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 B E A ( 534 ) B E A the pope fpeaks like a judge, and deterHigh Bearing cock, one larger than the cock he fights canonization, mines upon the Hate of the canonized. No perfon can be beatified till fifty years after death. Bearing claws, among cock-fighters, the foremoft toes of a cock. If thefe are hurt or gravelled, he cannot fight. All certificates or attellations of virtues and miracles BEARN, a province in the fouth of France, bounded by are examined before the congregation ofrites: The exaGafcony on the North, and by the Pyrenean moun- mination continues for feveral years, after which his holinefs decrees the beatification. The corpfe and relics of tains, which feparate it from Spain, on the fouth. BE AST among gamefters, a game "at cards, played in the future faint are thenceforth expofed to the veneration this manner: The heft cards are the king, queen, eirc. of every body ; his images are crowned with rays, and whereof they make three heaps, the king, the play, a particular office is fet apart for him. BEATING, or Pulsation, in medicine, the reciprocal and triolet. T hree, four, or five may play; and to every one is agitation or palpitation of the heart or pulfe. See dealt five cards. However, before the play begins, Pulse. every one flakes to the three heaps. He that wins Beating geld and fiver. See Gold-beating, i&e. moll tricks, takes up the heap called the play: He Beating with hunters, a term ufed of a Hag, which that hath the king, takes up the heap fo called; and runs firft one way, and then another. He is then faid he that hath three of any fort, that is, three fours, to beat up and down. The noife made by conies in rutting time is alio three fitfes, three fixes &sc. takes up the triolet heap. Be ast, in a general fenfe, an appellation given to all four- called beating or tapping. footed animals, Ik'either for food, labour, or fport. BEATS, in a watch or clock, are the ftrokes made by Beasts of burden, in a commercial fenfe, all four-footed the fangs or pallets of the fpindle of the balance, or animals which ferve to carry merchandizes on their of the pads in a royal pendulum. See Watchbacks. The beads generally ufed for this purpofe, making. are elephants, dromedaries, camels, horfes. mules, BEAUCAIRE, a town of Languedoc, fituated on the weftern ihore of the river Rhone, about 0feven miles affes, and the Iheep of Mexico and Peru. Beasts of the chace are five; viz. the buck, the doe, north of Arles; in 4° 40' E. long, and 43 40' N. fat. BEAVER, in zoology. See Castor. the fox, the roe, and the martin. Beasts and fevils of the warren, are the hare, the co- BE AUFORT, a town of the duchy of Anjou in France, fituated 15 miles call of Angers; in 15' E. long, and ney, the pheafant, and partridge. Beasts of the forell are the hart, hind, hare, boar, 47° 30' N. lat. Beaufort is alfo a town of Savoy, about 030 miles eaft and wolf of Chamberry; in 6° 40' E. long, and 45 30^. lat. Rether-^z AST S. See Rother. BEAT, in a general figmfication, fignifies to chaflife, BEAUGENCY, a town of Orleanois, in France ; fituated on the river Loire, about 15 miles fouth-weft of ftrike, knock, or vanquilh This word has feveral other fignifications in the ma- Orleans, in i° 36/ E. long, and 47° 48'N. lat. nufadtures, and in the arts and rades. Sometimes it BEAUJEU, a town of the Lyonois in France, about 25 Signifies to forge and hammer, in which fenfe fmiths miles north-weft of Lyons; in 4° 3c/ E. long, and and farriers fay, to beat iron; fometimes it means to 46° 15' N. lat. pound, to reduce into powder: Thus we fay, to heat BEAUJOLOIS, the fouth-eaft divifion of the Lyonois, drugs, to beat pepper, to beat fpices ; that is to fay, to and fo called from Beaujeu. BEAUMARIS, a market town of Anglefey in Wales putverife them. north of Bangor, in 40 15' Beat of drum, in the military art, is to give notice by fituated about nineQ miles beat of drum of a fudden danger ; or, that fcattered W. long, and 53 25, N. lat. foldiers may repair to their arms and quarters, is to BEAU-MASS. See Mass. beat an alarm, or to arms ; alfo to fignify, by diffe- BEAUMONT, a town of Hainalt, about 17 mih s fouthrent manners df founding a drum, that the foldiers eaft of Mons; in 4° 15' E. long, and 50° 20' N lat. are to fall on the enemy; to retreat before, in, or after Beaumont is alfo a town of France, about x6 miles an attack; to move, or march, from one place to an- fouth of Alenin ; in 5' E. long, and 48® 20' N. lat. other ; to treat upon terms, or confer with the ene- BE iUNE, a town of Burgundy in France, fituated in 50 my ; to permit the foldiers to come out of their quar- 20 E. long, and 47° 2 N. lat. ters at break of day : to order to repair to their co- BEAUTY, in its native fignification, is appropriated to lours, <bc. is to beat a charge, a retreat, a march, &c. objects of fight. Objedls of the other lenfes may be BEATIFIC Vision. See Vision. agreeable, fuch as the founds of mufical inftruments, BEATIFICATION, among papills, an adl by which the the fmoothnefs and foftnefs of feme furfaces; but the pope declares a perfon beatified, or bleffed after death. agreeablenefs called beauty belongs to objefts of fight. This is the firft Hep towards canonization, and difObjects of fight are more complex than thofe of any fers from it; becaufe in the former, the pope does not other fenfe: In the fimpleft, we perceive colour, fiadl as a judge, determining the ftate of the beatified, gure, length, breadth, thicknefs. A tree is compofed -but only gives a privilege to certain perfons to honour of a trunk, branches, and leaves; it has colour, figure,, him by a particular religious worlhip, without incur- fize, and fometimes motion : By means of each of thefe; ring the penalty of fuperftitious worlhip; whereas in particulars, feparately confidered, it appears beauti-