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 B O U ( 655 ) BOW a town of the Auftrian Netherlands, 10 duchy of Luxemburg and biftioprickof Liege: E. Ion. BOURDINES, miles north-eaftof Namur; iny°E.long. and yo° 3y/ 50, and N. lat. 490 49'. N. lat. Bouillon, in the menage, a lump or excrefcence of BOURDONE'E, in heraldry, the fame with pomee. fleih, that grows either upon, or juft' by, the frufh, infomuch that the fruftt fhoots out, juft like a lump See Pome'e. of fleih, and makes the horfe halt; and this we call BOURG, the capital of the ifland of Cayenne, a French . the flelh blowing upon the frulh. Menage horfes, that colony on the coaft of Guiana, in South America ; in y 2° W. long, and y° N. lat. never wet their feet, are fubjedt to thefc excrefcences, BOURG-en-bress, the capital of Brefie, in the prowhich make them very lame. See Frush. of Burgundy, in France, 36 miles W. of GeBOVINES, ivhnall town in the province of Namur, in vince neva, and 32 north, of Lyons; in y° y7 E. long. 46®' the Auftrian Netherlands, 0 7 about ten miles louth of 20 N. lat. Namur: E. long. 4 yo, and N. lat. 50° 20'. a town of Guienne, in France, ly BOVINO, a fmall city of the Capitonate, in the king- Bourg-sur-mer, 0 dom of Naples, about0 fixty, miles eaft of 0the city of miles north: of Bourdeaux, in 3 W. long. BOURGES, the capital of the territory of Berry, in the Naples : E. long. 16 1 y J and N. lat. 41. Orleanois, in France, fituated about yo miles fouthBOVISTA, in botany, a fynonime of the lycoperdon. eaft of Orleans ; in a° 307 W. long, and 47° io7 N. See Lycoperdon. BOULDER.-'uwV, a kind of wall built of round flints lat. a town of Savoy, fix miles north of Chamor pebbles, laid in a ftrong. mortar, and ufed where BOURGET, berry; y° yy7 E. long, and 4y° 4y7. N. lat. the fea has a beach call: up, or where "there are plenty BOURIGNONISTS, the name of a fed among the Low of flints. Country Proteftants, being fuch as follow the do&rine BOULETTE, in the menage. A horfe is called when the fetlock, or poftern-joint, bends forward, of Antoinette Bourignon. a native of Lifle, an apoand out of its natural fituation ; whether through vi- ftateof the Roman Catholic religion. The principles of this fed bear a very near refemolent riding, or by reafon of being too fhort jointed, femblance to thofe of the Quietifts or Quakers. in which cafe the leaft fatigue will bring it. to the BOULOGNE, or Bologne, a port-town of France, BOURO, an ifland in the Indian Ocean,0 fubjed fituated in the province 7of Picardy, on the Englilh Dutch; E long. 124°, and S. lat. 3 3Q7. BOUT, in the manege. A horfe is faid to be a-boutfc. channel: E. long. i° jo, arid N. lat. yo0^©7. BOULTINE, a term which workmen ufe for a moul- when he is overdone, and quite fpent with fatigue. ding, the convexity of which is juft one fourth of a BOUTANT, or Arch-boutant, in architedure, an circle, being the member next below the plinth in the arch, or part of an arch, abutting againft the reins of a vault to prevent its giving way. Tufcan and Doric capital. Boutant is a large chain or pile of ftone, made BOUNCE, in ichthyology, the Englilh name of a fpeto fupport a wall, terrace, or vault. cies of fquatus. See SqjJALUs. BOUTE7, in the menage. A horfe is called boute, when BOUNDS of lands. See Abuttals. BOUNTY, in commerce, a premium paid by the go his legs, are in a ftraight line from the knee to the vernment to the exporters of certain Britilh commo- coronet: Short-jointed horfes are apt to be boute ; and,. dities, as fail-cloth, gold and filver lace, fdk ftockings^. on the other hand, long-jointed horfos are not._ BOUTON, an ifland in the Indian-Ocean : E. long 121° fifh, corn, &c. The happy influence which bounties have on trade 307, and .lying betweem 40 and y° S. lat. and mangfaftures is well known: Nor can there be a BOUVILLON, a city of Luxemburg, in -the Auftrian weft of Luxemburg.: E. more convincing proof of the good intentions of the Netherlands, about 40 miles government under which we live, than the great care long. y° and N. lat. 490 yy°. that is taken to give all poffible encouragement to th’ofe BOW, a weapon of offence made of fteel, wood, horn,. who lhall eftablilh, or improve, any hazardous branch or other elaftic fubftances, which, after being bent by means of aftring faffened to its two ends, in returning, of trade. BOURBON, or Mascarenha, an ifland in the Indian to its natural ftate, throws out an arrow with prodiocean, about one hundred miles’eaft of Madagafcar, gious force. The ufe of the bow is, without all doubt, of the and fubjefft to.France : E. long. y4°, and S. lat. 21°. earlieft antiquity. It has likewife been the moft uniBourbon-archebaut, the capital of the,duchy 0 of 7 curbon, in the Lyondis, in France E. long. 3 io , verfal of all weapops, having obtained amongft the moft barbarous and remote people, who had the leaft and N. lat. 46° 3y7. Bourbon-lancy, a town of7Burguhdy, in France; in communication, with the reft of mankind. 0 7 The figure of the bow is pretty much the fame in 3 4b E. long, and 46° 33 N. lat. BOURBOURG, orBouRBORCH, a town of the French all countries, .where it has been,, ufed ; for it has geNetherlands, about 10 miles 7fouth-weft of Dunkirk; nerally two inflexions or bendings, between which, 0 7 in. the place where the arrow is drawn, is a right in 2 to E. long, and yo° yo N. lat, BOURDEAUX, the capital of all Guienne/ and Gaf- line. The Grecian bow was in the lhape of a s, of which form we meet with many, and generally adorncony, fituated on the river Garonne, in 40 W. long, ed with gold or. filver. 7’he Scythian bow was diand 440 $0 N. lat. ftinguiflietL