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EUCHY, in Geography, a town of France, in the do- 

 psHinent of the Lower Seine, and chief phice of a canton, 

 in thediArift of Rouen, 4^ leagues N.E. of it. The town 

 contains 67,, and the canton 9060 inhabitants; the ttrri- 

 ti>ry compichends 162' kiliometres and 3c communes. 



BUCIDA, in Botany (originally called by Brown, Bu- 

 ceras, ox-horned, but changed by JLinnxus into Bucida, 

 without afllgning a reafon). Linn. Sp. PI. Reich. 601. 

 Schreb. 75S. Willd. 881. Juflieu 75. Clafs and order de- 

 cnndria nonogynia. Nut. ord. Holoracct Linn, EUagm 

 JiiIT. 



Gen. char. CaL Perianth oneleafed, pitcher-fhaped, 

 ohfolctely five-tootlicd, fuperior, permanent. Cor. none. 

 Stam filaments ten, capillary, longer than the calyx and 

 inferted into its bafe. Aalhir upright, heart-fhapcd. P'ljl. 

 germ inferior, ovate; ftylc the length of the ftamens : fllgma 

 obtufe. Peric. berry dry, ovate, one ctlled, crowned with 

 thecjilyx. Seed one, ovate. 



ElTent. char. Ca!. tine toothed, fuperior. Cor. berry 

 one-fecded. 



Spec. I. B. Buceras. Olive bark tree, Linn. Brown Jam. 

 t. 23. f. I. Sloane Jam. t. 189. f. j. La Marck, pi. 356. 

 " Spikes'elongate; leaves vprdge-fliaptd, fmooth." V .\\\\lStem. 

 a tree, thirty feet high, about one in diameter. Branches diva- 

 ricate, or flcxuofe, roundifh, fmooth, and even. Leaves only 

 at the divarications and fnmmits of the branches, crowded 

 together, petiolcd, obovate or ridgc-fhaped, obtufe, very en- 

 tire, veined, fmooth, near two inches long. Spiles, or ratlier 

 fpike-like racemes numerous, fimple, peduncled, axillary 

 near the ends of the branches, about the length of the 

 leaves. Floiuers fmall, ycUowifli, alternate, fclfile, hoary 

 without, tomcntofe within. The llyle or upper part of the 

 germ, efpecially at the extremity of the raceme is fometimes 

 extended to the length of an inch or more, and curved fome- 

 what in the form of a bull's horn ; whence Linnaeus and 

 other authors have obferved its affinity to rhizophora. De- 

 fcribed by La Marck from a dried fpecimen. A native of 

 the Weft- Indies and South America. In Jamaica it is 

 called black olive ; in AnliguR, French oak ; and in the 

 French iflands, Grignon. Its bark is ufed for tanning 

 leather : and its wood is excellent for chefts of djawers and 

 other kinds of cabinet-makers' work, as it is feldom at- 

 tacked by worms, z. B. capitata. Willd. " Flowers with 

 capitate fpikes ; leaves ridge-(haped, ciliated." Valil. 



BUCINO, in Geography, a town of Naples; 6 miles 

 W.N.W. ofCangiano. 



BUCIOCHE, in Commerce, a fort of woollen cloth 

 manufaAured at Provence in France, which the French 

 fhips carry to Alexandria and Cairo. 



BUCK, in Zoology, a male horned bead of venery or 

 chace, whofe female is denominated a doe. A buck the 

 firlt year is called a Jwwn, the fecond a pricket, the third a 

 fore!, the fourth afore, the fifth zluch of the fir/} head, and 

 the fixth z great buck. See Deer and Hunting. 



Buck is alfo applied to the males of the hare and rabbit 

 kind. Hares commonly go to buck in January, February, 

 and March, and fometimes all the warm months ; fometimes 

 they feek the buck feven or eight m:les from the place 

 where they lit. The buck rabbit is faid to kill all the 

 young he can come at ; on wljich account the doe is careful 

 to hide her offspring in fome remote corner, out of his way. 

 The doe coney goes to buck as foon as (he has kindled. 

