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 B I L BID (55 2 ) is called bidens; from whence the place ftruck BICE, or Bise, among painters, a blue colour prepa- tin, with thunder got the name of bidental. red from the lapis ai menus. Bice bears the bed body of all bright blues ufed in BIDON, a liquid meafure, containing about five pints common work, as houfe-painting, <&c. but it is the of Paris, that is, about five quarts Englilh wine-meapaleft in colour. It works indifferently well, but in- fure. It is feldom ufed but among fhips crews.. clines a little to fandy, and therefore requires good BIEL, a town of the canton of Bern in Switzerland, figrinding. Next to ultramarine, which is too dear to tuated at the north-end of a lake to which it gives be ufed in common work, it lies belt near the eye of name, about0 fifteen miles0 north-weft of the city of Bern, in 7 E. long. 47 15' N. lat. all other blues; BICEPS, in anatomy, the name of feveral mufcles : As BIELSKI, a town of Polachia in Poland, about 0 fixtytwo miles the biceps humeri, or cubiti, biceps tibiae,, &c. 0 'fouth of Grodno ; E. long. 24, and N. BICHET, a quantity, or meafure of corn, which differs lat. 53. according to the places where it is ufed. The bichet Biel ski, or Bihela,0 is alfo a town of Smolenffio, in is not a wooden meafure, as the minot at Paris, or Ruffia; E. long. 35, and N. lat. 56° 40'. the bufhel at London, but is compounded of feveral BIER, a. wooden machine for carrying the bodies of certain meafures. It is ufed in many parts of the dead to be buried. See Burial. BIENNE, in geography. See Biel. France, &L Bichet, a certain quantity of land, namely, as much BIGA, in antiquity, a chariot drawn by two hoifes abreaft. Chariot-races, with two horfes, were intros as may be fown by a bichet of corn. , BICKERN, the beak-iron of an anvil.' See the article duced into the Olympic games in the 93d Olympiad : But the invention was much more ancient, as we find Anvil. BICLINIUM, in Roman antiquity, a chamber with two that the heroes in' the Iliad fight from chariots of that beds in it; or when two beds only were round a table. kind. BIGAMY, the poffeffion of two hufbands or two wives See Table. BICORNIS, in anatomy, a name for the os hyoides. at the fame time. See Scots Law, tit. Crimes. BIGEN, the name of a kingdom and city in Japon, in See Hyoides. Bicornis 77iufculus, a name for the extenfor carpi ra- the ifland Niphon. BIGGLESWADE, a market-town in Bedfordffiire, fidialis. fouth-eaft. BIDDING of the, banns, the fame with what is other- tuated on the river Ivel, about eight miles of Bedford; W. long. 2o N. lat. 520 5'. wife called a/king. See Marriage, Bidding, in a commercial fenfe, the offering a fum of BIGHT, among feamen, denotes one roll, or round, of money, or a certain price, for any ware or merchan- a cable or rope, when quoded up. ' dize; and when any thing is fold by auction, a perfon BIGNESS, or Magnitude. See Magnitude. who has a mind to have it, muft offer fomething more BIGNONIA, in botany, a genus of the didynamia angiofpermia clafs. The calix confifts of five fegments, for it than the perfon who bade laft. BIDDER, he that bids money for any merchandize that and is ffiaped like a cup; the faux of the corolla is bellis felling by au&ion : The bed, or laft bidder, is he ffiaped, and divided into five fegments; the pod has two cells, and the feeds are membranaceous, and alawho offers moft money for it. See Sale, B-IDENS, in botany, a genus of the fyngenefia polyga- ted. The fpecies are feventeen, all natives of Amemia sequalis clafs. The receptacle is paleaceous ; the rica and the Indies. pappus has eredtfcabrous awns; and the calix is im- BIGOREE, the fouth divifion of the province of Gafbricated. There are thirteen fpecies, only three of cony, in France. which, viz. the tripartita or trifid water-hemp agri- BIGOT, a perfon fooliffily obftinate and perverfely wedmony, the cornua or whole-leaved water-hemp agri- ded to any opinion, but particularly an opinion of a mony, and the minima or leaft water-hemp agrimony, religious nature. ■are natives of Britain, The leaves of the bidens are BILANDER, a fmall flat-bottomed veffel, with only recommended for ftrengthening the tone of the vifce- one large maft and fail, and its deck raifed half a foot ‘ ra, and as an aperient; and faid to have excellent ef- above the plat-board. fefts in the dropfy, jaundice, cahexies, and fcorbutic BILATERAL, in a general fenfe, denotes fomething with two fides. Hence, diforders. cognation, is kinffiip both by the father BIDENTAL, in Roman antiquity, a place blafted Bilateral with lightning, which was immediately confecrated by and mother fide. an harufpex, with the facrifice of a bidens. This BILAWS. See By-laws. A, the capital of the province of Bifcay, in Spain, place was afterwards accounted facred, and it was un- BILBO near the mouth of the river Ibaicabal, which, lawful to enter it, or to tread upon it; for which rea- fituated into the fea a little below it, forms a good harfon it was commonly furrounded with a ditch, wall, falling bour; in 3°W. long, and 430 3c/N. lat. hedge, ropes, 6c. See the next article. BIDENTALES, in Roman antiquity, priefts inftituted BILBOWS, a puniffiment at fea, anfwering to the ftocks offender is laid in irons, or ftocks, to perform certain ceremonies and expiations when at land.are The more or lefs ponderous according to the ■ .thunder fell on any place. Their principal office was which the facrilicing a ffieep of two years old, which, in La- quality of the offence of which he is guilty.