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Dart
made trips up to 16 miles early in the year, over a course marked out on the ice. A distance of about 1,000 miles is said to have been made…
Dashboard – Duggler
The partition between the engine plant and the front seats. - That position of the crank in relation to the piston, when an explosion on…
Draw
A deliberate exposure of some point in order to attract the opponent into delivering a stroke, for whose defence and reply one is fuily…
Double Shot
Two balls lying so close together that if one be missed there is a very good chance of hitting the other. Grand Round. -The complete…
Disengage – Draw
To quit that side of the opponent's blade on which one is opposed by his guard, in order to effect an attack where there may be an…
Drive – Draught Reins
To deliver a stone with extra force in order to dislodge a winner or a guard, and drive it out of the house. CURLING] Driver.-[See SKIP.]…
Dropped Goal
(R.) A goal obtained by a drop-kick, if it be not a free kick inflicted as a penalty for the breach of some rule. In such a case, even…
Denbighshire
Vorlas Hall (Mr. Wynn Finch). DERBYSHIRE.-Kedleston, near Derby; Eaton Wood, near Uttoxeter; Sutton Scarsdale, near Chesterfield.
Dishing
A peculiarity in a horse's action which causes him to throw out his feet sideways as he brings them up in a trot. (This action is admired…
Deck-Feathers – Dun
Endew (of a hawk). - To digest its food thoroughly. - The ball is dead whenever it is out of play, and in both games this is only when…
Dotal
Hunting Tours, Cornelius Tongue, "Cecil" (Saunders, Otley and Co.), 1864; Records of the Fife Foxhounds, J. Babington (Blackwood), 1883…
Devonshire's – Dent
To turn back on one's course. To remove hounds from a kennel, or pack.
Dolomite
A hard magnesian limestone, offering special difficulties to the climber. Dôme. A rounded snow-peak.. Firn. Glacier, but often applied as…
Depth
I 81 8 1 4 8 6 44 54 3½ The other measurements would be the same as in the eight, but they require a few words of explanation. The height…
Dinner-Fish
entrée, joint, milk pudding and fruit. I pint of beer. Dessert, I glass of port. 9.55 A cup of water gruel or barley water, and biscuit…
Depth – Decoys
To plunge the blade unnecessarily deep and thereby to miss the beginning and cut the finish owing to the extra labour employed in attending…
Deer-Stalking – Dachshund
Details of the machine, ii. 35
Daimler – Darwin
J. F., Polo Past and Present, iii. 354 Anthony, i. 430 E. H., iii. 165
Deer
Axis (Cervus axis), i. 263 Barking. See Muntjac Black-tailed (Cariacus columbianus), i. 234 Black-tailed (Mazama columbiana), i. 265…
Davidson-Smith – Deer
Charles, iii. 44 Cor. R. P., ii. 403 i. 43 Sir Humphry, ii. 363
Deer Cart – Depau
ii. 80-92 Costume, ii. 82 Crawl, the, ii. 87 Ponies, ii. 82 Shooting, ii. 85-87 Stalking, ii 83-5 Training, ii. 82 Weapon, ii. 81…
De Place – Dickinson
John, The Image of Irelande, iii. 266 De Saussure (Alpine climber), iii. 202 Lord, ii. 141, 151, 152 Miss Gertrude, ii. 93 Despujols…
Dickson – Dog Clubs
General, ii. 151 Dietrich Coy., i. 127 i. 84 -, Damara, i. 84
Dogget – Driscoll
ii. 92-120 Breaking and Training, ii. 116 Clubs, ii. 93-94 Cropping, ii. 92 Dew Claws, 11. 93 Diseases of, ii. 114 Field Trials, ii. 94…
Driving
ii. 121-155 Brakes and Skids, ii. 134 Clubs, iv. 150 Coaching, ii. 139-155 Coaching Club, iv. 144, 152 Coaching Marathon, iv. 152 Double…
Duiker
Abyssinian (Cephalophus abyssinicus), i. 259 Banded (C. doria), i. 259 Bay (C. dorsalis). i. 259 Blue (C. monticola), i. 73, 259. Cape (C…
Droste – Dunt
Baron von, iii. 349 Dry-fly school, i. 47 Dubois (wrestler), iv. 347 Lord, Letters from High Latitudes, iv. 425 Duhamel (mountain maps)…
Duray – Dislocations
Viscount, iv. 415 D'Usseaux, Count, iv. 365 Dr., iii. 112 Dyévre, Louis, iv. 365