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 B U F ( 687 ) BUI and the capfule is unilocular, and contains two with a gun or mortar, being lefs dangerous, and eafier ’ four; There is but one fpecies, viz, the tenuifolia carried, than whole barrels. They are likewife ufed feeds. or baftard chick-weed, a native of Britain. upon a battery of mortars, for holding meal-powder. a river, which, taking its rife in red Ruflia irt BUDINGEN, the capita! of a county of the fame name BUG, runs norhward to Brefte ; and then, turning in Germany, fituated in the circle of the upper Rhine, Poland* weftward, falls into the Weifel, or Viftula, below about twenty miles north-ealt of Frankfort. Warfaw. BUDOA, a city0 of Dalmatia, fituated 0 on the gulf of Bug, or Bugg, in zoology, the Englifh name of a Venice, in 19 20 E. long, and 42 15' N. lat. fpecies of cimex. See Cimex. ft is a bilhop’s fee. a town of Japan, the capital of the kingdom BUDWEIS, a town of Bohemia, fituated on the river BUGEN, of that, name, intheifleof Ximo. Muldaw, 0 about dixty-five miles louth of Prague: E. BUGEY, a territory in France, being the fouth divifion long. 14 20', N. lat. 49°. of Breffei in Burgundy, on the frontiers of Savoy. BUDZIAC Tartary, a country fubjedl to the Turks, BUGGASINS, a name given to buckrams lituated on the rivers Neiller, Bog, and Nieper ; ha- made of callico:in commerce, pay a duty, on importation, ving Poland and Rulfia, on the north ; Little Tarta- of is. 2-r^d', the'thefe half piece ; whereof 1 s. -j%Tyd. is ry, on the eaft ; the Black-fea, on the fouth; and drawn back on exportation. Belfarabia, on the weft. BUGGERS, in church-hiftory, the fame with bulgaBUEN-AYRE. See Bonaire. rians. a fed! of heretics which, amongft other errors, BUENOS-AYRES, one of the moft confiderable Spa- held, that men ought to believe no feripture but the nilh ports on the eaft coaft of South America, fituated New Teftament; that baptifm was not neceflary to on the fouthern fhore. of the river Plata, and about infants ; that hufbands who converfed with their wives fifty leagues from its mouth ; and yet here the river not be faved; and that an oath Was abfolutely is full feven leagues broad: W. long. 60®, S. lat 36°. could unlawful. ■ It is a ftrong fortified town BUEN-RETIRO, a palace near Madrid, belonging to BUGGERER, a perfon who is guilty of the crime of buggery. See the next article. the king of Spain. BUFF, in commerce, a fort of leather prepared from BUGGERY, is defined by Sir Edward Coke to be a the Ikin of the buffalo, which, dreffed with oil, after carnal copulation againft nature, either by the confuthe manner of fhammy, makes what we call biiff-fkin. fion of fpecies, that is to fay, a man or woman with This makes a very confiderable article in the French, a brute beaft; or fexes, as a man with a man, or man Englifh, and Dutch commerce at Conftantinople, unnaturally with a woman. It is faid this fin againft Smyrna, and all along the coaft of Africa. The God and nature was firft brought into England by the fkins of elks, oxen, and other-like animals, when Lombards; and anciently, according to fome writers, prepared after the fame manner as that of the buffalo, it was punifhable with burning; but others fay, with are likewife called buffs. . burying alive. It is, by ftatute, felony without beneOfbuff-fkin, or buff-leather, are made a fort of fit of clergy, and is always excepted out of a general coats for the horfe or gens d’arms of France, banda- pardon. liers, belts, pouches and gloves. BUGIA, a port-town of the kingdom of Algiers, in AIn France, there are feveral manufactories defigned frica, fituated about fixty miles eaft of the city of Alfor the drefling of thofe fort of hides, particularly at giers ; E. long. 40, N. lat. 35® 3c/. Corbeil, near Paris ; at Niort, at Lyons, at Rone, at BUGIE, a port-town of Egypt, fituated on the weftern Etanepus, at Cone. . Ihore of the Red-fea, almoft oppofite to Ziden, the BUFFALO, in zoology. See Bos. to Mecca, and about 100 miles weft of it; BUFFET was anciently a little apartment, feparated port-town E. long. 36®, N. lat. 22°. from the reft of the room by {lender wooden columns, BUGLE, in botany. SeeAujuGA, for the difpofing of china, glafs-ware, &c. in botany. See Anchusa. It is now properly a large table in a dinning-room, BUGLOSS, Viper's Bugloss, in botany. See Ecmt/M. called alfo a fide-board, for the plate, glades, bottles, BUGULA, Bugue, See Adjuga. bafons, to be placed on, as well for the feryiee BUHL, a little fortrefsininbotany. about fix miles fouth©f the table, as for magnificence. In houfes of pdr- eaft of Stolhoffen, and Swabia, nineteen north-eaft of Straffons of diftin&ion in France, the buffet is a detached! burg. room, decorated with piftufes relative to the fubjeft, BUILDING, a fabric erefted by art, either for devowith fountains, cifterns and vafes. It is commoaly votion, for magnificence, or for conveniency. faced with marble or bronze. Buildung, is that whofe plan is fquare, the BUFFOON, a droll or mimic who diverts the public by Regular oppofite fides equal, and the parts difpofed with fymh's pleafantries and follies. metry. BUFO, in zoology, the trivial name ofafpecies of rana. Irregular Building, that whofe plan is not contained See Rana. equal or parallel lines, either by the accident of BUFONIA, in botany, a genus of the diandria mono- with fituation, or the defign of the builder, and whofe parts, gynsa clafs. The cahx is four-leaved.; the petals are are not relative to one another in ‘the elevation. Infulaisd.