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 BAG (5 BADIS, afortrefsof Livonia, fubjeft to0Ruflia, and fituated 0 20 miles, weft of Revel, in 23 E. long, and 59 15' N. lat. BALTUS, in ichthyology. See Cottus. BiETYLIA, anointed ftones, worfhipped by the Phoenicians, by the Greeks before the time of Cecrops, and by other barbarous nations. They were commonly of a black colour, and confecrated to. fome god, as Saturn, Jupiter, the Sun, fee. BjEZA, a large city of Andalufia in Spain, fituated on the river Guadalquivir, in 30 15' W. long, and 370 40' N. lat. BAFFETAS, or Bastas, a cloth made of coarfe white cotton-thread, which comes from the Eaft Indies. That of Surat is the beft. BAFFIN’/ Bay, a gulph of North America, running north-eaft from Cape Farewell in Weft Greenland, from 6o° N. lat. to 8o°. BAG, in commerce, a term fignifying a certain quantity of fome particular commodity; as a bag of almonds, for inftance, is about three hundred weight; of anifefeeds, from three to four hundred, fee. Bags are ufed in moft countries to put feveral forts of coin in, either of gold, filver, brafs, or copper. Bankers, and others, who deal much in current calh, label their bags of money, by tying a ticket or note at the mouth of the bag, fignifying the coin therein contained, the fum total, its weight, and of whom it was received. Tare is allowed for the bag. See Tare and Tret. Bag, among farriers, is when, in order to retrieve a horfe’s loft appetite, they put in an ounce of afa-foetida, and as much powder of favin, into a bag, to be tied to the bit, keeping him bridled for two hours, feveral times a-day; as foon as the bag is taken off, he will fall to eating. The fame bag will ferve a long time. BAGDAT, a ftrong town of Turky, on the frontiers of Perfia, fituated on the river Tigris, in the province of Iracaarabic; it was formerly capital of0 the Saracen empire, and lies in 43° E. long, and 33 20 N. lat. BAGGAGE, in military affairs, denotes the cloaths, tents, utenfils of divers forts, provifions, and other neceffaries belonging to the army. Before a march, the waggons with the baggage are marfhalled according to the rank which the feveral regiments bear in the army; being fometimes ordered to follow the refpeftive columns of the army, fometimes to follow the artillery, and fometimes to form a column by themfelves. The general’s baggage marches fi/ft; and each waggon has a flag, ftiewing the regiment to which it belongs. BAGNAG AR, the capital of Golconda, in the Hither Peninfula of India, formerly the refidence of the 0kings of Golconda, now0 fubjedt to the mogul; in 77 E. long, and 16 30' N. lat. BAGNIALUCK, a large city of Bofnia in European Turky, fituated in i8°I5' E. long, and 440 N. lat. BAGNIO,'an Italian word, fignifying a bath : We ufe it for a houfe with conveniencies for bathing, cupping, fweating, and otherwife cleanfing the body; and fomeVx>l. I. Numb. 22. 3


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B A I times for worfe purpofes. In Turky, it is become a general name for the prifons where the Haves are inclofed, it being ufual in thefe prifons to have baths BAGNOLIANS, in church-hiftory, a feft of heretics, who in reality were Manichees, though they fomewhat difguifed their errors. They reje&ed the Old Teftament, and part of the New, held the world to be eternal, and affirmed that God did not create the foul when he infufed if into the body. BAGPIPE, a mufical inftrument of the wind kind* chiefly ufed in country-places, efpecially in the North. It confifts of two principal parts; the firft a leathern bag, which blows up like a foot-ball, by means of a port-vent, or little tube, fitted to it, and flopped by a valve : the other part confifts of three pipes or flutes; the full called the great pipe, or drone; the fecond, the little one; which pafs the wind out only at the bottom; the third has a reed, and is played on by compreffing the bag under the arm, when full, and opening or flopping the holes, which are eight, with the fingers. The little pipe is ordinarily a foot long ; that played on, 13 inches; and the port-vent, fix. BAGRE, in ichthyology, the trivial name of a fpecies of filurus. See Silurus. BAGUETTE, in architedture, a fmall round moulding, lefs than an aftragal, and fo called from the refemblance it bears to a ring. BAHAMA, or Lucaya Islands, a number of iflands lying in the Atlantic0Ocean, between 210 and 27° N. lat. and between 73 and 8x° W. long. Thefe iflands, whereof twelve are of a confiderable. extent, take their name from Bahama, one of th$ largeft of them, lying between 78° and 81° W. long, and between 26® and 27® N. lat, BAHAR, or Barre, in commerce, weights ufed in feveral places in the Eaft Indies. There are two of thefe weights, one the great bahar, with which they weigh pepper, cloves, nutmegs, ginger, fee, and contains five hundred and fifty pounds of Portugal, or about five huudred and twentyfour pounds nine Ounces avoirdupois weight. With the little bahar, they weigh quickfilver, vermilion, ivory, filk, fee. It contains about four hundred and thirty-feven pounds nine ounces avoirdupois weight. BACHAREN, an ifland in the Perfian gulf, in yo° E. long, and 26° N. lat. BAHIR, a Hebrew term fignifying famous or illuftrii ous ; but particularly ufed for a book of the Jews, treating of the profound myfteries of the cabbala, being the moft ancient of the rabbinical works. BAHUS, a city of Sweden, capital of a province of the fame name, and fituated about 20 miles north-weft ot Gottenburgh, in ii° E. long, and y8° 2Q/ N. lat. BAJA, a town of Italy, in the kingdom of Naples, and province of Lavoro, fituated in 14® 40' E. long, and 41° 6/ N. lat. BAJADOR, a cape on the weft coaft of Africa, in 15° W. long, and 27° N. lat. BAIL, in Scots law : When a prifoner is fet at liberty upon fome perfon’s becoming furety for his appearance 60 to