# Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition/Volume VI

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| Clichy, town, France. Clifton, town, England. Climate. Clinton, town, Iowa, U.S.A. Clinton, town, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Clinton, De Witt, American statesman. Clinton, Henry Fynes, English scholar. Clitheroe, town, England. Clitomachus, Greek philosopher. Clitor, ancient town, Greece. Clive, Lord, of Plassy. Clock. Pendulum. Barometrical Error. Escapements. Going Barrels. Equation Clocks. Striking Clocks. Spring Clocks. Electrical Clocks. Church and Turret Clocks. Teeth of Wheels. Oil for Clocks. The Westminster Clock. Cloister. Clonmel, town, Ireland. Clootz, Jean Baptiste, Baron, French Revolutionist. Clot, Antoine, French physician. Clotilda, St, wife of Clovis. Clough, Arthur Hugh, English poet. Cloves, tree and fruit. Clovio, Giulio, Italian painter. Clovis, king of the Franks (See France). Cloyne, town, Ireland. Club, Clubs. Club-Foot. Cluny, town, France. Clusium (Chiusi, q.v.), ancient town, Italy. Cluver, Philip, German geographer. Clyde, river, Scotland. Clyde, Lord, British general. Clytæmnestra, wife of Agamemnon (q.v.). Cnidus (Tekir), ancient town, Asia Minor. Cnossus, town, Crete. | Coal. Coanza, river, Africa. Coatbridge, town, Scotland. Cobalt, chemical element. Coban, town, Central America. Cobbett, William, English political writer. Cobden, Richard, English politician. Cobija, town, Bolivia. Coblentz, town, Prussia. Cobra, genus of snakes. Coburg, town, Germany. Coca (Cuca, q.v.), plant. Cocceius, Johannes, Dutch theologian. Cochabamba, town, Bolivia. Cochin, state, India. Cochin China, country, Asia. Cochineal, dyestuff. Cockatoo, bird. Cockatrice, fabulous animal. Cockburn, Mrs Alison, Scottish ballad-writer. Cockburn, Sir George, British admiral. Cockburn, Lord, Scottish judge. Cocker, Edward, English arithmetician. Cockerell, Charles Robert, English architect. Cockermouth, town, England. Cockle, mollusc. Cockroach, insect. Cocles, Horatius, Roman hero. Cocoa, or Cacao, tree and fruit. Cocoa-Nut Palm. Cocytus, river & legendary river, Greece. Cod, fish. Cod-Liver Oil. Code, body of laws. Codogno, town, Italy. Codrington, Sir Edward, British admiral. Codrus, king of Athens. Coehorn, Menno, Baron van, Dutch military engineer. Cœlentera, or Cœlenterata, group of animals. Coello, Alonso Sanchez, Spanish painter. Coen, Jan Pieterszoon, founder of Batavia, Java. Cœnobia, monastic communities (See Monasticism). Cœur, Jacques, early French trader and economist. Coffee. Coffer-Dams, in engineering. Cognac, town, France. Cohesion, in capillary action (See Attraction, Capillary Action, and Constitution of Bodies). Cohoes, town, New York, U.S.A. Coimbatore, district, India. Coimbra, town, Portugal. Coin, town, Spain. Coinage (See Bullion, Mint, Money, and Numismatics). Coir, fibre (See Cocoa-Nut Palm). Coire, town, Switzerland. Cojutepec, town, San Salvador. Coke, fuel. Coke, Sir Edward, English lawyer. Colberg, town, Prussia. Colbert, Jean Baptiste, French statesman. Colchester, town, England. Colchester, Lord, English statesman. Colchicum, plant. Colchis, ancient country, Caucasus. Coldstream, town, Scotland. Colebrooke, Henry Thomas, English Orientalist. Coleoptera, order of insects. Coleraine, town, Ireland. Coleridge, Hartley, English writer. Coleridge, Sir John Taylor, English lawyer and critic. Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, English poet. Colet, John, dean of St Paul’s, London. Colet, Louise Revoil, French poetess and novelist. Colic, disease. Coligni, or Coligny, Gaspard de, admiral of France. Colima, town, Mexico. Colin, Alexander, Flemish sculptor. Collaert, Hans, Flemish engraver. Collé, Charles, French dramatist. Colle, Rafaelle del, Italian painter. College. Collier, Arthur, English metaphysician. Collier, Jeremy, English divine. Collingwood, Lord, English admiral. Collins, Anthony, English philosopher. Collins, Mortimer, English poet. Collins, William, English poet. Collins, William, English painter. Collodion, its composition and uses. Collot d’Herbois, Jean Marie, French Revolutionist. Colman, George, the Elder, English dramatist. Colman, George, the Younger, English dramatist. Colmar, town, German Alsace. Colne, town, England. Colocynth, plant and drug. Cologna, town, Italy. Cologne, town, Rhenish Prussia. Colombia, United States of, South America. Colombo, town, Ceylon. Colon (Aspinwall, q.v.), town, Panama. Colonna, Giovanni Paolo, Italian composer. Colonna, Vittoria, Neapolitan princess and poetess. Colony, Colonies. Colophon, ancient town, Asia Minor. Colorado, State, U.S.A. Colorado River, U.S.A. Colossae, ancient town, Asia Minor. Colosseum, amphitheatre at Rome (See Amphitheatre, Architecture, and Rome). Colossians, The Epistle to the. Colossus, statue at Rhodes. Colour, Sensations of (See Light and Optics). Colston, Edward, English merchant. Colt, Samuel, inventor of the revolver. Columba, Celtic saint. Columbanus, Irish monk. Columbia, town, South Carolina, U.S.A. Columbia, District of, U.S.A. Columbia, British, North America. Columbus, town, Ohio, U.S.A. Columbus, town, Georgia, U.S.A. Columbus, Christopher, discoverer of America. Columella, Lucius Junius Moderatus, Roman writer on agriculture. Colza Oil. Comacchio, town, Italy. Comana, or Chryse, ancient town, Cappadocia, Asia Minor. Comana, ancient town, Pontus, Asia Minor. Comanches, North-American Indians. Comayagua, town, Honduras. Comb. Combaconum, town, India. Combe, Andrew, Scottish physiologist. Combe, George, Scottish physiologist. Combe, William, English writer. Combermere, Viscount. Combinations, among workmen. Comedy (See Drama). Comenius, or Komensky, Johann Amos, Moravian educationist. Comets. Comines, town, France. Comines, Philippe de, French historian. Comitan, or Comitlan, town, Mexico. Comitia, of ancient Rome. Commerce. Commercy, town, France. Commodus, Lucius Aurelius, Roman emperor. Common Law. Common Pleas, Court of, England. Common Prayer, Book of, Church of England (See Liturgy). Commons, waste lands. Commons, House of (See Parliament). Commune, administrative division, in France. Communism. Como, town, Italy. Como, Lake of, Italy. Comonfort, Ignacio, Mexican soldier and politician. Comores, or Comoro Islands, East Africa. Company, corporate association. Comparative Anatomy. Compass, Mariner’s. Compiègne, town, France. Compostella (Santiago), town, Spain. Compton, Henry, bishop of London. Comte, Auguste, French philosopher. Comus, in Greek mythology. Conca, Sebastiano, Italian painter. Concan, district, India. Concepcion, town, Chili. Conclave, meeting for election of a pope. Concord, town, New Hampshire, U.S.A. Concord, town, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Concordance, verbal index. Concordat, papal agreement. Concordia, Roman goddess. Concordia, town, Italy. Concrete, substitute for stone. Concubinage. Condamine, Charles Marie de la, French geographer and mathematician (See La Condamine). Condé, town, France. Condé-sur-Noireau, town, France. Condé, Princes