DUN COW 
 
 
and Dumain fell in love with Katharine. 
When however, he proposed marriage, 
Katharine deferred her answer for twelve 
months and a day, hoping by that time 
"his face would be more bearded," for, 
she said, "I'll mark no words that smooth- 
faced wooers say." 
The young Dumain, a well-accomplished youth, 
Of all that virtue love for virtue loved; 
Most power to do most harm, least knowing ill; 
For he hath wit to make an ill shape good, 
And shape to win grace, tho' he had no wit. 
  Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, act ii. se. 1 
(1594). 
 
   Du'marin, the husband of Cym'oent, 
and father of Marinel.-Spenser, Fairy 
Queen, iii. 4. 
 
  Dumas (Alexandre D.), in 1845, pub- 
lished sixty volumes. 
  The most skillful copyist, writing 12 hours a 
day, can with difficulty do 3,900 letters in an 
hour, which gives him 46,800 per diem, or 60 
pages of a romance.  Thus he could copy 5 
volumes octavo per month and 60 in a year, 
supposing that he did not lose one second of 
time, but worked without ceasing 12 hours every 
day thoughout the entire year.-De Mirecourt, 
Dumnas P~re (1867). 
 
  Dumb Ox (The). St. Thomas Aqui'nas 
was so called by his fellow-students at 
Cologne, from his taciturnity and dreami- 
ness. Sometimes called "The Great Dumb 
Ox of Sicily." He was larged-bodied, fat, 
with a brown complexion, and a large 
head partly bald. 
Of a truth, it almost makes me laugh 
To see men leaving the golden grain, 
To gather in piles the pitiful chaff 
That old Peter Lombard thrashed with his 
    brain, 
To have it caught up and tossed again 
On the horns of the Dumb Ox of Cologne. 
            Longfellow, The Golden Legend. 
  (Thomas Aquinas was       subsequently 
called "The Angelic Doctor," and the 
"Angel of the Schools," 1224-1274.) 
 
 
   Dumbiedikes (The old laird of), an 
 exacting landlord, taciturn and obstinate. 
   The laird of Dumbiedikes had hitherto been 
 moderate in his exactions. . . but when a stout, 
 active young fellow appeared . . . he began to 
 think so broad a pair of shoulders might bear 
 an additional burden. He regulated, indeed, 
 his management of his dependants as carters do 
 their horses, never failing to clap an additional 
 brace of hundred-weights on a new and willing 
 horse.-Chap. 8 (1818). 
   The young laird of Dumbiedikes (3 syl.), 
a bashful young laird, in love with Jeanie 
Deans, but Jeanie marries the Presby- 
terian minister, Reuben Butler.-Sir W. 
Scott, Heart of Midlothian (time, George 
II.). 
 
   Dum'merar (The Rev. Dr.), a friend 
of Sir Geoffrey Peveril.-Sir W. Scott, 
Peveril of the Peak (time, Charles II.). 
 
  Dummy      or   SUPERNUMERARY.    "Ce- 
limbne," in the Precieuses Ridicules, does 
not utter a single word, although she 
enters with other characters on the stage. 
 
  Dumtous'tie (31r. Daniel), a young 
barrister, and nephew of Lord Bladder- 
skate.-Sir W. Scott, Bedgauntlet (time, 
George III.). 
 
  Dun (Squire), the hangman who came 
between Richard Brandon and Jack Ketch. 
     And presently a halter got, 
     Made of the best strong hempen teer, 
     And ere a cat could lick his ear, 
     Had tied him up with as much art 
     As Dun himself could do for's heart. 
         Cotton, Virgil Travestied, iv. (1677). 
 
  Dun Cow (The), slain by Sir Guy of 
Warwick on Dunsmore Heath, was the 
cow kept by a giant in Mitchel Fold 
[middle-fold], Shropshire. Its milk was 
inexhaustible.  One day an old woman, 
who had filled her pail, wanted to fill her 
sieve also with its milk, but this so en- 
 
 
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