Downing, Professor, in the University of Cambridge. So called from Sir George Downing, bart., who founded the law professorship in 1800.
Dowsabel, daughter of Cassemen (3 syl.), a knight of Arden; a ballad by M. Drayton (1593).
Old Chaucer doth of Topaz tell,
Mad Rabelais of Pantagruel,
A later third of Dowsabel.
M. Drayton, Nymphida.
Drac, a sort of fairy in human form, whose abode is the caverns of rivers. Sometimes these dracs will float like golden cups along a stream to entice bathers, but when the bather attempts to catch at them, the drac draws him under water.—South of France Mythology.
Dra'chenfels ("Dragon rocks"), so called from the dragon killed there by Siegfried, the hero of the Niebelungen Lied.
Dragon (A), the device on the royal banner of the old British kings. The leader was called the pendragon. Geoffrey of Monmouth says: "When Aurelius was king, there appeared a star at Winchester, of wonderful magnitude and brightness, darting forth a ray at the end of which was a flame in the form of a dragon." Uther ordered two golden dragons to be made, one of which he presented to Winchester, and the other he carried with him as a royal standard. Tennyson says that Arthur's helmet had for crest a golden dragon.
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