Dowagiac – Dresden
Dowagiac
a city of Michigan, in Cass co. It is on the Michigan Central railroad. It is the center of an important farming region, and its industries include flour and lumber mills, a canning factory, and a gas factory. It has a public library and manufactures of stoves, gloves, furnaces, etc. Pop. (1910) 5,088; (1920) 5,440.
Downs
a term given to undulating sometimes used as equivalent to dunes or grassy hills or uplands, specially applied sand-hills. to two ranges of undulating chalk hills stead or shelter for shipping, off the S.
E. coast of Kent, England, opposite Ramsgate and Deal, between North and South Foreland, and protected externally
Draco
a constellation in the N. hemisphere. The star Draconis, a bright star nearly in the solstitial colure, was used in determining the co-efficient of aberration of the fixed stars.
Dracontium
a genus of Orontiaceæ. D. polyphyllum is an antispasmodic and an expectorant. It grows in India, DRACUT Japan, etc. The American skunk cabbage was formerly referred to this genus; it is now called Symplocarpus fœtidus.
Dracut
a town of Massachusetts, in Middlesex co. It is the center of an Middlesex co.
It is the center of an important agricultural region and its industries include woolen mills. (1910) 3,461; (1920) 5,280.
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Dragon's Head
a genus of Labiatæ, common in gardens, so called from the form of its corolla.
Dragon's Mouth
a popular name for antirrhinum, generally replaced in common usage by that of snap-dragon.
DRAGON TREE. See DRACÆNA.
Dragoon Bird
same as umbrella bird.
Drawing and Quartering
the punishment for treason in Great Britain in force till 1870.
Drayton
MICHAEL, an English poet; born near Atherstone in Warwickshire in 1563. His most celebrated composition is "Polyolbion." He wrote also several dramas, among them "Sir John Oldcastle"; and "Poems Lyrick and Pastorall" (1605), including the celebrated "Ballad of Agincourt." He died Dec. 23, 1631.
Dresden
BATTLE OF Thirty Years' War, and also in 1813, when it was the headquarters of Napoleon's army. It was occupied by the Prussians in 1866, but was evacuated in the following spring. Pop. about 550,000.
Dresden
BATTLE OF, a battle fought in 1813 between the French under Napoleon and the allies under Schwarzenberg. Napoleon had come to the relief of the city, which was occupied by the French. The allies assaulted and bombarded the city, and soon after a great pitched battle was fought (Aug. 27), in which the allies were defeated.