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DROPSY (contracted from the old word hydropisy, derived from the Gr. 154w¢; i Swp, water, and appearance)

DROSHKY (Russ. drozhki, diminutive of drogi, a wagon)

JEAN GERMAIN DROUAIS (1763-1788)

JEAN BAPTISTE DROUET (1763-1824)

DROWNING AND LIFE SAVING

JOHANN GUSTAV DROYSEN (1808—1884)

ANTOINE GUSTAVE DROZ (1832-1895)

DRUG (from Fr. drogue, a word common in Romance languages, cf. Span. and Ital. droga; the origin of the word is obscure, but may possibly be connected with Dutch droog, dry)

ORDER OF DRUIDS

DRUM (early forms drome or dromme, a word common to many Teut. languages, cf. Dan. tromme, Ger. Trommel: the word is ultimately the same as " trumpet," and is probably onomatopoeic in origin; it appears late in Eng. about the middle of the 16th century)

HENRY DRUMMOND (1786-r86o)

HENRY DRUMMOND (1851-1897)

THOMAS DRUMMOND (r797-1840)

WILLIAM DRUMMOND (1585-1649)

SIR WILLIAM DRURY (1527-1579)

DRUSES, or DRUZES (Arab. Druz)

DRUSIUS (or VAN DEN DRIESCHE), JOHANNES (1550-1616)

DRUSUS CAESAR (c. 15 B.C.–A.D. 23)

MARCUS LIVIUS DRUSUS

NERO1 CLAUDIUS DRUSUS (38–9 B.C.)

DRYADES, or HAMADRYADES

JONAS DRYANDER (1748-181o)

JOHN DRYDEN (1631-1700)

DRYOPITHECUS (Gr. bpi's, oak, atOo os, ape, " the ape of the oak-woods ")

DUALISM (from rare Lat. dualis, containing two, from duo)

DUBAWNT, or DOOBAUNT (Indian Toobaung, i.e. turbid)

JOHANN FRIEDRICH DUBNER (1802–1867)

FRANCOIS CLEMENT THEODORE DUBOIS (1837– )

GUILLAUME DUBOIS (1656–1723)

JEAN ANTOINE DUBOIS (1765-1848)

PAUL DUBOIS (1829-1905)

PIERRE DUBOIS (c. 1250-c. 1312)

VICTOR HENRI JOSEPH BRAHAIN DUCANGE (1783-1833)

DUCAS (15th cent.)

BARON PIERRE EMMANUEL ALBERT DUCASSE (1813–1893)

GUILLAUME BENJAMIN AMAND DUCHENNE (1806-1875)

LOUIS MARIE OLIVIER DUCHESNE (1843– )

DUCHESS OF (1648–1702)

SIR JOHN THOMAS DUCKWORTH (1748-1817)

AGNES MARY F DUCLAUX

CHARLES PINOT DUCLOS (1704–1772)

PIERRE ROGER DUCOS (1754-1816)

DUCTLESS GLANDS

BARONS AND EARLS OF DUDLEY

EDMUND DUDLEY (c. 1462—1510)

SIR ROBERT DUDLEY (1573—1649)

THOMAS DUDLEY (1576-1653)

DUDO, or DEMON (fl. C. 1000)

DUEL (Ital. duello, Lat. duellum—old form of bellum-from duo, two)

DUENNA (Span. duena, a married lady or mistress, Lat. domina)

DUET (an adaptation of the Ital. duetto, from Lat. duo, two)

JULES ARMAND STANISLAS DUFAURE (1798-1881)

ALEXANDER DUFF (1806-1878)

FREDERICK TEMPLE DUFFERIN AND AVA

SIR CHARLES GAVAN DUFFY (1816-1903)

WILHELM HEINRICH [GUILLAUME HENRI] DUFOUR (1787–1875)

SIEUR DE LA RIVIERE CHARLES DUFRESNY (1648–1724)

DUGAZON [JEAN HENRI GOURGAUD] (1746-1809)

SIR WILLIAM DUGDALE (16o5-1686)

HENRI LOUIS DUHAMEL DU MONCEAU (1700-1782)

