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LEFT DENDEBMONDE 320 DEIiTMABK DENDEBMONDE, or TEBMONDE, a town of Belgium, province of East Flanders, at the confluence of the Den- der with the Scheldt, 12 miles N. W. from Brussels, It is strongly fortfied. Manufactures woolens, linens, tobacco, etc. The town was taken by Marlborough in 1706. DENDBITE, a stone or mineral on or in which are the figures of shrubs, mosses, or other vegetable growth; an arborescent or dendritic mineral. The colors are due to the traces of organic matter, or of oxides of iron, manganese, or titanium. DENDBOPHIS, a genus of snakes, family Dendrophidse, with smooth scales, which are much larger along the back than on the sides; the sides of the ab- domen are slightly keeled. This genus occurs in India, the East Indies, and Australia, and its members are not ven- omous. D'ENGHIEN. See Enghien, DENGUE (den'ga), said to be a mis- take for English dandy; the disease, when it first made its appearance in the British West India Islands, being called the dandy-fever, from stiffness and con- straint caused to the limbs. This the Spaniards mistook for their word den- gue = prudery, a continued fever com- mon in the United States and in the East and West Indies, and Africa. The chief symptoms are severe pains in fore- head, limbs, back, and joints, with an eruption like measles, or rather erysipe- las, with painful swellings. DENIS, or DENYS, ST. (den-e'), first Bishop of Paris, in the 3d century. He was sent from Rome, about A. D. 250, to convert the pagans of Gaul. He built many churches, and selected Paris as the seat of his bishopric. During the persecution of the Christians under Au- relian, he was condemned to death by the Roman governor Pescennius, and beheaded in 272. DENIS, ST., a town of France, in the department of Seine, 6 miles N. of Paris. A chapel in honor of St. Denis was founded at this place, in 250. Dago- bert was buried here in 580. Dagobert I. founded the abbey in 636, and it has ever since been the place of sepulcher for the French monarchs. The first church was finished in 775, and the present edifice, commenced in 1130, was completed in 1281. A battle between the Roman Catholics and the Huguenots was fought in its vicinity, Nov. 10, 1567, when the latter were victorious, De Montmorenci, the Roman Catholic lead- er, being mortally wounded. By a de- cree of the Convention, Aug. 6, 1793, the royal tombs were opened, but they were restored by Napoleon I. in 1806. The abbey was suppressed in 1792. Pop. (1906) 64,790. DENIS, or DENNIS, a name much af- fected by the faithful of the Roman Catholic Church, and particularly among the Irish. The appellation has acquired a similar position in the United States with the name Jonah, for an an- alogous reason. "Your name is Dennis," means you are doomed to disappoint- ment. DENISON, a city in Grayson co.. Tex.; on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas, the Missouri, Oklahoma and Gulf, the Texas and Pacific, and other railroads; 106 miles N. of Dallas. It is a noted cattle-shipping place; the farm- ing trade center of the surrounding country, and an important railroad point. It has manufactures of cotton, cotton-seed oil, creosote, grain elevators, iron, and machinery, daily and weekly papers, high school, electric lights, water works, and 2 National banks. Pop. (1910) 13,632; (1920) 17,065. DENNISON UNIVEBSITY, an edu- cational institution in Granville, O.; founded in 1831, under the auspices of Baptist Church; reported at the end of 1899: Professors and instructors, 46, students, 900; president, C. W. Cham- berlain, D. D. DENMABK, a kingdom in northern Europe, consisting of a peninsular por- tion called Jutland, and an extensive ar- chipelago lying E. of it and comprising the islands of Seeland (or Sjalland), Funen (or Fyen), Laaland (orLolland), Falster, Langeland, Moen, Samso, Laso, Arro, Bornholm, and many smaller ones. Besides these there are the outlying pos- sessions of Iceland, Greenland, and the Faroe islands in the Atlantic Ocean. Denmark is bounded on the S. by Ger- many and the Baltic; on the W. by the North Sea; on the N. it is separated from Norway by the Skagerrack; and on the E. it is separated from Sweden by the Kattegat and the Sound. Area, 15,289 square miles; pop. (1901) 2,464,- 770; capital, Copenhagen. Topography. — The surface of Den- mark is very much alike in every part of the kingdom, uniformly low, reaching its highest point in Eirs-Bavnehoj, in S. E. Jutland, which is only 564 feet above sea-level. The country presents little variety, except in its low isolated hills, but does not leave an impression of monotony; in the islands and in the S. E. of Jutland the landscape is broken by forests, meadows, and fields; and even