Dash, COUNTESS

Pen-name of Gabrielle Anna Cisterne de Court i ras, Vicomte e de Saint-Mars. 1804-1872, a French novelist. Her numerous tales treat chiefly of the illicit amours of the aristocracy. Les Amours de Bu y- Rahutin, 1850; Les Aventures dúne Jeune Mariée, 1870. Chandler's Encyclopedia IMG:content-1097.jpg:[blocks in formation] Dash Pot. Device to retard the closure of a valve which falls to its seat by gravity. On the stem of the valve is fitted a piston, which fits the bore of a short cylinder. When the valve is lifted, air enters below the piston; when the valve | ERNEST, b. 1837, is a historian and novelist. Da , PETER, 1647-1708. Norwegian poet. Song of the Val- ley , 1696; Spiritual Pastimes , 1711; Trumpet of Nordland , 1739. Dasycladeæ. Family of marine green Alge of the order Siphon aceæ , including several genera. Dasypodidæ. See LORIC AT A ( Edentata ). Dasyprocta. See HYSTRICOMORPH A. IMG:content-1098.jpg:[graphic] IMG:content-1099.png:[graphic][subsumed][merged small][merged small] known by piece of programme music, Le Désert , which was inspired by several years' sojourn in the Orient, was produced 1844, and stands among the finest specimens of music with local color. His most succe ful opera is La Perle du Brésil , 1851. He was an enthusiastic disciple of St. Simon, and succeeded Berlioz as librarian of the Paris Conservatory.