and forms various fmall bays; farther, the adjacent moun¬ 
tains and valleys of the county of Budua, and the baili¬ 
wick of Padrovichi, thirty miles in length and tvienty- 
two in breadth. Although this is, for the mod part, 
mountainous, yet it produces fome corn, much wine, oil, 
and delicious fruits, and the inhabitants, befides carry¬ 
ing on a confiderable navigation, have alfo a lhare in the 
lucrative trade of the.Levant. 
DALMA'TICA, f. A clerical garment, with large 
open fleeves, at fil'd worn only by bilhops, though fince- 
made a didinCtion of degrees; fo called, becaufe it came 
originally from Dalmatia. 
DAL'MATIN (George), a learned Lutheran minif- 
tcr of Laybach, in Carniola, who flouriffied in the fix- 
teenth century. In 1658 he tranflated Luther’s, German 
Bible into the Sclavonian or Carniolian language; which 
work the dates of Styria, Carinthia, and Carniola, deter¬ 
mined fiiould be printed, for the benefit of the people 
in their refpediive countries. Their defign, however, 
alarmed the bigotry of Charles archduke of Audria, who 
iff’ued an order to prohibit its impredion in any of the 
Andrian dominions. In thefe circumdances they fent 
Dalmatin, accompanied by Adam Bohoritfch, evangelic 
redtor at Leybach, to Wirtemberg, with recommenda¬ 
tions to the debtor of Saxony, under rvhofe profession 
the work was completed in 1584. It was dedicated by 
Dalmatin to the dates above-mentioned, and is dill ufed 
by the clergy, who are allowed to read it, that they may 
be able to pronounce well the paffages of fcripture in 
the true Sclavonian dialed!:. After finilhing this ufeful 
w'orlc, Dalmatin returned to his native country, where 
he was prefented by Chridopher baron of Aurlperg to 
the benefice of St. Khaziam, in the diocefe of the patri¬ 
arch of Aquileia. But he was not fullered to enjoy his 
living in peace, being perfecuted by the catholics, who 
procured a fentence of banilhnient to be pronounced 
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