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 B E N B E M ( 5; 9 ) ments, to give them a proper degree of air : All thefe It was alfo ufed for the bifnop’s throne, as well as for are of various conftmf!ions, according to their diffe- the ambo. See Ambo. rent purpofes; but in general they are compofed of two BEMBER, a chain of mountains, dividing India from flat boards, fometimes of an oval, fometimes of a tri- Tartary. angular figure: Two'or more hoops, bent according BEMSTER, a market-town of Dorfetfhire, about to the figure of the boards, are placed between them ; twelves miles north-weft ■ of Dorchefter, fituated in a piece of leather, broad in the middle, and narrow 2° 50' W. long, and 30° 45' N. lat. at both ends, is nailed on the edges of the boards, BEN. See Behen. which it thus unites together; as alfo on the hoops Ben of Judea, a name fometimes ufed for benzoin. See which feparate the boards, that the leather may the Benzoin. eafier open and fold again; a tube of iron, brafs, or BENAVARRE, or Benhuarri, a town of Aragon in copper is faftened to the undermoft board, and there Spain, fituated in ic/ E, long, and 42° $ N. lat. is a valve within that covers the holes in the under- BENBECULA, one of the weftern ifles of Scotland, BENGALIS, or Bancahs. SeeBANGAns. board to keep in the air. Each pair of bellows imported is valued in the book BENCH, or Banc, in law. See Banc. of rates at three (hillings and four pence, and pays Free Bench fignifies that eftate in copyhold-lands, whichduty whereof is drawn back on expor- the wife, being efpoufed a virgin, has, after the deceafe of her hufband, for her dower, according to the tation. See Pneumatics. BEL^TJNA, the capital of the Bellunefe, in the domi- cuftom of the manor. As to this free-bench, feveral manors have feveral cuftoms; and in the manors of nions 0 of Venice, about 40 miles north of Padua ; in Eaft and Weft Enbourne, in the county of Berks, and 12 4c/ E. long, and 46° 20' N. lat. BELLY, in anatomy, the fame with what is more ufually other parts of England, there is a cuftom, that when a copyhold tenant dies, the widow (hall have her freecalled abdomen. See p. 256. BELOAR, a ffone, otherwife called widuris.r SeeWi- bench in all the deceafed hufband’s lands, whilft (he lives Angle and ehafte ; but if fhe commits incontin u a 1 s, ‘ BELOMANGY, a fort of divination by means of arrows, nency, fhe (hall forfeit her eftate : Neverthelefs, upon her coming into the court of the manor, riding on x pra&ifed in the eaft, and particularly in Arabia. Belomancy has been performed different ways, black ram, and having his tail in her hand, and at the whereof one was this: Suppofe a parcel of arrows, fame time repeating a form of words preferibed, the eleven or more of them being put into a bag ; thefe fteward is obliged, by the cuftom of the manor, to rewere afterwards drawn out, and according as they admit her to her free-bench. were marked or not, they judged of future events. Widow's Bench. See Widow. BELONE, in ichthyology, the trivial name of afpecies Amiable Bench. See Amiable. of efox. See Esox. BENCHERS, in the inns of court, the fenior members BELT, in the military art, a leathern girdle forfuftain- of the fociety, who. are inverted with the government ing the arms, <&c. of a foldier. thereof. Belts, in aftronomy, two zones, or girdles, furround- BENCOOLEN, a town and fort on the fouth-weft ing the body of the planet of Jupiter, more lucid than coaft-of Sumatra, belonging to the E. India company,. the reft, and of unequal breadth. from whence great quantities of pepper are imported. , Belts, in geography, certain ftreights between the Ger- It is fituated in ioi0 E. long. , and 40 S. lat. man ocean and the Baltic. The belts belong to the BEND, in heraldry, one of the nine honourable ordiking of Denmark, who exafts a toll from all fhips naries, containing a third part of the field when charwhich pafs through them, excepting thofe of Sweden, ged, and a fifth when plain. It is fometimes, like other, which are exempted. indented, ingrafted, <&c. and is either dexBELTURBET, a town of Ireland, in the county of ordinaries, ter or finifter. Cavan in the province of Ulfter, fituated upon the0 ri- Bend dexter is formed by two lines-drawn from theup-‘ ver Earn, about eight miles north of Cavan; in 7 3,5' per p^rt of the fhield on the right, to the lower part, W. long, and 54° 7' N. lat. of the left,, diagonally. It is fuppofed to reprefent a BELTZ, the capital of a palatinate of the fame0 name, in fhoulder-belt, or a fcarf, when worn over the fhoulder. the province of Red Ruffia, in Poland; in 24 E. long, See Plate LI. fig. 11. and 50^ 5' N. lat. finijier is that which comes from the left fide of the. BELVIDERE, in the Italian architedfnre, denotes 'Bwd to the right: This the French heralds call a barre. either a pavilion on the top of a building, or an artifi- In fhield Bend, when any things, borne in arms, are placed i cial eminence in a garden; the word literally, fignify- obliquelyisfrom the upper corner .to. the oppofite lower, , ing a fine prcfpett. as the bend lies. Belvidere, in geography, the capital of.a province of P-arti per Bend-, the0 fame name, on theq weftern coaftof the Morea, in and Point. Point in Bend, &c. See Parti 22 E. long, and 37 N. lat. a town of Beffarabia, in European Turky, BEMA, in ecclefiaftical antiquity, denoted the moft fa- BENDER, on the river Neifter, in 29° E.long. and 46° cred part of a church, or that where the altar flood.. fituated 40' N. lat. BEN-