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 B I S ( 557 ) BIT Bishop’s-CAstle, a borough-town in Shropfhire, iitu- They ling hymns in honour of their god, mixing their devotion with dances and the found of drums, flageated on the river0Ony, about 15'm0iles /fouth-weft of lets, biazen bafons, and other inllniments. This feet Shrewlbury, in 3 W. long, and 52 30 N. lat. lives wholly upon herbs and pulfe, butter and milk. Bishop and his clerks, fome little iflands and rocks BISOCHI, or Bizochi. See Bizochi. on'the coaft of Pembrokelhiie, not far from St DaBISOMUM, or Disomum, in Roman antiquity, a fevid’s, very fatal to mariners. Bishop’s-stortford, a market-town in Hertfordlhire, pulchre, or vault, containing two dead bodies. On the tombs of the primitive ChriRians were wont to.be r 30 miles north of London, and only 10 miles northinferibed the words bifomi, or trifnii, or quadrifomi, eaid of Hertford; in 20'E. long. ji° 3c/ N. lat. <bc. that by thefe means they might the ealier calcuBISHOPING, a term among horfe-courfers, to denote late the number of their dead. the fophiftications ufed to make an old horfe appear BISON, in zoology, the trivial name of a fpecies of bos. young, a bad one good, 6"c. BISHOPRIC, the didridt over which a bifliop’s jurif- See Bos. BISQUET, or Bisket. See Bisket. diftion extends, otherwife called a diocefe. In England there are twenty-four bilhoprics, and BISSACRAMENTALES, adenomination giventoProtwo archbilhoprics; in Scotland, none at all; in Ire- teftahts, on account of their allowing of only two facraments, viz. baptifm and the eucharift. land, eighteen biftioprics, and four archbifhoprics. BISIGNANO, a city of0Hither Calabria, in the king- BISSECTION, in geometry, the divifionof a line, angle, dom of Naples; in 16 4s' E. long, and 390 50' N. <bc. into two equal parts. BISSELjEUM, among ancient naturalifts, denotes the lat. of pitch, more properly calledSee PisBISKET, a kind of bread prepared by the confectioners, oil of fine flour, eggs, and fugar, and rofe or orange- SELZEUM. water; or of flour, eggs, and fugar, with anifeeds BISSEXTILE, in chronology, a year confifting of ,366 and citron-peel, baked again and again in the oven, in days, being the fame with our leap-year. See Astro' tin or paper moulds. There are divers forts of bifkets, nomy, Of the divifton of tbne. See Bistre. as feed-bilket, fruit-bilket, long bilket, round bilket, BISTER. BISTI, in commerce, a fmall coin of Perfia: Some fay naples-bilket, fpunge-bilket, <&■£. iSea-BisKET is a fort oLbread much dried by palling that it is among the current Giver coins of Perfia, and the oven twice, to make it keep for fea-fervice. For worth only a little above three farthings of our money; long voyages they bake it four times, and prepare it others fpeak of it again as a money of account. fix months before the embarkation. It will hold good BISTORTA, in botany, the trivial name of a fpecies of polygonum. See Polygonum. a whole year. BISMILLA, a folemn form ufed by the Mahometans at BISTOURY, in furgery, an inftrument for making inthe beginning of alj their books and other writings, fig- cifions, of which there are different kinds, fome being of the form of a lancet, others ftrait and fixed in the nifying, In the name of the nioji merciful God. BISMUTH, a ponderous brittle femi-metal, refembling handle like a knife, and others crooked with the (harp zinc and the regulus of antimony, but differing greatly edge on the infide. See Surgery. from them in quality. It dilfolves with vehemence in the BISTRE, or Bister, among painters, denotes glofiy nitrous acid, which only corrodes the regulus of anti- foot, pulverifed and made into a kind of cakes, with mony ; and is fcarce foluble in the marine acid, which gum-water. It is ufed to wafh their defigns. See adts llrongly on zinc. A calx and flowers of bifmuth Washing. have been recommended as fimilar in virtue to certain BIT, or Bitt, an effential part of a bridle. Its kinds antimonial preparations; but are at prefent of no other are various. 1. The mufrol, fnaffle, or watering-bit. 2. Tbe canon-mouth, jointed in the middle. '3. The ufe than as a pigment or cofijietic. Bifmuth is fometimes found native, in fmall com- canon with a fall mouth, all of a piece, only kneed padt maffes, of a pale lead-colour on the outfide, but a in the middle, to form a liberty or fpace for the tongue; filvery white within. It attenuates the parts of all fit for horfes too fenfible, or ticklilh, and liable to be other metals, and thereby promotes their fufion. When continually bearing on the hand. 4. The canondiflblved in ftrong acids, it yields the famous, cofmetic rpmith, with the liberty in form of a pigeon’s neck; magiftery, and is a very valuable ingredient in the proper where a horfe has too large a tongue. 5. The mixed metals, ufed in calling types, and for bell-metal. canon with a port mouth, and an upfet or mounting Bifmuth is very common in Germany, and not un- liberty; ufed where ,a horfe has a good mouth, but frequently found in the tin-mines of Cornwall, though large tongue. 6. The fcatch-mouth, with an upfet; ruder but more fecure than a canon-mouth. 7. The little known, or at leal! regarded, there. BISNAGER, the capital of a province of0the fame name canon-mouth with a liberty; proper for a horfe with a in the higher peninfula of India; imyS E. long, and large tongue, and round bars. 8. The mafticadour, ,14° N. lat. or flavering-bit, &c. The feveral parts of a fnaffle, .BISNOW, or Bischnou, a fed! of the Banians in the or curb-bit, are the mouth piece, the cheeks and eyes, Eaft Indies; they call their god Ram-ram, and give guard of the cheek, head of the cheeks, the port, the him a wife : They adorn his image with golden chains, welts, the campanel or curb and hook, the bofles, the necklaces of pearls, and all foils of precious Rones. bulners and rabbets, the water-chains, the fide-bolts, Vol. I. No. 24. 3 7B bolts.