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tion of alcohol renders water more volatile. In the diRil- 

 laiion of fpirits, the feimcnted liquur in the copper boils 

 always at a lower temperature, or at lame intermediate point 

 between the ebullition of water and that of alcohol. The 

 fpirituous fumes which rife carry along with them a portion 

 of evaporated water. Hence the neccffit}' of reflificatioii, 

 or repecited diftillations, to procure alcohol in its purcil ftate; 

 for the boiling heat is lowered, and confequently the pro- 

 portion of aqueous admixture is diminilhed, at each fuccef- 

 five procefs. See Digester, Eeullitiom, Fire, Fluid, 

 Heat, Pressure, Steam, Vapour. 



Boiling of fill iv'ith fotip, is the firll preparation in order 

 to dyeing it. Thread is alfo Ir^ilui in a ftrong lixivium of 

 afhes, to prepare it for dyeing. 



Boiling is alfo a part of the piocefs for bleaching warp 

 linen. 



Boiling to death, caUariis decoquere, in the Middle Age, 

 a kind of punifhment inflifted on falfe coiners, thieves, and 

 fome other criminals. 



This punifhment was inflifted on thofe who were guilty 

 of murder by poifon, 22 Hen. VIII. cap. 19. but this adl 

 was repealed by i Edw. VI. cap. 12. 



Boiling is alfo a method of trying or affaying the good- 

 nefs or falfenefs of a colour of a dye, by boiling the iluff in 

 water with certain drugs, different according to the kind or 

 quality of the colour, to try whether or no it will difcharge, 

 and give a tindlure to the water. 



With this intention, red crimfon filks are boiled with alum, 

 and fcarlets with foap, in quantity equal to the weight of the 

 filk. 



Boiling wj/iT/, \n Natural H'flary. See Spring, and 

 Water. 



BOINITZ, in Geography, a town of Hungaiy, eleven 

 miles W. N. W. of Kremnitz. 



BOJOBI, in Zoology, the Brafilian name of the Lin- 

 n3:an boa canina. See Canina. 



BOIODURUM, in Ancient Geography, a town of Vin- 

 delicia, fituate on the Danube, according to Ptolemy ; the 

 Itinerary of Antonine places it on the route from Ovilabis 

 to Augufta Vindelicium, between Stanacum and Quin- 

 tianx. 



BOIOHEMUM, or BoiMUM, the country of the 

 Boii, anfwering to the prefent Bohemia, which fee. On the 

 fouth of it lay the " Gabreta Sylva," and to the fouth, 

 weft, and north, the " Hercynii montes." The interior of 

 it was penettated with difficulty, and was little known. 



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

 palatinate of Braclaw, forty-eight miles eaft of Braclaw. 



BOIQUIRA, in Zoology, a name by which the natives, 

 in fome parts of America, call the rattle fnake. Suppofed 

 to be the Crotalus horridus, of Naturalills. 



BOIREL, Anthonv, in Biography, born at Argentan, 

 in Normandy, about the year 162], apphed himfelf to the 

 praftice of furgery, in which he acquired confiderable repu- 

 tation. In 1677 he publidied, " Traite de plaies de tete," 

 8vo. extrafted prir.cipally from the works of Hippocrates, 

 Galen, and of Ambrofe Pare, which he appears to have 

 itudied diligently- He has added fome improvements to 

 their praftice. 



Nicholas Boirel his brother, phyfician at Argentan, pub- 

 lifhed, in 1702, " Nouvelles ohfervations fur k-s maladies 

 vencriennes," i2mo. Paris, which was reprinted 17 i I, but 

 contains little new on the fubjeft. Haller Bib. Eloy. Dicl. 

 Hift. 



BOTS, Cardinal du. See Dusois. 



Bois, Gerard du, a member of the congregation of the 

 Orator)', and a Latin profefTor in it, was born at Orleans, 



Vol, IV. 



in 1^20. Having fucceeded father Le Comte, in his place 

 of librarian to St. Honore, and having pofltffion of his pa- 

 pers, he finifhcd for the prefs his citrhth and laft volume of the 

 " Ecclefiailical Annals of France," which was printed in l6'?.5; 

 and in confequence of it he obtained a pepfion from the French 

 clergy. He afterwards undertook to wijte thehiitory of the 

 Parifian church; and, in j 'ir,o,publiflied the firftvolumein folio. 

