Dutch oven

Cooking: 1. A spider, skillet, or camp-oven used by those who cook by hot coals on the hearth. A mode yet common in the Western States of the Union, and unsurpa ed in its results with skillful housewives. The pot stands in hot embers, and more of the same are piled on the dish-shaped lid. 2. A cooking-chamber suspended in front of a fire so as to cook by radiation. Also eminently satisfactory in its results, in just such degree as toasting exceeds baking, and grilling or broiling exceeds frying. Dutch pink, s. Chalk or whiting dyed with a decoction of birch-leaves, French berries, and alum. Dutch pink, English and Italian pinks, are bright yellow colors used in distemper and for paper staining, and other ordinary purposes. The pigment called "stil," or "stil de grain," is a similar preparation, and a very fugitive yellow, the darker kind of which is called Brown Pink. Dutch roots, s . Bot.: Hyacinth us nutans. fate, fat, färe, amidst, what, fall, IMG:content-0670.png:[blocks in formation] Paint.: This school of art cannot be said to po e the perfections that are to be observed in the Flemish school; their subjects are principally derived from the vulgar amusements of the peasants. The expre ions are sufficiently marked; but it is the expre ion of pa ions which debase, instead of ennobling human nature. It must be acknowledged, at the same time, that the Dutch painters have succeeded in several branches of the art. If they have chosen low subjects of imitation, they have represented them with great exactne . If they have not succeeded in the most difficult parts of the chiarooscuro, they at least excel in the most striking, such as in light confined in a narrow space, night illuminated by the moon, or by torches, and the light of a smith's forge. The Dutch have no rivals in landscape painting, considered merely as the faithful representation of a particular scene. Among the chief master painters of this school are Rembrandt, Ruysdael, the Teniers, Ostade, the Breughels, Vandemer, Berghem, Both, Bakhuyzen, and the Vanderveldes. ( Weale .) Dutch scoop, 8. A box shovel suspended by cords from a tripod and used for irrigation.