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more wind. 1, i. uCed monty in ,np.fai", bec.ufc

courfes are gencrally cut fquare, or with but fmaU al·

lowaoce for buo, or compaf.. The bu", hold. much

leeward wind, that ¡s, it hangs much

'C'I

¡eeward.

BUHT' LINES

are fmalllines

mOlde

fan

to lhe

borrom oC

,he

fails ,

in lhe

middle

part of lhe

bolt-rope,

ro a

cringlc, and fo are reeved ,hrough a

fm~1I

block,

fei–

zed

,he prd. Thcir uCe i. 'o trice up <he buo, <lf

the

f.il

Cor

,be better furliog i, up.

BUNTING, in oroi'hology, ,he Eoglílh name of a fpe–

eies of fringilla. See

Fl.INGILLA.

BUNTINGFORO, • market ·,owo of Hertfordlhire,

a(,pu! Iwelvc mile. no"h of HwCord:

loog.

S',

and

Iat.

51° 55'.

llUNTZLAU, or Bu

NTZ!L,

the name of two 'owo.

in Germany :

lhe

old

lown

is Gtuated

00 lhe

river

Elbe,

~nd

new town, which is become the moa

caMI.

derdoblc:. upon

th<

GizRre,

eight lcagues

from

Lignitz,

, 6° 26'

E. long. and

StO

12'

N . la,i,ude. There

is lilc.e'wife a town of

th:n

Dame

in Silefia.

BUONO,.

T&MPO-BUONO ,

in muJic,

figni6es a

cer–

tain time

(}r

pan

of the meafure, more proper for cer–

tain things thao any other, as to eod

cadence or

paufe, tO place a long Cyllable or fyncopcd diffon.oce,

cODcord,

&c.

In common time of four rimes to a bar,

tbe firll ancl third

onc buono tempo, as the [econd

and lan are calJed

¡,mpo di

c~ltiV(1

.BUOY, . , fea, • fhort piece of wood, or a cloCe-booped

barre!, C.nened

fó

float direélly over ,he .ocbor,

wat the men, who gó

Ihe boat

weigh the anchor,

may

k.DO

wbere it Iies.

Bu o y

is alfo

piece of wood, or cork, fometimes an

empty

c.fk

, \Vell clofed, Cwimroing

,he furface of

¡he water, and ranened, by a chaio or cord, tO a large

Ilone,

piece of

broken

canDon,

the like, ferving to

mark ¡he daogerous place, oear a coail, as rocks, lhoals,

wrecks

of veffds,

éL.JlChors,

6c.

There' are fometimes

inflcad of buoys, pieces of

wood placed

form of rn.afis,

confpicuolts places;

.,nd

fometim~s

large teces are pl::anted in

particular

manner, in number

t WO

at leafl, to be takeo io

right

line, the

ene

hiding the other,

as lhe tWO may

ap–

pear tOthe eye

mOre thao ooe.

S¡r<a..

Ih,

Buoy is 'o le< tbe ancbor fall while th. fhip

has way.

o y

the coMe

is tO fafieo fome pieccs of

wood.

barreIs,

6~.

to the

cabJ~,

oear the anchor, thal the

rabIe l:.lay

nOl

touch the ground, in Clre it be foul

rocky, len i, fholJlJ be frettcd aod cut off.

BUOYANT, fomething which, by its ap,oefs to fio..,

bcan up

other more pODderous and weigbty things.

See Au o Y.

DUPHAGA, in oroi,hology, a genu, belonging co the

order of oicre. The bcak i. ílreigh' anJ qu,Jraogu–

lar;

the 'mamlibles are gil>bous, emire, and tbe gib–

bo~ty

is greattr on the outfide.

The

feet "re

{he

.m~ulatory.

kind. Tbe body i. grcyifh . bove, "od of

a dirty ycllow belolV; the tai l i, fl.aped lil<e a wcdge.

lt is a nati\'e of Scnegal ; and frequcntly perchéS

upon oxen, and picks out the \Vornl5 frcm their backs.

