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 BAD BAG (512 ) BAGCASERA!,= the capital city of Critn-Tartary, fi- and jop N. lat. It is remarkable for excellent wine* tuated about So miles0weft of the ftraits of Kaffa, in from thence called Bacherac. 7,$° E. long, and 45 15' N. lat. BACHIAN, one of the Molucca iflands, fituated under BACCEM, or Baciaim, a feaporttown of Cambay a," the equator, in 125° E. long. It belongs to the in the Hither Peninfula of India. 0 It belongs to the Dutch. Portuguefe, and is fuuated in 73 E. long, and 19° BACHU, a fea-port town of the province of Chirwan, 20' N. lat. or Shirvan, in Perfia. It is fituated on the weftern BACCHtE, in antiquity, prieftefles of the god Bacchus. ftiore of the Cafpian fea, in 49° E. long, and 40° They were likewife called tjuenades, on account of N. lat. the frantic ceremonies ufed in their feafts ; as alfo thy- BACK, in anatomy. See Back-Wm. ades, which fignifies impetuous or furious. They ce- Back, in the menage. To back a horfe, or mount a lebrated the orgies of their god covered with fkins horfe a dos, in French, is to mount him bare-backed, of tigers and panthers, and running all the night, or without a faddle. fome with their hair loofe, with torches in their hands, BacVL-bone9 or Spine. See Anatomy, p. 166, 167. others crowned with vine and ivy leaves, carrying a ftkcn-gammon, an ingenious game played with dice and thyrfus or rod, turned about with ivy, in their hand. tables, to be learned only by obfervation and pracAlong with them went cymbal-players and drummers, tice. while they themfelves, feized with enthufiaftn, made 'Back, painting. See Painting. V>AcvL-Jiajf, in the fea-language. See Navigation. hideous lamentations. BACCHANALIA, feafts celebrated in honour of Bac- BACYL-Jlays. See Stays. chus by the ancient Greeks and Romans; of which B&cvi-tack, in Scots law: When a wadfetter, inftead the two moft remarkable were called the greater of polfeffing the wadfet-lands, grants a tack thereof to and leffer. The latter, called leneea, from a word the reverfor for payment of a certain fum in name of fjgnifying a nuine-prefs, were a preparation for the tack-duty, that tack is called a back-tack. See Scots for the former, and were held in the open fields about Law, tit. Redeemable rights. autumn ; but the greater, called DionyJja, from one Back-w<5/t«, in falconry. See Filanders. of the names of Bacchus, were celebrated in the city, BACULE, in fortification, a kind of portcullis, or gate, • about the fpring-time. Both thefe feafts were accom- made like a pit-fall with a counterpoife, and fupportby two great (takes. It is ufually made before the panied with games, fpedlacles, and theatrical repre- edcorpade-guard, not far from the gate of a place. ientations; and it was at this time the poets contend- BACULOMETRY, art of meafuring acceffible or ed for the prize of poetry. Thofe who were initiated inacceflible heights, the the help of one or more baculi, into the celebration of the feafts, reprefented, fome ftaves, or rods. SeebyGeometry. Silenus, others Pan, others fatyrs; and in this man- BACULUS dtvinatorius. See Virgula Divina. ner appeared in public night and day, counterfeit- BADAJOX, a large fortified town of Spanifti Eftremaing drunkennefs, dancing obfcenely, committing all lituated on the river Guadiana, in 70 20 W. kinds of licentioufnefs and debauchery, and running dura, over the mountains and forefts, with horrible fhrieks long, and 38° 45' N. lat. Catalonia, in Spain, and bowlings, crying out, lo Bacche. Livy informs BADALONj a town of about ten miles eaft offituated Barceus, that during the Bacchanalian feafts at Rome, fuch onlona,theinMediterranean, 5^ E. long, and 410 15' N. lat. {hocking diforders were praftifed under the cover of BADEN, 2°the1name feyeral towns : 1. Of one about the night, and thofe who were initiated were bound to 20 miles north of ofStrafbourg, capital of the margraconceal them with an oath, attended with horrid imof the fame name, and remarkable for its hot precations, that the fenate fuppreffed them firft in Rome, viate baths. 2. Of another town of Swabia, in the Brifand afterwards throughout all Italy. gow; where are likewife feveral hot baths. 3. Of BACCHARAC, or Bacherac. See BACHERAC. in Switzerland, about 14 miles north-weft of ZuBACCHARIS, in botany, a genus of the fyngenefia one 4. Of one in the circle of Auftria, about 15 polygamia fuperflua clafs. The receptacle is naked, rich. miles fouth of Vienna. • and the pappus briftly the calix is imbricated and cyan inland coprttry of Invernefsrtiire in lindrical; the hermaphrodite flofcules are jntermixed BADENOCH, Scotland, lying between Aberdeenfliire and Lochaber. with the female ones. The fpecies are feven, all na- BADENWEILLER, a town of Germany, in the Briftives of warm climates. gow, near the Rhine. BACCHIUS, in ancient poetry, a kind of foot compo- BADGER, zoology, the Englifli name of a fpecies fed of a ftiort fyllable, and two long ones, as the word of Urftis. inSeeUasus. [Avan]. It takes its name from the god Bacchus, in old law-books, ohfe that was licenfed to buy becaufe it frequently entered into the hymns compofed Badger, in one place, and carry it to anOtfier to fell, in his honour. The Romans called it Irkewife a:no- corn without incurring" the puniftiment1 of an engrofler. trius, tripodius, faltans. BADIANE, or Bandian, the feed of a tree which BACHARIS, in botany. See Baccharis. grows in China, and fmells like anife-feed. The ChiBACHELOR. See Batchelor., and the Dutch in imitation of them, fometimes BACHERAC, a town of the Palatinate of the0 Rhine,- nefe, fituated on the weftern fhore of that river, in 7 E.lon. ufethe badiane to give their tea an aromatic tafte. BADIS,