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In Thames, the ocean’s darling, England’s pride, 
The pleating emblem of his reign does glide. Halifax. 
DAR'LINGTON, a confiderable town in the bilhop- 
ric of Durham, fituated on the Skern ; with confiderable 
manufactures of linen and woollen. It has a weekly market 
on Monday, well fupplied with corn and provifions: fairs, 
Eader-Monday ; Whit-Monday ; a fortnight after Whit- 
Monday; November the 9th, for horfes; 10th, for horned 
cattle and flieep ; 13th, for hogs; zzd, for all forts of 
cattle, &c. and a fortnight after, for cattle, &c. Eigh¬ 
teen miles fouth of Durham, and 238 north of London. 
At Oxehall, near this town, are the famous fall-kettles, 
which are three deep pits full of water; thcfe have oc- 
cafioned many fabulous dories among the country peo¬ 
ple, and divers conjectures among the learned ; but they 
deem to be nothing elfe but old coal-pits (and yet there 
is no coal near them now) filled by the water of the 
Tees, through fome fubterraneous paffage, as, it is faid, 
bifhop Tunftall experienced, by marking a goofe, and 
putting her into one of the pits; which he found next 
day in the Tees. Others fay, they were occafioned by 
an earthquake, which is recorded in the chronicle of 
T-inmouth for the year 1179. 
DAR'LINGTON, the mod fouthern county of Che- 
raw’s didrift, South Carolina, belonging to the Ameri¬ 
can States; bounded fouth and fouth-wed by Lynch’s 
creek. It is about 35 miles long, and 21 broad. 
DARMADI'JER A, a town of Afia, in the country 
of Thibet : three leagues north of Sarangpour. 
DARM'STADT, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
the Upper Rhine, and capital of a principality belonging 
to a branch of the houfe of Heffe, to which it gives 
name : fortified with a wall in 1330 : this town contains 
a regency, a court of appeals, a confidory, a criminal 
court, and a grammar-fchool: eighteen miles ead-louth- 
ead of Mentz, and thirty-two north of Heidleberg. Lat. 
49. 52. N. Ion. 26. 13. E. Ferro. 
To DARN, v. a. [of uncertain original.] To mend 
holes by imitating the texture of the duff.—Will die thy 
linen wadi, or hofen darn? Gay. 
DARN'ALL, a river of Wales, which runs into the 
Wye three miles north-wed of Rayader Gowy. 
DAR'NEL-GRASS,/ in botany. See I.olium. 
DARNE'TAL, a town of France, in the department 
of the Lower Seine, and chief place of a canton, in the 
didrift of Rouen : half a league ead of Rouen. 
DAR'NEY, a town of France, and principal place of 
a didrift, in the department of the Volges : five leagues 
and a half wed-fouth-wed of Epinal. 
DAR'NIGIIEIM, a town of Germany, in the circle 
of the Upper Rhine, and county of Hanau Munzenburg : 
three miles wed of Hanau. 
DAR'NIX, f. [torrick , Dut. of Tournay, where it was 
made ; in fome countries it is called dornick, which brings 
it nigher the original.] A fort of duff of which table 
linen is made. 
DARO'CA, a town of Spain in the province of Ara¬ 
gon, on the Xiloca, in a valley between two hills: the 
town is large, containing feven paridi churches, one of 
which is collegiate, and five convents ; but is not popu¬ 
lous : thirty-eight miles fouth-fouth-wed oi Saragolfa. 
Lat. 41. 15. N. Ion.. 15. 20. E. Peak of Teneriffe. 
DARO'RE, a town of Llindoodan, in the country of 
Dowlatabad : ninety-five miles North-wed of Beder. 
To DAR'RAIN, v. a. [this word is by Junius refer¬ 
red to dare: it feems more probably deducible from ar- 
ranger la battaille. Mafon derives it from defrainer, old 
Fr. to defend.] To prepare for battle; to range troops 
for battle: 
Comes Warwick, backing of the duke of York : 
Darrain your battle ; for they are at hand. Skakefpcare. 
