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BEL ( 538 ) BEL a town in French Flanders, 0 about twelve vtill have it to be a fofljl, tec. Linnaeus refers the BELLE, fcdcmnites to the clafs of (hells with feveral cells. miles north-eaft of Lifle; E. long. 2 4c/, N. lat. 50° 45'. The drape of the belemnites is fometimes conical, BELLENTS, 0 foroetimes cylindrical; and they commonly confiit of and 46° N. lat.a city ot Switzerland, in 9 E. long, a black horny kind of fubftance. Their length is from a town of the Orleanois in France; E. two to eight inches ; and their diameter from the fixth BELLESM, long. 40', N. lat. 48° 30'. part of an inch to two or three inches. The inward BELLEY, of Burgundy in France, fituated on part confifts of rays; and there is generally a cell at the frontiersa town of Savoy, about fixteen miles north-weft the large end, and a furrow running from top, to bot- of Chamberiy; long. 50 20, N. lat. 450 4C/. tom. Dr Plott fays, that when fcraped or burnt, they BELLEVILLE, aE.town of the Lyonois, in France,0 fmell like horn. They are generally hollow about an about nineteen miles north of Lyons; E. long. 4 inch deep, and filled with gravel. 1 heir colour is 45', N. lat. 46° 8'. various; fome are afh-coloured, others bluilh. They BELLIDIASTRUM, in botany, a fynonime of a fpeare commonly found, in gravel-pits. See Plate LI. cies of doronicum. See DoitoNicuM. fig 21. in botany, a fynonime of a fpecies BELEZERO, the capital of a province of the fame BELLIDIOIDES, of chryfanthemum. See Chrysanthemum. name, in Ruffia, fituated on the fouth-eaft (hore of BELLING denotes their opening and expanding the white lake; E. long. 36°, and N. lat. 6o° 5c/. themfelves.cf hops See Hops. BELFAST, a port-town of Ireland, in the county of BELLIS, or Daisy, in botany, a genus of the fyngeAntrim, and province of Uliter; W. long. 6° 15', nefia polygamia fuperflua clafs. The receptacle of the N. lat. 540 38'. is naked and conical; it has no pappus; the caBELFRY, that part of a fteeple where bells are hung, bellis lix is hemifpherical, with fquamte of an equal fize ; or the timber frame whereby they are fupported. the feeds are oval. There are two fpecies; viz. BELG ARDEN, a town of Eaftern Pomerania, in Ger- and hortenfis, a native of feveral parts of Europe; many, 0fubjedt to Pruflia; E. long. 16? 5', and N. the and the perennis, or common daify, a native of Brilat. 54 . The leaves of the perennis have a fubacid tafte, BELGOROD, the capital of a province of the fame tain. and are recommended as vulneraries, and in afthmas name, in Ruflia, fituated almoft in the middle of that and heftic fevers. empire; E. long. 370, and N. lat. 510 id. an ifland on the coaft of Britany, in Belgorod is alfo a fortified town of Beflarabia, in BELLEISLE, in 30 W. long, and 47° 20/ N. lat. Turky, fituated on the Black-fea, at the mouth of . France; isle is alfo an ifland of America, on the coaft oF the river Neifter; E. long. 310, and N. lat. 46° 30'. Bell Britain. BELGRADE, the capital of the province of Servia, NewIt gives name to the ftreights which Separate Newin European Turky, fituated on the fouth fide of the from New Britain; in 58° W. long, and Danube, in E. long. 210 2o and N. lat. 45°. It foundland

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was yielded to the Turks in 1739. BELLON, a diftemper common in countries where they BELI cculus, in natural hiftory. See Oculus. lead-ore. It is attended with languor, intoleBELIEF, the affent of the mind to the truth of any fmelt rable pains and fenfation of gripings in the belly, and . propofition. See Metaphysics. coftivenefs. BELL, a well known machine, ranked by muficians a- generally Beafts, poultry, tec. as well as men, are fubje£t to mong the mufical inflrnments of percuffion. diforder : Hence a certain fpace round the fmeltThe metal of which a bell is made, is a compofition this houfes is called bellon-ground, becaufe it is danof tin and copper, or pewter and copper; the propor- ing to feed upon it. tion of one to the other is almoft twenty pounds of gerous for an animal in Roman antiquity, the priefts of Belpewter, or twenty-three pounds of tin, to one hundred BELLONARII, lona, who, in honour of that goddefs, ufed to make weight of copper. in their body; and, after having gathered the Bell-metal is prohibited to be imported, as are incifions blood in the palm of their hand, give it to thofe who hawk-bells, tec. were partakers of their myfteries. The conflituent parts of a bell are the body or bar- BELLONIA, a genus of the pentandria morel, the clapper on the infide, and the ear or cannon nogynia clafs.in botany, The corolla is rotated; the capfule on which it hangs to a large beam of wood. confifts of one cell inclofing many feeds. There is D/V/flg-BELL. See Pneumatics. but one fpecies, v/z. the afpera, a native of America. ^..-foundery. See Foundery. BELLOWING, among fportfmen, denotes the noife of BELL-yfWwr, in botany. See Campanula. roes in rutting-time. Bell-oiwi/, in botany. See Jacea. a machine fo contrived as to expire and BELLADONA, in botany, the trivial name of a fpe- BELLOWS, infpire the air by turns, by enlarging and contracting cies of atropa. See Atropa. capacity. BELLCLAIRE, a town of Ireland, in the county of its This machine is ufed in chambers and kitchens, in Sligo, and province of Connaught, about twenty-three furnaces, and founderies, to blow up the fire: miles fouth-weft of Sligo; W. long. 90 5', and N. forges, It ferves. alfo for-organs'and other pneumatic inftruto-5 3° 55'. ments3