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JULIUS SOPHUS FELIX DAHN (1834— )

DAHOMEY (Fr. Dahome)

DAIS (Fr. dais, estrade, Ital. predella)

DAISY (A.S. daeges cage, day's eye)

ROBERT WILLIAM DALE (1829-1895)

SIR THOMAS DALE (d. 1619)

DALECARLIA (Dalarne, " the Dales ")

JOHN DOBREE DALGAIRNS (1818-1876)

GEORGE DALGARNO (c. 1626–1687)

FOX MAULE RAMSAY DALHOUSIE

1ST MARQUESS JAMES ANDREW BROUN RAMSAY DALHOUSIE

ALEXANDER JAMES DALLAS (1759-1817)

GEORGE MIFFLIN DALLAS (1792-1864)

DALLE (pronounced " dal," Fr. for a flag-stone or flat tile)

CYRUS EDWIN DALLIN (1861— )

BARON WILLIAM HENRY LYTTON EARLE BULWER DALLING AND BULWER (1801-1872)

JOHN HENRY DALLMEYER (183o-1883)

DALMATIA (Ger. Dalmatien; Ital. Dalmazia; Serbo-Croatian, Dalmacija)

DALMATIC (Lat. dalmatica, tunica dalmatica)

JULES DALOU (1838-1902)

DALRY (Gaelic, " the field of the king ")

JOHN DALTON (1766-1844)

AUGUSTIN DALY (1838-1899)

DALYELL (or DALZIELL Or DALZELL), THOMAS (d. 1685)

DAMAGES (through O. Fr. damage, mod. Fr. dommage, from Lat. damnum, loss)

DAMASCENING, or DAMASKEENING

DAMASK STEEL, or DAMASCUS STEEL

DAME (through the Fr. from Lat. domina, mistress, lady, the feminine of dominus, master, lord)

PIETRO DAMIANI (c. 1007-1072)

ROBERT FRANCOIS DAMIENS (1715-1757)

JEAN PHILIBERT DAMIRON (1794-1862)

JANOS DAMJANICH (1804–1849)

DAMMAR, or DAMMER (Hind. damar=resin, pitch)

OLOF VON DAMN (1708-1763)

WILLIAM DAMPIER (1652-1715)

CHARLES ANDERSON DANA (1819–'897)

FRANCIS DANA (1743-1811)

JAMES DWIGHT DANA (1813-1895)

FRANCIS DANBY (1793-1861)

DANCE (Fr. danse; of obscure origin, connected with Old High Ger. danson, to stretch)

FLORENT CARTON DANCOURT (1661-1725)

DANDELION (Taraxacum officinale)

COUNT VINCENZO DANDOLO (1758-1819)

THOMAS DANGERFIELD (c. 1650-1685)

DANIEL FINCH (1647-1730)

DANIEL HACK TUKE (1827-1895)

GABRIEL DANIEL (1649-1728)

JOHN FREDERIC DANIELL (1790-1845)

THOMAS DANIELL (1749–1840)

WILLIAM T DANNAT

JOHANN HEINRICH VON DANNECKER (1758-1841)

DANNEWERK, or DANEWERK (Danish, Dannevirke or Danevirke, " Danes' rampart ")

GEORGE JACQUES DANTON (1759-1794)

DANUBE (Ger. Donau, Hungarian Duna, Rumanian Dunarea, Lat. Danubius or Danuvius, and in the lower part of its course Ister)

DANZIG, or DANTSIC (Polish Gdansk)

DAPHLA (or DAFLA) HILLS

DAPHNAE (Tahpanhes, Taphne; mod. Defenneh)

DARAB (originally DARABGERD)

GEORGES DARBOY (1813-1871)

BARON THOMAS DARCY DARCY (1467-1537)

DARDANELLES (Turk. Bahr-Sefed Boghazi)

DARDANELLES (Turk. Sultanieh Kalehsi, or Chanak Kalehsi)

ANTOINE ELISABETH CLEOPHAS DARESTE DE LA CHAVANNE (1820-1882)

RODOLPHE MADELEINE CLEOPHAS DARESTE DE LA CHAVANNE (1824– )

ALEXANDER SERGEIVICH DARGOMIJSKY (1813-1869)

DARIUS (Pers. Darayavaush; Old Test. Daryavesh)

GEORGE DARLEY (1795-1846)

GRACE HORSLEY DARLING (1815-1842)

DARLINGTONIA (called after William Darlington, an American botanist)

JAMES DARMESTETER (1849-1894)

HENRY STEWART DARNLEY

DARTMOUTH COLLEGE

EARL OF DARTMOUTH

COUNT PIERRE ANTOINE NOEL BRUNO DARU (1767-1829)

CHARLES ROBERT DARWIN (1809-1882)

ERASMUS DARWIN (1731-1802)

SIR GEORGE WEBBE DASENT (1817–1896)

PRINCESS CATHERINA ROMANOVNA VORONTSOV DASHKOV (1744-181o)

PETTER DASS (1647 – 1708)

DATIVE (Lat. dativus, giving or given, from dare, to give)

KARL DAUB (1765-1836)

