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Dresden China

a delicate, semitransparent, highly-finished china made at Meissen, near Dresden. The manufacture resulted from an accidental discovery made by Böttger, a young chemist, in 1710.

Drew

DANIEL, an American capitalist; born in Carmel, N. Y., in 1788. He was the founder of the Drew Ladies' Seminary at Carmel, and the Drew Theological Seminary at Madison, N. J. He also gave large sums of money to various Methodist colleges and schools. He died in New York City, Sept. 19, 1879.

Drip Stone

corona or projecting tablet or molding over the heads of doorways, windows, archways, niches, etc. DROPSY Called also a label, weather-molding, water-table, and hood-molding. The term label is usually applied to a straight molding.

Drosky

DROSHKY, or DROSCH- KE, a Russian and Prussian four- , a Russian and Prussian fourwheeled vehicle in which the passengers ride astride a bench, their feet resting on bars near the ground. It has no top.

Drosometer

an instrument for ascertaining the quantity of dew which falls. It consists of a balance, one end of which is furnished with a plate fitted to receive the dew, the other containing a weight protected from it.

Drown

THOMAS MESSINGER, an American scientist; born in Philadelphia, March 19, 1842. He was graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1862, studying later at Yale, Harvard, and of Chemistry at Lafayette College, 1874-81; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1885-95; was president of Lehigh University, 1895-1904.

He died Nov. 16, 1904.

Druid Stones

a name given in the S. of England and other parts of the country to those weather-worn, rough pillars of gray sandstone which are scattered over the surface of the chalk-downs in England, in Scotland, and its islands, and which exist in great numbers in others countries; generally in the form of circles, or in detached pillars.

Drumfish

or DRUM, Pogonias chromis, and other species of the same genus, fishes found on the Atlantic coasts of North America, and so named from the deep, drumming sound they make in the water. They usually weigh about 20 pounds.

Drummond Island

the extreme W. of the Manitoulin chain, in Lake Huron, belongs to Chippewa co., Mich.

It measures 20 by 10 miles. 28-Vol. III-Cyc DRUPE

Drupe

fruit composed of a single monospermous carpel, and of which the carpellary leaf becomes fleshy at its external division, and ligneous in its internal division, as in the peach, cherry, plum, etc. The stone which incloses the kernel is the endocarp; the pulpy, or succulent part, the mesocarp.

Drury's Bluff

an eminence on the James river, near Fort Darling, 8 miles S. of Richmond, Va. It was the scene of a battle, May 16, 1864, in which the Confederates under Beauregard defeated the Union troops under Butler, with a loss to the Confederates of 2,500 and to the Union army of 3,012.

Druse

DRUZE, DERUZ, or