of, France. Condé, Louis de Bourbon, Prince of. Condé, Louis, Prince of (Condé the Great). Condé, Louis Henry Joseph, duke of Bourbon. Conde, José Antonio, Spanish Orientalist. Conder, Josiah, English writer. Condillac, Étienne Bonnot de, French philosopher. Condom, town, France. Condor, bird. Condorcet, Marquis de, French philosopher and politician. Condottieri, Italian mercenary troops. Conecte, Thomas, French monk and preacher. Conegliano, town, Italy. Conferreatio, form of Roman marriage. Confectionery. Confession, of sin. Confirmation, ecclesiastical rite. Confucius, Chinese sage. {{9link|Congé d'Élire|Congé d’Élire, mandate for election of a bishop. Conger-Eel, fish (See Eel). Congleton, town, England. Congleton, Lord, chancellor of Irish exchequer. Congo, country, West Africa. Congregationalists, religious denomination. Congress, in diplomacy. Congreve, William, English dramatist. Congreve, Sir William, inventor of the rocket. Coni, town, Italy. Conic Sections, or Conics. Part I.—The Parabola. ... Conington, John, English scholar. Conjeveram, town, India. Connaught, province, Ireland. Connecticut, State, U.S.A. Connemara, district, Ireland. Connor, Bernard, English physiologist. Conolly, John, English physician. Conon, Athenian general. Conrad, kings & emperors (See Germany). Conradin, king of Sicily. Conrart, Valentin, first secretary of the French Academy. Consalvi, Ercole, Italian cardinal and statesman. Consanguinity, or Kindred. Conscription, Military (See Army). Consecration. Conservatory, or Conservatoire, Musical. Consistory, ecclesiastical council. Consolidation Acts, English. Conspiracy, in law. Constable, officer of the peace. Constable, Archibald, Scottish publisher. Constable, Henry, English poet. Constable, John, English painter. Constance, town, Baden, Germany. Constance, Lake of, Switzerland. Constant de Rebecque, Henri Benjamin, French philosopher and economist. Constantine, town, Algeria. Constantine, Roman & Greek emperors (See Roman History and Greek Empire). Constantine I., the Great, Roman emperor. Constantine, emperor of Gaul, Spain, and Britain. Constantine VII. (Porphyrogenitus), Byzantine emperor. Constantine Pavlovich, Russian prince. Constantinople, capital of Turkey. Constantinus Cephalas, compiler of an anthology (q.v.). Constantius I., Flavius Valerius, Roman Emperor. Constitution, and Constitutional Law. Constitution of Bodies. Consuegra, town, Spain. Consul, Roman magistrate. Consul, commercial and legal officer in foreign country. Consulate of the Sea, Book of the. Consumption (Phthisis, q.v.), pulmonary disease. Contempt of Court, offense. Conti, Prince of (Armand de Bourbon). Contraband. Contract, in law. Conversano, town, Italy. Conveyancing, in law. Convocation, of Church of England. Conway, town, Wales. Conybeare, John, English divine. Conybeare, William Daniel, English geologist. Cook, Captain James, English navigator and explorer. Cook’s Islands, or Harley Archipelago, South Pacific. Cookery. Coolie, or Cooly, Asiatic labourer. Coomassie, capital of Ashantee, West Africa. Cooper, Abraham, English painter. Cooper, Anthony Ashley, three earls of Shaftesbury (q.v.). Cooper, Sir Astley Paston, English surgeon. Cooper, Charles Henry, English historiographer. Cooper, James Fenimore, American novelist. Cooperage, handicraft. Co-operation. Coorg, province, India. Coot, water-fowl. Coote, Sir Eyre, British general. Copaiba, Balsam of (See Balsam). Copal, resin. Copan, town, Honduras. Copenhagen, capital