Dana, Richard

HENRY. JR., an American lawyer and author, B. at Cambridge, Ma ., Aug. 1, 1815, and graduated at Harvard College in 1837. He made a voyage to California, which he has described in his Two Years before the Mast. Subsequently he studied law under Judge Story and Prof. Green leaf, and was admitted to the bar in 1840. Da/na, SAMUEL LUTHER, an American chemist, brother of James Freeman Dana, B. at Amherst, N.H., in 1795. He graduated at Harvard College in 1813. He served as lieutenant in a regiment of U. S. artillery, until the close of the war which then raged between this country and Great Britain. He then studied medicine, and hav- ing received his diploma, practised as a physician at Waltham, Ma . He founded the Newton Chemical Company, of which he was the chemist for several years. He a isted his brother in writing Mineralogy and Geology of Boston and its Vicinity, and wrote var i- ous treatises on chemistry. He is chiefly noted for his discovery of a new proce of manufacturing oil of vit- riol, and bleaching-salts. D. March 11, 1868. Da'na, in Ma achusetts , a post-village and township of Worcester co., abt. 65 m. W. of Boston. Danae, (dan'ai-e.) (Myth.) The daughter of Acrisius, king of Argos. She was confined in a brazen tower by her father, to whom it had been predicted by an oracle that he would be slain by his daughter's son. Jupiter, however, introduced himself into the tower in the guise of a golden shower. Perseus was the offspring of their amour; and he, together with his mother, was exposed to the fury of the waves by Acrisius. He was saved, how, ever, and ultimately killed his grandfather by accident. Danæa'ceæ, n . pl . ( Bot . ) The Danse-worts, an order of plants, alliance Filicales .-DIAG. Ringle , dorsal spore-cases, combined in ma es, and splitting irregu- larly by a central cleft. This order forms the transition between the Acrogens and Rhizogens, having all the habits of dorsiferous ferns, and nearly approaching the Adder's-tongues. goclase in dolomite at Danbury, Connecticut. It may be recognized by its pyrognostic characters. Danbury, in Connecticut, a city and semi-capital of Fairfield co., about 18 m. N. N.W. of Bridge port. It was incorporated in 1696. In 1777 the American commander Gen. Wooster was killed here, and the town burned by the British. Here are 26 extensive hat factories and other industries. Pop . (1897) about 19,000. Danbury, in N. Carolina , a post-village, cap. of Stokes co., about 112 m. W. N.W. of Raleigh. Danbury, in New Hampshire , a post-village and town- ship of Merrimack co., about 39 m. N.W. of Concord. The township is hilly and mountainous. Danbury, in Ohio , a post-village of Ottawa co. Dan'by, FRANCIS, R.A., an Irish historical painter, born at Wexford, Ireland, 1793. His principal paintings are: Sunset at Sea after a Storm; Delivery of Israel out of Egypt; The Holy Family; Departure of Uly es from Ithaca , . Danby, in Illinois , a post-village of Du Page co., about 23 m. W. of Chicago. Danby, in Kansas , a post-office of Ne co. Danby, in Michigan , a post-township of Ionia co. Dan'by, in New York , a post-village and township of Dan'by, in Vermont, a post-village and township of Rutland co., about 70 m. S.S.W. of Montpelier. Manf . Carriages, leather, and cheese. Danby Four Corners, in Vermont , a post-office of Rutland co. Dance, v . n. [Fr. danser ; L. Sax.danzen ; Ger. tanzen ; Icel. dans a ; 0. Ger. tanz , a dance; Heb. datz , to leap, to skip; Ch. dutz , contracted from danatz .] To leap or move with measured steps, regulated by a tune sung or played; as, to dance a jig. - To leap, and frisk about; to move nimbly, or up and down; to caper. Danaides, (da-nai'e-dees.) ( Myth .) The fifty daughters of Danaus, king of Argos. Ægyptus, king of Egypt, their uncle, who had fifty sons, desired them to marry their cousins, but the Danaides, warned by an oracle, opposed this marriage. Ægyptus sent his sons to Ar- gos, backed by a powerful army, in order to enforce his wishes. Danaus, being too weak to resist, consented to the marriage, but concerted with his daughters that they should kill their husbands on the night of their nuptials. This horrible