To apply to the fight; of fingle combatants: 
Therewith they ’gan to hurlen greedily, 
Redoubted battle ready to darraine. Spenfr . 
605 
D ARREI'N PRESENTMENT,/ [from dernier, Fr. 
lad.] In ecclefiadical law, the lajl prefentment. An af¬ 
file of darrein prefentment lies when a man, or his ancef- 
tors, under whom he claims, having prefented a clerk to 
a benefice, who is indituted ; afterwards upon the next 
avoidance a dranger prefents a clerk, and thereby didurbs 
him that is real patron; in which cafe the patron fliall 
have this writ, direfted to the fiieriff to fummon an aflife 
or jury, to enquire who was the lad patron that prefented 
to the church now vacant, of which the plaintiff com¬ 
plains that he is deforced by the defendant ; and, accord¬ 
ing as the aflife determines that quedion, a writ lhall iffue 
to the bilhop, to inditute the clerk of that patron, in 
whofe favour the determination is made, and alfo to give 
damages, in purfuance of dat. Wed. 2. l^Edzo. II. c. 5. 
This quedion, it is to be obferved, was, before 7 Anne, 
c. 18. entirely conclufive, as between the patron or his 
heirs and a dranger : for, till then, the full polfeflion of 
the advowfon was in him who prefented lad, and his 
heirs ; unlefs, lince that prefentation, the clerk had been 
evifted within fix months, or the rightful patron had re¬ 
covered the advowfon in a writ of right; which is a title 
fuperior to all others. But that datute having given a 
right to any perfon to bring a quart impedit, and to recover 
(if his title be good) notwithdanding the laft prefenta¬ 
tion by whomfoever made ; aflifes of darrein prefentment, 
now not being in any-wife conclufive, have been totally 
difufed ; as indeed they began to be before ; a quare im¬ 
pedit being a more general, and therefore a more ufual, 
aftion. For the aflife of darrein prefentment lies only 
where a man has an advowfon by defcent from his an- 
cedors ; but the writ of quare impedit is equally remedial, 
whether a man claims title by defcent or by purchafe. 2 
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DAR'RO, a river of Spain, which runs through the 
city of Grenada, and joins the Xenil a little below. 
DAR'SIS, / [i^a^cri?, of hqu, Gr. to excoriate.] A 
rubbing off or fretting of the (kin. 
DART,/ \_dard, Fr.] A miffile weapon thrown by 
the hand ; a finall lance. [In poetry.] Any miffile wea¬ 
pon.—Here one is wounded or (lain with a piece of a 
rock on flint; there another with a dart, arrow, or lance* 
Peac/iam. 
O’erwhelm’d with darts, which from afar they fling. 
The weapons round his hollow temples ring. Dryden, 
[In adronomy.] A condellation confiding of eight ftars, 
AJh. 
To DART, v. a. To throw offenfively : 
He whets his tuflcs, and turns, and dares the war; 
Th’ invaders dart their jav’lins from afar. Dryden. 
To throw ; to emit: as, the fun darts his beams on the 
earth : 
Pan came, and alk’d what magic caus’d my fmart; 
Or what ill eyes malignant glances dart. Pope. 
To DART, v. n. To fly as a dart. To let fly with 
hoffile intention.—Now, darting Parthia, art thou druck. 
Shah fpeare. 
DART, a river of England, in the county of Devon, 
which runs into the Englifli channel a little below Dart¬ 
mouth. 
DART'FORD, a final 1 town in the county of Kent, 
fituated on the river Darent, in the road from London 
to Canterbury. Here was a celebrated nunnery, which 
Henry VIII. converted to a royal palace, and is now be¬ 
come a gentleman’s feat. The fird army railed by Rich¬ 
ard duke of York, in order to obtain the crown of Eng¬ 
land, was alfembled near this town in 1432. It confided 
of 10,000 men ; but, finding the king was at Blackheath 
with a fuperior number of troops, he declined the en¬ 
gagement. The river Darent, or Dartford Creek, as it . 
is called, will admit boats to bring up goods to the 
town : eleven miles wed of Rocheder, and fifteen ead 
of London, 
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