 The fecond, which he did not live to finilh, appeared after his 

 death, which happened in i6iy6. This work is written in pure 

 elegant Latin, and contains a variety of niterefting fafts relat- 

 ing to civil as well as ecclefiallical hiftory. Nouv. Diet. Hift. 

 Bois, Boys, or Boyse, John, an eminent divine, and 

 one of the tranfiators of the bible, in the reign of James I. 

 was bom at Nettleftead in Suffolk, lu 1560, and made fuch 

 early proficiency under the inftvuiitions of his father, that at 

 the age of five years he read the bible iti Hebrew ; and at 

 fix, wrote that language in a fair and elegant charafter. 

 At the age of 14 he was admitted into St. John's college, 

 Cambridge, and by his great flvill in the Greek language ob- 

 tained a fcholarfliip before he had been hall a year at col- 

 lege, and afterwards a fellowfhip. Declining the profeflioii 

 of phyfic, for which he was intended, he devoted himfelf to 

 the ftudy of divinity, and was ordained in 1,85. He of- 

 ficiated for 10 years in his college as principal Greek lec- 

 turer ; and as an inftance of his afliduous application, and 

 of the early hours of ftudy at that period, it is mentioned, 

 that he voluntarily read a Greek lecture at four in the morn- 

 ing, which was attended by moft of the fellows. On the 

 death of his father, he fucceeded him in the redtory of Weft- 

 Stowe, near Bury, in Suffolk ; but in 1.596, he married the 

 daughter of Mr. Holt, rector of Boxworth, in Cambridge- 

 fliire, and having before refigned Weft-Stowe, took poffef- 

 fion of this Uving. In this fituation the negleft of domeftic 

 economy involved him fo much in debt, that he was under 

 a neceffity of felling his choice colleftion of books. After- 

 wards, however, he retrieved his affairs by keeping a board- 

 ing-fchool ; and was appointed one of the Cambridge tranf- 

 lators of the bible. (See Bible.) The part that fell to the lot 

 of that clafs of divines, with whom he was connedted, was the 

 Apocrypha; and this he compleattd in four years, without 

 deriving any advantage from it befides his commons. He wag 

 afterwards appointed one of the fix delegates who met at 

 Stationers'-hall in London, for the purpofc of revifing the 

 tranflation, and who were employed for nine months in this 

 bufinefs, with an allowance from the Stationers' company of 

 jos.a-week each.jFor theafhftance which he gave tofirHenry 

 Savile, in the publication of St. Chry foftom's works, to which 

 he devoted the labour of many years, he received the very 

 inadequate recompence of a fingie copy of the work. How- 

 ever, fuch was his reputation, that he obtnined, without fo- 

 licitation, from Dr. Andrews, bilhop of Ely, a prebend in 

 his cathedral, in 161 5 ; and he was thus enabled to fpend 

 the laft 28 years of his hfe in tranquil retirement. Although 

 hewasalwaysahaid ftudent, he publiflied nothing; but left be- 

 hind him many MSS. particularly a commentary on the greatefl' 

 part of the N. T. A work of which few copies were printed, 

 and, therefore, little known, appeared after his death, un- 

 der the following title " Johannis Boifii veteris Intei-pretis 

 cum Bcza aliifque recentioribus collatio in IV Evangeliis, 

 et Actis Apoftolorum," London, 165^, 8vo. He fuftained 

 the character of an excellent Latin writer, a profound fclio- 

 lar, a loyal fubjeft, a ftriC\ churchman, and a plain prafti- 

 cal preacher. It was his praftice to attend the pubhc fer- 

 vice of the church twice, if not thrice a day ; and his charity- 

 was as extenfive as his devotion was regular and conftant. 

 Although he devoted eight hours a day to ftudy even in hi* 

 old age, he preferved his health by the exercife of walking, ' 

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