Dendrophis
a genus of snakes, family Dendrophidæ, with smooth scales, which are much larger along the back than on the sides; the sides of the abdomen are_slightly keeled. This genus occurs in India, the East Indies, and Australia, and its members are not venomous.
D'ENGHIEN. See ENGHIEN.
DENGUE (den'gā), said to be a mistake for English dandy; the disease, when it first made its appearance in the British West India Islands, being called the dandy-fever, from stiffness and constraint caused to the limbs. This the Spaniards mistook for their word dengue = prudery, a continued fever common in the United States and in the East and West Indies, and Africa. The chief symptoms are severe pains in forehead, limbs, back, and joints, with an eruption like measles, measles, or rather erysipelas, with painful swellings.