of Denmark. Copernicus, Nicolaus, German astronomer. Copiapo, town, Chili. Copley, John Singleton, historical painter. Copper, metal, chemical element. Copperas, mineral. Coprolites, Fossil. Copts, Egyptian people. Coptos, ancient town, Egypt. Copyhold, land tenure. Copyright. Coquerel, Athanase Josué, French Protestant theologian. Coquerel, Athanase Laurent Charles, French Protestant theologian. Coques, Gonzalez, Flemish painter. Cora (Cori), ancient town, Italy. Corals, or Coral Animals. Coram, Thomas, English philanthropist. Corbeil, in architecture. Corcyra (Corfu, q.v.), island, Greece. Corday d’Armans, Marie-Anne-Charlotte, assassin of Marat. Cordeliers, Franciscan monks. Corderius (Mathurin Cordier), French writer. Cordova, town, Spain. Cordova, or Cordoba, town, Argentine Republic. Cordova, town, Mexico. Corea, kingdom, Asia. Corelli, Arcangelo, Italian musical composer. Corenzio, Belisario, Greek Neapolitan painter. Corfu, island & town, Greece. Coriander, plant and fruit. Corigliano, town, Italy. Coringa, town, India. Corinna, Greek poetess. Corinth, town, ancient Greece. Corinthians, Epistles to the. Coriolanus, Caius Marcus, Roman patrician. Corioli, ancient town, Italy. Cork, bark of tree. Cork, county & town, Ireland. Cork, Earls of (Boyle, q.v.). Corleone, town, Italy. Cormenin, Vicomte de, French jurist. Cormontaigne, Louis de, French military engineer. Cormorant, bird. Corn Laws, English. Corn Trade, British. Cornaro, Luigi, Italian writer. Corneille, Pierre, French dramatist. Corneille, Thomas, French dramatist. Cornelius, Peter von, German painter. Corneto, town, Italy. Cornhert, Theodore, Dutch writer. Cornutus, L. Annæus, Roman Stoic philosopher. Cornwall, county, England. Cornwall, Barry (Procter, q.v.). Cornwallis, First Marquis, British general. Coro, town, Venezuela. Coromandel Coast, India. Corona, envelope of the sun. Coronation. Coronelli, Vincenzio, Italian geographer. Coroner, officer of the law. Corot, Jean Baptiste Camille, French painter. Corporation. Corpulence. Corpus Christi, church festival. Correa da Serra, José Francisco, Portuguese politician and scientist. Correggio, Antonio Allegri, Italian painter. Corrèze, department, France. Corrientes, town, Argentine Republic. Corry, town, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Corseul (See Côtes-du-Nord). Corsica, island, Mediterranean. Corssen, Wilhelm Paul, German philologist. Cort, Cornelius, Dutch engraver. Corte-Real, family of Portuguese navigators. Cortes, Spanish legislature (See Spain and Portugal). Cortes, Hernan, conqueror of Mexico. Cortese (Courtois, q.v.), family of French painters. Cortona, town, Italy. Corunna, or Coruña, town, Spain. Corvey, Benedictine abbey, Saxony. Corvisart-Desmarets, Baron de, French physician. Corvus, M. Valerius, Roman general. Coryatt, Thomas, English writer. Corybantes, in Greek mythology. Coryphæus, leader of chorus, in Greek tragedy. Cos, island, Asia Minor. Cosenza, town, Italy. Cosin, John, bishop of Durham. Cosmas, surnamed Indicopleustes, ancient geographer. Cosmas of Prague, Bohemian historian. Cosmogony. Cosne, town, France. Cossacks, Russian tribes. Costa Rica, republic, Central America. Costanzo, Angelo di, Italian historian. Costello, Dudley, English journalist. Costello, Louisa Stuart, English writer. Coster, Laurence, Dutch printer (See Roster and Printing). Costs, Legal. Costume. Greek Costume. ... Cota, Rodrigo, Spanish poet. Côte d’Or, department, France. Cotes, Roger, English