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blazoned argent, a lortliire gules ; but if indented, engrailed, 

 embattled, &c. argent, a bordtire indaited, gules. The 

 bordure always gives place to the chief, the quarter, and the 

 canton ; for example, or, a bordure, a-zure, and a chief, gules. 

 The chief, therefore, is always placed over the bordure, as 

 are alfo the qi-.arter and canton. The bordure is continued 

 under the chief, but with the quarter and canton it continues 

 found, until it touches them, and there finiflies ; but with 

 other ordir.aries, as the chevron, fefs, bend, &c. the bordure 

 always paiTes over. In arms empaled with another having a 

 bordure, '.he bordure ninll finifli at the empaled line, and not 

 proceed round the coat, as is too often praftifed. When the 

 bordure is charged with bezants, plates, billets, or pellets, 

 it is termed a bordure, gules, bczantce, platee, billetee, or 

 pelletee ; all other charges are exprefsly mentioned as to 

 number and colour. The bordure is borne different ways, 

 as gobone, cheque, vair, bend. Sec. which are explained un- 

 der the different terms. See Gobone, &c. 



The bordure is not confidered as one of the honourable 

 ordinaries, but as a mark of difference, to diftinguifli one fa- 

 mily from another. 



Bordure, Per, an inner bordure, appearing as two 

 bordures : bordure indented, with the middle line mdented. 



Bordure, j*^y//;/ /«^o/n/ indented, differs from the bordure 

 per bordure indented, as the indents mull be from line to 

 line, that is, mull touch both fides of the bordure. 



Bordure of the jield, is merely a partition line, of the co- 

 lour of the field, nmning round the arms. This bearing is 

 never ufed in Englifli armory, but is often borne both in 

 France and Germany. 



Bordure Entier, commonly called entoyer, or entoire, a 

 term when charged with inanimate things, as clcailop- 

 ftells, &c. 



Bordure Enaluren, fo called when charged with birds. 



Bordure Enurny, when charged with lions. 



Bordure Verdoy, when charged with vegetables. 



Bordure PurJIewed, when it is lliaped like vair. 



BORDUUN, German, probably from Bourden, Fr. a 

 ftop in an organ fo called, of which the founds are an odave 

 lower than the diapafon, to which tliis flop is in the fame 

 proportion as the double-bafe to the violoncello. In an organ, 

 of which thelongefl pipe in the diapafon is iixteen feet, that 

 of the borduun would require thirty-two feet. See Organ 

 and Diapason. 



BORE, in Geography, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in the 

 province of Caramania, 70 miles E. N. E. of Cagni. 



Bore, a term ufed to denote a fudden and abrupt influx of 

 the tide into a river or narrow ilrait. This prevails to a 

 confiderable degree in the principal branches of the Ganges, 

 and in the Megna ; but the Hoogly river, and the paffages 

 between the iflands and fands fituated in the gulf, formed by 

 the confluence of the Ganges and Megna, are more fubjeft 

 to it than the other rivers. This may be owing partly to 

 their having greater " embouchures," in proportion to their 

 channels, than the others have ; by which means a larger 

 proportion of tide is forced through a paffage comparatively 

 fmaller ; and partly to the want of capital openings wear 

 them, by which any confiderable portion of the accumulat- 

 ing tide might be drawn off. In the Hoogly or Calcutta 

 river, the bore commences at Hoogly point, where the river 

 firft contrafts itfelf, and is perceptible above Hoogly town ; 

 and its motion is fo quick, that it hardly takes up four hours 

 in paffing from one to the other, although the dillance is near 

 70 miles. At Calcutta it fometimes occafions an inllantaneous 

 rife of five feet : and both here, and in every other part of 

 its track, the boats, on its approach, immediately quit the 

 Ihore, and feek fafety in the middle of ihe river. In the 



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channels, between the iflands, in the mouth of the Megna, 

 &c. the height of the bore is faid to exceed twelve feet ; 

 and it is fo terrific in its appearance, and dangerous in its 

 confequences, that no boat will venture to pais at fpring. 

 tide. After the tide has paffed the iflands, no vellige of a 

 bore is fcen, wliich may be owing to the great width of the 

 Megna, in comparifon with the paffages between the iflands ; 

 but the eflefts of it are vifible enough, by the fudden rifing 

 of the tides. 



