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 BOM (58 o ) BOM BOMBARDMENT, the havock committed in throwing a yellowifh body, white behind, and the wings fpotted with yellow. 3. The minor, with unfpotted wings. bombs into a town or fortrefs. BOMBARDO, a rnufical inftrument of the wind kind, 4. The ater, has red wings, but a little blackifh at the much the fame as the baffoon, and ufed as a bafs to bafe; and green feet. The above four are natives of Europe. j. The capenfis, with the wings fpotted the hautboy. BOMBASINE, a name given to two forts of fluffs, the with black, an a(h-co!oured body, and white behind. It is a native of the Cape of Good Hope. one of filk, and the other croffed, of cotton. Bombafine of filk pays duty on importation as other BOMENE, a port-town of Zeland, in the United Proforeign filks. See Silk. That of cotton pays each vinces, fituated on the northern (hore of the ifland0 of piece, not exceeding 15 yards, if narrow, il. 3s. i^^-d. Schouen, oppofite to the ifland of Goree; in 4 E. long, and ^ i° 50' N. lat. but if broad, il. 6s. ii-i^d. BOMBAST, in compofition, is a ferious endeavour, by BOMMEL, a town of Dutch Guelderland, fituated on drained defcription, to raife a low or familiar fubjedt the northern flrore of the river Waal, about four miles0 beyond its rank; which inftead of being fublime, never north-eaft of Nimeguen; in 5® yc/ E. long, and 52 fails to be ridiculous. The mind, in fome animating N. lat. - pafiions, is indeed apt to magnify its objects beyond BOMONICI, in Grecian antiquity, young men of Lanatural bounds. But fuch hyperbolical defeription has cedaemon, who contended at the facriiices of Diana its limits, and, when carried beyond thefe, it dege- which of them was able to endure moft laflies ; being nerates into burlefque, as in the following example : fcourged before the altar of this goddefs. BON, in geography, a town of the electorate of Cologo, ^ Sejanus. Great and high in Germany, fituated on the weflern fltore of the river The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I. Rhine, about 12 miles fouth of Cologn; in 70 E. My roof receives me not; ’tis air I tread, long, and 50° 35' N. lat. It is a final! but well forAnd at each ftep I feel my advanc’d head tified town, and has a fine palace, which the eledtor of Knock out a ffar in heaven. Sejan. Ben. Johnfon, a£t j. Cologn makes his ufual refidence. alfo the name of one of the Molucca iflands, lyA writer who has no natural elevation of genius is ex- Boningisweft of Coram. tremely apt to deviate into bombaft : He drains above his genius, and the violent effort he makes carries him BONA, in geography, a port-town of the kingdom of Algiers, in Africa, about 200 miles eaft of the city of generally beyond the bounds of propriety. BOMB AX, or Cotton-tree, in botany, a genus of the Algiers; in 8° E, long, and 36° N’. lat. There is alfo a cape called Bona on the fame coaft monodelphia polyandria clafs. It has but one ftylus ; the ffigma confifls of five lobes; the capfule has five to the eaftward, almoft oppofite to Sicily. cells; and the feeds are downy. There are three Bona-fides, in law: When a perfon performs any acfpecies, viz. the pentandrum, the ceiba, and the hep- tion, which he believes at the time to be juft and lawtaphyllum, all natives of the Indies. The cotton-tree ful, he is faid to have afted bona fide. grows generally above 60 feet high, and is fo thick Bona mobilia, the fame with moveable goods or effects. that the Indians dig canoes which hold feveral men Bona notabilia, are fuch goods as a perfon dying has in out of the whole wood. There are hollows in diffe- another diocefe than that wherein he dies, amounting rent parts of the trunk which contain large quantities to the value of yl. at leaft; in which cafe the will of water, which is of great ufe to travellers in the hot of the deceafed muft be proved, or adminiftration climates where there is often a fcarcity of water. For granted in the court of the archbilhop of the province, unlefs by compofition, or cuftom, any diocefes are authe method of making cotton, fee Cotton. Bombax, in zoology, a fynonime of a fpecies of conus. thorifed to do it, when rated at a greater fum. Bona patria, an aflize of country men, or good neighSee Conus. It is fometimes ufed for filk or cotton. It is like- bours, where twelve or more are chofen out of the wife applied by Linnaeus to fignify fuch infefts as have country to pafs upon an aflize, being fworn judicially in the prefence of the party. incumbent wings and feelers refembling a comb. BOMBAY, an ifland on the weftcoaft of the hither pe- Bona, in geography, a cape of Africa, near Tunis, in 0 the Mediterranean fea. ninfula of India, fituated in 72 20' E. long, and 18° 30/ N. Iat. It is about feven miles long', and twenty BONAIRE, an ifland near the coaft of Terra Firma,0 in in circumference ; and is the property of our Eaft-In- South America, fitua'ted in 67° W. long, and 12 30' N. lat. It is fubjeft to the Dutch, who traffic from dia company. BOMB-KETCH, a fmall veffel built and flrengthened thence with the Caracao-coaft. BONAROTA, in botany, the trivial name of a fpecies with large beams for the ufe of mortars at fea. of pa-derota. See Pjederota. BOMBUS, in medicine, a refounding and ringing noife BONASIUS, in-zoology, the trivial name of a fpecies in the ear. of bos. See Bos. BOMBYL1US, in zoology, a genus of infedls belonging BONAVENTURA, fea-port town in Popayan in to the order of diptera. The roftrum is long, briftly, South America, upona the fea. and bivalved; the briflles being fixed between the ho-' BONAVISTA, one of the South Cape Verd0Iflands, fubjeiff rizontal valves. There are are five fpecies, viz. 1. lat. The major, with black wings. 2. The medius, with to Portugal: in 23° W. long, and 16 3c'. N.BOND, ‘