mathematician. Côtes-du-Nord, department, France. Cotopaxi, volcano, Ecuador. Cotrone (Crotona, q.v.), town, Italy. Cotta, family of German publishers. Cottabus, Greek game. Cottereau, Jean, French royalist (See Chouans). Cottin, Sophie, French novelist. Cotton. Cotton, Charles, English writer. Cotton, George Edward Lynch, bishop of Calcutta. Cotton, Sir Robert Bruce, political writer and founder of Cottonian Library. Cotys, Thracian kings. Coulomb, Charles Augustin, French physicist. Council, Ecclesiastical. Council Bluffs, town, Iowa, U.S.A. Counsel (Advocate and Barristers, q.v.). Count, Countess, title. County, administrative area. Courayer, Pierre François le, French theologian. Courier, Paul Louis, French writer. Courland, province, Russia. Coursing, with greyhounds. Court, Courts, Judicial. Court Martial. Court, Antoine, French Protestant. Court de Gebelin, Antoine, French scholar. Courtois, Jâques and Guillaume, French painters. Courtrai, town, Belgium. Cousin, Victor, French philosopher. Coustou, Nicholas and Guillaume, French sculptors. Coutances, town, France. Couthon, Georges, French Revolutionist. Coutts, Thomas, English banker. Covenanters, in Scottish history. Coventry, town, England. Coverdale, Miles, translator of English Bible. Covilha, town, Portugal. Covington, town, Kentucky, U.S.A. Cowell, John, English jurist. Cowley, Abraham, English poet. Cowper, William, English poet. Cowry, shell and money. Cox, David, English painter. Cox, Richard, bishop of Ely. Coxcie, Michael, Flemish painter. Coxe, William, archdeacon, English writer. Coypel, family of French painters. Coysevox, or Coyzevox, Charles Antoine, French sculptor. | Crab, crustacean. Crabbe, George, English poet. Cracow, town, Austrian Poland. Craig, John, Scottish Reformer. Craig, Sir Thomas, Scottish jurist and poet. Craik, George Lillie English writer. Crail, town, Scotland. Crake, bird. Cramp, muscular disease. Cranach, Lucas, German painter and caricaturist. Cranberry, plant and fruit. Cranbrook, town, England. Crane, bird. Crane, hoisting machine. Cranmer, Thomas, archbishop of Canterbury. Crannogs, Celtic lake dwellings. Crantor, Greek philosopher. Crape, silk fabric. Crashaw, Richard, English poet. Crassus, Lucius Licinius, Roman orator. Crassus, Marcus Licinius, Roman triumvir. Crates of Athens, actor and writer of comedies. Crates of Mallus, grammarian and Stoic philosopher. Crates of Thebes, Cynic philosopher. Cratinus, Greek comedian. Cratippus, Peripatetic philosopher. Cratippus, Greek historian. Crauford, Quentin, English antiquary. Crawford, Thomas, American sculptor. Crawfurd, John, English political writer. Crayer, Gaspard de, Flemish painter. Crayon, material for drawing. Cream of Tartar, chemical salt. Creasote, or Creosote, antiseptic, drug, and poison. Crébillon, Claude Prosper Jolyot, French novelist. Crébillon, Prosper Jolyot de, French poet. Crécy, or Cressy, town, France. Credi, Lorenzo di, Italian painter. Crédit Foncier, Crédit Mobilier, credit banks. Crediton, town, England. Creech, Thomas, English translator. Creeds, authorized formularies of doctrine. Creek Indians, North America (See Indians). Crefeld, town, Germany. Crema, town, Italy. Cremation, method of disposing of human corpses. Cremona, province & town, Italy. Creole. Creon, king of Corinth, in Greek fable (See Jason and Medea). Creon, king of Thebes, in Greek fable. Creosote (Creasote, q.v.), antiseptic, drug, and poison. Crescimbeni, Giovanni Mario, Italian poet. Crespi, Daniele, Italian painter. Crespi, Giovanni Battista, Italian