1IUPHTHALMUM, a geDus of ,he fyogeDefia po!yga.

B U R

mia fl1pc:rflua clars . The receptacle i5 paJe.ceoua - the

margio of the pappu. i. obColc,e; the (¡de, oÍ" <he

feeds are marginated; and the lligmata of {he herm....

phrodite floCcule, are undi,'ided.

he fpecies are teo,

none of which are natives of Britaih.

BUPLEUR UM, io botaoy, a genu, of .he pentaodria

digynia claCs. The involucrum of ,he umbells i. large

and

five-I~aved;

the rruit is llriated, compretTad.

and

r~und,rh .

~he {pccie~ ~re

fe yentecn, only two

of whlch are nauves of BrltC\tn,

vir..

the rotundifo–

Hum, or thorow-wax; and the tenu.iffimuDl, or lhe

lean hare's·ear.

BUI'RESTIS, in zoology, • geou. of infeél. belongiog

to the order of coleoptera. The feele" are like bri–

ílles,

aod .bont the leng,h of the brean; the lcad' i.

h.lf

retr.éled ioto the thorax. There are twen'

y.fe–

\'en fpecies

this infca, moa of them natives of

Indies.

BUQYOI, a tOIVO of Artoi" io the French Neth. r.

la~ds"

fituated on the

~on6~cs

of Picardy:.

Joog.

2 40,

and N. lal.

50 12.

BUR, a broad ring of iron, behiod the place made for

,he haod on ,he fpears uCed formorly

tilting. which

bur "'as brougbt

refl.

when

the tilter eharged his

fpear.

RBAS, in commerce, a fmall coin at Algiers,

wi.th

the arms of <he dey Ilruck

both f!de.: i, i, wortll

h. lf,n afper.

BURCHAUSEN,. a town of G ermaoy, in ,he lower

Bavaria, fituated

the river Saht.:

loog.

3°

j'.

aod N. lat. 4So

S'.

nURDEN,

or BUR.DON, in rnur.e, tbe drone or bafs,

and the pipe or nriog IVhicb play. i,: Hence tha< pa"

of a {ong, that is repeated at

tbe:

end of every fianza,

is caUed the b'1rden of

it.

chord whieh is to

dividc:d, to perfonn the

in~

tervals of mufle. when open aod undivided", is alfo

c.lled ,he burden.

DE N

Jhip

i9 its contents, or number of tons

will carry. The burden of a fhip may

determioed

,hus : multiply the length of ,he keel, token withio

board, lly the bread,h of the Otip, wi<hio board, takeo

from the midO

¡ip-he.Ol

, from plank to plank, aod mul·

tiply the prodU>..'t by ,he deplh of ,be hold, takeo

froro ,he plaok below ,hc keelfoo, to the under par!

of ,he uppcr deck plank, aod divide ,he

I.íl

produll

by 94,

then the quotient i5 the eontent of the tonnage

requi red. See

'R.EI

G HT.

BURDO, tha! kinrl of mule prodw:ed. betlVeeo

horfe

and

fhe·afs.

See

MULE.

BURDOCK, in

bot.ny

, the Eoglilh name

the xao–

thiunl. 8ee

XANTH IUP>I .

BURDUGNO, a tOIVO of the Morea, (¡tuated on tbe

river VaJJlipotomo, near Mifi tra.

BUREN, a town of Dutch Guclderl. nd, .bout (¡"teen

mih:s

wdl

of Nimeguen:

long.

'lO',

and

lal. p o.

BUR.6N

31(0

the name or a to\Vn in Weflphalia in Cer·

rnany, about (¡ve miles fuutb or the city of Paderborn:

E . long. So

's',

.nd N. lat. po 35'.

BURFORD, a m.,ket-to\l'n of OxfurdJbire, about fif·

w:n