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 B L A ( 559 ) B L A There is alfo a black made with gall nuts, copperas, forth his tongue, and then, flitting the bladder, wadi or vitriol, fuch as common ink. And a bla'ck^made it gently with vinegar and a little fait. with filver and lead, which ferves to fill up the cavities BLAIR of Athol, a fmall tow n of Athol in Scotland, fituated about twenty-eight miles north of Perth. of ingraved things. Curriers Black, a black made with gall-nuts, four BLAIRIA, in botany. See Verbena. beer, and old iron, termed the firft black The fe- BLAKEA, in botany, a genus of the dodecandria mocond black, which gives the glofs to the leather,, is nogynia clafs. The calix has five leaves ; the petals are fix; the antherae are connected ; and- the capfule compofed of gall-nufs, coppefasj and gum-arabic. Bl4Ck-£««/£, in geopraphy, a town of Ireland, about fe- has fix cells. There is only one fpecies, viz. the triven miles fouth. of Armagh, in 6° yc/ W. long, and neivia, a native of Jamaica. BLAMONT, a town of Lorrain, about twenty-eight 54° iV N. lat. miles fouth-ead of Nancy, in E. long. 6° and Black-berry, in botany. See Robots. N. lat. 48° 3S/. Black-^^ of the exchequer. See Exchequer. ’R-LA.ziiL-bourn, a market-town of Lancaihire, about nine BLANC. See Blank. miles eaft of Preiloh', in '2°''2c/ W. long, and 53° 40' BLANCH-/’£>/<A'«£, in Scots law, a tenure by which the vaflal is only bound to pay an elufory yearly duty to N. lat. Black-*7?/), in ornithology, the Englifh name of the his fuperior merely as an acknowledgment of his right. See Scots Law, tit. The Jcveral kinds of holdings. mufctcapa utricapilla. See MusciCAPA. Carte-YszAtiOiE. See Carte. Black-m^/?. See'FALCo. "BzA.ZK-foreJl, a part of Swabia, divided from Switzer- BLANCHING, in a general fenfe, denotes the art of bleaching or whitening. land by the river'Rhine. fthkCK-game. See Tetrao. Blanching of copper is done various ways, fo as to. 'Hi.kCK.-tnail, a hnk of mail, or fmall pieces of metal make it refemble filver. If it be done for fale, it is or money. In the counties pf Northumberland, Cum- felony by 8 and 9 William III. chap. xxvi. berland, Weftmoreland, tmdfeveral parts of Scotland, Blanching, in coinage, the operation performed on it was formerly taken for a certain rent of money, the planchets or pieces of filver, to give them the recorn, cattle, or other confideration, paid by poor peo- quifite ludre and brightnefs They alfo blanch pieces ple near the borders, to perfons of note and power, of plate, when they would have: them continue white, allied with fome mofs-troopers, or known robbers, in or have only fome parts of them burniflied.. order to proteA them from pillage. Blanching, as it is now pracflifed, is peformed by heating the pieces on a kind of peel with a wood fire, Black-See Order. Black-*-^. See Rod. in the manner of a reverberatory; fo that the flame BLACK-yi?tf, the fame with the Euxine fea, lying north pafies over the peel. The pieces being diffidently ofNatolia, between 29° and 440 E. long, and 42° heated and cooled again, are put fucceflively to boil in and 46° N. lat. two pans, which are of copper: In thefe they put Black-//v. See Tin. water, common fait, and tartar of Montpelier. When, BLACK-w^/er, the name of two rivers in Ireland; one they have been well drained of this water in a copper of which runs through the counties of Cork and Wa- fieve, they throw fand and freffi water over them;. terford, and falls in Youghal bay; and the other, af- and when dry, they are well rubbed with towels. ter watering the county of Armagh, falls into Lough. Blanching, among gardeners, an operation whereby Neagh. certain fallets, roots, 6c. are rendered whiter than, BLACKS, in phyfiology. See Negroes. they would otherwife be. BLADDER, in anatomy. Seep. 260. col. 2. It is this : After pruning off the tops and roots of ^A -Bladder, in phyfiology. See Air. the plants-to be blanched, they plant them in trenches ^//-Bladders. See Oil. about ten inches wide, and as many deep, more or BLA1RIA, in botany, a genus of the tetrandria mono- lefs. as is judged neceflary ; as they grow up, care is gynia clafs. The calix is divided into four fegments, taken to cover them with earth, within four or five: as alfo the corolla; the (lamina are inferred into the inches of their tops : This is repeated from time toreceptacle; and the capfule has four cells, containing time, for five or fix week's, in which time they will bo many feeds. There is but one fpecies, viz. the cri- fit for ufe, and of a whitiffi colour where covered by. coides, a native of the cape of Good Hope. the earth. BL ‘ FART, in cornmerce, a fmall coin, current at Blanching alfo denotes the operation of covering iron Cologn, worth fomething more than a farthing of our plates with a thin coat or cruft of tin; money. BLANCO, or G7/c-Blanoov a promontory of0 Peru, BLAIN, among farriers, a diflemper incident to beads, in S. America, W. long. 8i°, and S. lat; 3 45''. being a certain bladder growing on the root of the Blanco is alfo the1 name of one of the Antille-iflands, tongue, againft the wind-pipe, which dwells to fuch a on the coaft of Terra Firma, in* W. long. 640, and pitch as to flop the breath. It comes by great chaf- N. lat. 12°. fing and heating of the ilomach. and is perceived by Cape-Bh anco is alfo a promontory of Africa, in.i8Q the bead’s gaping and holding out his tongue, and W. long, and 20° N. lat. foaming at the mouth. To cure it, cad the bead, take BLANFORD, a marker town of Dorfetffiire, ten miles north.