JEAN BAPTISTE DUHAMEL (1624-1706)

EUGEN KARL DUHRING (1833-1901)

PATRICK DUIGENAN (1735-1816)

DUIKER (diver), or DUIKERBOK

DUILIUS (or DuELLTUS), GAIUS

DUKE (corresponding to Fr. duc, Ital. duca, Ger. Herzog)

CARL ANDREAS DUKER (1670-1752)

LEOPOLD DUKES (1810-1891)

DULCIGNO (Servian, Ultsin, Turk. Olgun)

DULCIMER (Fr. tympanon; Ger. Hackbrett, Cymbal; Ital. cembalo, timpanon or salterio tedesco)

PIERRE LOUIS DULONG (1785—1838)

DULSE (Ir. and Gael. duileasg)

ALEXANDRE DUMAS

ALEXANDRE [" DUMAS FILS"] DUMAS (1824-1895)

COUNT GUILLAUME MATHIEU DUMAS (1753-1837)

JEAN BAPTISTE ANDRE DUMAS (1800-1884)

DUMFRIES (Gaelic, " the fort in the copse ")

JOHANNES DUMICHEN (1833-1894)

ERNST LUDWIG DUMMLER (1830-19o2)

ANDRE HUBERT DUMONT (1809-1857)

FRANCOIS DUMONT (1751-1831)

JEAN DUMONT (d. 1726)

PIERRE ETIENNE LOUIS DUMONT (1759-1829)

CHARLES [MOLINAEUS] DUMOULIN (1500-1566)

CHARLES FRANCOIS DUMOURIEZ (1739—1823)

GEORGE DUNBAR (1774—1851)

PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR (1872–1906)

WILLIAM DUNBAR (c. 1460-c. 1520)

1ST VISCOUNT ADAM DUNCAN DUNCAN (1731-1804)

PETER MARTIN DUNCAN (1824-1891)

THOMAS DUNCAN (1807—1845)

MAXIMILIAN WOLFGANG DUNCKER (1811—1886)

HENRY DUNCKLEY (1823-1896)

VISCOUNT JOHN GRAHAM OF CLAVERHOUSE DUNDEE (c. 1649-1689)

10TH EARL OF THOMAS COCHRANE DUNDONALD (1775-186o)

DUNFERMLINE (Gaelic, " the fort on the crooked linn ")

1ST EARL OF ALEXANDER SETON DUNFERMLINE

1ST BARON JAMES ABERCROMBY DUNFERMLINE (1776-'858)

DUNKIRK (Fr. Dunkerque)

JOHN COLIN DUNLOP (1785-1842)

DUNMOW (properly GREAT DuxMow)

FINLEY PETER DUNNE (1867- )

DUNNOTTAR CASTLE

COUNT OF JEAN DUNOIS (1403-1468)

DUNROBIN CASTLE

JOHN DUNS SCOTUS (1265 or 1275-1308)

SAINT DUNSTAN (924 or 925-g88)

DUNTOCHER (Gaelic, "The Fort of ill hap ")

JOHN DUNTON (1659-1733)

JOHANN HEINRICH JOSEPH DUNTZER (1813-1901)

FELIX ANTOINE PHILIBERT DUPANLOUP (1802–1878)

JACQUES DAVY DUPERRON (1556–1618)

ANDRE MARIE JEAN JACQUES DUPIN (1783-1865)

JOSEPH FRANCOIS DUPLEIX (1697-1763)

PIERRE DUPONT (1821-1870)

ADRIEN DUPORT (1759-1798)

JAMES DUPORT (1606-1679)

JULES DUPRE (1812-1889)

CHARLES FRANCOIS DUPUIS (1742-1809)

STANISLAS CHARLES HENRI LAURENT DUPUY DE LOME (1816-1885)

CHARLES ALEXANDRE DUPUY (1851– )

PIERRE DUPUY (1582-1651)

BARON GUILLAUME DUPUYTREN (1777-1835)

DIEGO DUQUE DE ESTRADA (1589— ?)

