B O U 



Tout cH grand Jans le roi, I'afpcc'^ feiil de fon lujlt 



lUiid nos tiers enncmis plus Irtoids que dcs ^la^ons. 



r.t Guillaume n'attcnd que Ic tcms dcs mo'iffms. 



Pour fe voir foccombcr fous un bras fi rclujlt. 



Qu'on nc nous vante plus Ics miracles d' yluSHfii ! 



I.ouis dc bien regner lui fcioit dts /.•■ on/ .• 



Horace cu vain regnk- aux dieux dans fes chunfins : 



Moinj que mon hcros il eto't fage et Jii/!f, if^- 

 BOUTSALUCK, in Oinitholosy, fynonymoub withru- 



tulris frnUlofi •.rtitu which fee. 



BOUTTONNE'E, Er. in Tfcral.lry, is applied to tlie feed 



of a rofe, when rcprefc-nted of a different colour from the 



flower; which t!ie Englifli cal!yW/<i': e. p. a rofe gules feeded. 



I'OUVERET, \n Ornithology, the Erench name oUosb 



ournnt'ia. 



nOUVERON. Under this name hx'ia /Ineol.i is dc- 

 feribed by fcveral French writers. Briffon, however, calls 

 it J>f/il loiivreuil noir d' ylfiiqiie. 



BOUVIER, the name of motacilla n^vla. Salem. Orn. 

 BOUVIERA, in IcMyoh^y, a name given by fome 

 writers to a fmall frefli-water fnh, found in the clear llreams 

 of France and Germany. Tlic French call it bouvicre. It 

 alfo bears the name of bululca. This is cyprinus amarus of 

 naturalills. 



BOUVIE^RE, the common name in France o^ ryprinus 

 amarin. 



BOUVaCNES, in Geography, a town of the Nether- 

 lands, in the county of Namur, featcd on the Meufe. Near 

 Bo'.ivigncs, which was formerly furroundtd with a wall, and 

 had a llrang caftle, are the remains of nn ancient city, called 

 " Chivremont," the inhabitants of which committed many 

 di-pvedations, and defended tliemfelves with valour againft 

 Charles the Simple in 922, agaiiill Otho in 939, and againft 

 liruno arch'.jifliop of Cologne, in 960. But it was at length 

 taken and dellroyed, in 992, by Notger, billiop of Liege. 

 It is diltant four leagues S. from Namur. 



BOUVINES, or PoNT-A-BouvixEs, a village of Flan- 

 ders, fcated on the river Maique, 3 leagues S.E. of Lille, 

 ■tthcre Philip Augnflus obtained a great victory over the 

 emperor Otho in 1214. 



BOUVi^EUIL, in Ornilhology (Buffon, &c.), lox'ia 

 fyrrhula of J-innxus and other fyitematie writers ; and bul- 

 iTii.-h of the Englifh. Bouvreuil, in a more general fenle, 

 implies all the birds of the LoxiA genus. 



BOUXIERES-aux-Dames, in Geography, a town of 

 France, in the department of the Menrthe, i league N. of 

 Nancy. 



BOUXWILLER, a town of France, in the department 

 of the Lower Rhine, and chief place of a canton, in the di- 

 ftrift of Savcrnc ; 6 leagues N.W. of Strafburg. The town 

 contains 2700, and the canton 12,264 inhabitants ; tl'.e ter- 

 ritory includes ro5 kiliometres, and 21 communes. 



BOUZANNE, a river of France, in the department of 

 Indrc, which rifes near Aigurande, 7 leagues from Argen- 

 ton, and difchargcs itfelf into the Creufe, ntarClufeau. 



BOUZUOGAN, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in the pro- 

 vince of Natolia ; 24 miles N.W. from Mogla. 



BOUZE, a town of Trance, in tlie department of the 

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

 Bcaune ; i league N.W. from Bta\'.ne. 



BOUZEK, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in the province 

 of Caramania ; 52 miles E.N.E. of Kir-(hehr. 



EOUZILLE', a town of France, in the department of 

 t^e Mayne and Lone ; 1 league S.E. of Ancenis. 



