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 BON ( 581 ) BOO out-work, having at the head three faliant anBOND, in Scots law, a formal writing by which a per- isgles,an and inwards. It differs from the double tefon binds himfelf to pay a certain fum of money to an- nable onlytwoin this, its fides, inllead of being paother, or to perform a certain deed, under a penalty. rallel, are like the that d'aronde or fwallcw’s tail, Bonds refpe&ing money are divided into heritable and that is, narrowing, queve or drawing clofe at the gorge, moveable. See Law, tit. Heritable and moveable and opening at the head. rights. in the fea-language, denotes an addition to a Bond, in carpentry, a term among workmen; as, to Bonnet, Thus they fay, lace on the bonnet, or Jhake ojf make good bond, means that they Ihould fallen two fail: the bonnet. or more pieces together, either by tenanting, mor- BONNEVILLE, a town of Savoy, fituated oft the tiling, or dovetailing, <&c. north fide of the river Arve,/ about twenty miles fputhBONDAGE, properly fignifies the fame with llavery ; eall 7 but, in old law-books, is ufed for villenage. SeeViL- lat. of Geneva, in 6° io E. long, and 46° iS N. LENAGE. among miners, a bed of ore, differing only BOND-MAN, the fame with villain. See Villain. BONNY, from a fquat as being round, whereas the fquat is BONDOUR, a city of Natolia in Afia. flat. See Squat. BONDUC, in botany, the trivial name of a fpecies of BONONIAN. SeeBoLONiAN. guilandria. See Guilandria. BONOS-AYERES. See Buenos-ayres. BONE, in anatomy. See Part I. Bone-ace, an eafy but licking game at cards, played BONTIA, in botany, a genus of the didynamia angioclafs^ The calix is divided into five pieces ; thus : The dealer deals out two cards to the firll hand, fpermia and turns up the third, and fo on through all the the corolla is bilabiated, with the fuperior labium eplayers, who may be feven, eight, or as many as the marginated, and the inferior confills of three deep-cut cards will permit ; he that has the higheft card turned fegments; the berry, which is of the drupa kind, is up to him, carries the bone, that is, one half of the oval, oblique at the apex, and contains but one plaited The* fpecies are two, viz. the dapbnoides and • Hake, the other remaining to be played for: Again, feed. if there be three kings, three queens, three tens, be. the germinata, both natives of the Indies. turned up, the eldell hand wins the bone: But it is to BONZES, Indian priells, who, in order to dillinguifh themfelves from the laity, wear a chaplet round their be obferved, that the ace of diamonds is bone-ace, and necks, confifling of an hundred beads, knd carry a wins all other cards whatever. Thus much for the bone ; and as for the other half of the flake, the near- Ilaff, ?.t the end of which is a wooden bird. They ell to thirty-one wins it; and he that turns up or live upon the alms of the people, and yet are very draws thirty-one, wins it immediately. charitably difpofed, maintaining feveral orphans and BON-ESPERANCE, the fame with the Cape of Good- widows out of their own colledlions. The Tonquinefe have a pagod, or temple, in each town, and evehope. See Good-hope. BONGO, or Bunco, the capital of one of 0the illands ry pagod has at leafl two bonzes belonging to it; fame have thirty or forty. The bonzes of China are .the of Japan, 0 to r which it gives name; in 132 E. long, and 32 30 N.lat. It is a fea pqrt town, fituated on the priefls of the Fohifls, or fedts of Fohi; and. it is call fide of the illand, oppofite to the ifland of Tonfa, one of their eftablilhed tenets, that there are rewards allotted for the righteous, and punilhments for the from which it is feparated by a narrow channel. BONIFACIO, in geography, a0 port-town of Corfica,0 wicked in the other world; and that there are various fituated at its fquth end, in 9 20 E. long, and 41 manfions, in which the fouls of men will refide, ac20' N. lat. It; is one of the bell towns in the whole cording to their different degrees of-merit. The bonilland, and gives name to the llreight between Corfica zes of Pegu are generally gentlemen of the higheft exand Sardinia. tradlion. BONIS non amovendis, in law, is a writ directed to the BOOK, the general name of almofl every literary comIheriffs of London, be. charging them, that a perfon, pofition ; but, in a more limited fenfe, is applied only againll whom judgment is obtained, and profecuting a to fuch compofitions as are large enough to make a vowrit of error, he not fuffered to remove his goods un- lume. As to the origin of books or writing, thofe of til the error is determined. Mofes are undoubtedly the moll ancient that are exBONNET, in a general fenfe, denotes a cover for the tant: ButMofes himfelf cites many books that behohead, in common ufe before the introdu’dlion of hats. ved to be wrote before his time. See Character. See Hat. OF profane books, the oldefl extant are Homer’s Bonnets are llill ufed in many parts of Scotland. poems, which were fo even in the time of Sextus Bonnet, in fortification, a fmall work, confiding• of Empiricus ; though we find mention in Greek writers two faces, having only a parapet with two rows of of feventy others prior to Homer; as .Hermes, Orpalifadoes, of about ten or twelve feet dillance : It is pheus, Daphne, Horus, Linus, Mufeus, Palamedes, generally raifed before the lalfant angle of the coun- Zoroafler, be.; but of the greater part of thefe there terfearp, and has a communication with the covered is not the leafl fragment remaining; and of others, way, by a trench cut through the glacis, and palifa- the pieces which go under their names are generally does on each fide. by the learned, to be fuppofititious. Bonnet a pretre, or Priejl's Bonnet, in fortification, held,Several forts of materials were ufed formerly in Vol. I. No. 25. 3 7H making