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 B A L. ( 51-7 ) BAN feai that lying between Sweden on the north, BALLOTA, in botany, a genus of the didynamia gym- BALTIC , nofpemia clafs. The calix has four teeth ; the iupe- and Germany and Livonia on the fouth. rior lip of the corolla is concave and crenated. There BALTIMORE, a town of the county of Corke, and are four fpecies, viz. the nigra, or (linking hore- province of Munfter, in Ireland,0 fituated about five hound, a native of Britain ; the alba and lanata, both miles north of Cape Clear, in 9 if W. long, and natives of Europe; and the fuaveolens, a native of A- Ji° if N. lat. BALZANE. See Whiteeoot. merica. ' a city of Franconia, in Germany, io° JO, BALLOTADE, in the menage, the leap of a horfe be- BAMBERG, tween two pillars, or upon a llraight line, made with E. long, and 50° if N. lat. The biftiop of Bamberg is fovereign of the city and juftnefs of time, with the aid of the hand, and the diftrid round it, for fixty miles in length, and forty calves of the legs; and in fuch a manner, that when his fore-feet are in the air, he fhews nothing but the in breadth. BAMBOE, in botany, the trivial name of a fpecies of {hoes of his hinder-feet without yerking oUt. BALLS, or Ballets, in heraldry, a frequent bearing arundo. See Arundo. in coats of arms, ufually denominated according to BAMFF, or Banff, a town of Scotland, which gives their colours, bezants, plates, hurts, <&c. See Be- name to a county, lying between Aberdeenlhire and Murray, aAng the fouthern bank of the river Spey. zants. The town is fituated at the mouth of the river DoBALLUSTER, a fmall kind of pillar ufed for balluve rn. ftrades. See Architecture. BALLUSTRADE, a feries or row of ballufters, join- BAMPTON, a market-town of Oxfordfhire, fituated ed by a rail; ferving as well for a reft to the elbows, on the river Ifis, about ten0 miles fouth-weft of Oxford, as for a fence or inclofure to balconies, altars, ftair- i° 35' W. long, and 51 40' N. lat. Bampton is alfo the name of a market-town 0in Devoneafes, &c.. See Architecture. ftiire, twenty miles north of Exeter, in 3 40' W. BALM, in botany. See Melissa. long, and 5i°'5/ N. lat. Balm, or Balsam. See Balsam. BALNEUM, a term ufed by chemifts to fignify a veflel BAN, or Bann. See Bank. filled with fome matter, as fand, water, or the like, Ban, in commerce, a fort of fmooth, fine muflin, which in which another is placed that requires a more gentle the Englifti import from the E. Indies. The piece heat than the naked fire. Thus balneum arenofum, is almoft a yard broad, and runs about twenty yards called alfo balneum ftccum, and fand-heat, is when and a half. the cucurbit is placed in fand, in afhes, or filings of BANBURY, a large borough-town in Oxfordlhire, fteel. Balneum maria, or marts, is when the veflel, twenty miles north of Oxford, in i° 20 W. long, . containing the ingredients to be diftilled, &c. is put in- and 520 f N. lat. to a veflel of water; which is made to boil; fo that no BANC, or Bench, inlaw, denotes a tribunal, or judgegreater heat than that of boiling water can be commu- ment-feat : Hence, king’s-banc is the fame with The nicated to the fubftance to be treated. And balneum court of king’s-bench, and common banc with that of vaporis, or vaporarium, is, wljen two veflels are dif- common pleas. See King’s Bench and Common pofed in fuch a mannter, that the vapour, raifed from Pleas. the water contained in the lower, heats the matter BANCA, an ifland of the E. Indies, feparated from the contained in the upper. fouth-eaft part of that of Sumatra by a very narrow BALOTADE, or Ballotade. See Ballotade. channel, in 1050 E. long, and 30 S. lat. B ALOWA', a city of Afia, in the kingdom of De- BANC. can. matra, in 990 E. long, and 20 N. lat. It is a Dutch BALSAM, or Native Balsatvi, an oily, refinous, li- fettlement. quid fubftance, flowing either fpontaneoufly, or by BANCOCK, a city of the kingdom of Siam, in 101° means of incifion, from certain plants. There are a E. long, and 130 30' N. lat. great variety of balfams, generally denominated from BAND, in a general fenfe, fome froall, narrow ligir the fubftances from which they are obtained. See ment, wherewith any thing is bound, tied, or faftened. Chemistry, Of reftris and balfams. Band, in architefture, a general name for any flat, low BALSAMICS, in pharmacy, foftening, reftoring, heal- member, or moulding, that is broad, but not very ing and cleanfing medicines, of a gentle attenuating deep. nature. Band tffoldiers, in military affairs, thofe who fight Balfamics may be ufed, both internally and ex- under the fame flag or enfign. ternally, in all difeafes of the head, nerves, fto- Trained Bands. See Trained mach, <bc. Band of penfoners are a company of 120 gentlemen, BALSAMINA, in botany, the trivial name of a fpecies who receive a yearly allowance of a hundred pounds of impatiens. See Impatiens. for attending on his majefty on folemn occafions. BALSAMITA, in botany, a fynonime of a fpecies of Band is alfo the denomination of a military order in xeranthemum. See Xeranthemum. Spain, inftituted by Alphonfus XI. king of Caftile, BALSARA, in geography, the fame with Baflbra. See for the younger fons of the nobility; who, before Bassora. their admifiion, muft ferve ten years, at leaft, either Vol. I. No. 22. 6P in 3