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tliniR, before the recover)' of Km body, or going off after a 

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The great objeftion made by fome people, particularly 

 thofe time -catchers, againft the frequent ufe of b'trulin^, is, 

 that when a man, in performing it, cleaves too much to h's 

 adverfary's fword, he is liable to his adverfary's flipping of 

 him, and confequently of receiving either a plain thrult, or 

 one from a feint. 



Binding is a term in Falconry, which implies tiring, or 

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Binding Booh. See "QooK-BinJing. 



BiNDiNG-A'oto, in Miijic, imply two or more founds on the 

 fame line or fpace, that are linked together by a femi-circle; 

 and which, thoujfh written or printed twice, arc not to be 

 feparattd, but fuftaincd like a fingle found. 



The firft of thcfe tied or binding-notes, as in preparing 

 difcords, is ufually ftruck on the unaccented part of a bar, 

 and continued on the accented part. Sec Ligature, and 

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BINETTA, in Geography, a town of Italy, in the king- 

 dom of Naples, and country of Bari, 4 miles W.S.W. of 

 Bidfctto. 



BINGAZI. See Bengasi. 



BINGE, a town of France, in the department of the 

 Cote d'Or, and chief place of a canton in the dillridt of 

 Dijon, 10 miles call of Dijon. 



BINGEN, a town of Germany, in the circle of the Lower 

 Rhine, and eleftorate of Mentz or Mayence, and by the 

 French arrangement, the principal place of a canton, in the 

 diftrlft of Mayence, and department of Mont-Tonnerre. 

 The town is faid to contain 2663 inhabitants, and the canton 

 5638. It includes 10 communes. The town is feated at 

 the conflux of the Nahe and Rhine. The ftone bridge over 

 the former is a noble flrufture, and the adjoining country is 

 delightful. Bingen is a very ancient town, and was once 

 imperial. The fortifications v,-eie deftroyed by Lewis XIV. 

 in 1689. A great part of the corn, which is carried into 

 the Rhinegau, the neighbournig palatinate, comes through 

 this place, which, on tlie other hand, fupplies the palatinate 

 with drugs, and various foreign commodities. Befides this 



trafBc, it has in its vicinity very fruitful vineyard?, which 

 produce excellent winf. Near this town the Rhine is com- 

 preffed into a narrow channel, between two rocks ; about a 

 mile and a half below it is a kind of whirl-pool, ca'.led the 

 " Bingen-loch," the pafTage of which is dangerous. At a 

 fmall diflance is a!fo an ifland on the Rhine, denominated 

 " Maufthurn," or tower of rats ; from a tradition, that an 

 archbiihop of Mentz was there devoured by thele animals, 

 in the tenth century, as a judgment executed on him for his 

 cruelty to the poor, whom he compared to rats eating up the 

 fubftance of the rich. Bingen is 19 miles W. of Mentz, 

 30 S. of Coblentz, and 54 E. of Treves. N. lat. 49" 54'. 

 E. long. 7° 33'. 



BINGENHEIM, a town of Germany, in the circle of 

 the Upper Rhine, and principahty of Hefle, 16 miles N.N.E. 

 from Frankfort on the Mayne. 



BINGHAM, Joseph, in Biography, a learned Englifh 

 divine, wns bom at Wakefield, in Yorkfhire, in 166S. Hav. 

 ing acquired the rudiments of claflical learning at a fchoid 

 in his native town, he was admitted in 1683, into Univer- 

 fity college at O.'iford, and in 1687, became fellow. Having 



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