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 BIZ ( 558 ) B L A. bolts, and rings, kirbles of the bit or curb, trench, top- BLACK, a well known colour, fuppofed to be owing to rol, flap, and jeive. The importation of bits for bridles the abfence of light; all the rays thereof being abforbed by the black bodies. See Optics is now prohibited. Bit alfo denotes the iron part of a piercer, augre, and Black, among dyers, one of the five fimple and mother colours ufed in dying. It is made differently, acthe like tnfliruments. Bit of a key, the part which contains the wards. See cording to the feveral qualities of the duffs that are to be dyed. For duffs of a high price, as woolen cloth Wards. Bit, or Bitts, in (hip-building, the name of twogreat an ell and a half or an ell and a quarter wide, broad timbers, ufually placed abaft the manger, in the (hip’s and narrow rattens, fine woollen druggets, they loof, through which the crofs piece goes : The ufe of mud ufe a black made of the bed woad and indigo, it is to belay the cable thereto, while the (hip is at inclining to a bluilh brown. The goodntfs of the compofition confids in there being not above fix pounds anchor. of indigo ready prepared to each ball of woad, when BITCH, the female of the dog kind. See Canis. BITONTO, a city of the province of Barri, in the the latter, being in the tub, begins to cad its blue kingdom of Naples,0 fituated about eight0miles fouth- flower; and in not being heated for ufe above' twice; weft of Barri, in 17 40' E long, and 41 20' N. lat. after which it mud be boiled with alum, tartar, or BITTACLE, on (hip-board, a fquare box (landing before allies of lees of wine, then maddered with common him that (leers the (hip, with the compafs placed there- madder, and ladly the black mull be given with gallnuts of Aleppo, copperas, and fumach. As for more in, to keep and diredt the (hip in her Courfe. BITTER, an epithet given to all bodies of an oppofite indifferent fluffs, fuch as fmall rattens, and (iialloons, tafte to fweetnefs. For the medical virtues of bitters, as they cannot pay for the expence of maddering it is fufficient that they be well boiled with woad, and afterfee Materia Medica. Bitter, a fea-term, (ignifying any turn of the cable wards blacked with gall and copperas. There is likeabout the bits, fo as that the cable may be let out by wife jefuits black, which is made with the fame ingrelittle and little. And when a (hip is (lopped by a cable, dients as the good black, but without having firft dyed (he is faid. lo be brought up by a bitter. Alfo that end the fluff blue. of the cable which is wound about the bits is called the German Black, called by fome Frankfort black, is made with the lees of wine, burnt, wafhed afterwards in bitter end of the cable. water, then ground in mills made for that purpofe, with Bitter-apple, in botany. See Colocynthis. ivory, bones, or peach-flones, alfo burnt. It comes Bitter-salt. See Epsom-salt. Bitter-sweet, in botany. See Solanum. from Frankfort, Mentz, and Stralbourg, either in Bitter-waters. See Water. lumps or powder, and muft be chofen moifl, without having been wetted, of a fine (hining black, foft, friBI T T E R - WI N e. See WIN E. able, light, and with as few (hining grains as pofiible. BITTERN, in ornithology. See Ardea. Bittern, in the falt-works, the brine remaining after Ivory Black, otherwife called velvet black, is burnt the fait is concreted: This they ladle off, that the ivory, which becoming quite black, and being reduced fait may be taken out of the pan, and afterwards put to thin plates, is ground in water, and made into troin again; when, being farther boiled, it yields more ches, to be ufed by painters, and by jewellers, who fet precious ftones, to blacken the ground of the colfait. See Salt. lets, and give the diamonds a teint or foil. In order BITUMEN, in natural hiftory. See Asphaltum. BIVALVES, a term fometimes ufed for fuch (hells as to be good, it ought to be tender, friable, and thoconfid of two pieces. It is alfo an appellation given roughly ground. to fuch pods, or capfules,, as confift of two valves in- .ZLws-Black is made with the bones of oxen, cows, &c. and is ufed in painting; but is not fo much efteemed as clofing the (beds. BIVENTER, in anatomy, called aMb digaftric, or two- ivory black'. ’/-Black, that which remains in the retort after bellied, amufcleof the lower jaw. See p. 222. col. 1. BIUMBRES, in geography, the fame with the amphifcii. the fpirits, volatile fait, and oil, have been extrafted from hart’s-horn. It anfwers the purpofes of painters See Am phi sci 1. BIXA, in botany, a genus of the polyandria mongynia almoft as well as ivory-black. clafs. The corolla conlifts of 10 petals ; the calix has Spanijb Black, is nothing but burnt cork : It is ufed in five teeth ; and the capfule is rough, and double- feveral works. It (hould be light, and have as few valved. T here is but one fpecies, viz. the orellana, grains of fand mixed with it as poflible. Liimp-BLACK, or Liw-Black, the footy fmoke of roa native of America. BIZARRO, in the Italian mufic, denotes a fanciful kind fin. There is fome in powder and fome in lumps, and of compofition, fometimes fad, flow, foft, flrong, <&c. is moftly brought from Sweden and Norway, and pays according to the fancy of thecompofer. duty 11. 10s. q-i^d. the hundred weight. It is ufed BIZOCHI, or Bi sochl, in church-hidory, certain he- on various occafions, particularly for making the printretical monks, faid to have affumed the religious habit er’s ink, for which purpofe it is mixed with oil of walcontrary to the canons, rejected the facraments, and nuts, or linfeed, and turpentine, all boiled together. maintained other errors. Earth-BLACK, a fort of coals found in the ground,, BIZU, a town of Barbary, in Africa, in the kingdom of with which the painters and limners ufe to paint in. ffefco, after it has been well ground. MoroccoThere.