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BIL'DESTON, or Bilston, a fmall manufa&uring 
town in Suffolk, near Hadleigh, fix miles from Stow-mar- 
ket, and lixty-feven from London ; it is noted for the 
woollen-manufaclorv, particularly yarn-making. It had 
formerly a market, which was holden on Wednefdays. 
It has two fairs in a year; one on Afh-Wednelday, the 
other on Holy Tlnirfday. 
BILE,/. [bills, Lat. Of this we find no better etymology 
than that of Ntevius, who derives it from bis twice, and 
lis contention, as being fuppofed to be the caufe of anger 
anddifpute.] A thick, yellow, bitter, liquor, feparated 
in the liver, collefted in the gall-bladder, and difeharged 
into the lower end of the duodenum, or beginning of the je¬ 
junum, by the common du6L Its life is to fheathe or blunt 
the acids of the chyle, becaufe they, being entangled with 
its fulphurs, thicken it fo, that it cannot be diffidently di¬ 
luted by the fuccus pancreaticus, toenterthe lacteal vefl’els : 
In its progreffion, foon the labour’d chyle 
Receives the confluent rills of bitter bile ; 
Which, by the liver fever’d from the blood, 
And driving through the gall-pipe, here unload 
Their yellow ftreams. Blackmore. 
Bii.e, /. [bile, Sax. perhaps from bills, Lat. This is ge¬ 
nerally (pelt boil ; but lefs properly.] A fore angry fwell- 
ing.—A furunculus is a painful tubercle, with a broad 
balls, arifing in a cone. It is generally called a bile, and 
is accompanied with inflammation, puliation, and tenlion. 
Wife-man. 
BILED'GIK, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in the pro¬ 
vince of Natolia: thirty-two miles north-wed; of Efki-Shehr. 
BILEDUL'GERID, a country of Africa, lying fouth 
of Tunis and Algiers, fuppofed to be about fixty leagues 
fquare. According to the generally-received opinion, it 
derives its name from the Arabic words Biled el gerid, dig¬ 
nifying the land of dates, becaufe it abounds with that 
kind of fruit more than any other country in Africa, info- 
much that it can furnifh the neighbouring kingdoms with 
it in exchange for wheat, which here is fcarce. But Dr. 
Shaw fays, the name feents rather borrowed from the 
Blaid-al- Jericide of the Arabians, who thereby fignify the 
dry country. Ntimidia, is the name by which it was known 
to the Greeks and Romans. The whole country is very 
mountainous, fandy, and barren, producing little or no 
fudenance, fome parts of it being quite covered with large 
thick woods of palm-trees, from which dates are gathered. 
The climate is hot and unhealthy, the people lean, and of 
a fwarthy and flirivelled complexion, their eyes being very 
much hurt by the ead winds, which drive the hot fand 
into them, and are fometimes fo violent as to bury whole 
hoords of them under it. Another inconvenience they 
are liable to, and for which we cannot affign the reafon, 
is, .their teeth often dropout even in youth; otherwife 
they are healthy, and live many of them to a great age. 
The plague (fo frequent in Barbary) is fcarcely ever 
heard of here ; as to their character, they are reprefented 
as lewd, treacherous, t’nievilh, and cruel. They are a 
mixture of the ancient Africans and wild Arabs; the for¬ 
mer living in towns, or villages ; the latter in tents, and 
ranging from place to place for food and plunder. The 
country has few rivers and towns. The Arabs think them- 
felves the noble race, and, being independent, fometimes 
for pay ferve neighbouring princes in war ; the red follow 
either the plundering or the hunting trade, which lad is 
one of their nobled diverfions, efpecially that of odriches. 
They eat the flefh, and barter their feathers for corn, 
pulfe, or other things which they want. Their common 
food, befides dates, is the flefli of odriches, goats, and ca¬ 
mels ; their drink is either the thin liquor or broth in 
which fuch flefh is boiled, or the milk of their camels; for 
they feldom drink any water, that little they have of it be¬ 
ing neither vvholefome or pleafant, and in mod places they 
labour under the want of that. 
BIL'FINGER (George Bernard), born at Candadt in 
1693, an univerfal fcholar, profelfor of philofophy at St. 
