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 B A L ( 5^5 ) B A L ufed as a covering to infulated altars. Some often 100 feet long: the head is very large in propor- quently alfo ufe the ternt baldachin for the fhell over a door. tion to the body; and the lower jaw is much wider BALDIVIA, or Valdivia, a fea-port town of Chili, than the upper one : the ears are fituated below the in South America, fituated on the South Sea, in 80® eyes. In the belly, it has two dugs a little before the vulva ; there are two large fins on the brealt; and the W. long, and 40° S. lat. a defect of hair, owing to the want of a tail is forked. The myfticetus contains fuch a large BALDNESS, quantity of fat, that a (hip is often loaded with the fufficient fupply of nutricious juice. blubber obtained from a fingle filh. It is a native of BALDOC, a market-town in Hertfordfliire, about 38 the Greenland Ocean. It feeds chiefly upon the me- miles north of London, in 15' W. long, and 51° 55' dufa, a fmall fea-infeft. See Medusa. The fub- N. lat. ftance called whale-bone is got from the upper lip, and BALE, in commerce: Any goods packed up in cloth, and towards the throat of this and all the other fpecies-of corded round very tight, in order to keep them from whales. See Plate LI. fig. 1. For the manner of taking breaking, or preferve them from the weather, is called whales, fee Whale-fishery. 2. The phyfalus, has a bale. A bale of cotton yarn is from three to four hundred a double pipe in the middle of the head, and a thick fat fin oh the lower part of the back, befides the two weight; of raw filk, is from one to four hundred ; of fins on the bread ; it has no teeth ; and the belly is lockram or dowlafs, either three, three and a half, or fmooth. The phyfalus inhabits the European and four pieces. American oceans: it feeds upon herrings and other Bale-goods, among the Englifh merchants, are all fmall fifh. 3. The boops has a double pipe in its fuch as are imported or exported in bales; but the fnout, three fins like the former, and a hard horny French give that name to certain hard-wares, and ridge on its back. The belly is full of longitudinal other fort of merchandize, which come to Paris, and folds or rugse. It frequents the northern ocean. 4. are commonly made by bad workmen, of indifferent The mufculus has a double pipe in its front, and materials. in the Eaft Indies, fituated in 1 i4<i E. three fins; the under jaw is much wider than the up- BALI, an ifland per one. It frequents the Scotch coafts, and feeds long, and 70 S. lat. This ifland, and the eaft upon herrings —Linnaeus makes the phyfeter and del- - end of the ifland of Java, form a flreight about a mile phinus, which are ranked among the whales by fome over, of extremely difficult paflage. writers, two diftinft genera. See Physeter and BALISORE, a fmall fea-port of the Hither India, fituated on the north-weft part of the bay of Bengal, Delphinus BALAGNA, a town of Mufcovy, in the province0 of in 85° 1 f E. long, and 210 30' N. lat Novogorod, fituated on the river Wolga, in 45 E. BALISTA, orBALLisxA. SeeBALLisrA. long, and 56° 30' N. lat. BALISTES, in ichthyology, a genus of fifties belongBALAMBUAN, a fea-port town of the ifle of Java, in ing to the order of amphibia names. The characters Afi.a, which gives name to the channel called the are thefe: The head is flat; there are eight teeth in Streigbts of Balamhuan. each fide, and the two anterior ones are longeft ; in BALAM-PULLI, in botany. SeeTamarindus. the place of gills, the baliftes has an aperture immeBALANCE, or Balance See Ballance. diately above the peCtoral fins; the body is flat, the BALANGIAR, the capital city of Tartary, north of fcales are joined together by the fkin, and the belly is the Cafpian fea. keeled. The fpecies of this genus are eight; viz. the BALANUS, in zoology, the trivial name of a fpecies of baliftes monoceros, whofe head-fin confifts of but one lepas. SccLepas. ray, and the tail rays are carinated. It is called the Balanus, in anatomy, a term fometimes ufed for the Unicorn-fijh by Caiefby, and is found in the Afiatic glans penis, as well as for the clitoris. and American feas. 2. The hifpidus, whofe head-fia Balanus, in pharmacy, denotes a fuppofitory. See is uniradiated ; and there is a round black fpot in the Suppository. tail-fin. The body is rough and briftly towards the BALASS. or Ballas, the name of a kind of ruby. tail. The fpine or horn is fituated between the eyes; See Ruby. the fnout is fubulated; and inftead of a belly-fin, it BALAUSTIA, in botany. See Punica. has a jagged fharp fpine. This fpecies is a native of BALBASTRO, a city of Arragon, in Spain, fituated Carolina. 3. The tomentofus, whofe head-fin is biupon the river Sinca, fifty miles north-eafi: of Sara- radiated, and the body of it towards the hind-part is gofia. hairy. It is a native of America. 4. The papillofus, BALBEC, a town of AfiaticTurky, fituated at the foot has a biradiated back-fin, and a papillous body. 5., of mount Libanus, in 370 30' E. long, and 330 N. lat. The has a triradiated back-fin; and the BALCHA, a city of UIbbec Tartary, fituated0 on the tail isverrucofus, full of little warts. In place of a belly-fin this frontiers of Perfia, in 65° 20' E.long. and 37 N. lat. fpecies has a large, thick, warty ray. It has 25 fmall BALCONY, in architecture, a projedture in the front of reverfed fharp fpines at the fide of the tail, difpofed in a houfe, or other building, fupported b' pillars or four rows. It is a native of India. 6. The aculeatus has confoles, and encompafled with a baluftrade. a triradiated back-fin; and the fpines of the tail lean BALDACHIN, or Baldaquin, in architecture, a build- upon each other. It is alfo a native of India. 7. The in in L 2 form of a canopy, lupported by pillars, and fre- vetula, has a triradiated back-fin; the belly-fin islongitudinal.