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 B U C BUG ( S85 ) on which the Duke of Venice throws a ring into B'UCCARl, a town of Iftria upon the Adriatic fea, be- day, the fea to efpoufe it, and to denote his dominion over longing to the houfe of Auftria. gulph of Venice. Buccari, or Bouchari, is alfo the name of a large the Bucentaur of a (hip, as great and province of Afiauc Tartary,0 fituated between 78° and s magnificentisasalfothattheof-name the Venetians, built by oroo° E. Ion. and 34° and 44 N. lat. ., , der of the eleiftor of Bavaria, and launched on a lake, BUCCELLARII, an order of foldiery under the Greek which is fix leagues in length. emperors, appointed to guard and diftribute the am- BUCEROS, a genus belonging to the munition-bread; though authors are fomewhat divi- order of picae.in ornithology, beak is convex, cultrated, very ded as to their office and quality* Among the Vifi- large, and ferratedTheoutwards fore-head is naked, goths, buccellarius was a general name for a client or with a bony gibbofity. TheThe are behind the vaffal who lived at the expence of his lord. Some bafe of the beak. The tonguenoftrils and (hort. give the denomination to parafites in the courts of The feet are of the greffarii kind,is i.(harp the toes are princes, fome make them the body-guards of empe- diftindt from each other. There aree. four rors, and fome fancy they were only fuch as empe- of the buceros, viz. 1. The bicornis, with fpecies a flat rors employed in putting perfons to death privately. fore-head, and two horns before. The body is BUCCINA, an ancient mufical and military inftrument. bony and about the fize of a hen; hut the bread, It is ufually taken for a kind of trumpet; which opini- black, and thighs are white. There is a white fpot on on is confirmed by Feftus, by his defining it a crook- belly the wing; the tail is long, with ten black prime feaed horn, played on like a trumpet. Vegetius obferves, thers, the four outermoft on each are white. The that the buccina bent in a femicircle, in which refpea: feet areandgreenifh, with three toes before and one beit differed from the tuba or trumpet. It is very hard hind. It is a native China, and called Calao by to diftinguifh it from the cornu or horn, unlefs it was Willoughby and other ofauthors. 2. The hydrocorax, fomething lefs, and not quite fo crooked; yet it cer- or Indian crow of Ray, has a plain bony fore-head tainly was of a different fpecies, becaufe we never read without any horns. The body is yellowilh, of the cornu in ufe with the watch, but only the buc- ifli below. It inhabits the Molucca ides. and3.blackThe cina. Befides, the found of the buccina was (harper, rhinoceros, has a crooked horn in the fore-head joinand to be heard much farther, than either the cornu upper mandible. It is a native of India, or the tuba. In fcripture, the like inftrument, ufed edand tofeedstheupon 4. The nafutus, has a finooth both in war and in the temple, was called rams- fore-head. It carion. is about the fize of a magpye, and is horns, kiren-jobel, and fopheroth hagijcbelim. a native of Senegal. BUCCINUM or Trumpet-shell, a genus of Ihell- BUCH, of Guienne, in France, which gives its fi(h belonging to the order of vermes teitaceae. This name toa atown territory called le Capitulat de Bucb. animal is one of the fnail kind. The (hell is univalve, a country or diftrict of Aberdeenftiire, in fpiral, and gibbous. The aperture is oval, ending in BUCHAN, a fmall ftrait canal. Linnaeus enumerates about fixty Scotland : It gives the title of Earl, to the noble and fpecies, moft of which are found in the fouthern Teas. ancient family of Erlkine. in botany, a genus of the didynamiaacBUCCO, in ornithology, a genus belonging to the or- BUCHNERA, der of picae. The beak is cultrated, turned inwards, giofpermia dais. The calix has five teeth; the corolla is divided into five equal heart-ftiaped fegments; compreffed on the (ides, and emarginated on each fide and the capfule is bilocular. There are three fpecies, at the apex; and there is a Jong (lit below the eyes. The noftrils are covered with feathers. The feet have viz. The americana, a native of Canada and Virginia; four toes, two before and two behind. There is hut the afiatica, a native of Ceylon and China; and the one fpecies, viz. the capenfis, which is of a reddifh Africana, a native of .(Ethiopia. colour, with a yellow belt round the (boulders, and a BUCH AW, an imperial city of Swabia, in Germany,, twenty-five miles fouth-weft of Ulm : E. long, black one round the breath It is found at the Cape about 90 40', and N. lat. 48° y7. of Good-Hope. to the BUCCULA, in antiquity, denotes the umbo, or moft BUCHAREST, a town of Wallachia, fubjed prominent part in the middle of a (hield; fo called, Turks: E. Ion. 26° 30', and N. lat. 440 20'. becaufe ufually fafhioned like the mouth or face of a BUCHORN, a city of Swabia, in Germany, fituated on the eaft fide of the lake of Conftance, and about man or other animal. BUCENTAUR, a galeas, or large galley of the doge twelve miles eaft of the city of Conftance: E. long. of Venice, adorned with fine pillars on both fides, and 90 2c/, and N. lat. 470 40'. gilt over from the prow to the ftern. This veffel is BUCIOCHE* in commerce, a fort of woolen cloth macovered over head with a kind of tent, made of pur- nufadured in Provence, which the french (hips cany ple filk. In it the doge receives the great lords and to Alexandria and Cairo. perfons of quality that go to Venice, accompanied with BUCK, in zoology. See Cervus. the ambaffadors and counfellors of ftate, and all the Buck bean, in botany. See Menyanthes . lenators feated on benches by him. The fame veffel Buck thorn, the Englifti name of the rhamnus. ferves alfo in the magnificent ceremony of afcenfion- Buck-wheat. See Polygonum. Vol. I. No. 29. 3 8L BUCKET,