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 BUB ( 684 ) BUB drawback is allowed. However, it is to be obferved, are of two kinds, viz. 1. Thofe which we may prothat bruihes are among the number of goods prohibited perly enough term trading-bubbles ; and, 2. Stock or to be imported. fund-bubbles. The former have been of various kinds ; BRUSSELS, the capital of the province of Brabant, and the latter at different times, as in 1719 and 1720. and of all the Auftrian Netherlands. It is fituated on BU BO, in ornithology, the trivial name of a fpecies of the0 river Senne, and is the fee of a bilhop; W. long. ftrix. Sefe Srkix. 4 6', and N. lat. 50° jo'. Bubo, or Buboe, in furgery, a tumour which arifes, It is a ftrong fortified town, and agreeably fituated, with inflammation, only in certain or particular parts, which, together with the viceroy’s refidence, occafions to which they are proper, as in the arm-pits and in the a great refort of nobility and gentry. groins. See Medicine, and Surgery. BRUTE, an animal guided mofily by mere inftindt, and BUBON, in botany, a genus of the pentandria digynia comprehends all animals, excepting mankind. clafs. The fruit is oval, ftriated, and hairy. There BRUTON, a market-town in Somerfetfhire, about ten are four fpecies, and none of them natives of Brimiles fouth-eaft of Wells; W. long. 2° 35', and N. tain. lat. 510 15'. BUBONOCELE, or Hernia inguinalis, in furBR VANSBRIDGE, a town of Ireland, in the county gery, a tumour in the inguen, formed by a prolapfus of Clare, and province of Connaught, fituated on the of the inteffines, omentum, or both, through the proriver Shannon, about eight miles north of Limerick. ceffes of the peritonaeum, and rings of the abdominal BRYGMUS, among phyficians, a grating noife made by mufcles. See Surgery. the gnafhing of teeth. BUBONIUh^I, in botany, a fynonime of the inula. See BRYONIA, in botany, a genus of the monoecia fynge- Inula. nefia clafs. The cahx of the male has five teeth ; ths BUCANEPHYLLON, in botany, the name by which corolla is divided into five fegments; and there are Plukenet calls the farracena. See Sarracena. three filaments. The calix of the female is likewife BUCARDIA, or Bucardit^:, in natural hiffory, a teeihed; the corolla has five divifions; the ftylus is kind of figured ftones, formed in the cavities of the trifid; and the berry is roundifir, and contains many larger cockles, and refembling, in fome meafure, a feeds. There are fix fpecies of bryony, only one of heart at cards. which, viz. the alba, or white bryony, is a native of BUCARIZA, a town of the kingdom of Hungary, in Britain. The root is a ftrong cathartic, and, applied Croatia, upon the Adriatic fea, in a gulf that takes externally, is faid to be a powerful difcutient. the fame name. BUCCA ferrea, in botany, a name given by Micheli to B/rfcTBryony. See Tamus. BRYUM, in botany, a genus of the cryptogamia mufci the ruppia of Linnasus. See Ruppia. clafs. The anthera is covered with an operculum; BUCCAL, fomething belonging to the cheeks: Thus, the calyptra is fmooth. There are 41 fpecies, mod of the buccal glands, are thofe difperfed over the inner fide of the cheeks. them natives of Britain. BUBALIS, in zoology, the trivial name of the buffalo, BUCCANEERS, thofe who dry and fmoke fleffi or filh, after the manner of the Americans. a fpecies of the bos. See Bos, This name is particularly given to the French inhaBUBBLE, in philofophy, fmall drops or veficles of any fluid filled with air, and either formed on its furface, bitants of the ifland of St Domingo, whofe whole emby an addition of more of the fluid, as in raining, ployment is to hunt bulls, or wild boars, in order to <b.c. ; or in its fubftance, by an inteftine motion of its fell the hides of the former, and the flefli- of the latter. The buccaneers are of two forts: The buccaneers component particles. Bubbles are dilatable or compreflable, /. e. they take up more or lefs room, as the ox-hunters, or rather hunters of bulls and cows ; and included air is more or lefs heated, or more or lefs the buccaneers boar-hunters, who are Amply called prefled from without, and are round, becaufe the in- hunters; though it feems, that fuch a name be lefs proper to them than the former; fince the latter fmoke cluded air a&s equally from within, all around. Bubble, in commerce, a cant term given to a kind of and dry the flelh of wild boars, which is properly calprojecfl for raifing of money on imaginary grounds, led buccaneering, whereas the former prepare only the much pradlifed in France and England in the years hides, which is done without buccaneering. Buccaneering is a term taken from Buccan, the 1719, 1720, and 1721. The pretence of thofe fchemes was the raifing a ca- place where they fmoke their flelh or filh, after the pital for retrieving, fetting on foot, or carrying on manner of the favages, on a grate or hurdle, made of feme promifing and ufeful branch of trade, manufac- Brafil wood, placed in the fmoke, a confiderable diture, machinery, or the like : To this end propofals ftance from the fire: This place is a hut, of about were made out, fhewing the advantages to be derived twenty five or thirty feet in circumference, all furfrom the undertaking, and inviting perfons to be en- rounded and covered with palmetto leaves. gaged in it. The fum neceflary to manage the affair, Buccaneers alfo fignify thofe famous adventurers of together with the profits expected from it, were divi- all the nations in Europe, who join together to make ded into fhares or fubferiptions, to be purchafed by a- war againft the Spaniards of America, cruifing about ny difpofed to adventure therein. in privateers, to take all the veflels and fmall craft Bubbles, by which the public have been tricked. they can meet with. BUCCARI,