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[Gr. dendron = a tree, and phullon =a leaf.] Zool. & Palæont .: A genus of deep-sea corals, ranging from the chalk to modern times. chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; Deneb Adige, s . Astron.: A fixe Istar of the first magnitude, called also Arided and Alpha Cygni. Deneb Aleet, s . Astron.: A fixed star, of magnitude two and a half, called also Deneb, Denebola, and Beta Leonis. Deneb Algiedi, s . denerye East Tilbury. A very few of the older and simpler pits have been explored; they are found to date back to the Stone Ages. The deeper ones still need examination. It has been sometimes conjectured that dene holes were excavated for the purpose of obtaining chalk or flint, but as they are especially concentrated both at Bexley (Kent), and near Grays, where fifty to sixty feet of gravel and Thanet sand overlie the chalk, though in each instance there is plenty of bare chalk within a mile, this explanation cannot apply in their case. They were probably storehouses and places of occasional refuge. On the ordnance maps the word is spelled daneholes, suggesting a closer connection with the Danes than appears to have been the case. [For information about dene holes see the paper by Mr. F. C. J. Spurrell, read at the Royal Archæol. Inst. in April, 1881, and since published.] (T. V. Holmes, Esq ., F. G. S. ) *dēn'-er-ře, s . [DEANERY.] děn'-guê, s . [Said to be a mistake for English dandy; the disease, when it first made its appearance in the British West India Islands, being called dandy-fever, from the stiffne and constraint caused to the limbs. This the Spaniards mistook for their word dengue prudery, which might also be very well used for stiffne or constraint.] Med.: A continued fever common in this country and in the East and West Indies, and Africa. The chief symptoms are severe pain in forehead, limbs, back, and joints, with an eruption like measles, or rather erysipelas, with painful swellings. The pains are of an agonizing character, and are apt to recur. The acute stage lasts seven or eight days, and then desquamation begins.