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 B O R ( ( 22 ) BOR BOQUEROON, an ifland in the E. Indian and are turned into knots, fcrolls, volutes, and other 0 ocean, lying north-eaft of Borneo, in N. lat. 3 . compartiments. They are rendered very ornamental BOQUINIANS, in church-hirtory, a fe<5t of heretics, by the flowers, fhrubs, yews, <bc. that are raifed in fo called from Boquinus their founder, who tanght them. They are always laid with a fiiarp rifing in that Clirift did not die for all mankind, but only for the middle ; becaufe, if they are flat, they are nothe faithful, and confequently was only a particular ways agreeable to die eye : And as for their breadth, Saviour. the largeft are allowed five or fix feet, and the lefier BORA, in natural hiftory, a name ufed by fome for the commonly four. There are four forts, i.Thofe conBufonites. See Bufonites. tinued about parterres, without any interruption. 2. BORAGO, in botany, a fynonime of the anchufa. See Thofe cut into compartiments and convement diftances by fmall paflages; thefe two are raifed in the midAnchusa." BORAK, a fabulous animal, faid to be of a middle na- dle, and adorned with flowers and fhrubs. 3. Even ture between an afs and a mule, and to have carried and flat ones, without flowers. And, 4- Quite plain Mahomet'in his aerial journeys from Jerufalem into borders, only fanded, as in parterres of orangery. BORD-yLf,*. See Free. ■ heaven. BORASSUS, in botany, a genus belonging to the Order OKTi-halfpenny, a fmall toll, by cuftom paid to the of palmse flabellifoliae. The boraffus, of which there lord of the town for fetting up boards, tables, booths, is but ope fpecies, has palmated and plaited leaves, &c. in fairs and markets. Bord-/««(//, the demefnes which lords keep in their and is a native of India. BORAX, the name of a faline fubftaoce brought from hands for the maintenance of their board or table.' the E. Indies in large maffes, compofed partly of large Bord-Z^i?, afervice required of tenants to carry timber cryftals, T>ut chiefly of fmaller ones, partly white and out of the woods of the lord to his houfe. It is alfo partly green, joined together, as it were, by a greafy ufed to fignify the quantity of provifion w'hich the yellow fubftance, intermingled with fand, fmall /tones, bordarii or bordmen paid for their bord lands. i*ml other impurities. The purer cryftals, expofed to BoRD-y>/-t>/«’, the tenure of bord-lands, by which fome the fire, melt into a kind of glafs, which is neverthe- lands in certain places are held of the bifhop of London, and the tenants now pay fixpence per acre, in lefs foluble in water. This fait, diffolved and cryftalized, forms frriall lieu of finding provifion anciently for their lord’s table. tianfparent mafies. The origin of this fait is not BORDURE, in heraldry, a cutting off from within the known ; but experiments have clearly fhewn, that it efcutcheon all round it about of the field, ferving as confifts of a fixt alkaline fait, the fame with the bafis a difference in a coat of arms, to diftinguifh families of fea-falt, in fome degree neutralifed by another fa- of the fame name, or perfons bearingThe fame coat. line fubflance, which is fuppofed to exilt no where See Plate LI. fig. 16. If the line conftituting the bordure be ftrait. and but in borax itfelf. The medical virtues of borax are little known : In the bordure be plain, then in blazoning you muft onname the colour of the bordure. dofes of half a dram to two fcruples, it is fuppofed to ly Bordures ingrailed, gobonated, inbe diuretic, emmenagogue, and a promoter of deli- vifted, isc. areSeefbmetimes Ingrailed, <bc. very. If the border be charged with any part of plants or BORBONIA, in botany, a genus of the diadelphia decandria clafs. The calix is pointed and prickly; and flowers, the term is verdoy of trefoils, or whatever the ftygma is emarginated. There are lix fpecies of flower it be. If it confifts of enriins, vairy, or any borbonia, which-is a kind of broom, all natives of A- of the furs, they fay purflew of ermins, <bc. If the bordure be charged with martle'ts, the word is charmerica BORBORITES, in church-hiftory, a feft of gnoftics, ged with an enalyron of martlets, <bc. Bordures are fymbols of protedlion, favour and rein the fecond century, who, befides embracing the erward ; and as fuch kings beftow them on thofe they rors of thefe heretics, denied the laft judgment. Their pame comes from the Greek, [Borborof^, have a value for. among engineers, denotes the diameter of the filth, on account of a cuftom they had of daubing their BORE, barrel of a gun or cannon, or rather its whole cavity. faces, and bodies with dirt and filth. Bore, among mechanics, a fquare piece of wellBORCH, a town of lower Saxony, in Germany, about0 Square tempered fteel, fitted into a handle, lerving to. widen fourteen miles north-eaft of Magdeburg: E. long. 12 holes, and make them perfectly round. 14', N. lat. 520 25'. in a general fenfe, fomething relating to the BORCHLEON, or Loots, a town of the bilhopric of BOREAL, north. Thus, Liege in Germany, about fifteen 0 miles north-weft of in aftronomy, are the firft fix figns of the city of Liege : E. long. 5 30', N. lat. 50° 50'. Boreal^wj-, BORDAT, in commerce, a fraall narrow fluff, which the zodiac, or thofe northwards of the equinoftial. Borealis. See Pneumatics. is manufadured in fome parts of Egypt, particularly at BOREAS, a Greek name, now in common ufe for the Cairo, at Alexandria, and Damieta. wind. BORDER, in gardening, is made to inclofe parterres, north Pezron obferves, that anciently boreas fignified the that they may not be injured by walking in them. Borders are made either circular, ftrait, or in cants; north-eaft wind, blowing at the time of the fummer folftice*