BOUZfLS, a town of France, in she department of 

 Vendee, and in the .dillrift of Montaigu ; 5 miles fouth 

 of it. 



BOW 



BOUZKIR, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in the province 

 of Natolia ; 30 miles S.S.E. of Beilhehri. 



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

 Upper Loire ; i league S. of Puy-en-Velay. 



BOUZONVILLE, a town of France, in the depart. 

 ment of the Mofelle, and chief place of a canton, in the 

 diftria of Thionville, and 5 leagues S. of it, feated on the 

 Nied. The town contains 1400, and the canton 12,740 

 inhabitants ; the territory comprehends 190 kiliometres, and 

 40 communes. 



BOW, ^rctis, a weapon of offence, made of wood, horn, 

 or other eiailic matter ; which, after being ilrongly bent, by 

 means of a ftrinj^ fadened to its two ends, in returning to its 

 natural il:ite, throws out an arrow with great force. 



The bow is the moft ancient, and the rnoft univcrfal of all 

 weapons : and has been found to obtain among the mod 

 barbarous and remote people, who had the leaft commu. 

 nieation with the reft of mankind. 



Its invention was afcribed by the ancients to Apollo, and 

 was faid to have been hrft communicated to the primitive in- 

 habitants of Crete : Hence, even in latter ages the Cretan 

 bows were famous, and preferred by the Greeks to all 

 others. Some, however, rather chole to honour Perfes, the 

 fon of Perfeus, with the invention ; while others afcribed it 

 to Scythes the fon of Jupiter, and progenitor of the 

 Scythians, who were not only excellent at the bow, but by 

 many reputed the firft mafters of it. (Potter's Arch. Groec. 

 &c. ) All thefe different tales, however, ferve but to fhow that 

 its antiquity mull be referred to theremoteft periods of 

 hillory. 



The earlieft inftance in the Old Teftament, where the ufe 

 of the bow is implied, is in that remarkable paffage where 

 Hagar and her fon, driven from the houfe of Abraham, 

 wander in the wildernefs of Beer-fheba. Of Iflimael it is 

 faid (Gen. xxi. 20.), " Ar.d God was with the lad, and he 

 grew, and dwelt in the wildernefs, and became an archer." 

 The connexion of which with the fifth preceding chapter 

 (xvi. 12.) implies an earlier praftice with the bow than any 

 that can pofTibly be adduced from the profane Iiillorians. 

 The overthrow of Saul was particularly owing to the 

 Philiftine archers, (i Sam. xxxi. ,3.) and (2 Sam. i. iS.) 

 David, we are told, who fucceeded him, " bade them teach 

 the children of Judah the ufe of the bow ; behold it is written 

 in the book of Jalher." 



The praftice of the bow indeed, at this time, appears to 

 have been fo general, that it was not unfrequently made ufe 

 of as a figure of fpeech. Ifrael, when blelFnig his fons, 

 (Gen. xlix. 23, 24,) fays of Jofeph, " The archers have 

 forely grieved him, and fhot at him, and hated him. But 

 his bow abode in ftrength, and the arms of his hands were made 

 tlrong, by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob." The 

 companies that came to David at Ziklag (l Chron. xii. 2.) 

 •' were armed with boivs, and could ufe both the right hand 

 and the left." Its earlieft application was undoubtedly to 

 the purpofes of food : and accordingly, when Ifaac fent 

 Efau to the foreft, he faid, " Take, I pray thee, thy 

 weapons, thy quiver, and thy bo-a', and go out to the field, 

 and take me fome venifon." 



The fabulous writers of antiquity affert, that Teutarus, 

 a Scythian, firll gave Hercules a Scv/hinn bow and arrows 

 (Lycophron. Caffandrn, V. 36.) ; and Tiieocritus mentions 

 it by the name of the Msotian bow. 



From the Scythians, it was derived to the Grecians, fome 

 ofwhofe ancient nobility were inilrufted by the Scytliians 

 i.iitsufe, which in thofe days pali'td for a moft princely 

 education (Potter, Arch. Gra:c. torn. ii. 1. iii. cap. 4. 

 Lc.x. jNIilit. ii. 26c). The Scythian was dillin- 



guifhtd 



Aqu'.n 



