BAT SUPPLEMENT. BLA 



BATT.aflue bituminous shale found inter- expressed oil of the nuts of A/orii<ga Apter<* 



etratitied with coal, known also proviucially a tree which also supplies the lignum nephri- 



te Black Slag and Black Bass. ticum used in affec ions of the kidneys. 



BATTA, allowances to troops given in BKNIC ACID, a constituent of Oil of Ben. 



India iu the form of Wet Batta and Dry BENZOLE, C, 2 H r 4- H, one of ihe 



Batta; the latter bey* money, the former ^ Qf the Uistillation of coal . Ur> flr8t 



repetitioa ' i 



BAVINS, faggots of brushwood dipt in tar BENZULE or BXNZOVL. C M H g O. 2 , the 

 or other combustible substance, and placed hypothetical base of bernjoic acid, though 

 in fire-ships, formerly used in setting fire to niore correctly applicable to the hydrocarbon 

 an enemy's fleet ; now of little effect against radical C, , H-. 

 iron armour 



BECHICUS, a medicine of any kind to BEKAUNITE, a natire hydra ed phosphate 

 soften or alleviate a cough; a cough-mixture. of peroxide of lion, fouud at Berauu., in 



BECK.ETS, the hooks and other arrange- Bohemia 



mentsb, which the spars and tackle of ships v BtRENGELA RESIST, or BKRENGEUTE, a 

 are kept in their places. bituminous mineral found in a sort of pitch 



BED OF JUSTICE, or LIT DE JUSTICE, the lake the p evince of St. Juau de Beren- 

 procedure of the French kings before the revo- 6 la > Peru. 



lutiou, when the Parliament resisted their BESIM.KN, an old name of the seeds or 

 decrees or commands. On such occasions, spores of algae, &c. 



where the king persisted he went to Parlia- BJTOW, a French concrete prepared some- 

 inent with his chief officers, and ascending the what differently from that of England, 

 lit, or throne, caused the resisted decrees to being a hydraulic lime slaked before being 

 be registered before him, after which the presented to the sand, which is added after 

 Parliament could only record its dissent in hydration haa begun. 

 the form of a protest. BIFURCATE, applied to anything with two 



BEDEGUAR, a gall growing on the brier fork-like prongs. 



and other roses, like the oak-gall. It re- BILBERRY, the Vacdmum Myrtilhu of 

 sembles a ball of moss, and was at one time botanists. 



used as a vermifuge and diuretic, and, ac- BILGEWAYS, timbers used in the launch- 

 cording to Pliny, its ashes were used in com- ing of vessels. 

 pounding a remedy for baldness. BILIFULVIN, the yellow colouring matter 



BEES, pieces of elm bolted to the upper of bile. 

 end of the bowsprit of ships. BILIPHEIN, the brown colouring principle 



BEEKITE, a chalcedony first described by found in bile. 



Dr. Beeke, Dean of Bristol, and found en- BILIVERDINE, a green colouring body 

 reloping in concentric circles of the small found in ox bile. 

 tubercles of fossils. BILL OF QUANTITIES, the abstract of the 



BELAYING, fastening any part of the tackle estimate for a building, containing the 

 of the running rigging of a ship round a be- amounts for the several trades employed in 

 laying pin or cleat. the construction. 



BELL-METAL ORE, native sulphide of tin, BILL-BOARD, a rest or stool on which the 

 or tin pyrites, found in the Cornish mines, flukes of an anchor are stowed on shipboard. 

 and so called from its resemblance to bell- BINDING COAL, a name for caking or 

 metal. close-burning coal. 



BELLS, a nautical term for the half-hourly BIOGENESIS, a term applied in speculative 

 division of time during the watches on philosoohy to the supposed introduction of 

 board of ships. The long watches reach the new species into the life-forms of the world. 

 number of eight bells, or four hours ; the BIOTITE, maguesian mica. 

 short or dog watches, four bells, or two BIRADIATE, having two rays. 

 hours. The bell strikes one at the end of the BiSMUTHiTE, native carbonate of bU- 

 first half hour of a watch, two at the end of muth. 



the second, and so on progressively to the BITTER SALT, a common name of Epsom 

 end of the watch. salts, or sulphate of magnesia. 



BELOTES, the acorns of Quercut Qramun- BITTER SPAR, a variety of crystallised 

 . cleavuble Dolomite. 



JELTIN, or BELTANE. See Beltrin. I BIXIN, a colouring principle found in 



HEM HEX, the burrowing sand wasp, a an no: to. 



genus of hymenopterous aculeate insects BLACK. AMBER, a Prussian name for 

 VeloNging to the Fouores. pilch coal. 



BEN OIL, or OIL OF BEN, an antiseptic BLACK ASH, impure carbonate of soda. 



Inodorous oil, valuable for extracting essences BLACK.-BAND IRON, a carbonate of iron, 



or fragrance from Tariuw flowers. It is the or clay ironstone, found inter-tnuified with 



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