B O E 



Of tTiefe there are only five ; viz. the tetrahfdrorr, conTifl- 

 jng of four angles ; the oaabeclron, of eight ; the kofahcdron, 

 of twi-nty ; the doikcahsJron, of twelve pentagons ; and the 

 cube of fix fquares. Sec Regular ^ofl'/Vx ; fee alfo Te- 



TR AHFDRON, S(C. 



Body, in I.aiu. — A man is faid to be bound or held in 

 lody and goods ; that is, he is liable to remain in pnfon in 

 default of payment. 



A woman, though in other refpefts (he cannot engage her 

 perfon but to her hulband, may k lakcn by the body, when fhe 

 carries on a feparate trade. 



Body of the place, in Forttjicntwn, denotes either the build- 

 ings inclofed, or more generally the inclofurc itfclf. Thus, 

 to conllnid the body o'f the place, is to fortify orinclofethe 

 place with ballions and curtains. 



Body is alfo ufed for an alTemblage of feveral different 

 things coUefled into one ; more particularly a number of 

 perfons united into a company or college. 



A ftate or nation, under the adminillration of one fove- 

 reign, is called a body polilic. All large empires are un- 

 natural, becaufe the relation between the head and limbs 

 is here too remote. No body, either natural or politic, 

 can long remain found without exercife. See Corpora- 

 tion. 



Body, corps, in ll^ar, is an aggregate or alTcmblage of 

 forces, horfe and foot, united and marching under fome 

 chief. 



An army, ranged in form of battle, is divided into three 

 bodies : the van-guard, the rear-guard, and the main body ; 

 which lall is ordinarily the general's pail. 



Body of refirve, in the Military Art, a draught or de- 

 tachment of a number of forces out of an army, who are 

 only to engage in cafe of necefiity. 



Body, in matters of Literature, a name given to a collec- 

 tion of whatever relates to any particular fciencc ; thus 

 we fay, the body of the canon law ; the body of tlie Saxon 

 law. King James I. had a deSgn to compile a body of the 

 Englidi law. 



The body of the civil law confifts chiefly of the Inilitutes, 

 Pandefts, Code, and Novels. A ghjfated body, is that 

 to which gloifes are added in the margin, compofed by feve- 

 ral lawyers. 



Body is alfo ufed figuratively forconfilleuce, folidity, and 

 flrength. In this fenie, we fay the body of a cloth, wine, 

 &c. 



Vintners have divers arts of increafing or diminilhing the 

 body of wine. 



Body, among Painters. — A colour is faid to bear a body, 

 when it is capable of being ground fo fine, and mi.xing 

 with the oil fo entirely, as to feem only a thick oil of 

 that colour ; as white-lead, lamp-black, vtrmillion, lake, 

 indigo, S:c. But verditers, fmalts, &c. will not cm- 

 body with the oil, but are ftill apt to fcparate from it in 

 working. 



Body plan, or plane of projection, in Ship-building, is a 

 fection of the fhip at the midihip frame, or broadell place, 

 perpendicular to the fheer and half-breadth plans. The 

 feveral breadths, and the particular form of every frame of 

 limbers, are defcribed on this plane. As the two fides of a 

 fhip are fimilar t') each other, it is therefore unnecelTary to 

 lay down both, hence the frames contained between the main 

 frame and the ftem are defcnbtd on one fide of the middle 

 line, commonly on the right-hand fide : and the after frames 

 are defcribed on the other fide of that line. 



BODZELIN, in Geography, a town of Poland, in the 

 palatinate of Sandomirz, 24 miles fouth of Radum. 

 BOE, in Ancient Geography. See Bo«. 

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B O E 



BoE, a fmall ifland of Norway, 25 leagues north oF 

 Bergen. — Alfo, a town of Norway, 18 miles north of 



Bergen Alfo, a town of Norway, 12 leagues north of 



Romfdale. 



BOEBE, in Ancient Geography, the name of a lake or 

 marfh in the ifland of Crete. Steph. Byz. 



