dukel (duk)

[ IMG:content-0074.png:[blocks in formation] 2. In Great Britain, France, Italy, Spain, and Portugal, a hereditary title of nobility, ranking next below that of prince, but in some instances a sovereign title, as in those of the dukes of Burgundy, Normandy, Lorraine, etc. (see 3, below), or borne as his distinguishing title by a prince of the blood royal. The first English duke was Edward the Black Prince, created Duke of Cornwall in 1337. Dukes, when British peers, sit in the House of Lords by right of birth; Scotch and Irish dukes have a right of election to it, in common with other peers of those countries, in certain proportions; in other countries, except Germany (see below), the title conveys no prescriptive political power. In Great Britain a duke's coronet consists of a richly chased gold circle, having on its upper edge eight strawberry-leaves, with or without a cap of crimson velvet, closed at the top with a gold ta el, lined with sarcenet, and turned up with ermine. Coronet of an English Duke. His grandfather was Lionel duke of Clarence, Third son to the third Edward king of England. Shak ., 1 Hen. VI., ii. 4. Next in rank [to the sovereign] among the lords tem poral were the dukes. Stubbs, Const. Hist., § 428. 3. A sovereign prince, the ruler of a state called a duchy. In the middle ages, on the continent of Europe, all dukes were hereditary territorial rulers, generally in subordination to a king or an emperor, though often independent; now only German dukes retain that status, and of these there are but five, those of Anhalt, Brunswick, Saxe-Altenburg, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, and Saxe Me in in gen. Modena and Parma, in Italy, were ruled by sovereign dukes until their incorporation with the kingdom of Italy in 1860. 4+. A name of the great eagle-owl of Europe, Bubo maximus , called grand - duc by the French. -5. pl . The fists. [Slang.] - Duke of Exeter's daughtert. See brake3 , 12. - Duke palatine. See pal a tine. To dine with Duke Humphrey. See dine . dukel (dūk), v . i .; pret. and pp. duked , ppr. duk ing . [ dukes it well in his absence. slender dug - out and drew half its length out upon the oozy bank of a pretty bayou. G. W. Cable , The Century, XXXV. 89. duke2, n. A dialectal (Scotch) form of duck2 . ment. Shak., M. for M., iii. 2. IMG:content-0075.png:[blocks in formation]