American journalist who cofounded Dow Jones & Company, a financial news service, and The Wall Street Journal. His original contributions include the compilation in 1884 of the first average of ...
central Malawi, rectangular formation covering an area of about 360 square miles (930 sq km); they comprise rolling hills crowned by high ridges including the heights of Dowa (5,571 feet ...
British air chief marshal and head of Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain (1940) in World War II; he was largely responsible for defeating the German Air Force in ...
any of three species of shorebirds belonging to the genus Limnodromus, family Scolopacidae. The dowitcher has a chunky appearance and a long bill like a snipe and, in breeding plumage, ...
town, East Godavari district, northeastern Andhra Pradesh state, southern India, on the Godavari River Delta. Dowlaiswaram is located at the source of the great delta, and a dam 2 mi ...
former (until 1973) county, eastern Northern Ireland. It was bounded by Belfast Lough (inlet of the sea; north), the Irish Sea (east), Carlingford Lough (south), former County Armagh (west), and ...
district, Northern Ireland. Formerly within County Down, Down was established in 1973 as a district covering 249 square miles (646 square km) on Northern Ireland's eastern coast, fronting Strangford Lough ...
congenital disorder caused by an extra chromosome on the chromosome 21 pair, thus giving the person a total of 47 chromosomes rather than the normal 46. Persons born with Down ...
city, Los Angeles county, southern California, U.S. Situated about 10 miles (16 km) east of the Pacific Ocean, it lies just southeast of central Los Angeles. The area became part ...
ski race for speed on an adjusted downhill course that is marked by gates formed by paired poles, set at least 8 m (26 ft) apart, through which the racer ...
English diplomat and financial administrator who helped precipitate two wars with the Dutch and who instituted major reforms in public finance. Downing Street, London, where the residence of the British ...
town and seat, Down district (established 1973), formerly in County Down, Northern Ireland. Downpatrick is located where the River Quoile broadens into its estuary in Strangford Lough (inlet of the ...
rounded and grass-covered hills in southern England that are typically composed of chalk. The name comes from the Old English dun ("hill"). The main areas of chalk downs lie in ...
disease of plants, especially in cool humid regions, caused by several fungi, including species of Basidiophora, Bremia, Peronospora, Phytophthora, Plasmopara, Pseudoperonospora, and Sclerospora. White, gray, bluish, or violet downy patches ...
the money, goods, or estate that a woman brings to her husband in marriage. Dowries have a long history in Europe, South Asia, Africa, and other parts of the world.
in occultism, use of a forked piece of hazel, rowan, or willow wood or of a Y-shaped metal rod or of a pendulum suspended by a nylon or silk thread, ...
caricaturist, painter, and illustrator who, together with his father, John (1797-1868), introduced into British art a moderate style of caricature, opposed to the savage satire of James Gillray and Thomas ...
(1514), unsuccessful peasant revolt in Hungary, led by nobleman Gyorgy Dozsa (1470-1514), that resulted in a reduction of the peasants' social and economic position.
Dutch Arabist, best remembered for his monumental Histoire des musulmans d'Espagne, jusqu'a la conquete de l'Andalousie par les Almoravides, 711-1110 (1861; Spanish Islam, 1913). Dozy, of French Huguenot ancestry, spent ...
intermittent stream (wadi) of southern Morocco. Rising from two headstreams, Dades and Imini, in the Haut (High) Atlas mountains of central Morocco, it flows southeastward to Tagounit, hence it courses ...
English writer of novels that are skillfully modulated variations on the theme of a girl's development toward maturity through her experiences of love, marriage, and motherhood.
genus of ornamental foliage plants in the family Agavaceae, consisting of about 50 to 80 species native primarily to the Old World tropics. Most species have short stalks and narrow, ...
silver coin of ancient Greece, dating from about the mid-6th century BC, and the former monetary unit of modern Greece. The drachma was one of the world's earliest coins. Its ...
chief town of Smallingerland gemeente (commune), Friesland provincie, northwestern Netherlands. It lies along the Wijde Ee waterway, which is part of the canal system that flows into the larger Prinses ...
Athenian lawgiver whose harsh legal code punished both trivial and serious crimes in Athens with death-hence the continued use of the word draconian to describe repressive legal measures.
genus of the lizard family Agamidae. Members of the genus are commonly referred to as flying lizards, because scaly membranes between the forelegs and hindlegs allow them to glide from ...
the foremost Christian Latin poet of Africa. He lived at the time of the literary revival that took place under Vandal rule in the latter part of the 5th century.
major four-day eruption of violence in New York City resulting from deep worker discontent with the inequities of conscription during the U.S. Civil War. Although labouring people in general supported ...
graphical representation of structures, machines, and their component parts that communicates the engineering intent of a technical design to the craftsman or worker who makes the product.
form of motor racing that originated in the United States and in which two contestants race from a standing start side by side on a drag strip-a flat, straight course, ...
