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 BOX (6 57 ) B R weight; a box of prunellas, only 14 pounds 5 foot, to as mat!)' parts of the fail; only the mizen ahundred of rings for keys, two grofs, Cpt. bo'.v-line is fattened to the lower end of the yard. This Boxbox cf a plough, the crofs-piece in the head of a plough, rope belongs to all fails, except the fprit-fail and which the two crow-ttaves. See Plough. fprit top-fail. The ufe of the bow-line is to make the Box, or fupports Box tree, in botany, the Englifh name of fails Hand fharp or dole, or by, a wind. the buxus. See Buxus. Sharp the bow-line, is hale it taught, or pull it BOXBERG, a town of Germany in Franconia, belonghard. Hale up the bow-line, that is, pull it harder ing to the debtor palatine. forward on. Check or eafe, or run up the bow-line, BOXTEL, a town of Dutch Brabant, fituated on the that is, let it be more flack. miles louth of Boifleduc, BowLiNG-Ar/V/ifj-, are the ropes by which the bow line river 0 Bommel, about eight in 5 ib' E. long, and 5 10 3c/ N. lat. is fattened to the leech of the fail. a town of the duchy of Bremen, in Bowling 'knot ^ a knot that will not flip, by which the BOXTHUDE, Germany, about fifteen miles welt of Hamburgh,0 and bow-line bridle is fattened to the cringles. to the0debtor of Hanover; E. long. 9 ib BowLiNG-^raw, a kind of parterre, laid with fine turf, - fubjedt defigned for the exercife of bowling. See Bowling. and N. lat. 53 50'. BOYAR, a term ufed for a grandee of Ruffia and TranBOW-/z<r/, among fportfmen. See Net. fylvania. Bow-/Wi, among artificers. See Saw. fays, that the boyars are the upper nobiBOWSE, in the fea-language, fignifies as much as to lityBecman upon a tack. Bowfe away, that is, pull away all to- plomas, names the boyars, before the waywodes. See Waywode. gether. Bow sprit, or Bolt-sprit, a kind of matt, retting BOYAU, in fortification, a ditch covered with a paraflopewife on the head of the main ftern, and having pet, which ferves as a communication between two its lower end fattened to the partners of the fore-matt, trenches. It runs parallel to the works of the body and farther fupported by the fore-ftay. It carries the of the place, and i'erves as a line of ccntravallation, fprit-fail, fprit top-fail, and jak-ftaff; and its length not only to hinder theTallies of the befieged, but alfo to fecure the miners. But when it is a particular cut is ufually the fame with that of the fore-matt. that runs from the trenches to cover fome fpot of Bow-sprit-ladder. See Ladder. BOWYERS, artificers whofe employment or occupa- ground, it is drawn fo as not to be enfiladed, or fcourtion it is to make bows. There is a company of bow- ed by the (hot from the town. yers in the city of London, firft incorporated in 1623. BOYER, a fmall vefiel of burden, refembling a fmack, BOX, in its moft common acceptation, denotes a fmall with only one matt and a bolt-fprit. BOYES, idolatrous puefts among the favages of Flocheft or coffer for holding things. Fire-boxes, or tinder-boxes, pay, on importation, rida. Every priett attends a particular idol, and the naa duty of 3 s. ioT*^d. the grofs; whereof 3 s. 4|d. is repaid on exportation. Wooden money-boxes pay tives addrefs tbemfelves to the prieft of that idol to 3$. y-rlod- tlie grofs; whereof 3s. 2-rVed. is repaid which they intend to pay their devotion. on exportation. Nett-boxes pay 11 s. bT^d. the The idol is invoked in hymns, and his ufual offering grofs; whereof 10s. i{d. is repaid. Pepper-boxes is the' fmoke of tobacco. pay 4 s. 3-t9oV1' *» whereof 3 s. 9-iT^d. is repaid. BOYNE, a river of Ireland, which, taking its rife in French boxes, for marmalade-or jelly, pay each dozen Queen’s county, in the province of Leintter, runs 3 s. 5 whereof is. 9iVtyd. is repaid. Sand- north-eaft by Trim and Cavan, and falls into the Irifli boxes pay 3s. lo-r^d. the grofs; whereof 3s. 44-d. channel, a little below Drogheda. is repaid. Snuff-boxes, if of wood, pay 2 s. 4-r7s^d. BOZOLO, a town of the duchy of Mantua, about 12 the dozen ; whereof 2 s. i-j^y^d. is repaid : if of horn, miles fouth-weft of that city; E. Jong. n°, and N. they pay 4s. 9-rlrod- the dozen; 4s. 3 V d. being lat. 44° 40'. drawn back: if of ivory or tortoife-.fhell,T 5they pay B QUADRO, Quadrato, or Durale, in mufic, 9s. b.^d. the dozen; whereof 8s. 74<1. is drawn called by the French b quarre, from its figure. This back. Soap-boxes pay 7 s. 8-/ %d. the fhock, con- is what we call B natural or flvarp, in dittinbtion to 3 taining fixty boxes. Spice-boxesa pay is. iTs^d. the mol or fiat. See Flat, and Sharp. dozen. Tobacco-boxes, pay 5 s. 9 ^d. the grofs. If the flat (9 be placed before a note in the thoTouch-boxes, covered with leather, 7pay only b-s^d. rough bafs, it intimates, that its third is to be minor ; the dozen ; but if the leather be the mott valuable part, and if placed with any cipher over a note in the bafs, they pay bs. 1 iTyTd. for every 20 s. value upon oath : as ^36, or it denotes, that the fifth or fivth if covered with velvet, they pay 2 s. 10-s^d. the do- thereto are to be flat. But if the.quadro Jij be plazen : and if of iron, or other metal gilt, they pay 3 s. ced over any note, or with a cipher, in the thorough 10-r^d. the dozen : in all which cafes, a proportion- bafs, it has the contrary efifedt; for thereby the note able draw-back is allowed. or interval thereto is raifed to its natural order. Box is alfo ufed for an uncertain quantity or meafure: BRABANT, a large province of the Netherlands, lying thus a box of quickfilver contains from one to twq eattward of Flanders ; the greater part of it is fubjedt Vol. I. Numb. 28. 3 8D to
 * and adds, that the Czar of Mufcovy, in his dihale or pull. Thus bowling upon a tack, is haling