. An illustrated dictionary of words used in art and archaeology. Explaining terms frequently used in works on architecture, arms, bronzes, Christian art, colour, costume, decoration, devices, emblems, heraldry, lace, personal ornaments, pottery, painting, sculpture, &c, with their derivations . and Persians, who called itsaiitir. One of its old European names is theciinbal. The Hebrew ncbd, or perhaps thepsanicrin mentioned by Daniel, is supposed to have been a dulcimer ; the psalterion of theGreeks also. A hand organ of the Middle Ageswas called a dulcimer. Dunkirk. A manufactory of modern f
. An illustrated dictionary of words used in art and archaeology. Explaining terms frequently used in works on architecture, arms, bronzes, Christian art, colour, costume, decoration, devices, emblems, heraldry, lace, personal ornaments, pottery, painting, sculpture, &c, with their derivations . and Persians, who called itsaiitir. One of its old European names is theciinbal. The Hebrew ncbd, or perhaps thepsanicrin mentioned by Daniel, is supposed to have been a dulcimer ; the psalterion of theGreeks also. A hand organ of the Middle Ageswas called a dulcimer. Dunkirk. A manufactory of modern faiencewhich only existed for a short time in the l8thcentury, and was closed within a year. Theworks are therefore very rare. Jacquemartmentions a clock bearing a close resemblanceto certain Dutch products, inscribed Dickhoofand A. Diiislmrg, and by the latter nameidentified as Dunkirk work. Duns, Celtic. Ancient hill forts of the sim-plest kind, consisting of a round or oval earthenwall and ditch on a rising ground, probablycontemporary with the pit dwellings. Dunster, O. P^. Broad-cloth made inSomersetshire, temp. Edward III. Dutch Pink. (.See Pinks.) Dutch White. (See Carhonatf. ok Leah,Barytes.) Dwararabha, Dwaragopouras, Dwara-harmya, Dwaraprasada, Dwarasala, Ind. (SeeGorouRAs.) Eagle, Her. The eagle (called in ;/) appears inthe earliest iMiglishexamples of arms,\ and his appearance\ often denotes an> alliance with Ger-man princes. Boththe German em-]ierors and Rus-sian czars adoptedthe eagle for theirheraldic ensign insupport of theirclaim to be con-Fig. 274. Eagle—Ensign of France, sidered the suc-cessors of theRoman The eagle borne as the en-sign of Imperial France sits, grasping a thunder-bolt, in an attitude of vigilance, having itswings elevated, but the tips of the feathersdrooping, as they would be in a living bird. Inremote antiquity the eagle was an emblem ofthe sun, and the double-headed eagle typifies therising and the setting s
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