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BOD ( 577 ) BOG a town of Hungary, about an hundred He calls out the feveral gangs and companies aboard, BODROCH, fouth-eaft of Buda, and fituated on the northto the due execation of their watches, works, fpells, miles He is likewife provoft-marlhal, who fees and pu- eaft ffiore of the Danube, in 20° 15'E. long, and 46° 15' N. lat. nilhes all offenders fentenced by the captain, or a court- BODY, in phyfics, an extended folid fubftance, of itfelf martial of the fleet. Boatswain’s mat? has the peculiar command of the utterly pallive and inadive, indifferent either to motion long boat, for the fetting forth of anchors, weighing or reft. See Matter, and Mechanics. of Hornes. See Optics. or fetching home an anchor, warping, towing, or Colour Defcent of Bodies. See Mechanics. mooring; and is to give an account of his ftore. Divifon of moons. See Chemistry. BOB, a term ufed for the ball of a fhort pendulum. with regard to animals, is ufed in oppofition to BOBARTIA, in botany, a genus of the triandria digy- Body, nia clfifs. The calix is imbricated; and the corolla foul, in which fenfe it makes the fubjeft of anatomy. confifts of a double-valved gliima. There is but one Body, among painters, as to bear a body, a term fignifying that the colours are of fuch a nature, as to be fpecies, viz. the indica, a native of the Indies. capable of being ground fo fine, and mixing with the BOBBIN, a fmall piece of wood turned in the form of oil fo intirely, as to feem only a very thick oil of the a cylinder, with a little border jutting out at each end, bored through to receive a fmall iron pivot. It ferves fame colour. in the manege. A horfe is chiefly faid to have to fpin with the fpinning-wheel, or to wind thread, Body, a good body, when he is full in the flank. If the laft worfted, hair, cotton, filk, gold, and filver. of the ffiort ribs be at a confiderable diftance from the BOBBING, a method of fifhing. See Fishing. BOBBIO, a town of the Milanefe, in Italy, -about0 haunch bone, although fuch horfes may, for a time, twenty-eight miles fouth-eaft of Pavia 5 E. long, to , have pretty good bodies, yet, if they are much laboured, they will lofe them; and thefe are properly N lat. 440 35'. the horfes that have no flank. It is alfo a general BOCA, in ichthyology. See Sparus. Boca-chica, the entrance into the harbour of Cartha- rule, that a man ffiould not buy a light-bodied horfe, and one that is fiery, becaufe he will foon deftrov gena, in South America, defended by feveral forts. Boca del drago, a ftrait between the iflandof Trini- himfelf. dad and New Andalufia, a province of Terra Firma. Body, in the art of war, a number of forces, horfe and foot, united and marching under one commander. See Terra Firma. BOCARDO, among logicians, the fifth made of the Main Body of an army, the troops encamped in the third figure of fyllogifms, in which the middle propo- centre between the two wings, and generally infantry: fition is an univerfal affirmative, and the firft and laft the other two bodies are the vanguard and the rearparticular negatives, thus: guard; thefe being the three into which an army, Bo Some ficklyperfons are not ftudents ; ranged in form of battle, is divided. Body, in matters of literature, denotes much the famecar Every fickly perfon is pale ; do Therefore-fome perfons are pale that are not with fyftern, being a colledlion of every thing belongftudents. ing to a particular fcience or art, difpofed in proper BOCCONIA, in botany, a genus of the dodecandria order: thus, we fay, a body of divinity, law, phymonogynia clafs. There is only one fpecies, viz. the fic, drr. frutefcens, a native of America. BOEDROMIA, in Grecian antiquity, a feftival-celeBOCE, in ichthyology. See Sparus. brated yearly by the Athenians in the month BoedroBOCHARA, a large town of Ulbec Tartary, fituated mion; for the ceremonies of which,, fee Potter’s on the river Oxus, about fixty miles weft of Samar- Arch. Grtec. b. ii. c. 20, cand, in 65° E. long, and 40° N. lat. in chronology, the third month of BOCKHOLT, a town of Munfter,0 in Weftphalia, fi- BOEDROMION, the Athenian year, anfwering to the latter part of tuated in 6° 20' E. long, and 51 40' N. lat. our^uguft and beginning of September. BOCK-EAND, in the Saxons time, is what we now call BOERHAAVIA, in botany, a genus of the monandria freehold lands, held by the better fort of perfons -by clafs. It has no calix; the corolla confifts charter or deed In writing ; by which name it was di- monogynia of one bell ffiaped plaited petal; and there is but one ftinguiffied from folkland, or copy-hold land, holden naked feed. There are fix fpecies, all natives of the by the common people without writing. Indies. BODKIN, a fmall inftrument made of fteel, bone, ivo- BOESCHOT, a town of the Auftrian Netherlands, firy, <bc. ufed for making holes. tuated in Brabant, about twelve miles north-eaft of The fmall grofs, or. twelve dozen, of bodkins pays Malines, in 40 40' E. long, and 510 5' N. lat. on importation is. 3-r|§d.; if of.iron or fteel, 4s. POG properly fignifies a quagmire, covered with grafs, 8-rMd.; and.if of brafs, ofonlyCornwall, 3 ^di about twenty- but not folid enough to fupport the weight of the body. BODMIN, a borough-town in geography, a river of Poland, which, running fix miles north-eaft of Falmouth, in 50 10' W. Jong, Bog, through the province of Podoliaand Buziac and 50° 32' N. lat. It fends two members to parlia- fouth-eaft Tartary, falls into the Euxine fea between Oczakow ment, and gives the title of vifcount to the earl of and the mouth of the BoriftKenes. Radnor,. Vol.I. Numb. 25. 3 Bog, or Bog of Gight,7 Ga foiall town of Scotland, near
