DUCHOMAR was in love with Morna, daughter of Comac, king of Ireland.  Out of jealousy, he slew Cathba, his more successful rival, went to announce his death to Morna, and then asked her to marry him.  She replied she had no love for him, and asked for his sword.  “He gave the sword to her tears,” and she stabbed him to the heart.  Duchomar begged the maiden to pluck the sword from his breast that he might die; and when she approached him for the purpose, “he seized the sword from her, and slew her.”

“Duchomar, most gloomy of men; dark are thy brows and terrible; red are thy rolling eyes ...  I love thee not,” said Morna; “hard is thy heart of rock, and dark is thy terrible brow.”—­Ossian, Fingal, i.

DUCHRAN (The laird of), a friend of Baron Bradwardine.—­Sir W. Scott, Waverley (time, George II.).

DU CROISY and his friend La Grange are desirous to marry two young ladies whose heads are turned by novels.  The silly girls fancy the manners of these gentlemen “too unaffected and easy to be aristocratic”; so the gentlemen send to them their valets, as “the viscount de Jodelet,” and “the marquis of Mascarille.”  The girls are delighted whith their titled visitors; but when the game had gone far enough, the masters enter and unmask the trick.  By this means the girls are taught a useful lesson, without being subjected to any fatal consequence.—­Moliere, Les Precieuses Ridicules (1659).

DUDLEY, a young artist; a disguise assumed by Harry Bertram.—­Sir W. Scott, Guy Mannering (time, George II.).

Dudley (Captain), a poor English officer, of strict honor, good family, and many accomplishments.  He has served his country for thirty years, but can scarcely provide bread for his family.

Charles Dudley, son of Captain Dudley.  High-minded, virtuous, generous, poor, and proud.  He falls in love with his cousin Charlotte Rusport, but forbears proposing to her, because he is poor and she is rich.  His grandfather’s will is in time brought to light, by which he becomes the heir of a noble fortune, and he then marries his cousin.

Louisa Dudley, daughter of Captain Dudley.  Young, fair, tall, fresh, and lovely.  She is courted by Belcour the rich West Indian, to whom ultimately she is married.—­Cumberland, The West Indian (1771).

DUDLEY DIAMOND (The).  In 1868 a black shepherd named Swartzboy brought to his master, Nie Kirk, this diamond, and received for it L400, with which he drank himself to death.  Nie Kirk sold it for L12,000; and the earl of Dudley gave Messrs. Hunt and Roskell L30,000 for it.  It weighed in the rough 88 1/2 carats, but cut into a heart shape it weighs 44 1/2 carats.  It is triangular in shape, and of great brilliancy.

[Illustration] This magnificent diamond, that called the “Stewart” (q. v.), and the “Twin,” have all been discovered in Africa since 1868.