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linihus, rullicum, varium, filofum, corvinatum, fqualiJum, 

 cralTiim, and foniicatum, are the fpecies of this family. 



Lxi-igntn, fmooth, and not included in the preceding fec- 

 tions. Spiratiim, pyrozonias, licve, ocellatum, pyramidale, 

 glaberrima, (Irigofiim, trifafciatum, leucozonias, cancellatum, 

 obtulum, glabratum, llromboiJes, praerofum, auftrale, orbita, 

 ai>d turjritum. 



y^lngulala, angulated, and not included in the foregoing 

 feftions. Undofum, affinc, tranquebaricum, vedicolor, 

 cruentatum, fulcatum, rumpfii, bezoar, gracile, undatum, 

 ciliatum, viridulum, carinatum, folutum, tsnia, lineatum, 

 maclovicnft.folionim, tcxtunn,lbigofum,anglicum,porcatum, 

 IxvitTimum, igiieiim, pUimatum, lyratiim, clatlnalum, reticu- 

 latiini, nivtum, fcalare, injicum nodulofum, pifcatorium, 

 S. mauritii, armillatum, plicatulum, vilgatum, ftolatum, 

 iianum, exile, chalys, verrucofum, alatum, nigro-piintlatum, 

 tiitiJum, livigatum, lamtllofum, fcutalatum, haufloriuni, 

 ventricofum, tclludineum, catanhacla, tahitenfe, and larael- 

 latum. 



Tiinil.i, fmooth and Tubulate. The fpecies of this kind 

 are maculatum, crenulatum, heclicum, viUatum, ftigilatum, 

 duplicatum, lanceatum, dimid'atum, muiinum, tigrinum, 

 acus, fuccinftum, commaculatum, haflatum, aciculatum, 

 phallus, flumineum, afperum, muricinuni, tuberculatum, 

 punftiilatum, acicula, fafciolatum, niveum, mucronatum, 

 digitelliis, obIiqu\im, chalybcum, fluviatile, radiatum, lividum, 

 edeiitula, pugio, canaliculatum, variofum, cufpidatum, cine- 

 reum, virginicum, proximatum, moiiile, cingulatum, and 

 -geminiim. 



The definition of the genus buccinum, as laid down by 

 Linnxns, is liable to objeiftion in fcvcral tefpefts. It includes 

 a number of fiioils fo very diffimilar in general form, and am- 

 biguous in their mod etfential character, that we cannot 

 tafily reconcile ourfelvesto retain the whole within the limits 

 -of a finglegenus. But we are ftill peifuadoj that all the fpecies 

 which can conveniently be comprifed under either of the fub- 

 <livifu)ns ought to be retained, and thofe only to be removed 

 from the buccinum genus which can with more propriety be 

 refeiTed to the other analogous genera of univalves. Bru- 

 guicre divides the Linnaean (liells of this tribe into four 

 diftinft genera; to the firlt of which he gives the name of 

 buccin, or buccinum, the others he calls -vis, cafques, and 

 pourprcs. La Marck has innovated farther ftill on the Lin- 

 nsan order ; or, rather, he has laboured to overthrow the 

 ■fvlfem of the illuftrious Swede altogether, and in its place to 

 eftablifli the arrangement of his own. The fhells which 

 Bruguiere retained under the title of buccin, La Marck 

 divides again into fovir new genera ; namely, buccin, harpe, 

 tonne, and eburne. 



Ti'.e (lielis of the buccinum kind are corrmonly furniilied 

 .with an operculum ; the animal, as before obferved, a limax 

 «r fnail, fubjert to fome (light difference in its form in differ- 

 ent fpecies. They are oviparous, and the males are laid to 

 be fmaller and higher in colour than the femaler.. 



BUCCIORSERAl, in Geography, a town of Hindoftan, 

 in the circar of Dooab ; i8 miles S.E. of Etava. 



BUCCO, in ytnatomy, a name given by Riolanus, and fome 

 fathers, to the mufcle more ufually called bucchmia, and 

 conirahtr.s labiorum. 



Bucco, in Ornithology, a genus of birds in the Pic;e order, 

 diftinguifhed by having the bill fliarp edged, compreffed on 

 the fides, notched on each fide near the apex, beiU inwards, 

 with a long flit beneath the eyes. Nollrils covered with 

 incumbent feathers : feet formed for climbing. Gmel. 



