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 BUG (686 ) BUD BUCKET, a fmall portable veflel, to hold water, of- pieces of linen cloth to make buckrams, but mofti ten made of leather for its lightnefs and eafy ufe in commonly old ftieets and old pieces of fails. cafes of fire. Carrick buckrams pays a duty of 5-i%Vd- the fiiort It is alfo the vefiel let down into a well, or the piece; whereof y-rVo ft- is repaid on exporting it. fides of Ihips, to fetch up water. Eaft-country buckram pays 1 s. a-r^-d. the roll or BUCKING, the fir/1 operation in the whitening of iin- half-piece ; whereof is. tVo^- is drawn th back. French, nen yarn or cloth. See p. 564. buckram pays il.'^s. e dozen pieces ; BUCKINGHAM, a borough-town of Buckingharnlhire, whereof 11, 00s. 1 7 d. is repaid. Fine German about forty-fix miles north-weft of London: W. Ion. buckrams pays as. 4x 5Vd. the piece; whereof as. irc^d. is drawn back on exportation. i°, and N. lat. It fends two members to parliament. BUCKSTALL, a toil to take deer, which muft not be Buckinghamfhirehas Northamptonlhireon the north; kept by any body that has not a park of his own, unBedford, Hertford, and Middlefex, on the eaft ; Berk- der penalties. fttire, from which it is divided by the river Thames, BUCOLIC, in ancient poetry, a kind of poem relating to ftiepherds and country affairs, which, according to on the fouth ; and Oxfordfhire, on the weft. BUCKLE, a well known utenfil, made of divers forts the moft generally received opinion, took its rife in Sicily. Bucolics, fays Voflius, have fome conformity of metals, as gold, filver, fteel, brafs, &c The fafhion or form of buckles is various ; but their with comedy. Like it, they are pictures and imitaufe, in general, is to make fail certain parts of drefs, tions of ordinary life; with this difference, however, as the fhoes, garters, &c. that comedy reprefents the manners of the inhabitants Buckles for girdles pay a duty of 3 s. io %%d. the of cities, and bucolics the occupations of country peogrofs, or twelve dozen; whereof 1 s. 44 d.T is drawn ple. Sometimes, continues be, this laft poem is in back on exportation. Buckles for girts pay likewife form of a monologue, and fometimes of a dialogue. Sometimes there is a<5hon in it, and fometimes only a duty of is. y-j^d. the grofs; and both thefe pay narration tion and narration. The hexameter verfe is the moft all buckles are prohibited to be imported. proper for bucolics in the Greek and Latin tongues. BUCKLER, a piece of defenfi've armour ufed by the Mofchus, Theocritus, apd Virgil, are the moft ancients. It was worn on the left arm, and compofed renowned ofBion, the ancient bucolic poets. of wickers woven together, or wood of the lighteft BUD, gardeners, that part of a feed which firft fort, but moft commonly of hides, fortified with plates beginsamong or rather the leaves firft put forth of brafs or metal. The figure was fometimes round, Thefe toin fprout, fome plants are two; in others, four; and fometimes oval, and fometimes almoft fquare. _ Moft in others again, even more. of the bucklers were curioufly adorned with all forts Bud is alfo ufed forfix,theorfprout fiom whence a branch &of figures of birds and beafts, as eagles, lions ; nor of rifes. thefe only, but of the gods, of the celeftial bodies, Bud, country-affairs, likewife denotes a weaned calf and all the works of nature; which cuftom was deri- of thein firft ved from the heroic times, and from them communi- in the bud. year ; fo called, becaufe the horns are then cated to the Grecians, Romans, and Barbarians. the capital of lower Hungary, about 130 miles Votive Bucklers, Thofe confecrated to the gods, and BUDA, of Vienna: It ftands on the fide of a hill, on hung up in their temples, either in commemoration of fouth-eaft fouth-weft fide of the Danube, and is well fortified lome hero, or as a thankfgiving for a vidfory obtained the defended by a caftle, efteemed one6of the ftrongover an enemy; whofe bucklers, taken in war, were and eft fortreffes in Hungary : E. long. 19 20', N. lat. offered as a trophy. 52° 25'. BUCKNHAM, or Buckenham, a market-town of BUDDESDALE, a market town of Suffolk, about Norfolk, about nine0 miles eaft of Thetford: E. long. thirteen miles north-eaft of Bury : E. long. i° io^ 1° *io', N. lat. 52 30'. and N. lat. 52" 2^. B.UCKOR, a province of the E. Indies, fituated on tire BUDDLE, a large fquare frame of river Indus, having the province of Multan on the boards, ufedin inmineralogy, wafhing the tin ore. See Washing. north, and Tana on the fouth. in botany, a genus of the tetrandria BUCKRAM, in commerce, a fort of coarfe cloth BUDDLEIA, and corolla are each dimade of hemp, gummed, calendered, and dyed feve- monogynia clafs.partsThe; thecalixftamina are inferted into the red colours. It is put into thofe places of the lining vided into four the capfule has four cells, and contains of a garment, which one would have ftiff, and to keep receptacle; many feeds. The fpecies' a re two, the occidentheir forms. It is alfo ufed in the bodies of womens tals, and amerkana, both natives ofviz. America. gowns; and it often ferves to make wrappers to cover BUDDLING, the aft of cleanfing, or walhing any ore. cloths, Urges, and Rich other merchandifes, in order See Washino. to pteferve them and keep them from the duft, and BUDGE-tarre/r, among engineers, fmall barrels well their colours from fading. Buckrams are fold whole- hooped, with only one head; on the other end is nailfale by the dozen of fmall pieces or remnants, each ed a piece of leather, to draw together upon firings about four ells long, and broad according to the pieces Lora Which they are cut. Sometimes they ufe new like a purfe. Their ufe is for carrying powder along ■^itb
 * and fometimes it is compofed both of acfomewhat more, if of brafs. But it is be obferved, that