(June 19, 1821), military engagement in which the Ottoman Turks defeated the forces of the Greek revolutionary society Philiki Etaireia and ended the first insurrection of the Greek War of ...
statesman and author of the Drago Doctrine, which opposed the forcible collection of debts through military intervention in any South American republic.
official interpreter in countries where Arabic, Turkish, and Persian are spoken. Originally the term applied to any intermediary between Europeans and Middle Easterners, whether as a hotel tout or as ...
legendary monster usually conceived as a huge, bat-winged, fire-breathing, scaly lizard or snake with a barbed tail. The belief in these creatures apparently arose without the slightest knowledge on the ...
any of the most numerous group of the Kuba carpets and a great favourite among rug fanciers because of striking design and colouring. The basic pattern-great, irregular, jagged bands that ...
red resin obtained from the fruit of several palms of the genus Daemonorops and used in colouring varnishes and lacquers. Once valued as a medicine in Europe because of its ...
channel of the southeastern Caribbean Sea, between Punta (point) Penas, the eastern end of the Peninsula de Paria, Venezuela, and the northwest extremity of the island of Trinidad. The channel, ...
(Arethusa bulbosa), one of two plant species of the orchid genus Arethusa, family Orchidaceae. Dragon's-mouth is found only in North American bogs; the other species exists only in marshy areas ...
any of about 40 species of marine fishes constituting the family Callionymidae (order Perciformes), found in warm temperate or tropical areas, particularly in the Indo-Pacific region. Dragonets characteristically have large ...
any of about five species of small marine fishes comprising the family Pegasidae and the order Pegasiformes. Dragonfish are found in warm Indo-Pacific waters. They are small (to about 16 ...
any of a group of aerial, predatory insects most commonly found near freshwater habitats throughout most of the world. Damselflies are sometimes also called dragonflies in that both are odonates-members ...
either of two genera of plants, Dracocephalum (see ) and Physostegia, both belonging to the mint family (Lamiaceae), order Lamiales. The about 45 species of Dracocephalum, all native in temperate ...
in late 16th-century Europe, a mounted soldier who fought as a light cavalryman on attack and as a dismounted infantryman on defense. The terms derived from his weapon, a species ...
in agriculture, the artificial removal of water from land; drainage is employed in the reclamation of wetlands, in the prevention of erosion, and as a concomitant of irrigation in the ...
area from which all precipitation flows to a single stream or set of streams. For example, the total area drained by the Mississippi River constitutes its drainage basin, whereas that ...
deep waterway, 600 miles (1,000 km) wide, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans south of Tierra del Fuego, off which, on Hornos Island, stands the headland of Cape Horn, the ...
private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Des Moines, Iowa, U.S. It consists of the colleges of arts and sciences, business and public administration, and pharmacy and health sciences and ...
American actor who breathed new life into musical theatre as the star of Broadway's Oklahoma! (1943), which featured his rich baritone voice in renditions of "Oh, What a Beautiful Morning," ...
American actress who, with her extensive tours of the American West and her triumphs in New York City, was the leading actress on the American stage before the rise of ...
the main mountain range of southern Africa. The Drakensberg rises to more than 11,400 feet (3,475 m) and extends roughly northeast to southwest for 700 miles (1,125 km) parallel to ...
unit of weight in the apothecaries' and avoirdupois systems. An apothecaries' dram contains 3 scruples (3.888 grams) of 20 grains each and is equal to one-eighth apothecaries' ounce of 480 ...
town and nomos (department), Macedonia, northern Greece. It lies on a major tributary of the Angitis River, at the northern edge of the plain of Drama. The town, a tobacco ...
in literature, a plot device in which the audience's or reader's knowledge of events or individuals surpasses that of the characters. The words and actions of the characters therefore take ...
a poem written in the form of a speech of an individual character; it compresses into a single vivid scene a narrative sense of the speaker's history and psychological insight ...
a technique of analysis of language and thought as basically modes of action rather than as means of conveying information. It is associated with the critic Kenneth Burke.
the art or technique of dramatic composition or theatrical representation. In this sense English dramaturgy and French dramaturgie are both borrowed from German Dramaturgie, a word used by the German ...
type of play that enjoyed brief popularity in France in the late 18th century. Written for and about the middle class and based upon the theories of the French essayist ...
city, seat of Buskerud fylke (county), southeastern Norway. Located at the junction of the Dram River with Dram Fjord, southwest of Oslo, the site was first settled in the 13th ...
river, Buskerud fylke (county), southeastern Norway. After rising on the southern slopes of the Halling Mountains as the Halling River and flowing east-northeast to the town of Gol, it flows ...
northeastern industrial suburb of Paris, Seine-Saint-Denis departement, Paris region, France. It lies 3 miles (5 km) from the city limits of the capital. During the German occupation of France in ...
(German: "Drive to the East"), German policy or disposition to colonize the Slavic lands east of Germany. The term originally referred to the eastward movement of German settlers in the ...
