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 B U P( 690 ) BUR more wind. It is ufed moftly in top-fails, beeanfe mia fuperflua clafs. The receptacle is paleaceous; the courfes are generally cut fq-uare, or with but fmall al- margin of the pappus is obfolete; the fides of the lowance for bunt or compafs. The bunt holds much feeds are marginated; and the ftigmata of the hermaleeward wind, that is, it hangs much to leeward. phrodite flofcules are undivided. The fpecies are ten, Bunt lines are fmall lines made faft to the bottom of none of which are natives of Britain. the fails, in the middle part of the bolt-rope, to a BUPLEURUM, in botany, a genus of the pentandria cringle, and fo are reeved through a fmall block, fei- digynia clafs. The involucrum of the umbells is large zed to the yard. Their ufe is to trice up the bunt' of and five-leaved; the fruit is ftriated, comprefleu, and roundifii. The fpecies are feventeen, only two the fail, for the better furling it up. BUNTING, in ornithology, the Englilh name of a fpe- of which are natives of Britain, viz. the rotundifolium, or thorow-wax; and the tenuiflimum, or the cies of fringilla. See Fringilla. BUNTINGFORD, a market town of Hertfordlhire, leaft hare’s-ear. about twelve miles north of Hertford: W. long. 5', BUPRESTIS, in zoology, a genus of infers belonging to the order of coleoptera. The feelers are like briand N. lat. 51° 55'. BUNTZLAU, or Buntzel, the name of two towns ftles, and about the length of the breaft ; the lead is in Germany: the old town is fituated on the river half retraded into the thorax. There are twenty-feElbe, and new town, which is become the moft confi- ven fpecies of this infed, moft of them natives of the derable, upon the Gizare, 0eight leagues from Lignitz, Indies. in 16° 26' E. long, and 51 N. latitude. There BUQUOI, a town of Artois, in the French Netherlands, fituated on the confines of Picardy: E. long. is likewife a town of that name in Silefia. BUONO, as tempo-buono, in mufic, fignifies a cer- 20 4o and N. lat. 50° I2,. tain time or part of the meafure, more proper for cer- BUR, a broad ring of iron, behind the place made for tain things than any other, as to end a cadence or the hand on the fpears ufed formerly in tilting, which was brought to reft, when the tilter charged his paufe, to place a long fyllable or fyncoped dilfonance, bur concord, fac. In common time of four times to a bar, fpear. the firft and third is one buono tempo, as the fecond BURBAS, in commerce, a fmall coin at Algiers, with the arms of the dey ftruck on both fides : it is worth and laft are called tempo di cattiya. half an afper. BUOY, at fea, a Ihort piece of wood, or a clofe-hooped BURCHAUSEN, town of% Germany, in the 0lower barrel, faftened fo as to float diredlly over the anchor, Bavaria, fituated ona the that the men, who go in the boat to weigh the anchor, and N. lat. 4S0 5'. river Saltz : E. long. 13 may know where it lies. or Burdon, in mufic, the drone or bals, Buoy is aifo a piece of wood, or cork, fometimes an BURDEN, pipe or firing which plays it: Hence that part empty calk, well clofed, fwimming on the furface of ofanda the fong, that is repeated at the end of every llanza, the water, and faftened, by a chain or cord, to a large is called the burden of it. ftone, piece of broken cannon, or the like, ferving to A chord which is to be divided, to perform the inmark the dangerous places near a coaft, as rocks, fhoals, tervals of mufic, when open and undivided, is alfo wrecks of veflels, anchors, foe. There are fometimes, inftead of buoys, pieces of called theof aburden. Jhip is its contents, or number of tons it wood placed in form of mafts, in confpicuous places ; Burden CAxry. The burden of a fhip may be determined and fometimes large trees are planted in a particular will
 * multiply the length of the keel, taken within

manner, in number two at leaft, to be taken in a right thus by the breadth of the (hip, within board, taken line, the one hiding the other, fo as the two may ap- board, from the midftiip-beam, from plank to plank, and mulpear to the eye no more than one. the produdt by the depth of the hold, taken Stream //^e Buoy is to let the anchor fall while the fttip tiply from the plank below the keelfon, to the under part has way. upper deck plank, and divide the laft product To buo y up the cable is to fatten fome pieces of wood, ofby the 94, then the quotient is the content of the tonnage barrels, foe. to the cable, near the anchor, that the required. cable may not touch the ground, in cafe it be foul or BURDO, thatSeekindFreight. of mule produced between a horfe rocky, left it Ihould be fretted and cut off. and a (he-afs. See Mule. BUOYANT, fomething which, by its aptnefs to float, BURDOCK, botany, the Englilh name of the xanbears up other more ponderous and weighty things. thium. SeeinXanthium. See Buoy. a town of the Mbrea, fituated on the BUPHAGA, in ornithology, a genus belonging to the BURDUGNO, river Vafilipotomo, near Mifitra. order of pieje. The beak is ftreight and quadrangu- BUREN, a town of Dutch Guelderland,0 about fixteen lar ; the mandibles are gibbous, entire, and the gib- miles weft of Nimeguen
 * E. long. 5 20', and N.

bolity is greater the outfide. The feet are ofandtheof lat. J2°. ambulatory kind. onThe body is greyifh above, is alfo the name of a town in Weftphalia in Gera dirty yellow below ; the tail is fhaped like a wedge. Buren It is a native of Senegal; and frequently perches many, about five miles fouth of the city of Paderborn: upon oxen, and picks out the worms from their backs. E. long. 8° 25', and N. lat. 51° 35'. fifBUPHTHALMUM, a genus of the fyngenefia polyga- BURFQRD, a market-town of Oxfordfhire, aboutteen