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 EOT ( <*54 ) B O U BOTARGO, a kind of faufage, made with the eggs zen, is. itx^d; whereof is. 8TVcyft. is repaid on exporting them. and blood of the fea-mullet, a large filh common in the Mediterranean. The bell kind comes from Tunis BOTTOM, in a general fenfe, denotes the loweft part in Barbary : It muft be chofen dry and reddilh. The of a thing, in contradiftimftion to the top, or upperpeople of Provence ufe a great deal of it, the com- moft part. mon way of eating it being with olive oil and lemon Bottom, in navigation, is ufed to denote as well the juice. There is alfo a great confumption of botargo channel of rivers and harbours, as the body or hull of throughout all the Levant. ' a flop : Thus, in the former fenfe, we fay, a gravelly and- in Botargo pays on importation 2-iVod. the pound; bottom, clayey bottom, fandy bottom, the latter fenfe, a Britifh bottom, a Dutch bottom, &c. whereof 2 So^d. is repaid on exportation. By ftatute, certain commodities imported in foreign BOTATRISSA, in ichthyology, a fynonime of a fpebottoms pay a duty called petty cuftoms, over and cies of gadus. See Gadus. BOTE, in our old law books, fignifies recompence or a- above what they are liable to if imported in Britiih mends : Thus man-bote, is a cbmpenfation for a man bottoms. BOTTOMRY, in commerce, a marine contradl for the flain. There are likewife houfe-bote and plough-bote, pri- borrowing of money upon the keel or bottom of a /hip, vileges to tenants, of cutting wood for making ploughs, that is to fay, when the mafter of a ihip binds the {hip itfelf, that if the money be not paid by the time repairing tenements, and likewife for fuel. BOTELESS, or Bootless, is when an offender was appointed, the creditor {hall have the faid {hip. laid to be without emendation, when no favour can ac- Bottomry is aifo where a perfon lends money, to a merchant, who wants it in traffic, and the lender is to be quit him; as in the cafe of facrilege. BOTHNIA, the name of two provinces in Sweden, di- paid a greater fum at the return of the {hip, {landing ftinguilhed by the epithets ealt and weft, and lying to the hazard of the voyage. On which account, the intereft be greater than what the law comon each fide the Bothnia gulf, which takes its name though monly allows, yet it is not ufury, becaufe the money from them. BOTRYTIS, in botany, a fynonime of a fpecies of mu- being furnifhed at the lender’s hazard, if the fhip perifhes, he {hares in the lofs. cor. See M u c o a. A crofs bottony, in heraldry, terminates BOTTLE, a veffel proper to contain liquors, made of BOTTONY. leather, glafs, or ftone. There are bottles of boiled at each end in three buds, knots or buttons, refemleather, which are made and fold by the cafe-makers. bling, in fome meafure, the three-leaved grafs ; on Thofe among the ancient Hebrews were generally which account Segoing, in his Trefor Heraldique, it rro/.v trefjtee. It is the badge of the order of made of goat Ikin, with the hair on the infide, well Stterms Maurice. See Plate LI. fig. 17. pitched and fewed together; the mouth of the bottle a town of Wirlemburg, in the circle of was through the animal’s paw that furnifhed the mat- BOTWAR, Swabia in Germany, fituated0about fifteen miles fouthter of it. There are now in ufe bottles of fine glafs which are eaft of Hailbron: E. long. 9 15', and N. lat. 49®. commonly covered with ozier, and others of thick BOTZEN, a very beautiful town of Germany, in the glafs which are not covered. Formerly all thofe bot- Tyrolefe. a town of Germany, fituated upon tles made in France Held exa&ly a pint Paris meafure BOTZENBOURG, Elbe, in the duchy of Mecklenburg, in 11 0 23' (or about a quart of our Englifti wine meafure); but the E. long, and 530 34' N. lat. fiace the tavern-keepers fell moft of their wine in fuch BOVA, a town of the kingdom of Naples in Italy, abottles, norwithftanding an ordonnance to the contrary, twenty miles {bmh eaft of Reggio: E. long. 160 that one would think the glaffmakers had entered into bout 15', and N. lat., 38® ic/. anholdagreement with them not to make any bottles that the full meafure, there are none but what hold BOUGH AIN, a fortified town of HainaJt, in the French about feven miles north of Cambray : lefs, and fome confiderably fo. See Glass-ma- Netherlands, E. long 30 15', and N. lat. 50* 30'. king. of court, xh* privilege of having meat and In commerce, bottles of earth or ftone pay 1 iTsi-d. BOUCHE drink at court, fcot free. This privilege is fometimes each dozen, on importation; whereof iOto^T is re- only to bread, beer, and wine ; and was anpaid on exporting them.-^ Glafs bottles covered with cientlyextended in ufe as well in the houfes of noblemen, as in wicker, pay 6 s. y-i^d'. the dozen; whereof 6 s. the king’s court. 2xuo'd. Hwithrepaid on exporting covered leather, pay 11. 9them, s. 1 Glafsthebottles do- BOUGE, in commerce, a fort of fine, white, and clear ftamine, of which Hurts are made for moft of the monks, zen; whereof 1 1. 7s. io7*-^d. is repaid on export- who made of linen. ing them. Glafs bottles uncovered, pay is Sx0^-d. BOUGHufe none the dozen ; 1 s. 4-r^d. being repaid on exporting Branch.denotes much the fame with branch. See them. Bottles made of flint-glafs, pay 8 d. for each BOUILLON, a ftrong town with a caftle, about three pound weight; and thofe made of green glafs, only leagues from Sedan, on the river Semoy : It is capi2-d. for each pound weight. Bottles made of wood, the Cilhd fucking-bottles, pay by the grofs,. or twelve do- tal of a duchy of the fame name, fituated betweenduchy