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 B U L r 688 ^ B U Injulatai Building, that which is not contiguous to Ruflia, fituated0 on the river Wolga; E. long, ci0, any other, but is encouipalTed with ftreets, open fquares, and N. lat. 54. or the like. a province of Turky in Europe, boundEngaged one furrounded with other build- BULGARIA, the river Danube, which divides it from Wallaings, having no front to any ftreet or public place, nor edchiabyand Moldavia on the north, by the Black Sea on any communication without, but by a common paf- the eaft, by Romania on the fouth, and by Servia on fage. the weft. Its chief Interred or funk Building, one whofe area is below Bulgarian language,citytheis Nicopolis. with the Sclavonic. the furface of the place on which it Hands, and of BULIMY, a difeafe in which fame the patient is affededwith which the lowelt courfes of Hone are concealed. an infatiable and perpetual defire of eating; and, unBuilding is alfo ufed for the art of conftru£ting and lefs he is indulged, he often falls into fainting fits. It railing an edifice; in which fenfe it comprehends as is alfo called fames canina, canine appetite. well the expences, as the invention and execution of BUL1THUS, a ftone found either in the gall-bladder, the defign. or in the kidneys and bladder of an ox. See Bos. As for the materials of buildings, they are either BULK of a flip, the whole content in the hold for the Hone, as marble, free-ftone, brick for the walls, mor- ftowage of goods. tar, <bc. or of wood, as fir, cyprefs, cedars for pil- Bulk-heads are partitions made athwart the ftiip with lars of upright ules, oak for fummers, beams, and boards, by which one part is divided from the other ; crop-work, or for joining and conne&ion. See Ar- as the great cabbin, gun-room, bread-room, and fechitecture. , veral other divifions. The bulk-head afore is the BUL, in the ancient Hebrew chronology, the eighth partition between the fore-caftle and gratings in the month of the ecclefiallical, and the fecond of the ci- head. vil year; it has fince been called Marlhevan, and an- BULL, in zoology. See Bos. fwers to our O&ober. Bull, in aftronomy. See Astronomy, p. 486, BULAC, a town of Egypt, fituated on the eaftern Ihore 487. of the river Nile, about tv?o miles weft of Grand Bull’s-eye, among feamen, a fmall, obfcure, fublime Cairo, of which it is the port-town, and contains a- cloud, ruddy in the middle, that fometimes appears to bout four thoufand families; E. long. 32% and N. mariners, and is the immediate forerunner of a great ftorm at fea. lat. 300. It is a place of great trade, as all the vdTels going Bull-finch, in ornithology. See Loxia. up and down the Nile make forae flay here : it is al- Bull-frog, in zoology, See Rana. fo in this place that they cut the banks of the Nile e- Bull-head, in ichthyology. SccCottus. very year, in order to fill their canals, and overflow the Bull, among ecclefiaftics, a written letter, difpatched, neighbouring grounds, without which the foil would by order of the pope, from the Roman chancery, and fealed with lead, being written on parchment, by produce neither grain nor herbage. BULAFO, a mufical inftrument confifting of feveral which it is partly diftinguifhed from a brief. See the pipes of wood, tied together with thongs of leather article Brief. It is a kind of apoftolical refcript, or edidt, and is fo as to form a fmall interftice between each pipe. It chiefly in ufe in matters of juftice or grace. If the is ufed by the negroes of Guinea. be the intention of the bull, the lead is hung BULB, or Bulbous root, in the anatomy of plants, former a hempen cord ; if the latter, by a fifteen thread. expreffes a root of a round or roundilh figure, and u- by It is this pendent lead, or feal, which is, properly fually furnilhed with fibres at its bafe. Bulbous roots are faid to be folid, when compofed fpeaking, the bull, and which is imprefied, on one of one uniform lump of matter; tunicated, when fide, with the heads of St. Peter and St. Paul, and formed of multitudes of coats, furrounding one ano- on the other with the name of the pope and the year The Eull is written in an old, ther; fquamofe, when compofed of, or covered with of his pontificate. gothic letter, and is divided into five parts, lefler flakes; duplicate, when there are only two to round, narrative of the fa<ft, the conception, the claufe, each plant; and aggregate, when there is a congeries the the date, and the falutation, in which the pope ftyles of fuch roots to each plant. himfelffervus fervorum, i. e. the fervant ©f fervants. BULBOCASTANUM, in botany. SeeBuNiuM. Thefe inftruments, befides the lead hanging to BULBOCODIUM, in botany, a genus of the hexan- them, a crofs, with fome text of feripture, or dria monogynia clafs. The corolla is ftiaped like a religioushavemotto, about it. Bulls are granted for the tunnel, and confifts of five petals; the claws of the confecration of bifhops, the promotion to benefices, petals are narrow. There is but one fpecies, viz. the and the celebration of jubilees, &c. vernum, a native of Spain. Bull in c<xna Domini, a particular bull read every BULBOSE. See Bulb. year, on the day of the Lord’s or Maundy BULRUT/E, in Grecian antiquity, were magiftrates Thurfday, in the pope’s prefence,fupper, excomanfwering to the decuriones among the Romans. See munications and anathemas againft containing heretics, and all Decurio. fee. BULGAR, the capital of the province of Bulgar, in who difturb or oppofe the jurifdidion of the holyAfter