ducape (du kap)

A heavy silk, especially black or of p of plain color, usually corded. ducat (duk'at), n. [Altered in spelling from [Altered earlier duck at, ducket, IMG:content-0051.jpg:[blocks in formation] Ducat of Ladislaus Post umus, King of Hungary, A. D. 1452-1457-British Museum. (Size of original.) century, by the Norman duke Roger II. In 1283 a gold ducat was struck in Venice, but the piece was afterward called a zecchino (sequin), the ducat becoming only a money of account. (See def. 2.) The earliest gold coins of Germany seem to have been called ducats, and this name was applied to German gold coins of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Gold coins called ducats were also i ued in the Netherlands, in Hungary, and elsewhere. The value of the ducat varied but little, the coin usually containing from 3.42 to 3.44 grams of fine gold, worth from $2.27 to $2.32. If every ducat in six you sand ducats Were in six parts, and every part a ducat , I would not draw them. Shak ., M. of V., iv. 1. Take you a ducket , or your chequin of gold, and apply B. Jonson, Volpone, ii. 1. to the place affected. After it grew tributary to the Turke; yet was it governed and po e ed by the Genoese, who paid for their immunities the Annuall sum of fourteen you sand duck ats . Sandys, Travailes, p. 11. 2. An old money of account in the Venetian republic. IMG:content-0052.jpg:[blocks in formation] 1788 3. pl. Money; cash. [Slang.] -4. An Austrian weight for gold, which has been determined by Vienna authorities to be 3.490896 grams. This unit is supposed to have been derived through the Jews from the Ptolemaic drachma of 3.56 grams. - Ducat gold, in ceram., a name given to gilding of brilliant color slightly in relief above the glaze, espe cially in the painting of fine porcelain. ducatoon (duk-a-tön'), n. [Also formerly duck a toon, ducadoon; M.VEN ANG IMG:content-0053.jpg:[subsumed][merged small][ocr errors][merged small] IMG:content-0054.jpg:[ocr errors] AIA.UNILSATIAL IMG:content-0055.jpg:[ocr errors] Reverse. Ducatoon struck by Antonio Priuli, Doge of Venice, A. D. 1618-1623.British Museum. (Size of the original.) ducat: see ducat.] The English name of the ducat one, a silver coin (also called giust in a ) formerly current in the republic of Venice, and containing nearly 398 grains of fine silver, equal to 0.965 of the United States silver dollar. Some gae her crowns, some ducadoons. IMG:content-0056.jpg:[blocks in formation] Gight's Lady (Child's Ballads), VIII. 290). The duck a to one , which contain eth eight livers, that is, six shillings. This piece hath in one side the effigies of the Duke of Venice and the Patriarch,. other, the figure of St. Just in a, a chast Patavine [Paduan] duces, n. duces tecum (dū'sēz tē'kum). [L., you will bring with you: duces , 2d pers. sing. fut. ind. of ducere , lead, bring (see duct ); te , abl. of tu = E. thou ; cum , with (appended to personal pronouns).] In law , a writ commanding a person to appear in court, and to bring with him specified documents or other things in his custody, which may be required as evidence. More fully called subpœna duces tecum . See subpæna . Duchet, a. and n. An obsolete form of Dutch . duche (duch'es), n. [Formerly also dutche ; duche e , duches (also dukes , i. e., duke ), duque a = Sp. duquesa = Pg. duqueza = It. duche a , duci a (the orig. hard sound of e being retained in Rom., after the masc. form), fem. of dux ( duc- ), > OF. duc , etc., E. duke : see dukel .] 1. The consort or widow of a duke, or a woman who holds the sovereignty or titles of a duchy. Ich am hus dere douheter, duche e of heuene. Piers Plowman (C), iii. 33. The dictionary definition is far from being exhaustive, since, obviously, where so created, or where the terms of the patent so run, a duche may be duche in her own right. There is no antinomy to resolve in the case of a prince being also a duche . N. and Q., 7th ser., IV. 229 2. A variety of roofing-slate two feet long and one foot wide.-3. A part of ladies' head-dre in the seventeenth century, apparently a knot of ribbon. IMG:content-0057.png:[blocks in formation] (which see, under maintenance ). duck1 (duk), v. [ dukken (= MD. ducken = LG. ducken , > G. ducken = Dan. dukke , also dykke), duck, dive, stoop; a secondary verb, partly displacing its orig., E. dial. and Sc. douk , dook, douken , dūken , dūcan (found only in deriv. duce , a duck: see duck2 ) = MD. duycken , D. duiken = MLG. dūken , LG. duken = OHG. tühhan , MHG. tüchen , G. tauchen = Sw. dyka , orig. intr., duck, dive, stoop.] I. in trans. 1. To plunge the head or the whole body into water and immediately withdraw; make a dip. They shot marvellously at him, and he was driven some- times to duck into the water. IMG:content-0058.jpg:[graphic] North, tr. of Plutarch, p. 609. Well, my dear brother, if I scape this drowning, 'Tis your turn next to sink; you shall duck twice Before I help you. Beau, and Fl . , Scornful Lady, ii. 2. 2. To nod or bob the head suddenly; bow. Because I cannot flatter, and look fair,... Duck with French nods and apish courtesy, I must be held a rancorous enemy. IMG:content-0059.png:[graphic] Shak., Rich. III., i. 3. You shall have A French man ducking lower than your knee, At th' instant mocking even your very shoe-ties. Ford, Love's Sacrifice, i. 1. Hence-3. To give way; yield; cringe. "What, take the credit from the Law?" you ask? Indeed, we did! Law ducks to Gospel here. Browning , Ring and Book, II. 107. Wig ducked to wig, each blockhead had a brother, and there was a universal apotheosis of the mediocrity of our Lowell, Among my Books, 1st ser., p. 338. set. II. trans. 1. To dip or plunge in water and immediately withdraw: as, to duck a witch or a scold. So strait they were seizing him there To duck him likewise. Robin Hood and Little John (Child's Ballads, V. 220). I say, duck her in the loch, and then we will see whether she is witch or not. Scott , Abbot, ii. 2. To lower or bend down suddenly, as in dodging a mi ile or an obstacle, or in saluting awkwardly: as, to duck the head. duck1 (duk), n. [ As it is also their generall custome scarcely to salute any man, yet may they neither omitte cro e, nor carved statue, without a religious duck. Discov. of New World, p. 128. Here be, without duck or nod, Other trippings to be trod Of lighter toes. Milton , Comus, 1. 960.