What say you does this wizard style himself—­
  Hakeem Biamrallah, the Third Fatimite? 
  What is this jargon?  He the insane prophet,
  Dead near three hundred years!

Robert Browning, The Return of the Druses.

DRYAS or DRYAD, a wood-nymph, whose life was bound up with that of her tree (Greek, [Greek:  dryas, dryados].)

“The quickening power of the soul,” like Martha, “is busy about many things,” or like “a Dryas living in a tree.”—­Sir John Davies, Immortality of the soul, xii.

DRY-AS-DUST (The Rev. Doctor), an hypothetical person whom Sir W. Scott makes use of to introduce some of his novels by means of prefatory letters.  The word is a synonym for a dull, prosy, plodding historian, with great show of learning, but very little attractive grace.

DRYDEN OF GERMANY (The), Martin Opitz, sometimes called “The Father of German Poetry” (1597-1639).

DRYEESDALE (Jasper), the old steward at Lochleven Castle.—­Sir W. Scott, The Abott (time, Elizabeth).

DRY’OPE (3 syl.), daughter of King Dryops, beloved by Apollo.  Apollo, having changed himself into a tortoise, was taken by Dryope into her lap, and became the father of Amphis’sos.  Ovid says that Dryope was changed into a lotus (Met., x. 331).

DUAR’TE (3 syl), the vainglorious son of Guiomar.—­Beaumont and Fletcher, The Custom of the Country (1647).

DUBOSC, the great thief, who robs the night-mail from Lyons, and murders the courier.  He bears such a strong likeness to Joseph Lesurques (act i. 1) that their identity is mistaken.—­Ed. Stirling, The Courier of Lyons (1852).

DUBOURG-(Mons.), a merchant at Bordeaux, and agent there of Osbaldistone of London.

Clement Dubourg, son of the Bordeaux merchant, one of the clerks of Osbaldistone, merchant.—­Sir W. Scott, Rob Roy (time, George I.).

DUBRIC (St.) or St. Dubricius, archbishop of the City of Legions (Caerleon-upon-Usk; Newport is the only part left.) He set the crown on the head of Arthur, when only 15 years of age.  Geoffrey says (British history, ix. 12); This prelate, who was primate of Britain, was so eminent for his piety, that he could cure any sick person by his prayers.  St. Dubric abdicated and lived a hermit, leaving David his successor.  Tennyson introduced him in his Coming of Arthur, Enid, etc.

  Dubric, whose report old Carleon yet doth
  carry. 
  Drayton, Polyolbion, xxiv. (1622).

  To whom arrived, by Dubric the high saint. 
  Chief of the Church in Britain, and before
  The stateliest of her altar-shrines, the king
  That morn was married. 
  Tennyson, The Coming of Arthur.