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 BLEACHING. a dampnefs, which not only makes it yellow, and cipal reafons for fo much complaint in bleaching with this h : any thing of colour it has, but diredly rots it. And material.” a* hough it fhouid efcape this, which it is poflible it may, The whole art and fafety in ufing the lime, according by a quick and fpeedy paffage; yet whenever it is put to this method, depends on the junfhon of the alkaline in any warehoufe, it will meet with moifture there, efpe- falts, during the bucking, "to the particles of lime which ciaily if the winter-feafon Ihould come on before it is were on the furface of the cloth, difpofed or made ufe of. Thefe I take to be the prin-

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B L E BLEAK, the Englilh name of the filh called cyprinus. See Cyprinus. BLECHINGLY, a borough-town of Surry, about twenty miles fouth of London; W. long. 20, and N. lat. 510 20r. BLECHNUM, in botany, a genus of the cryptogamia filices. The feeds and parts of fru&ification of this fern lie in fmall lines under the plaits of the leaves. The fpecies are two, viz. the occidentale, a native of America; and the occidentale, a native of China. BLEEDING, in furgery. See Surgery. Bleeding at the nofe. See Hemorrhage, and Medicine. Bleeding is alfo ufed for the drawing out the fap of plants, otherwife called tapping. See Tapping. BLEKING, the moll fouth-eaflerly province of Sweden, having the Baltic on the fouth, Smaland on the north, and the province of. Schonen on the well., BLEMISH, a term in hunting, when the hounds #or beagles finding where the chace has been, make a proffer to enter, but return. BLEMYES, opBlemmyes, a fabulous people of E- ' thiopia, faid to have had no heads; their eyes, mouth, being fituated in their breads. BLENCH or Blanch. See Blanch. BLEND, or Blende, a mineral fubdance refembling lead-ore, but containing very little of that metal. Blend-water, called alfo morehough, a didemper incident to black cattle, comes either from the blood, from the yellows, or from the change of ground. In order to cure it, take bole armoniac, and as much charcoal dud as will fill an egg-lhell, a good quantity of the inner bark of an oak, dried and pounded together to a powder, and give it to the bead in a quart of new milk and a pint of earning. BLENHEIM, a village of Swabia in Germany, fituated on the wed fide of the Danube, three miles north-ead of Hockdet, and twenty-feven miles north-ead of Ulm; E. long. io° 25', N. lat. 48° 40'. BLENNIUS, in ichthyology, a genus of-fidies belonging to the order of jugulares; the characters of which are thefe: The head Hants or declines to one fide; there are fix rays in the membrane of the gills; the body tapers toward the.tail; the belly-fins have only two blunt bones; and the tail-fin is didindt. The fpecies are 13, viz. 1. The galeria, with a tranfverfe membranous cred upon the head. It is found in the European feas. 2. The cridatus, with a longitudinal ’ bridly cred betwixt the eyes. 3. The cornutus, with afimple ray above the eyes, and a fingle back-fin. The

B L I above two are natives of the Indies. 4. The ocellaris, with a furrow betwixt the eyes, and a large fpot on the back-fin. 5. The gattorugine, with fmall palmated fins about the eye-brows and neck. It is about feven or eight inches long. Thefe two lad are found in the European feas. 6. The fuperciliofus, with fmall fins about the eye-brows, and a curved lateral line. It is a native of India. 7. The phycis, with a kind of creded nodrils, a cirrus or beard on the under lip, and a double fin on the back. It has feven rays in the gill-membrane; the anus is furrounded with a black ring; and the tail is roundidr. 8. The pholis has a fmooth head, a curve line upon the fides, and thempper jaw is larger than the under one. The two lad are found in the Mediterranean fea. 9. The gunnellus has 10 black fpots on the back-fin. It is found in the Atlantic Ocean. 10. The mudelaris has three rays on the fore-part of the back-fin. It is a native of India. 11. The viviparus has two tentacula at the mduth. 12. The lumpenus has feveral.dulkycoloured areolae running acrofs its body. The two lad are found in the European feas. 13. The raninus, with fix divifions in the belly-fins. It is found in the lakes of Sweden. It is remarkable, that when this fifh appears in the lake, all the other filhes retire; and what is worfe, it is not fit for eating. BLEYME, an inflammation ariiing from bruifed blood between a horfe’s foie and the bone of the foot, towards the heel. Of thefe there are three forts : The fird being bred in fpoiled wrinkled feet, with narrow heels, are ufually feated in the inward or weaked quarter. In this cafe the hoof mud be pared, and the matter let out; then let oil de merveille be poured in, and the hoof be charged with a remolade of foot and turpentine. The fecond fort, befides the ufual fymptoms of the fird, infeCls the gridle, and mud be extirpated, as in the cure of a quitter bone, giving the horfe, every day, moidened bran, with two ounces of liver of antimony, to divert the courfe of the humours, and purify the blood. The third fort of bleymes, is occafioned by fmall dones and gravel betwrvn the flioe and the foie. In this cafe the foot mud be pared, and the matter, if any, let out: If there be no matter, then the bruifed foie mud be taken out; but if there be matter, the fore mud'be drefled like the prick of a nail. BLIGHT, in hulbandry/ a difeafe incident to plants, which affeds them varioufly, the whole plant fometimes periftiing by it, and fometimes only the leaves and