name of two large rivers, one of which rises in Lithuania, and, dividing Livonia from Courland, falls into the Baltic sea a little below Riga: the other gives name to the province of Dwina, in Russia, discharging itself into the White sea, a little below Archangel.

Dye, in architecture, any square body, as the trunk or notched part of a pedestal: or it is the middle of the pedestal, or that part included between the base and the cornice, so called because it is often made in the form of a cube or dye. See Architecture.

Dyer, a person who professes the art of dyeing all manner of colours. See Dyeing.

Dyer's weed, in botany. See Reseda.