Doniferous

[Lat. donum, and ferre, to bear.] Bearing gifts. Dontphan, ( don'e -fan,) in Kansas , a N.E. co., next to Mi ouri. Area , abt. 390 sq. m. Rivers. Mi ouri and Wolf rivers. Surface, diversified. Soil , fertile. Min . Coal. Cap . Troy. -A post-town of the above co., on the Mi ouri River, abt. 28 m. above Leaven worth. Don'iphan, in Mi ouri , a post-village, cap. of Ripley co., on Current River. appearance. It was brought on the English stage by Shad well, under the title of The Libertine, (1676.) In the end of the 17th c. a new Spanish version of Tellez's play was prepared by Antonio de Zamora, and brought on the stage. It is this version that forms the groundwork of the later Italian versions, and of Mozart's opera. It was first put into an operatic form by Vincenzo Righini, in Il Con vita to de Pietra, (1777;) the text of Mozart's Don Giovanni was written by Lorenza da Ponte, (1787.) Through this famous opera the story a theme for numbers of poets, playwrights, and writers of romance. A. Dumas has a drama, Don Juan de Ma ranna; Byron's Don Juan follows the name, and in so far the character, of the original; and Prosper Mérimée's novel, Les Ames du Purgatoire , ou les Deux Don Juan, is founded upon it. Don Juan, in Indiana , a post-office of Perry co. Donkey, ( dong / ke,) n. [Probably from dun , and dim. kin .] A nickname said to be applied to an a from his color; an a of any kind. - See A . -A stupid person; a thick-headed fellow. (Used in con tempt.)