Dodge, Mary Abigail
Mary Abigail (1838-1896), an American writer, better known by her pen name of "Gail Hamilton." She was born at Hamilton, Massachusetts. For some years she taught in the high school at Hartford, Connecticut. She was one of the editors of Our Young Folks from 1865-67. Besides numerous contributions to current literature, Gail Hamilton was the author of Gala Days, Twelve Miles from a Lemon, Biography of James G. Blaine, Country Living and Country Thinking, and several other books. She was a widely known and much respected writer of current literature. Her style was vigorous, clear, and pleasing. She had a keen sense of humor, and took a deep interest in affairs which concerned the welfare of the country. She was well known among literary people. The story goes that in war times she sent Whittier a pair of slippers in facetious allusion to the well known fact that Whittier's sympathies with the North in the struggle were somewhat at variance with his Quaker principles. Each slipper was embroidered with a bristling war eagle with thunder-bolts clutched in his claws, but the colors were sober, Quaker gray. Gail Hamilton's writings are little read at the present time.
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Dodgson
CHARLES LUTWIDGE, an English humorist (better known by ); was his pen-name of Lewis Carroll Christ Church, born in 1832. He entered Oxford, graduated in 1854. He was college, took elected a student of his orders in 1861, and from 1855 to 1881 the was mathematical lecturer. Under he issued in 1865 name of Lewis Carroll ," "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland which, with its continuation "Through become the Looking-Glass" (1872), has . He also published a nursery classic entitled some poems and parodies "Phantasmagoria" (1869); "Hunting of " (1876); "Doublets" (1879); the Snark "Rhyme? and Reason?" (1883); "Euclid ); "A and His Modern Rivals" (1879 "Game of Logic" "Tangled Tale" (1886); Curiosa" (1887); and "Mathematica contribution (1888), the last a valuable Jan. 14, 1898. to mathematics. He died
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Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge
Charles Lutwidge (1832-1898), an English clergyman. Mr. Dodgson was a distinguished mathematician and the author of several treatises on mathematical subjects. Over the pseudonym of Lewis Carroll, he wrote stories for children, which have made him famous. The earliest of these was Alice in Wonderland, followed by Through the Looking Glass, The Hunting of the Snark, and Sylvie and Bruno. It is said that, when Alice in Wonderland was published first, Queen Victoria read it with great delight. She was so pleased that she sent out immediately for all of Mr. Dodgson's previous works, and found that they dealt with logarithms and the higher calculus. Lewis Carroll has proffered a merry antidote to the hyperaesthetic and other fads of the day. His Rhyme and Reason contains "Phantasmagoria" and "The Hunting of the Snark,"-bright audacities in which the fancy that created Alice in Wonderland plays without tether and affords delight to the healthy and fun-loving mind.-Stedman.
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Dodsley
ROBERT, an English poet and dramatist; born at Mansfield, Notts., in 1703. He was a noted bookseller and publisher in London, and had close relations with the authors of the time: Pope, Johnson, Goldsmith, Burke, etc. His first volume of verses, "The Muse in Livery," was received with great favor, as was his satiric drama, "The Toy Shop," brought out at Covent Garden. He wrote the popular comedies: "The King and the Miller of Mansfield"; "Sir John Cockle at Court"; and the tragedy "Cleone." He died in Durham, Dec. 25, 1764.
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Doe
JOHN, and RICHARD ROE, two fictitious personages of the English law who formerly appeared in a suit of ejectment. This fictitious form of procedure was abolished in 1852. In the United States John Doe and Jane Doe are used in many parts of legal proceedings where the real names of offenders cannot be ascertained, or where there are reasons for concealing them.
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Doeskin
a close-woven, fine-twilled woolen cloth, usually dyed black. It is used in the manufacture of men's fine clothing. In weaving this fabric, the twist of the yarn and the twill move in the same direction, which produces a flat, smooth surface. The cloth on leaving the loom is fulled, and finished in several styles, called doeskin finish, melton finish, worsted finish, etc. In doeskin finish the surface has a soft, lustrous appearance, the twill weave being almost entirely concealed by the nap. Melton finish has a nap similar to that of velvet. In other finishes the cloth is sheared to display the weave. The name doeskin has reference to the smooth, soft, even texture of the goods, supposed to resemble the skin of a doe. See Twill ; Fulling
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Dog Lichen
the popular name of a plant, Peltidea canina, common on damp ground, stones, and trunks of trees. It was formerly supposed to be a specific for hydrophobia. It is also known as ash-colored ground liverwort .
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Dog Rose
a common plant in hedges and thickets; also called the wild brier. The fruit is known as the hep or hip. The ripe fruit is used to prepare confection or conserve of hips, which is used in the preparation of certain kinds of pills.
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Dog Screws
The screws with half heads by which a movement is held in its case.
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Dog's-Tail Grass
a small genus of meadow grasses, of which the crested species is esteemed alike for pastures and lawns.
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Dog-Fish
a general name applied to numerous species of fishes resembling small sharks. They are eighteen inches to eight feet long. They follow up schools of cod, herring, and mackerel, and other food fishes in hungry packs, whence their name. Fishermen dread them for the mischief they do, breaking nets, cutting lines, but chiefly driving away the schools of fish. The sea may be alive with mackerel and the fishermen reaping a harvest, when the back fins of a pack of dog-fish are seen cutting the water and all is over. The fish have gone elsewhere and must be sought anew.
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Dog-Star
a name for Sirius, the star that gives its name to the dog days.
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Dog-Tooth Violet
a liliaceous plant which owes its name partly to the color of its flowers, partly to the toothlike bulb, a frequent inmate of the rock garden or herbaceous border, presenting a characteristic appearance, not only in March and April, from its large, abundant flowers, but on account of its peculiarly blotched leaves. In Tartary its bulbs yield starch, and in they are used medicinally.
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