CHARLES GILES BRIDLE DAUBENY (1795-1867)

CHARLES FRANCOIS DAUBIGNY (1817–1878)

GABRIEL AUGUSTE DAUBREE (1814-1896)

ALPHONSE DAUDET (1840-1897)

HONORE DAUMIER (1808-1879)

DAUN (DHAUN), LEOPOLD JOSEF, COUNT VON (1705-1766)

PIERRE CLAUDE FRANCOIS DAUNOU (1761-1840)

DAURAT (or DORAT), JEAN (in Lat. AURATUS), (1508–1588)

DAVENANT (or D'AVENANT), SIR WILLIAM (1606-1668)

CHARLES DAVENANT (1656-1714)

EDWARD LOOMIS DAVENPORT (1816-1877)

ROBERT DAVENPORT (fl. 1623—1639)

BARON HORACE DAVEY DAVEY OF FERNHURST (1833—1907)

DAVID (a Hebrew name meaning probably beloved 1)

DAVID KIMHI (c. 1160-1235)

FELICIEN DAVID (1810—1876)

GERARD [GHEERAERT DAVIT] DAVID (?=1523)

PIERRE JEAN DAVID (1789–1856)

ST DAVID (Dewi, Sant)

ANDREW BRUCE DAVIDSON (1831–1902)

JOHN DAVIDSON (1857–1909)

RANDALL THOMAS DAVIDSON (1848– )

SAMUEL DAVIDSON (1807-1898)

THOMAS DAVIDSON (1817-1885)

DAVIES (DAvIslus), JOHN (1679-1732)

DAVID CHARLES DAVIES (1826-1891)

RICHARD DAVIES (c. 1505—1581)

SIR JOHN DAVIES (1569-1626)

SIR LOUIS HENRY DAVIES (1845— )

ENRICO CATERINO DAVILA (1576-1631)

DAVIS (or DAVYS), JOHN (1550 ?-16o5)

ANDREW JACKSON DAVIS (1826—1910)

CHARLES HOWARD DAVIS (1857- )

CUSHMAN KELLOGG DAVIS (1838-1900)

HENRY WILLIAM BANKS DAVIS (1833- )

HENRY WINTER DAVIS (1817-1865)

JEFFERSON DAVIS (1808–1889)

THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS (1814–1845)

WILLIAM DAVISON (c. 1541-1608)

MICHAEL DAVITT (1846-1906)

DAVOS (Romonsch Tavau, a name variously explained as meaning a sheep pasture or simply " behind ")

LOUIS NICOLAS DAVOUT

SIR HUMPHRY DAVY

DAWARI, or DAUR1

HENRY LAURENS DAWES (1816-1903)

RICHARD DAWES (1708-1766)

BOGUMIL DAWISON (1818-1872)

WILLIAM BOYD DAWKINS (1838– )

DAWN (the 16th-century form of the earlier " Jawing " or " dawning," from an old verb " daw," O. Eng. dagian, to become day; cf. Dutch dagen, and Ger. tagen)

DAWSON CITY, or DAWSON

GEORGE DAWSON (1821-1876)

SIR JOHN WILLIAM DAWSON (1820-1899)

DAY (O. Eng. dreg, Ger. Tag; according to the New English Dictionary, " in no way related to the Lat. dies")

JOHN DAY (1574-1640?)

THOMAS DAY (1748-1789)

DEACON (Gr. S&& ovos, minister, servant)

DEACONESS (i7 &locovos or &aKhvuraa, servant, minister)

FRANCIS DEAK (FERENCZ), (1803-1876)

DEAN (Lat. decanus, derived from the Gr. 8eaa, ten)

RICHARD DEANE (1610-1653)

SILAS DEANE (1737-1789)

DEBORAH (Heb. for " bee ")

DEBT (Lat. debitum, a thing owed)

CLAUDE ACHILLE DEBUSSY (1862– )

DECADE (from Gr. Oka, ten)

COUNT CHARLES MATHIEU ISIDORE DECAEN (1769-1832)

DECALOGUE (in patristic Gr. 7] SercaXoyos, sc. (3i(3)tos or vopoGevia)

ALEXANDRE GABRIEL DECAMPS (1803–1860)

DECASTYLE (Gr. &Ka, ten, and uriXos, column)

STEPHEN DECATUR (1779-1820)

DECCAN (Sans. Dakshina, " the South ")

DECELEA (Gr. DeeeXeta); an Attic deme, on the pass which led over the east end of Mt. Parnes towards Oropus and Chalcis. From its position it has a commanding view over the Athenian plain. Its eponymous %; ro, Decelus, was said to have indicated to the Ty

DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

DECEMVIRI (" the ten men ")

ERNST HEINRICH KARL DECHEN

DECIDUOUS (from Lat. decidere, to fall down)

DECIMAL COINAGE

GAIUS MESSIUS QUINTUS TRAJANUS DECIUS (2017-251)

PIERRE DE DECKER (1812-1891)

SIR MATTHEW DECKER

DECLARATION (from Lat. declarare, to make fully clear, clams)

DECLARATION OF PARIS

DECLINATION (from Lat. declinare, to decline)