 She cannot fuckle her young till fhe has been with the 

 b'lck. When he has bucked, he ufualty fails backward, 

 and lies as in a trance h&lf dead, at which time he is eafily 

 taken. 



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Buck, or "Busk, in Geography, a town of Poland, in 

 the palatinate of Beltz, 24 miles S.S.E. of Bcltz. 



Buck, or Bucho%, a town of Germany, in the circle of 

 Upper Saxony, and old mark of Brandenburg, 23 miles 

 N.W. of It. 



BUCK-Z'i'.^in, in Botany, a corruption of bogbean, 

 one of the Engli/lt names of menyanlhej Irifcliala, derived 

 from the place of its growth, and from a (light rcfcmblancc 

 of its leaflets to thofe of the common c\iltivated bean. 



Buck ifland, in Geography, one of the fmaller Virgin ifles 

 in the Well Indies, fituate on the coaft of St. Thomas, ill 

 St. James's paffage. N, iat. 18° J5'. W. long. 6.3° jo'. 



BuCK-n;<^, in Botany, is ufed by feme for the maft or 

 fruit of the beech tree. 



ViucY-fkins. See Skins. 



BvcK-Jiad, in our y/ncient Law Books, a toil wherein to 

 take deer. By an ancient tlatute, no pcrfon is allowed to 

 keep a buck flail, who has not a park of his own. Stat. jy. 

 Hen. VII. 



BUCKEBURG, in Geography, a town of Germany, in 

 the circle of Wcftphaha, and county of Schauenburg, fur- 

 rounded with walls, and having a callle, where the tribunal 

 of juftice is held. It contains one church, two colleges, and 

 a houfe of orphans ; 3 miks eaft of Minden. 



BUCKEGBERG, a bailliage of the canton of Soleare 

 in Swifi'erland, on the eaft tide of the Aar ; its average an- 

 nual value is 166I. ; the inhabitants of this bailhage profefs 

 the reformed rehgion, and in ecclefiallical affairs they are 

 under the protedlion of Bern. They take the oath of 

 fidelity every third year to the government of Soleuie : but 

 if aggrieved in their religious ellablifhment, have recourfe to 

 Bern. The fenate of Bern nominates to the vacant bene- 

 fices, but the priells are under the neccfiity of obtaining the 

 confirmation of the chapter of Soleure. Bern alfo enjoys 

 fupreme jurifdiftion in criminal affairs. If a criminal is ar- 

 relled for any capital offence, he is tried by the bailiff of 

 Buckegberg and the jury of the bailliage ; but if condemned 

 to death, he is delivered for execution to Bern, provided that 

 republic difcharges the expence of the trial. Soleure enjoys 

 all the other rights of fovereignty. N. Iat. 47 " 9'. E. long. 

 7° 20'. 



BUCKEN, a town of Germany, in the circle of Weft- 

 phalia and county of Hoya ; 2 miles S. of Hoya. 



BUCKENHAM, or New Buckenham, a fmall town 

 in the county of Norfolk, England, is feated on the river 

 Warency. It obtains the appellation of New, to dillinguifli 

 it from aaother place of the fame name, which is more an- 

 cient, and is called Old Buckenham. Both thcfe places 

 have been of fome note, but both have greatly declined. 

 Henry I. created this a dillind parifh, and William d' Albany 

 built a handfome church here. At Buckenham was for- 

 merly a fplcndid caftle, the fite of which was fubfequently 

 occupied by a priory. The lords of the manor are butlers 

 at the coronation of our kings. Here are two annual fairs, 

 but the market has been difcontinued. The parifh contains 

 125 houfes and 664 inhabitants. Blomefield's Hiilory of 

 Norfolk. 



BUCKET, in Hydraulics, a kind of veffel or recipient 

 chiefly of ufe for the raifing or conveyance of water from 

 Wells, and other places. The word is formed from the 

 French bacquet, a pail or tub. In an army, buckets are 

 carried with the artillery, in the fire-workers [lores. Town 

 buckets, for extinguifliing fires, are made of thick leather, 

 ftrongly foaked and boiled. One method of raifing water, 

 defcribed by hydraulic writers, is by the means of a chain of 

 buckets. 



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