MARQUIS ABRAHAM DUQUESNE (1610-1688)

DURAMEN (a rare Latin word, meaning hardness, from durus, hard)

AGUSTIN DURAN (1789-1862)

DURANCE (anc. Druentia)

ASHER BROWN DURAND (1796-1886)

GUILLAUME DURAND (GUILLELMUS DURANDUS)

GUILLAUME DURAND (d. 1334)

GIACOMO DURANDO (1807-1894)

DURANI, or DURRANI

FRANCESCO DURANTE (1684-1755)

DURENE (1.2.4.5 tetramethyl benzene) C6H2(CH3)4

ALBRECHT DURER (1471-1528)

DURESS (through Fr. from Lat. duritia, harshness, severity, durus, hard)

1ST EARL OF JOHN GEORGE LAMBTON DURHAM (1792–1840)

DURIAN (Malay, duri, a thorn)

GERAUD CHRISTOPHE MICHEL DUROC

JOSEPH MARIE ELISABETH DUROCHER (1817-1858)

DURRA (also written dourah, dhura, &c.; Arabic for a pearl, hence a grain of corn)

JEAN VICTOR DURUY (1811—1894)

ELEANORA DUSE (1859– )

JOHANN LUDWIG DUSSEK (1761–1812)

DUSSERAH, or DASARA

THE DUTCH EAST INDIA COMPANY (Oostindische Vereenigde Maalschappij)

DUTCH LITERATURE

THE DUTCH WEST INDIA COMPANY (De Westindische Compagnie)

LOUIS DUTENS (1730-1812)

RENE JOACHIM HENRI DUTROCHET (1776-1847)

MICHAEL MADHU SUDAN DUTT (1824—1873)

DUTY (from " due," that which is owing, O. Fr. deu, dil, past participle of devoir; Lat. debere, debitum; cf. " debt ")

ALEXANDRE VINCENT DUVAL

CLAUDE DUVAL (1643–1670)

FRANK DUVENECK (1848– )

HENRI DUVEYRIER (184o-1892)

DUX (Czech Duchcov)

ANTON DVORAK (1841-1904)

DWARAKA, DWARKA, or JIGAT

DWARF (A.S. dweorg, D. dwerg, Icel. dvergr)

JOHN DWIGHT (d. 1703)

JOHN SULLIVAN DWIGHT (1813-1893)

THEODORE WILLIAM DWIGHT (1822-1892)

TIMOTHY DWIGHT (1752-1817)

DX1 (X1a2As...)

DYAKS, or DAYAKS

ALEXANDER DYCE (1798–1869)

WILLIAM DYCE (1806–1864)

DYEING (0. Eng. dedgian, dealt ; Mid. Eng. deyen)

JOHN DYER (c. 1700-1758)

SIR EDWARD DYER (d. 1607)

THOMAS HENRY DYER (1804-1888)

DYNAMICS (from Gr. bbvayts, strength)

DYNAMITE (Gr. S6eaµis, power)

DYNAMO (a shortened form of " dynamo-electric machine," from Gr. Sbvaµis, power)

DYNAMOMETER (Gr. Suva u , strength, and OTpov, a measure)

DYNASTY (Gr. &vvaareta, sovereignty, the position of a hevnori7r, lord, ruler, from SuvaaBay to be able, Suvaµas, power)

DYSENTERY (from the Gr. prefix Ova-, in the sense of " bad," and Evmpov, the intestine)

DYSPEPSIA (from the Gr. prefix Sur-, hard, ill, and 'irirreiv, to digest)

DZUNGARIA, DSONGARIA, or JTNGARIA

EA (nar...), (p.s„,.,.)

EA (psr...), (p, „...)• (pqr...)

