Disposed, Disposition. Arranged, arrangement.
Dividing Lines. [No. 38]: also Nos. [27]-[37].
Dolphin. A favourite fish with Heralds. The heraldic Dolphin of antiquity is exemplified in [No. 8]; that of the Middle Ages in [No. 163].
Dormant. Asleep, as in [No. 179].
Double-queued. Having two tails. [No. 181].
Doubling. The lining of a Mantle or Mantling.
Dove-tail. [No. 381].
Dragon. A winged monster having four legs. No. 236.
| No. 236.— Dragon. | No. 237.— Circlet of a Duke’s Coronet. |
Duke. The highest rank and title in the British Peerage; first introduced by Edward III. in the year 1337, when he created the Black Prince the first English Duke (in Latin, “Dux”). A Duke is “Most Noble”; he is styled “My Lord Duke,” and “Your Grace”; and all his younger sons are “Lords,” and all his daughters “Ladies,” with the prefix “Right Honourable.” His eldest son bears, by courtesy, his father’s “second title”; and, accordingly, he generally bears the title of Marquess. Whatever his title, however, the rank of the eldest son of a Duke is always the same, and it assigns to him precedence between Marquesses and Earls. The Coronet of a Duke, arbitrary in its adornment until the sixteenth century was far advanced, is now a circlet, heightened with eight conventional strawberry-leaves, of which in representations three and two half-leaves are shown; No. 237. It encloses a velvet cap. The present ducal coronet is represented in the portrait of Ludovick Stuart, K.G., Duke of Richmond and Lennox, who died in 1624; the picture, the property of the Crown, is at Hampton Court.