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 B I L ( 553 ) gal privileges, he. See Scots Law, tit. ObligaBILDESTON, a market-town of Suffolk, about ten tions / by nxiord and ivrit. miles fouth-eaft of Bury, E. long 40, and N. lat. Bill fignifies alfo a paper, either written or printed, in 52° 2o large charadters, which is ported up in fome open BILDGE of a (hip, the bottom of her floor, or the very and public place, to give notice of the fale of any breadth of the place the (hip refts on when fhe is a- merchandize, or Ihip, or of the failing of any veffel ground. Therefore, bildge-water is that which lies into foreign parts. on her floor, and cannot go to the well of the pump : in trade, both wholefale and retail, as alfo among And bildge-pumps, or burr-pumps, are thofe that car- Bill fignifies an account of merchandizes or ry off the bildge-water. They hkewife fay the (hip is workmen, goods delivered to a perfon, or of work done for one. bildged, when Ihe has fome of her timber ftruck off on Settled Bili,, a bill, at the bottom of which they to a rock or anchor, and fprings a leak. the goods are delivered acknowledge that they BILE, a yellow, bitter juice, feparated from the blood whom them; that they are fatisfied with the in the liver, colle&ed in the porus bilarius arid gall- have.received price, and promife to pay it. bladder, and thence difcharged by the common duft Bill of credit, that which a merchant or banker gives into the duodenum. whom he can truft, impowering him to reThe bile is properly of two kinds, and is diftinguifli- toceivea perfon money from his correfpondents in foreign couned by the names of cyjiic and hepatic. The hepatic tries. bile is thin, almoft inlipid, and fcarce coloured; the Bill of entry, an account of the goods entered at the cyftic bile is thicker, more coloured, and very bitter. cuftom houfe, both inwards and outwards. In this bill See Anatomy-, p. 265. muft be expreffed, the merchant exporting or importBILEDULGERID, one of the divifions of Africa, ha- ing; the quantity of merchandize, and the divers fpeving Barbary on the north, and Zaara or the Defart cies thereof; and whither tranfported, or from whence. a the fouth. 0/rlading, an acknowledgment figned by the maBli-JIVEST, a town of Weftphalia, in Germany, a- Bill of a (hip, and given to a merchant, <bc. containbout feven miles 0fouth-eaft of Ravenlburg, E. long. fter an account of the goods which the mafter has re8° 15', N.lat. 52 . It is fubjeft to the king of Pruflia. ing ceived on board from that merchant, he. v/ith a pro-LGE. See Bildge. mife to deliver them at an intended place for a certain BILIARY dutts. See Anatomy, p. 265. BILIMBI, in botany, a fynonime of the averrhoa. See falary. Each bill of lading muft be treble, one for the merchant who loads the goocls, another to be fent Averrh OA. BILINGUIS, in a general fenfe, fignifies one that fpeaks to the perfon to whom they are configned, and the two languages; but in law, is ufed for a jury that third to remain in the hands of the mafter of the Ihip. paffes in any cafe between an Englilhman and a fo- It muft be obferved, however, that a bill of lading is reigner, whereof part ought to be Englilh, and part ufed only when the goods, fent on board a Ihip, are but part of the cargo: For when a merchant loads a. ftrangers. BILOUS, in general, denotes fomething belonging to, whole veffel for his own perfonal account, the deed parted between him and the mafter of the fhip is callor partaking of, the nature of bile. Hence, Bilious fevers are thofe occafioned by the over-copi- ed charter-party. See CHARTER-/>«r/j. oufnefs, or bad qualities of the bile. See Medicine, Bill ofparcels, an account given by tl;e feller to the buyer, containing the particulars of all the forts and Offevers. Bilious colic. See Medicine, Of colics. prices of the goods bought. BILL, an inftrument made of iron, edged in the form Bill offale, is when a perfon wanting a fum of money, of a crefcent, and adapted to a handle. It is ufed by delivers goods as a fecurity to the lender, to whom he plumbers, to perform feveral parts of their work; by gives this bill, impowering him to fell the goods, in balket-makers, to cut the largeft- pieces of chefnut- cafe the fum borrowed is not repaid, with intereft, at trees and other wood; and by gardeners, to prune the appointed time. trees. When (hort, it is called a band-bill, and when Bill of fore, a licence granted at the cuftom-houfe to long, a hedge-bill. merchants, by which they have liberty to carry, cuBill, in Scots law, has two general fignifications: Eve- ftom-free, all fuch ftores and provifions as they may ry fummary application in writing, by way of petition, have occafion for during their voyage. to the court of fellion, is called a bill. But the word Bill offufferance, a licence granted to a merchant, at more commonly denotes a Ihort obligation or mandate, the cuftom-houfe, fuffering him to trade from one by which one perfon obliges himfelf to pay a fum of Englifli port to another, without paying cuftom.. money to another, or his order, againft a certain time; Bank-Bi.L, a private inftrument whereby private peror by which one perfon draws upon another'for a fum fons become intitled to a part in the bank-ftock. See payable to a third perfon : By this laft kind of bill, Bank. money-matters are commonly tranfadted betwixt the Bill denotes alfo a declaration in writing, exprefling inhabitants of different countries, and is called a bill either fome wrong the complainant Has fuffered by the of exchange: When the parties concerned live in Scot- defendant, or elfe a fault that the party complained land, it is termed an inland bill. As to the folem- of has committed againft fome law or ftatute of the nities of bills, methods of negotiating them, their le- realm. Vot. 1. No. 24. 3 This 7A