entitled _Pickle for the Knowing Ones_.
It was wholly without punctuation marks, and as this aroused comment, he
published a second edition, at the end of which was a page displaying
nothing but commas and stops, from which the readers were invited to
"peper and solt it as they plese." He beat his wife for not weeping
enough at the rehearsal of his funeral, which he himself carried out in
a very elaborate manner. He died at Newburyport on the 26th of October
1806.

DEXTRINE (BRITISH GUM, STARCH GUM, LEIOCOME), (C_{6}H_{10}O_{5})_{x}, a
substance produced from starch by the action of dilute acids, or by
roasting it at a temperature between 170 deg. and 240 deg. C. It is
manufactured by spraying starch with 2% nitric acid, drying in air, and
then heating to about 110 deg. Different modifications are known, e.g.
amylodextrine, erythrodextrine and achroodextrine. Its name has reference
to its powerful dextrorotatory action on polarized light. Pure dextrine
is an insipid, odourless, white substance; commercial dextrine is
sometimes yellowish, and contains burnt or unchanged starch. It dissolves
in water and dilute alcohol; by strong alcohol it is precipitated from its
solutions as the hydrated compound, C_{6}H_{10}O_{5}.H_{2}O. Diastase
converts it eventually into maltose, C_{12}H_{22}O_{11}; and by boiling
with dilute acids (sulphuric, hydrochloric, acetic) it is transformed
into dextrose, or ordinary glucose, C_{6}H_{12}O_{6}. It does not
ferment in contact with yeast, and does not reduce Fehling's solution.
If heated with strong nitric acid it gives oxalic, and not mucic acid.
Dextrine much resembles gum arabic, for which it is generally
substituted. It is employed for sizing paper, for stiffening cotton
goods, and for thickening colours in calico printing, also in the making
of lozenges, adhesive stamps and labels, and surgical bandages.

See Otto Lueger, _Lexikon der gesamten Technik_.

DEY (an adaptation of the Turk, d[=a]i, a maternal uncle), an
honorary title formerly bestowed by the Turks on elderly men,
and appropriated by the janissaries as the designation of their
commanding officers. In Algeria the deys of the janissaries
became in the 17th century rulers of that country (see ALGERIA:
HISTORY). From the middle of the 16th century to the end of the
17th century the ruler of Tunisia was also called dey, a title
frequently used during the same period by the sovereigns of
Tripoli.

DHAMMAP[=A]LA, the n