sculptor. Crespi, Giuseppe Maria, Italian painter. Creswell, Sir Cresswell, English judge. Cressy (Crécy, q.v.), town, France. Crest, in heraldry (q.v.). Crest, town, France. Creswick, Thomas, English painter. Crete, or Candia, island, Mediterranean. Cretinism, disease. Creuse, department, France. Creutz, Gustaf Philip, Count, Swedish poet. Creuzer, Georg Friedrich, German philologist. Creuzot, or Creusot, Le, town, France. Crevier, Jean Baptiste Louis, French writer. Crewe, town, England. Cribbage, game. Crichton, James, The Admirable Crichton. Cricket, insect. Cricket, game. Cricklade, town, England. Crieff, town, Scotland. Crime. Crimea, peninsula, Russia. Criminal Law. Crimmitzschau, town, Saxony. Crispin and Crispinian, Sts. Crissa, ancient town, Greece. Critias, Greek orator and poet. Crivelli, Carlo, Venetian painter. Croatia and Slavonia, crown-land, Hungary. Crocodile, reptile. Crœsus, king of Lydia. Croft, William, English musical composer. Croker, John Wilson, English critic. Croker, Thomas Crofton, Irish antiquary. Croly, George, English divine and poet. Cromarty, county, Scotland. Crome, John, English painter. Cromlech, monumental stone or circle of stones. Crompton, Samuel, inventor of the spinning mule. Cromwell, Oliver, Lord Protector of the British Commonwealth. Cromwell, Thomas, earl of Essex. Cronstadt, town, Russia. Cronstadt, town, Austria. Croquet, out-door game. Cross, instrument for inflicting capital punishment & sacred symbol. Crossbill, bird. Crotch, William, English musical composer. Croton Oil. Crotona. Croup, disease. Crousaz, Jean Pierre de, Swiss philosopher. Crow, bird. Crowe, Eyre Evans, English historian. Crowland, town, England. Crown, of king or emperor. Croydon, town, England. Crucifix and Crucifixion (See Cross). Cruden, Alexander, author of Concordance to Bible. Crusades. Crusenstolpe, Magnus Jakob, Swedish historian. Crusius, Christian August, German theologian. Crustacea, class of animals. Cruveilhier, Jean, French anatomist. Cruz, Jean de la, Spanish mystic. Cruz, Ramon de la, Spanish dramatist. Crypt, in architecture. Cryptography, writing in cypher. Crystallography. Csokonai, Mihaly Vitez, Hungarian poet. Csoma de Körös, Alexander, Hungarian philologist. Ctesias, Greek physician and historian. Ctesiphon, ancient town, Assyria. Cuba. Cubebs. Cubitt, Thomas. Cubitt, Sir William. Cuca, plant. Cuckoo, or Cuckow, bird. Cucumber, vegetable. Cuddalor, town, India. Cuddapah, district, India. Cudworth, Ralph, English philosopher. Cuenca, province & town, Spain. Cuenca, town, Ecuador. Cuirass, defensive armour. Cujas, or Cujacius, Jacques de, French jurisconsult. Culdees, order of ecclesiastics. Cullen, William, Scottish pathologist. Cullera, town, Spain. Culloden, Scotland, Battle of (1746). Cumæ, or Cuma, ancient Greek colony, Italy. Cumana, town, Venezuela. Cumberland, county, England. Cumberland, town, Maryland, U.S.A. Cumberland, Richard, Bishop of Peterborough. Cumberland, Richard, English dramatist. Cumberland, William Augustus, Duke of. Cumbraes, islands, Scotland (See Bute). Cumin, or Cummin, plant. Cumming, Roualeyn Gordon, African traveller and hunter. Cunard, Sir Samuel, founder of line of steamships. Cuneiform Writing. Cunitz, Maria. Cunningham, Allan, Scottish writer. Cunningham, Peter, English miscellaneous writer. Cunningham, William, Scottish theologian and ecclesiastic. Cupar-Fife, town, Scotland. Cupid, Roman god (the Greek Eros). Cupping, surgical operation. Curaçoa, or Curaçao, island, West