JOHN EACHARD (1636 ?-1697)

EADBALD (d. 64o)

JOHN EADIE (1810-1876)

EADMER, or EDMER (c. 1o6o-c. 1124)

JAMES BUCHANAN EADS (1820-1887)

EAGLE (Fr. aigle, from the Lat. aquila)

EAGRE (a word of obscure origin; the earliest form seems to be higre, Latinized as higra, which William of Malmesbury gives as the name of the bore in the Severn; the New English Dictionary rejects the usual derivations from the O. Eng. eagor or egor, whi

THOMAS EAKINS (1844– )

EAR (common Teut.; O.E. are, Ger. Ohr, Du. oor, akin to Lat. auris, Gr. ovs)

JOHN EARLE (c. 16o1-1665)

RALPH EARLE (1751-1801)

RICHARD EARLOM (1742-1822)

EARLSTON (formerly ERCILDOUNE, of which it is a corruption)

EARLY ARMSTRONG GROOVE POLYGROOVE

EARLY CHRISTIAN

EARLY CHRISTIAN WORK IN CENTRAL SYRIA

EARLY ENGLISH PERIOD

EARLY PILGRIMS AND GEOGRAPHERS

JUBAL ANDERSON EARLY (1816-1894)

EARNEST (probably a corruption of the obsolete arles or erles, adapted from Lat. equivalent arrha, due to a confusion with the adjective " earnest," serious, O. Eng. eornust, cognate with Ger. ernst)

EARTH (a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Erde, Dutch aarde, Swed. and Dan. jord; outside Teutonic it appears only in the Gr. 'pq'e, on the ground; it has been connected by some etymologists with the Aryan root ar-, to plough, which is seen in

FIGURE OF EARTH

FIGURE OF THE EARTH

EASEMENT (Fr. aise; O. Fr. aisement; Anglo-Lat. aisiamentum, a privilege or convenience)

EAST INDIA COMPANY

EAST PROVIDENCE

EAST PRUSSIA (Ost-Preussen)

ALFRED EAST (1849- )

EASTER ISLAND (Rapanui, i.e. Great Rapa)

EASTERN BENGAL AND ASSAM

THE EASTERN QUESTION

SIR CHARLES LOCK EASTLAKE (1793-1865)

EDWARD BACKHOUSE EASTWICK (1814–1883)

DORMAN BRIDGMAN EATON (1823-1899)

THEOPHILUS EATON (c. 15go-1658)

WILLIAM EATON (1764-1811)

WYATT EATON (1849-1896)

EAU DE COLOGNE (Ger. Kolnisches Wasser, "Cologne water ")

EAVES (not a plural form as is sometimes supposed, but singular; O. Eng. efes, in Mid. High Ger. obse, Gothic ubizwa, a porch; connected with " over ")

EAVESDRIP, or EAVESDROP

HERMANN WILHELM EBEL (1820–1875)

JOHANN GOTTFRIED EBEL (1764–1830)

PAUL EBER (1511-1569)

CHRISTIAN AUGUST GOTTLOB EBERHARD (1769-1845)

JOHANN AUGUSTUS EBERHARD (1739-1809)

JOHANN ERNST EBERLIN (1702-1762)

GEORG MORITZ EBERS (1837-1898)

FRIEDRICH ADOLF EBERT (1791-1834)

EBIONITES (Heb. ei3'; t, " poor men ")

EBOLI (anc. Eburum)

EBONY (Gr. E(3evos)

JOHANNES HEINRICH AUGUST EBRARD (1818-1888)

EBRO (anc. Iberus or Hiberus)

EBROIN (d. 681)

EBURACUM, or EBORACUM (probably a later variant)

ECBATANA (Agbatana in Aeschylus, Hangmatana in Old Persian, written Agamtanu by Nabonidos, and Agamatanu at Behistun, mod. Hamadan)

JOHANN ECCARD (1553-1611)

ECCELINO [or EzzELINO] DA ROMANO (1194-1259)

ECCENTRIC (from Gr. F,c, out of, and Kivrpov, centre)

ECCHELLENSIS (or ECHELLENSIS), ABRAHAM (d. 1664)

ECCLESIA (Gr. EKKX ria, from Lc, out, and Ka)teiv, to call)

ECCLESIASTES (Heb. n5np, Kohelet, "Koheleth "; Sept. EKKarlveamrils; Jerome concionator)

ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSIONERS

ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION

ECCLESIASTICAL LAW

ECCLESIASTICUS (abbreviated to Ecclus.)

ECGBERT, or ECGBERHT (d. 766)

ECGBERT, or ECGBERHT (d. 839)

ECGFRITH (d. 685)