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antennae longer than the thorax, and the 

 wings are folded together crosswise, but 

 some species have no wings, as the 

 house-bug orbed-bug, which is a trouble- 

 some and disgusting insect. 



BC'OLE. Probably from Fr. beugltr, 

 whence bigle, a beagle. 1. Originally the 

 huntjr's horn ; now used to denote a mili- 

 tary musical instrument of the horn kind 



(S HORN). 2. A name common to all 



tlie plants of the genus Ajuga, in allusion 

 to the form of the flower of most species. 



3. The Prunella vulgaris, or common 



self-heal, a British perennial. 



BU'GLOSS, a name common to all the 

 plants of the genus Anchusa, from Lat. 

 buglosstis, of PW;, an ox, and ^enira-oe,, 

 tongue. 



BUG'-WORT, a name common to all the 

 plants of the genus Cimicifuga. 



BUHL, ornamented furniture, in which 

 tortoise-shell and various woods are in- 

 laid with brass. The name is derived 

 from the inventor. 



BCILD'ING, a mass formed by the junc- 

 tion of materials arranged according to 

 some plan. In common language, an edi- 

 fice of large dimensions; technically, a 

 piece of masonry ; also the art of con- 

 necting stones, &c. together, either with 

 or without cement. The building of 

 beams is the uniting of several pieces of 

 timber together by means of bolts, so as 

 to form a beam of greater length or thick- 

 ness than could be obtained from a single 

 piece of timber. 



BCLB, from Lat. btdbtu,& globular body. 

 This name is given to many objects be- 

 cause of their shape ; but the term is es- 

 pecially used in botany to denote a pyri- 

 form coated body, solid or formed of 

 fleshy scales or layers, constituting the 

 lower part of some plants, and frequently 

 giving off radicals from the circum- 

 ference of the flattened basis. A bulb 

 differs from a tuber, which is a farina- 

 ceous root and sends off radicals in every 

 direction. 



BULBIF'EROUS, Lat. btilbiferus, bulb- 

 bearing ; having one or more bulbs. 



BULBOCAS'TANUM, the earth-chesnut or 

 pig-nut, a species of Suniwn. Named 

 from /3o\o;, a bulb, and xafratot , a 

 chesnut, because of its bulbous root, 

 which has somewhat the flavour of the 

 chesnut. 



BTJLBOCA.VERNO'SUS. The accelerator 

 urins muscle is so called from its origin 

 and insertion. 



BULBOCO'DIUM, the mountain saffron ; a 

 genus of plants of one species common in 

 Spain. Herandria Monogynia. Named 

 from /2oA.? , a bulb, and xetdiot,, a head, 

 in allusion to the form of its flower. 



BULBOGEM'MA, bulbs which grow on the 

 tc jis of plants. 



BCL'BOSE, \ Lat. bulbosus (from bulotu); 



BUL'BOUS, /applied in botany, to the 

 roots of plants which are bulbed, and in 

 anatomy, to soft parts that are naturally en- 

 larged, as the bulbose part of the urethra. 



BULBOTC'BER, a round, solid, under- 

 ground stem, producing buds on its sur- 

 face, and clothed with the decayed re- 

 mains of leaves. 



BUL'BCLE, Lat. bulbulus, a little buib. 



BULE, fiovKv, a council; the Athenian 

 senate. 



BU'LIMT, Lat. bulimia, insatiable hun- 

 ger (/3ey, great, and Xtpo;, hunger). This 

 is a vice rather than a disease ; but there 

 is a morbid state of the system, in which 

 the appetite becomes so excessive that 

 it is no longer under the moral control of 

 the individual, and the quantity eaten ii 

 in some case* so great as to be scarcely 

 credible. 



BULK, the whole contents of a ship's 

 hold. 



BULK'HEADS, partitions built up in se- 

 veral places of a ship between two decks, 

 either lengthwise or across, to form aud 

 separate the various apartments. Bui* 

 in this word has the sense of bulker or 

 beam. Dan. bielcher. 



BULL. 1. The male of the bovine genas 

 of quadrupeds, of which cow is the female. 

 Icel. baula, to bellow. By the custom of 

 some places the parson is required to 

 keep a bull and a boar for the use of his 

 parishioners. 2. A letter, edict, or re- 

 script of the Pope, published or trans- 

 mitted to the churches over which he is 

 head, containing a decree, order, or 

 decision. The bull is written on parch- 

 ment, and provided with a leaden seal. 

 The word was originally the name of the 

 seal. A collection of bulls is called bullary. 

 Certain ordinances of the German empe- 

 rors are also called bulls. The golden bull, 

 emphatically so called from the seal at- 

 tached to it being in a gold box, is that 

 fundamental law of the German empire 

 enacted by the Emperor Charles IV. in 

 two diets held in succession, in 1356, at 

 Nuremberg and Metz. Its chief object 

 was to fix the manner of electing the em- 

 peror. Leaden bulls were sent by the 

 emperors of Constantinople to patriarchs 

 and princes; and by the grandees of 

 Trance, Sicily, &c.; and by patriarchs and 

 bishops. Waxen bulls were in frequent use 

 with the Greek emperors, who thus sealed 

 letters to their relations and persons in 

 high favour. 



BUL'LA, a bubble. 1. In surgery, a bleb ; 

 a vesicle containing a watery humour, 

 which arises from burns, scalds, or other 



causes. 2. In malacology, a sub-genus 



of Bullinse. Example, B. lignaria, Sow., 

 a cylindrical univalve. The Bidlce, Lam. 

 corresponds with B. asperta, Sow. Th 