BOEBIS, or BoEBiAs, a lake which fome place ia 

 Bccotia, was fituated near the confines of Magnefia, not far 

 from mount Offa. It has been fincc called the lake of Efero. 

 North of this lake was a town called Boebe, whence the lake 

 derived its name. 



BOECE, or BoEis, Hector, Lat. Boethius, in Biogra- 

 phy, a celebrated Scottifii hiftorian, was born of an ancient 

 family at Dundee, about the year 1470. After having 

 fludied in his native place, and alfo at Aberdeen, where he 

 was profefior in 1497, he went for further improvement to 

 Paris, where he became a profeifor of phiiofophy, and where 

 he had an opportunity of cultivating an acquaintance with 

 feveral literary perfons of eminence, and particularly with 

 Erafmus. Upon the ellabhfliment of the kiig's college at 

 Aberdeen, by Dr. Elphinfton, the bilhop, about the year 

 1 500, Boethius was fcnt for by the founder, and appointed 

 principal of that univtrfity, and contributed, in concurrence 

 with his colleague Mr. Hay, to furnifh the kingdom with 

 feveral excellent fcholars. After the death of Elphinfton, 

 his patron, in iji^^, he wrote his life, together with an ac- 

 count of his predecrffors, under the title of " VitK Epifco- 

 porum Murthlacenfium et Aberdonenfium," Paris, 1522, 

 4to. He then engaged in his great unde'rtaking of writing 

 the hiftory of Scotland, to which he prefixed a large geo- 

 graphical defcription of the countiy- Tiiis hiftory was pub- 

 liflied under the title of " Scotorum Hiftoria ab illius gentis 

 origine," Paris, 1526, fok ; and he continued to improve it 

 till his death, which happent?d about the year 1550. The firft 

 edition of this work confided of 17 books, a d ended with 

 the death of king James I. The next edition, printed at 

 Laufanne and Paris, in i ';74, fol. was much enlarged by the 

 addition of the jSth and part of the 19th book.,. It was 

 afterwards carried down to the end of the reign of James III. 

 by J. Ferrerius, a native of Piedmont. The whole hiftory 

 was tranfiated into the Soottifli dialed by John Bellenden, 

 archdeacon of Murray, by command of James V. and pub- 

 liihed in 1536. R. Holinlhed publilhed it in Engliih, with 

 confiderabie additions, in the fiill volume of his Chronicles. 

 This work has been difi'erently appreciated by national par- 

 tiality on the one hand, and national prejudice on the other. 

 Whilft it is allowed the merit of elegance and purity of 

 ftyle, it is charged with detailing marvellous tales and 

 legends, and with introducing imaginary and fiditious cir- 

 cumilances, in order to ornament and dignify the antiquity 

 of the Scots nation. As to his general charafter, Boethi\is 

 was a great mafter of chiffica! and polite learning, well fliilled 

 in divinity, phiiofophy, and hiftory ; but too credulous, and 

 much addided to tlie belief of legendarv ftories. With re- 

 gard to his other accompliniratnts, he was difcreet, genteel, 

 well-bred, attentive, generous, affable, and courteous. Biog. 

 Brit. 



BOECKEL, John, born at Antwerp in November 1535, 

 was admitted dodor in medicine at Bourges in I'^fi^. At 

 Hamburgh, where he went to refide, he was foon diftin- 

 guiftied for his fupcrior fl<ill, and appointed teacher of ana- 

 tomy and medicine, an ofSce he filled with fufficient reputa- 

 tion, feveral years. He died there March 21 ft, 1605. His 

 works are " De pefte qui Hamburgum civitatem, anno 1565, 

 grayifilmc afflixit," Henricopoli, 1577, 8vo. ; " Synopfis 

 novi morbi, quern pleriqne catarrhum fcbrilem vocant, qui 

 Bon folum Gcrmaniam, fed pene univerfam Europam gra- 



vifiimc 



