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_Disclosed._ With expanded wings, in the case of birds that are _not_ birds of prey. The contrary to _Close_.
_Displayed._ Birds of prey with expanded wings. No. 200.
_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.
_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.
[Illustration: No. 236.--Dragon.]
[Illustration: No. 237.--Circlet of a Duke's Coronet.]
_Ducal Coronet._ A term commonly, but not very accurately, applied to a _Crest Coronet_. No. 232.
_Duchess._ The wife of a Duke. She is "Most Noble," and is styled "Your Grace." Her coronet is the same as that of a Duke.
_Eagle._ See