Dragon's Head
a genus of Labiatæ, common in gardens, so called from the form of its corolla.
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These 13 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Dragonet, Dragoon, Dragoon Bird.
Dragon's Mouth
a popular name for antirrhinum, generally replaced in common usage by that of snap-dragon. DRAGON TREE. See DRACÆNA.
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Dragonet
a genus of spiny-rayed fishes bony near the Goby, remarkable for having the gill openings reduced to a small hole on each side of the and the ventral fins placed under the nape, throat, separate , and larger than the pectorals. The species are numerous, widely dis distributed in the temperate of the Old World, and generally finely seas colored. The gemmeous dragonet (C. lyra) of the British coasts-called gowdie ( gowd, "gold") in Scotland-is a fish about 10 or 12 inches long, and of a prevailing yellow color varied with spots of brown. At the reproductive season the male becomes very gorgeously adorned with blue and violet spots and This fish is also called skulpin or sculpin stripes. -a name given in the United States to a marine bullhead or cottus.
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Dragoon
a kind of mounted soldier, so called originally from his musket (dragon) having on the muzzle of it the head of a dragon. At one time dragoons served both as mounted and foot soldiers, but now only as the former. In the British army there are heavy and light dragoons. The first dragoon regiment, the Scots Greys, was formed in 1681.
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Dragoon Bird
same as umbrella bird.
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Drain
A hole sunk beneath a mould in the pit when there is danger of water accumulating there. A well can be sunk some distance away, into which the water will flow, to be expelled by means of a pump. Cinder-beds may be made to answer as drains by laying them on a slant and providing a well at their lowest point for the water to collect in. See CINDER-BED. Dram is the same as drachm. The avoirdupois dram is equivalent to 27 1/3 1/2 grains troy; the apothecaries' dram is equivalent to 60 grains troy.
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Drainage Tubes
in surgery, are an important addition to the surgical appliances for which this profession is indebted to a distinguished French surgeon, M. Chassaignac. They are composed of india-rubber, from one-eighth to threeeighths inch in diameter, perforated with numerous holes, and of various lengths. They are especially useful in chronic abscesses, but also in large wounds. navigator, born in Tavistock, in Devon-
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Drake
FRANKLIN JEREMIAH, American naval officer, born at an Yates, N. Y., in 1846. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1868. He rose through the various grades, becoming lieutenant-commander in 1893, commander in 1899, and captain in 1903. In 1906 he was retired as rearadmiral. He served during the Civil War and filled many posts on shore and at sea as a commander of vessels and on special duty. He was executive officer of the Oregon in 1896-1897. From 1913 to 1915 he was technical expert at the Hague Tribunal, and was expert of the revision of regulations of the United States Navy in 1918-1919-1920.
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Drake (II)
SAMUEL ADAMS, an American journalist and writer; born in Boston, Dec. 20, 1833. He entered journalism in 1858 as correspondent of the Louisville "Journal" and St. Louis "Republican." In 1861 he joined the army and served throughout the war, becoming Brigadier-General in 1863. He returned to Boston in 1871 and resumed literary work. His most important publications are: "Old Landmarks of Boston" (1872); "New England Legends" (1883); "The Making of New England" (1886); "The Pine Tree Coast" (1891); "Our Colonial Homes" (1894), etc. He died Dec. 4, 1905. (drä'ken-ber-ge) DRAKENBERGE (Dragon Mountains), the general name given by the Dutch colonists to the range of mountains in the E. of south Africa, between Cape Colony and the Vaal river. From about 29° S. lat. the three chains which form the S. portion unite and extend N. E. in one mass, whose highest points are the Mont aux Sources and Catkin Peak (10,360 feet). The range is crossed by Van Reenen (5,415) and De Beers (5,635) passes.
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Drake (JOSEPH RODMAN an American poet)
JOSEPH RODMAN, an American poet; born in New York, Aug. 7, 1795. The poems for which he is gratefully remembered are "The Culprit Fay" (1819), and "The American Flag" (1819). With Fitz-Greene Halleck, under signature, "The Croakers the ," he published in a New York journal in 1819 a series of short lyrics, mostly of a humorous kind, on the political affairs of the time. He died Sept. 21, 1820.
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Drake University
a coeducational institution in Des Moines, Ia.; founded in 1891, under the auspices of the Christian Church; reported at the end of 1919: Professors and instructors, 60; students, 1,460; president, Arthur Holmes.
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Drama League of America
an organization founded in 1910 at Evanston, Ill. The purpose of the League is to encourage the production of highclass drama by educating the public and by pledging the support of its members to plays approved by the organization. This latter takes the form of assuring the author support for the first ten days of the showing. The idea being that of giving the play a good introduction to the public. In addition to these steps the League issues a bulletin which it sends to all of its members, listing the good plays which are playing in their city and giving some idea of their general nature. The poor plays are not attacked, they are just ignored. The organization has had a rapid development and now has members in most of the cities in the United States.
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Draper
ANDREW SLOAN, an American educator; born in Westford, N. Y., June 21, 1848. He served in the New York Legislature; was appointed by President Arthur one of the judges of the Court of Alabama Claims; was State Superintendent of Public Instruction in New York in 1866-1892, superintendent of schools in Cleveland, O., in 1892-1894; and in 1894 became president of the University of Illinois, which position he held for 10 years. In 1903 he was elected president of the National Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. He was chosen Commissioner of Education of the State of New York in 1904. He was author of numerous educational works including "Conserving Childhood" (1909), and "Holiday Papers" (1912); Editor of "Self Cul Culture for Young oung People" (10 vols.), 1906, etc. He died in 1913.
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