project was executed, Lynceus -n. A leaping, curvetting, or stepping with motions of To dance upon nothing , to undergo the operation of being hanged by a rope. -v. a. To make to dance; to move up and down, or back and forth; to put into a lively motion; to dandle. -A tune or measure by which dancing is timed and regu- lated; as, a morris-dance. Dance of Death. ( Hist .) See MACABRE DANCE. Dan'cer, n. One who practises dancing, or is skilful in the performance thereof. Dan'cere , n. A female dancer. (Rarely used.) Dancette', n. ( Her .) A line of par- titi on, consisting of a zigzag line, the indentations of which are of great size, and limited to three in number, (fig. 768.) Dan'cing, n. [Ger. tanzen.] The art of moving in measured steps, or adapting the movements of the Fig . 768.-DANCETTE. body to the sounds of music.- Among all ancient peoples the dance formed an integral part of their religious ceremonies, and it is still simi- larly employed by some of the Eastern Christians. The first mention made of D. in the Scriptures occurs ( Exod . xv. 20), where we read that "Miriam the prophete , the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand, and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances." Among the Hebrews, the performers were usu- ally females, of whom the regular chorus of the Temple seems to have consisted (Psalm cxlix.); but occasion- ally men a isted in the solemn act, as in the well- known instance of David's D. before the ark. The sanction given to the practice by this conduct of the Hebrew monarch, no doubt influenced the later Jews to adopt the dance as a fitting close of the joyous occa- sion of the feast of Tabernacles, when the rulers of the synagogues, the doctors of the schools, and even the members of the Sanhedrim, accompanied the sacred music with their voices, and leaped and danced with torches in their hands for the greater part of the night. When males and females a isted at the same religious ceremony, the ancient Jews did not mingle in the dance, -To treat as a child; to toy, play, or trifle with. but each sex kept in a separate body. Among the Dan'dler, n. One who dandles or plays with young Greeks, dancing was ennobled into an art. Plato children. ranges the different dances practised into three cla es, military , domestic, and mediatorial or religious . The most ancient of the latter was the Bacchic, in honor of Bacchus; the most graceful, that instituted by These us, which circled round the altars of Apollo. The Greek religious dance consisted of three parts - the strophe , in which the movement was from right to left; the an- tistrophe , which reversed the movement; and the sta- tionary , or, properly speaking, grave and slow move- ment, when they danced in front of the altar. Of their military dances, the Spartan or Pyrrhic was the most celebrated. This dance is supposed to be preserved by the modern Greeks: Dan'dolo, a patrician family of Venice, which traced its origin to the Roman æra. Its most celebrated mem- bers are: "You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet, Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone? Of two such le ons why forget Among the Romans, and, as they extended their sway, throughout the Roman empire, the dance was a favor- ite recreation, as well as a religious ceremony; but the better cla of Romans, in proportion as it came to be cultivated as a profe ion, and rose to the height of D. , GIOVANNI, Doge from 1280 to 1289, distinguished by a long war against the patriarch of Aquila. D. , FRANCESCO, Doge from 1328 to 1339, surnamed The Dog, for having humbled the republic to Pope Clement V. D. , ANDREA, Doge from 1342 to 1354; he sustained a long war against Hungary, and wrote the Chronicles of Venice. D., VINCENZO, a Venetian chemist, descended from Henrico D. , в. 1758. At all times zealous for the independence of Italy, he became a member of the council of the Cisalpine republic, after the treaty of Campo Formio. D. 1819. Among his works are, Fonda ment i dell a Scienza , Fisico - Chemic a , . Dand'ridge, in Tenne ee, a post-village, cap. of Jefferson co., on French Broad River, about 30 m. E. of Knoxville.