DECORATED PERIOD

DECREE (from the past participle, decretus, of Lat. decernere)

DECRETALS (Epistolae decretales)

DEDICATION (Lat. dedicatio, from dedicare, to proclaim, to announce)

DEDUCTION (from Lat. deducere, to take or lead from or out of, derive)

DEE (Welsh, Dyfrdwy;, Lat.., and in Milton, Deva)

DEED (in O. Eng. dead, from the stem of the verb " to do ")

CHARLES DEEMS (ALEXANDER) FORCE (1820-1893)

DEEP CONDITION SHEWN

DEER (O. E. rigor, dfor, a common Teutonic word, meaning a wild animal, cf. Ger. Tier, Du. dier, &c., probably from a root dhus-, to breathe)

DEFAMATION (from the classical Lat. diffamare, to spread abroad an evil report—the English form in de is taken from the Late Lat. defamare)

DEFAULT (Fr. defaut, from defailler, to fail, Lat. fallere)

DEFEASANCE, or DEFEAZANCE (Fr. defaire, to undo)

DEFENCE (Lat. defendere, to defend)

DEFENDER OF THE FAITH (Fidei Defensor)

DEFERENT (Lat. deferens, bearing down)

MARIE ANNE DE DEFFAND

DEFINITION (Lat. definitio, from de-finire, to set limits to, describe)

DANIEL DEFOE (c. 1.659—1731)

HILAIRE GERMAIN EDGARD DEGAS (1834- )

DEGGENDORF, or DECKENDORF

KIRKEE NEPAUL DEIG

DEIOCES (O771.6rc17s)

DEISM (Lat. dens, god)

PAULINE VIRGINIE DEJAZET (1798-1875)

DEKKER (or DECKER), THOMAS (c. 1570-1641)

EDWARD DOUWES DEKKER (182o-1887)

JEREMIAS DE DEKKER (1610-1666)

DEL CREDERE (Ital. " of belief " or " trust ")

COUNT HENRI FRANCOIS DELABORDE (1764-1833)

FERDINAND VICTOR EUGENE DELACROIX (1798-1863)

DELAGOA BAY (Port. for the bay " of the lagoon ")

JEAN BAPTISTE JOSEPH DELAMBRE (1749-1822)

DELAMERE (or DE LA MER), GEORGE BOOTH

JOHN THADEUS DELANE (1817-1879)

MARY GRANVILLE DELANY (1700-1788)

HIPPOLYTE DELAROCHE

GERVAIS DELARUE (1751–1835)

ELIE DELAUNAY (1828-1891)

LOUIS ARSENE DELAUNAY (1826-1903)

JEAN FRANCOIS CASIMIR DELAVIGNE (1793-1843)

DELAWARE INDIANS

HANS DELBRUCK (1848— )

MARTIN FRIEDRICH RUDOLF VON DELBRUCK

THEOPHILE DELCASSE (1852– )

LOUIS CHARLES DELESCLUZE (1809–1871)

ACHILLE ERNEST OSCAR JOSEPH DELESSE (1817-1881)

JULES PAUL BENJAMIN DELESSERT (1773–1847)

MELCHIORRE DELFICO (1744-1835)

DELIAN LEAGUE, or CONFEDERACY OF DELOS

CLEMENT PHILIBERT LEO DELIBES (1836–1891)

JACQUES DELILLE (1738–1813)

DELIRIUM (a Latin medical term for madness, from delirare, to be mad, literally to wander from the lira, or furrow)

JOSEPH NICOLAS DELISLE (1688-1768)

L OPOLD VICTOR DELISLE (1826– )

FRANZ DELITZSCH (1813–1890)

NIKOLAUS DELIUS (1813–1888)

STEFANO DELLA BELLA (1610-1664)

GIOVANNI DELLA CASA (1503–1556)

RAFFAELLINO DELLA COLLE

UGOLINO DELLA GHERARDESCA (c. 1220-1289)

GIOVANNI BATTISTA DELLA PORTA (c. 1538–1615)

DELLA QUERCIA, or DELLA FONTE, JACOPO (1374–1438)

DELLA ROBBIA (q.v.)

JEAN LOUIS DELOLME (1740-1806)

DELONEY (or DELONE), THOMAS

MARION DELORME (c. 1613-165o)

DELPHI (the Pytho of Homer and Herodotus; in Boeotian inscriptions BeA4oi, on coins Aa)tg5oi)

DELPHINUS (" THE DOLPHIN ")

DELTA (from the shape of the Gr. letter A, delta, originally used of the mouth of the Nile)

JEAN ANDRE DELUC (1727–1817)

THE DELUGE (through the Fr. from Lat. diluvium, flood, diluere, to wash away)

THEODOROS DELYANNI (1826-1905)

DEMADES (c. 38o-318 B.c.)

DEMAGOGUE (Gr. Srlµaywybs, from iyety, to lead, and Siµos, the people)

DEMARATUS (Doric Aaµaparos, Ionic Arlµapi ros)

DEMESNE (DEMESNE, DEMAIN, DOMAIN, &c.)

DEMETRIOS YPSILANTI (1793—1832)