B I L 27 
Peterfburgh, and of theology at Tubingen, died in 1750. 
It has been remarked, that all the perlons of his family 
came into the world with twelve fingers and twelve toes. 
It was not however this circumdance that mod diflin- 
guidted Bellinger. His writings railed him a name in Ger¬ 
many. The mod fought after is that which bears the title 
of Dilucidationes philofophicm de Deo, Anima humana, 
Mundo, et generalibus Rertim affedtionibus. He efpoufed 
the party of Leibnitz. The academies of Peterfburg and 
Berlin admitted him of their number. 
BILGE, f. The compals or breadth of a fliip’s bottom. 
To Bilge, v. n. To fpring a leak ; to let in water, by 
driking upon a rock : a Tea term ; now 3i/lge. 
BILG'HEY, a town of Hindodan, in the Myfore coun¬ 
try: fifty-eight miles wed-fouth-wed of Harponelly, and 
thirty-five north-north-wed of Bedanore. 
BI'LIARY, adj. [from bills, Lat.] Belonging to the 
bile.—Voracious animals, and fuch as do not chew, have 
a great quantity of gall; and fome of them have the biliary 
duel inferted into the pylorus. ,A<bulhnot. 
BILICH', a town of Raiflia, in Siberia : eight miles 
fouth-ead of Vercholenlk. 
BILIHAN', a town of Perlia, in the province of Irack: 
100 miles fouth-fouth-wed of Amadan. 
BILIKOW'KN, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of 
Kiov : fifty miles wed of Kiov. 
BILIM'BI,/. in botany. See Averrhoa. 
BI'LIN, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of Leitme- 
ritz : fourteen miles wed of Leitmeritz. 
BI'LINGSGATE, f. [A cant word, borrowed from 
Bilingsgale in London, where there is always a crowd of 
low people, and frequent brawls and foul language.] Ri¬ 
baldry ; foul language: 
There dript, fair rhetoric languilh’d on the ground. 
And fhameful bilingsgate her robes adorn. Pope. 
Bilingsg ate-market, a noted fifli-market in London, 
appointed to be kept every day, and toll taken by datute : 
ail perfons buying fifh in this market may fell the fame in 
any other market by retail: but none but fifiimongers (hall 
fell them in fhops : if any perfon (hall buy any quantity 
of fidi at Bilingfgate for others, or any fifhmonger fliali 
ingrofs the market, they incur a penalty of 20I. And fifh 
imported by foreigners fliali be forfeited, and the veffef, 
&c. See 10 and 11 Will. III. c. 24. 1 Geo. I. dat. 2. c. 18. 
BILIN'GUOUS, adj. [from bilinguis, Lat. ] A double- 
tongued man ; or, one that can fpeak two languages : but 
it is ufed in our law for a jury that palfeth between an 
Engliflunan and a foreigner, whereof part ought to be 
Englilh, and part firangers : properly a jury de meditate 
linguae, under dat. 28 Edw. III. c. 13. 
BIL'IOUS, adj. [from bills, Lat.] Confiding of bile; 
partaking of bile.—When the tade of the mouth is bitter, 
it is a fign of a redundance of a bilious alkali. Arbuthnot. 
To BILK, v. a. [derived by Mr. Lye from the Gothic 
bilaican. ] To cheat; to defraud, by running in debt and 
avoiding payment : 
What comedy, what farce, can more delight, 
Than grinning hunger, and the pleafant fight 
Of your bilk’d hopes ? Dryden. 
BI'LITZ, a town of Silefia, in the principality of Tef-- 
chen : ten miles fouth of Pies. 
BILL,/, [bile, Sax.] The beak of a fowl: 
In his bill 
An olive leaf he brings, pacific lign ! Milton, 
Bii.t, v /. [bille, Sax. twibille, a two-edged axe.] An in- 
drument made of iron, edged in the form of a crefcent, 
and adapted to a handle. It is ufed by plumbers, to per¬ 
form feveral parts of their work ; by bafket-makers, and 
woodmen, to cut the chefnut, and other wood : and by 
gardeners, to prune trees. When fhort, it is called a 
hand-bill-, and when long, a hedge-bill. 
Bili. 