The bores are alfo high and d;ni;^erous in the mouths 

 of the river Indus. To this fudden influx of the tide, in 

 a body of water elevated above the common fuil'ace of the 

 fea, may be afcribed the injury fufllred by Alexander's fleet, 

 and defcribed by Arrian. He fays, thofe fhips that lay 

 upon the land were fwept away by the fury of the tide, 

 while thofe that ihick in the mud were fet afloat again with- 

 out damage. In order to account for this fat\ it fliould be 

 confidered, that the bottoms of channels, in great rivers,, 

 are muddy, while the fhallows are formed of fand; and it is 

 the property of the bore to take the fliortefl cut up a river, 

 inllcad of following the windings of the channel; conlequent- 

 ly it mull crofs the fand-banks it meets in its way ; and it will 

 alfo prove more deftrudlive to whatever it meets with aground 

 than what is afloat. Rennell's Memoir. 



BorE; in Gunnery; the bore of a gun, or piece of ordnance, 

 is ufed for the chafe or barrel ; though it feems rather to de- 

 note the diameter of the chafe. See Caliber, and Cannon. 

 liiOKE, fquare, in Smilhery, denotes a iqnarc Heel point, 

 or Ihank, well tempered, fitted in a Iquire locket in an iron 

 wimble, fcrving to wind holes, and make them truly round 

 and fniooth within. 



BOREA, an ancient name for a fpecies of Jaspir, ofa 

 bluifli green colour. 



BOREADES, in Mythology, the patronymic names of 

 Zethes and Calais, the fons of Boreas. Hyginus (fib. xl.) • 

 fays, that they had wings to their head and feet. 



BOREi\.L Signs, in j'ljlronomy, the firft fix figns of the 

 zodiac, or thofe on the northern fide of the equinoClial. 

 BOREALIS, Aurora. See Aurora Borealis. 

 Borealis, in Conchohgy, a fpecies of Venus. Thi,<i 

 fhell is lentiform, with very remote, ereft, membranaceous 

 tranfverfe Itri^. Gmel. This is a iniLill fliell, mcafin-ing about 

 an inch and a half in length ; coiour dirty white. Inhabits 

 the north of Europe. Donov. Brit. Shells, &e. 



Borealis, in Entomology, a fpecies of Tabanus, dif- 

 tinguiflied by having the eyes with three purplifli bands; 

 abdomen black, the fegirents whitifh at the eilges. Size of 

 T. pluvialis. Inhabits Norway. Gmcl. Eabr. The tho- 

 rax of this infcft is brown ; abdomen black with a pale glauc- 

 ous fpot on each fide of every fegment; legs black. This is 

 a rare fpecies. 



Borealis, a fpecies of Coccinella, of a reddifli, or 

 yellowifh colour, w-ith twelve black dots on the wing-cafes, 

 and four on the thorax. Thunberg, Fabr. &c. This is a 

 native of the Cape of Good Hope. Shape gibbous, beneath, 

 of a yellow colour. 



Borealis, in Natural Hiflcry, a fpecies of Clio, of a 

 whitifli colour, having the lobes of the head terminated in a 

 flefli coloured pointed papilla ; tentacula three, flefliy, and 

 thick at the mouth. Inhabits the north feas. Pallas, &c. 

 This is nearly allied to Clio retufa. Gmtlin fufpecls that it 

 may be the fame. 



Borealis, a fpecies of Echinorhvnchus, found in the 

 intellines of the Eider duck. Gmel. This is called Sipun- 

 cuius lendix, byPhips.it. 



Borealis, in Ornithology, a fpecies of Anas, withanar- 

 row bill, the head green, throat and abdomen white. Gmel. 



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