B I B 
B 1 AN'GULATED, or Bian'guloits, adj. [from Linus 
and angulus, Lat.] Having two corners or angles. 
BIA'NOR, the (on of 'fiberias and Ma-nto, the daugh¬ 
ter of Tirelias, why received the futiiame of Ocnus, and 
reigned over Etruria. He built a town, which he called 
Mantua, after his mother’s name. His tomb, was feen in 
the age of Virgil, on the road between Mantua and Andes. 
Virgil. —There was a Trojan prince of this name, who 
■was killed by Agamemnon; and alfo a Centaur, killed by 
Thefeus. 
BIAR', a town of Spain, in Valentia, lltuated on a ftnall 
river, which runs into the Elda, on the confines of New 
Caftile; its principal riches confid in honey, celebrated 
for its white net’s and foliditv, which is.not alieCted by wea¬ 
ther : two leagues eaft of Viilena. 
BIAR'CHUS, "an officer in the court of the emperors 
of Conftantinople, intruded with the care and inipection 
of the provi(ions of the (oldiery. 
BI'AS, one of the feyen Pages’lof Greece, flonriflied 
about 608 before Chrift. He was accuftonved to fay, “ It 
was a licknefs of the mind to wilh'.for impoffible things.” 
During the (iege of Priena, his native city, being ajked 
why he was the only one who retired from the place with¬ 
out carrying any riling with him, he replied, That die car¬ 
ried his all with him ; meaning, that his knowledge and 
virtue were the only bledings that were peculiarly his own, 
fince thev could not be taken from him. He expired while 
pleading for one of his friends. 
Bias, J. \_biais, Fr. faid to come from bihay , an old 
Gaulilh word, (ignifying crofs or thwart, j The weight 
lodged on one tide of a bowl, which turns it from the 
flraight line: 
Madam, we’ll play at bowls— 
—’Twill make me think the world is full of rubs, 
And that my fortune runs again!! the bias. Shakefpearc. 
Any thing which turns a man to a particular courfe, or 
gives the direction to his meafures.—Morality influences 
men’s lives, and gives a bias to all their actions. Locke .— 
Propenlion; inclination.—As for thg religion of our poet, 
he fee ms to have Come little bias towards the opinions of 
Wickliff. Drydm. 
To Bias, v. a. To incline to fome fide ; to balance one 
way ; to prejudice.—Were I in no more danger to be mil¬ 
led by ignorance, than 1 am to be ■ biaj/ed by intereft, I 
might give a very perfect account. Locke. 
Bias, adv. It (eeins to be tiled adverbially in the follow¬ 
ing callage, conformably to the French, mcltre une choj'e de 
biais, to.give any tiling a wrong interpretation: 
Every action that hath gone before, 
Whereof we have record, trial did draw 
Bias and thwart, not anfwering the aim. Shakefpeare. 
In the following pafTage it Items to bean adjcElive. Swelled, 
as tiie bowl on the biajftd fide. This is not vjtd. 
Blow till thy bias cheek 
Ontfwell the cholic oppiift A/juilon. Skakcfpeare. 
BIATH AN'ATOI, f. ’[of violence, and fiarar©-., 
death.J Perfons taken away by violent deaths. 
BIB, f. A final! piece of linen put upon the breads of 
children over their clothes. 
To Bib, v. n. [bibo, Lat.] To tipple; to fip; to drink 
frequently. 
B IB A'CIOUS, adj. [bibax , Lat.] Addicted to drinking. 
BlBA'CITY,yi \_bibacilas , Lat.] The quality of drink¬ 
ing much. 
BIB'BER, f. A tippler; a man that drinks often. 
BIBBO'NA, a town of Italy, in the duchy of Tufcany: 
fifty miles north of Arezzo. 
JBFBEN, a town of Perfia, in the Irak Agemi: 140 
miles eaft of Ifpahan. 
BI’BER, a town of Germany, in the circle of the Lower 
Rhine, and electorate of Mentz : five yniles eaft-fouth-eaft 
©f Francfort on tlie Main. 
Bi'BERACH, an imperial city of G.erfnany, in the cir- 
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cle of Swabia, fituated ia a valley, watered by the Riefs, 
near the Danube ; the magiftrates and people are partly 
protellants and partly catholics: the church and hofpital 
are common to both. In 1634, this city was taken by the 
Swedes; and in 1702, by the elector of Bavaria: lixtecit 
miles fouth-Ibuth-weft of Ulm, and forty-eight wed-fouth- 
weftof Augiburgh. Lat. 48. 7. N. Jon.. 27.24.. E. Ferro: 
BIB'EROT, f. in cookery, minced meats made of the 
breads of partridges and fat pullets, &c. 
