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 B L A ( 5<*o ) B L A north of Pool, ia 20 20' W. long, and jo° jo' BLAST, in a general fenfe, denoted any violent explofion of air, whether occafioned by gun-powder, or by N. ht. BL 0ANKS, a port-town of Catalonia in Spain, E. long. the adion of a pair of bellows. Blasts, among miners, the fame with damps. See 2 40', N. lat. 410 30'. BLANK, or Blanc, properly fignifies white. See Damps. Blast, or Blight, in hulbandry. See Blight. White. Blank, in commerce, a void or unwritten place which BLASTING, a term ufed.by miners for the tearing up merchants fometimes leave in their day-books or jour- rocks which lie in their way, by the force of gunnals. powder. BLANK-^t/r, inlaw, the fame with common bar. See BLATTA, or Cockroche, a genus of infeds belonging to the order of hemiptera, or fuch as have four Bar. Blank-verje^ in the modern poetry, that compofed of a femicruflaceous incumbent wings. The head of the certain number of fyllables, without the aAlliance of blatta is infleded towards the bread ; the antennas, or feelers, are hard like bridles ; the elytra and wings are rhime. See Verse and Rhime. plain, and refemble parchment; the breaft is fmooth, Pc;»/-Blank. See ¥ona r-blank. BLANKENBURG, a town of 0Dutch Flanders, 0eight roundifii, and is terminated by an edge or margin ; the miles north-ealt of Oftend, in 3 E. long, and j 1 20 feet are fitted for running; and there are two fmali horns above the tail. This infed refembies the beetle; N. lat. Blankenburg is alfo the name of a town in lower Sax- and there are 10 fpecies; viz. 1. The gigantea is of a livid colour, and has fquare brownilh marks on the ony, aboutjforty-five miles fouth-eaft of Wolfembuttle, breaft. It is found in Afia and America, and is about in ii° 15^ E. long, and 510 50. N. lat. BLANKET, a coverlet for a bed. A fluff commonly the fize of a hen’s egg. 2. The alba is red, and the made of white wool, and wrought in a loom like margin of the breaft is white. It is found in Egypt. “ cloth ; with this difference, that they are croffed like 3. The furinamenfis is livid, and the breaft edged with white. It is a native of Surinam. 4. The ameriferges. When they come from the loom, they are fent to cana is of an iron colour, and the hind part of the the fuller ; and after they have been fulled and well breaft is white. The wings and elytra are longer than its body. It is found in America and the fouth of cleaned, they are naped with a fuller’s thiftle. There are blankets made with the hair of feveral a- France. 5. The pivea is white, with yellow feelers. It is a native of America. 6. The africana is alh-conimals; as that of goats, dogs, and others. French blankets, called Paris mantles, pay duty loured, and ha$ fome hairs on its breaft. It is found igs. 11 d, each, if coloured and the manufadture of in Africa. 7. The orientalis is of a dulky alh colour,; France; otherwife only 5 s. i-t^d. If uncoloured, has Ihort elytra, with an oblong furrow in them. Th s and the manufacture of France, they pay each fpecies is frequent in America. They get into chefts, 9s. S-reg-d. otherwife only 3s. ic>A^-d. Blankets be. and do much hurt to cloaths ; they infeft peoples imported into France, pay a duty of importation ac- beds in the night, bite like bugs, and leave a very uncording to their finenefs; namely, thofe of fine wool, favoury fmeil behind them. They avoid the light, fix livres per piece ; thofe of coarfe - and middling and feldom appear but in the night time. The female wool, three livres. None can be imported but by the refembies a kind of caterpillar, as it has no wings: She lays an egg of about one half the bulk of her way of Calais and StVallery. BLANOS, a maritime town of Spain in Catalonia, near belly. They eat bread, raw or dreffed meat, linen, books, filk-worms tfnd their bags, be. Sir Hans the mouth of the river Tordera. BLANQUILLE, in commerce, a fmall filver coin cur- Sloane fays, that the Indians mix their alhes with furent in the kingdom of Morocco, and all that part of gar, and apply them to ulcers in order to promote the the coaft of Barbary; it is worth about three-half-pence fuppuration. 8. The germanica, is livid, and yellowifti, with two black parallel lines on the breaft. It is of our money,.. BLARE, in commerce, a fmall copper coin of Bern, found in Denmark. 9. The lapponica, is yellow, and the elytra are fpotted with black. It is found in Lapnearly of the fame value with the ratz. land, and feeds upon cheefe, fifties, <bc. 10. The BLAREGNIES, a town of the Auftrian Netherlands, about feven miles fouth of Mons; E. long. 30 55', oblongata, is of an oblong figure; the colour is livid and ftiining; and it has two black fpots on the breaft. and N. lat. 50° 30'. BLASIA, in botany, a genus of the cryptogamia algae The feelers are red and clavated; and the feet are clafs. The calix of what is called the male is cylin- very hairy. It is a native of America. in pharmacy. See Unguis. drical, and full of grains ; the calix of the female is Blatta naked, and inclofing a roundilh feed funk in the leaves. BLATTARIA, in botany. See Verbascum. There is hut one fpecies, viz. the pufilla, or dwarf BLAVET, or Port-Lewis, a port-town of Brittany in France, fituated at the mouth of the river Blavet; blafia, a native of Britain. BLASPHEMY, an indignity or injury offered to the W. long. 30, and N. lat. 47° 40'. Almighty, by denying what is his due, and of right BLAWBUREN, a town of Swabia, in Germany, abelonging to him; .or by attributing to the creature bout eleven milesr eaft of Ulm; E. long. 90 45', and that which is due only to the Creator. N. lat. 48° 24. BLAYE,