Indies. Curassow, bird. Curate. Cures, ancient town, Italy. Cureton, William, English Orientalist. Curfew, bell. Curia, ancient Roman tribal division & papal court. Curlew, bird. Curling, game. Curragh, plain, with military camp, Kildare, Ireland. Curran, John Philpot, Irish orator. Currants, fruit. Currency, or Current Money (See Money). Currie, James, Scottish physician and critic. Curry, condiment. Currying, in leather manufacture (q.v.). Curtius, Mettus, Roman legendary hero. Curtius, Rufus, Quintus, biographer of Alexander the Great. Curve, Curves. Curzola, town, Austrian Dalmatia. Cusa, Nicolas de (Cusanus), cardinal and Reformer. Cush, of Scripture. Custard Apple. Customs Duties. Custos Rotulorum, keeper of records. Cutch, state, India. Cutch Gundava, district, Baluchistan. Cuthbert, St, bishop of Lindisfarne, England. Cutlery. Cuttack (Cattack, q.v.), district and town, India. Cuttle-Fish. Cuvier, Georges (Baron Cuvier), French naturalist. Cuxhaven, town, Germany. Cuyaba, town, Brazil. Cuyp, family of Dutch painters. Cuzco, town, Peru. Cybele, in Greek mythology. Cyclades, group of islands, Greece. Cyclones, areas of low atmospheric pressure (See Atmosphere, Climate, and Meteorology). Cyclopes, in Greek mythology. Cynics, school of Greek philosophy. Cy-Près, in law. Cypress, tree. Cyprian, bishop of Carthage. Cyprus, island, Mediterranean. Cyrenaica, or Pentapolis, district, Africa. Cyrenaics, school of Greek philosophers. Cyrene, ancient town, Africa. Cyril, St, bishop of Jerusalem. Cyril of Alexandria. Cyril of Berytus, Byzantine jurist. Cyrus the Elder, founder of the Persian empire. Cyrus the Younger, Persian satrap. Cyzicus, ancient town, Asia Minor. Czacki, Tadeusz, Polish statesman and writer. Czartoryski, Adam George, Polish prince and patriot. Czaslau, town, Bohemia. Czechs, Slavonic people. Czegled, town, Hungary. Czenstochova, Old and New, towns, Poland. Czernowitz, town, Austria. Czerny, Karl, Austrian musical composer and pianist. Czerny George, Tsrni George, or Karageorgevich, Servian leader. | D, the fourth letter of the alphabet. Dacca, district and town, India. Dace, fish. Dacia, ancient country, Europe. Dacier, André, French scholar. Dacier, Anne Lefèvre, French scholar. Da Costa, Isaak, Dutch poet and theologian. Dacotah (Dakota, q.v.). Dactyls (See Corybantes). Dædalus, in Greek legend. Daffodil, plant. Dagger, weapon. Daghestan, government, Asiatic Russia. D’Agincourt, Jean Baptiste, French archæologist. Dagon, Philistine diety. Daguerre, Louis Jacques Mandé, French painter and physicist. D’Aguesseau, Henri François, chancellor of France. Dahl, Johann Christian, Norwegian painter. Dahl, Michael, Swedish painter. Dahl, or Dale, Vladimir Ivanovitch, Russian writer. Dahlgren, Karl Fredrik, Swedish poet and humorist. Dahlia, plant. Dahlmann, Friedrich Christian, German historian. Dahlstjerna, Gunno Eurelius, Swedish poet. Dahomey, kingdom, West Africa. Daillé, Jean, French Protestant divine. Daimiel, town, Spain. Dairy. Daisy, plant. Dakota, Territory, U.S.A. Dalberg, Prince of, patron of German literature. D’Alembert, Jean le Rond, French mathematician and philosopher. Dalgarno, George, Scottish educational writer. Dalhousie, Marquis of, governor-general of India. Dalin, Olof von, Swedish poet. Dalkeith, town, Scotland. Dalling and Bulwer, Lord, British diplomatist. Dalmatia, crown land, Austria. Dalrymple, Scottish family (See Stair and Hailes). Dalton, John, English physicist. Damages, in law. Daman (Damaun, q.v.), Syrian hyrax, mammal. Damaraland, district, South