BI'BERSBURG, a town of Hungary: twelve miles 
north-eaft of Prefburg. 
Bl'BERSTEIN, a town of Swifter!and, in the canton 
of Bern, on the Aar, nearly opp’olite Arau. 
B1 n r sT k 1 n, a town and caltle of Germany, in the cir¬ 
cle ot the Upper Rhine, and bifliopric of Fulda: eight 
miles call of Fulda. 
B IB I E'N A (Ferdinand Galli)., painter and architect, 
was born at.Boulogne in 1657. He dudied the elements 
of his. art tinder the ■Cignani, a diftinguilhed art id. His 
talents for architecture, for theatrical decorations, and for 
perfpeedive, obtained hinvgreat reputation. The dnke of 
Parma and the emperor gave him the title of their fir ft 
painter, and loaded him with favours. Several magnifi¬ 
cent edifices were railed after his plans : his pieces of per- 
I’peCtive are full of fade. He died blind in 1743, aged 80, 
leaving two books of architecture, and fons worthy of their 
father. It is probable that to one of them (J. Galli Bibiena) 
the public is indebted for the Hidory of the Amours of 
Valeria and the noble Venetian Barbarigo; trandated into 
French 1 ; Laufanne and Geneva, 1751. 
BI'BIG, a town of Egypt, two miles fottth of Feiuni. 
RIBITO'RIUS, f. [from bibo, Lat, to drink.] A name 
given to the adductor oculi, becaufe, by drawing the eye 
inwards towards the note, it caufes thole who drink to look 
into tiie cup. The drinking mufcle. 
BI'BLE,/. \_biblia, Lat. of Gr. of Heb. the 
book.] The facred volume in which are contained the re¬ 
velations of God ; known alfo by various other appella¬ 
tions, as, the Sacred I/.ooks, Holy Writ, Infpired Writings, 
Scriptures, &c. The Jews fry led the Old Tedament Mikra t 
which lignifies LJJon or Icclure. This collection of the fa- 
cred writings is judly conddered as the foundation of the 
Jewi!h as well as of the Chridian religion. The Jews, it 
is true, acknowledged only the feripturesof the Old Teda¬ 
ment, the correcting and publilhing of which is nnani- 
raoufly afenbed, botli by the Jews and Chridians, to Ezra-. 
Some of the ancient fathers, on no other foundation than 
the fecond book of Efdras, pretend, that the feriptures 
were entirely loft, and deftroyed at the Babylonilh capti¬ 
vity, and that Ezra reftored them all again by divine reve¬ 
lation. It is certain, that in the reign of Joliah, there was 
no other book of the law extant beddes that found in the 
temple by Hilkiah; from which original,-by order of that 
pious king, copies were immediately written out, and. 
fearch made for all the other parts of the feriptures, 
(2 Kings xxii.) by which means copies of the whole be¬ 
came multiplied among the people. After the return of 
the. Jews from the Babylonilh captivity, Ezra got together 
as many copies as he could of th-e facred writings, and out 
of-them all prepared a correCl edition, difpofmg thefeve- 
ra! books in their proper order, and fettling the canon of 
fcripttire for his time. Thefe books lie divided into three 
parts, 1. The Law. 2. The Prophets. 3. The Cetubiin 
or Hagiographia, i. e. The Holy Writings. 
I. The Law contains, Gcneds; Exodus; Leviticus;. 
Numbers; Deuteronomy, II. The writings of the Pro¬ 
phets are, Joflma; Judges, with Ruth ; Samuel ; Kings ; 
Il’aiah; Jeremiah, with his Lamentations; Ezekiel; Da¬ 
niel; the twelve minor Prophets; Job; Ezra; Nehemiah; 
Either. III. The Hagiographia condds of, the Pfalms ; 
the Proverbs ; Eccledaftes ; rise Song of Solomon. This 
dividon was made for the fake of reducing the number of 
.the'facred books to the number of the letters in their al¬ 
phabet, which amount to twentv-two. At prefent, the 
Jews reckon, twenty-four books in their canon of fenprure,- 
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