The fpecies of the bucco genus art tamatia, cayennenfis, 

 capenfis, elegans, macrorhynchos, melanolrucos, philippi- 

 pentJs, nigcr, parvus, grandis, viridis, Lathami, fufcus, 



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nibricapillus, z«ylanicus, dubius, and cinereus ; which 

 fee. 



BUCCULA, in Anatomy, the fielliy part under the chin; 

 Some extend the name farther to the whole lower part of the 

 face, comprehending the under part of tlie lower lip, with the 

 chin and the flcfhy part under it. 



BuccuLA, in Antiquity, denotes the umbo of a {hield, or 

 the part prominent in the middle thereof. 



It is thus called, becaufe ufually made in the form of a 

 mouth or face, either of a man or fome animal. The like 

 fio-ures were fometimes alfo found on other parts of armour, 

 etpecially on the loric/t and thoraces. 



BUCENI, in Geography, a town of European Turkey, in 

 the province of Moldavia^ 38 miles N. N. W. of Ga- 

 latz. 



BUCENTAUR, the name of a large ftate-vcffel, ufed 

 by the Venetians, in the ceremony of tfpoufing the fea, 

 performed each Afcenfion-day with much pomp. 



The word comes from /Saxsvrav/^ ; compofed of /5«, a 

 particle of augmentation, ufed to denote an enormous 

 greatncfs, and x.r.Taip©-, centaur. Juftiniani adds two other 

 etymologies : the firtl from bis, and taunts, or rather cen- 

 taurus, the name of one of iEneas's veficls in Virgil : the 

 other from buccntaiirus, for duccntaurus, a word forged to fig- 

 nify a vefTel capable of holding two hundred men. 



P. Juftiniani gives a very pixciie defcription of the bucen- 

 taur, which is adorned with five pillars on both lides, and 

 gilt from the prow to the ftern, alio covered overhead with 

 a kind of tent, made of purple filk ; and he adds, that its 

 origin is carried up as high as the year of Chrift ijii, 

 though others trace it higher, to the year 1 1 77, vvhen the 

 emperor Frederic BarbaroflTa came to Venice, to make peace 

 with the republic and the pope: at whicli time the pope, 

 in confideration of the ferviccs the ftate had done him, in 

 (heltering him in their city, when he had been driven out of 

 his own, granted them feveral privileges ; and made a pre- 

 fent to the doge of a gold ring, which is the origin of 

 that, yearly caft by the doge, from the bucentaur, into the 

 fea. 



It is on Afcenfion-day, that the doge, being advanced in 

 the bucentaur a little way into the gulph, throws a gold 

 ring into the fea, and fays, " We marry thee, O fea, in 

 token of that true and perpetual dominion which the repub- 

 lic has over thee." 



In this veffel the doge receives the great lords, and per- 

 fons of quality that vifit Venice, accompanied with the am- 

 bafiadors, and counfellors of ftate, and all the fenators feattd 

 on benches near him. 



The archduchefs Maria Jofepha, married to the prince of 

 Saxony, on the day of her entry into Drefden, was received 

 in a magnificert galley, finely rigged, and called a bucentaur, 

 becaufe built after the model of that of Verice, 



A velftrl of the fame name, as large and magnificent as 

 that of the Venetians, w?jS conllrnclcd by order of the elec- 

 tor of Bavaria, and laur^chcd in a lake fix leagues in length. 



BUCEPHALA, in Entomology, a fpecies of Bombyx, 

 the anterior wings of which are cinereous, willi two ferru- 

 ginous ftreaks, and a large yellow terminal fpot at the tip. 

 Gmel. &c. ; called in Englifh the buff-tip moth. Feeds on 

 the lime, oak, Vi-illow, &c. 



BucEPHALA,or Burepbal'ia, in Ancient Geography, a town 

 of India, on the weft fide of the river Hydafpes, built by 

 Alexander on the fcite of his camp before his engagement 

 with Porus, and fo called (as Arriau fays) in honour of his 

 horfe Bucephalus, which w-as kiiled, as fome fay, in that 

 aftion, or who died, according to Arrian, of old age, being 

 about 50 years old, and was buried on this fpot. Hcfychius 



fays 