Africa (See Hereroland). Damascenus, Johannes, theologian, early Greek Church. Damascenus, Nicolaus, Greek historian. Damascius, Neoplatonic philosopher. Damascus, town, Syria. Damask, cloth. Damask Steel. Damaskeening, or Damascening, in metal work. Damasus, two popes. Damaun, town, India. D’Amboise, George, French cardinal. Damiens, Robert François, assailant of Louis XV. of France. Damietta, town, Egypt. Damiri, Arabian naturalist. Damiron, Jean Philibert, French philosophical writer. Dammar, or Dammer, resin. Damocles, courtier of Dionysius. Damon, friend of Pythias. Dampier, William, English navigator. Dan, town, Judæa. Dana, family of eminent Americans. Danae, mother of Perseus. Danaus, in Greek legend. Danbury, town, Connecticut, U.S.A. Danby, Francis, English painter. Dance. Dance, family of English architects and painters. Dancourt, Florent Carton, French dramatist. Dandelion, plant. Dandolo, patrician family of Venice. Dandolo, Vincenzo, Count, Italian scientist. Daniel, of Scripture. Daniel, Book of. Daniel, Gabriel, French Jesuit historian. Daniel, Samuel, English poet. Daniell, John Frederick, English chemist. Daniell, Samuel, Thomas, and William, English painters. Dannecker, Johann Heinrich von, German sculptor. Dante (Dante Alighieri), Italian poet. Danton, George Jacques, French Revolutionist. Dantzic, or Danzig, town, Germany. Danube, river, Europe. Danvers, town, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Danville, town, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Danville, town, Illinois, U.S.A. D’Anville, Jean Baptiste, French geographer. Daphne, in Greek mythology. Daphnephoria, Greek festival. Darabjird, or Darab-Gherd, town, Persia. D’Arblay, Madam (Frances Burney), English novelist. Darboy, Georges, archbishop of Paris. Dardanelles, Strait of. Dardanus, in Greek mythology. Dares of Phrygia, on the legends of Troy. Darfur, country, Central Africa. Darien, isthmus and district, South America. Darius I., king of Persia. Darius II., Ochus or Nothus, of Persia. Darius III., Codomannus, of Persia. Darjiling, or Darjeeling, district and town, India. Darlington, town, England. Darmstadt, town, Germany. Darnétal, town, France. Dartford, town, England. Dartmoor Forest (see Devonshire), England. Dartmouth, town, England. Daru, Pierre Antoine, Comte de, French writer and statesman. Darwin, Erasmus, English poet and scientist. Dashkoff, Catherina R. W., Russian princess. Dass, Petter or Peder, Norwegian poet. Date Palm. Daubenton, Louis Jean Marie, French naturalist. Daubeny, Charles Giles Bridle, English man of science. D'Aubigné, Jean Henri Merle, historian of the Reformation. D’Aubigné, Théodore Agrippa, French historian and poet. D’Aubusson, Pierre, grand-master of the Knights of St John. Daun, Count von, Austrian general. Dauphiné, old province, France. Daurat, Jean, French poet. Davenant, Sir William, English poet and dramatist. Davenport, town, Iowa, U.S.A. David, king of Israel. David, St, patron saint of Wales. David, Félicien César, French musical composer. David, Jacques Louis, French painter. David, Jean Pierre (David d’Angers), French sculptor. David Ha-Cohen, Spanish rabbi. Davidists, Christian sects. Davies, Sir John, English poet and statesman. Davila, Henrico Caterino, Italian historian. Davis, John, English navigator. Davy, Sir Humphrey, English man of science. Dawlish, town, England. Dax, town, France. Day, in the calendar (See Astronomy and Calendar). Day, John, English dramatist. Dayton, town, Ohio, U.S.A. |