ENCYCLOPEDIA -LONDINENSIS; 
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UNIVERSAL DICTIONARY 
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. ARTS, SCIENCES, and LITERATURE. 
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ETULEI'US (Sixtus), an able grammarian, Latin 
poet, and philofopber, born at Memmingen, in 1500; 
bis true name was Birch.. He taught the belles letters and 
philofophy with reputation ; and became principal of 
the college of Augfburgh, where he died on the 16th of 
June 1554. He publilhed feveral works in profe ; and 
his dramatist pieces of Jofeph, Sufannah, and Judith, are 
elleemed. 
BE'TULUS,yi in botany. See Carpinus. 
BETU'WE 1 , or Betuve, or Betaw,- or Batavia, 
a country of the United Netherlands, in the duchy of 
Guelders, which lies between the Meufe and the Leek. 
See Batavia. 
BETWEE'N, prep, \betweonav, belwinan , Sax. from the 
original word twa, two.] In the intermediate fpace : 
Of fmells the headlong lionefs between, 
And hound fagacious on the tainted green. Pope. 
From one to another : noting intercourfe.—He (liould 
think himfelf unhappy, if things fhould go fo between them, 
as he fhould not be able to acquit himfelf of ingratitude 
towards them both. Bacon. —Belonging to two in part- 
nerfhip.—I afk, whether Caflorand Pollux, with only one 
foul between them, which thinks and perceives in one what 
the other is never confcious of, are not two diftimSf per- 
fons t Locke. —Bearing relation to two.—Friendfhip re¬ 
quires, that it be between two at lead ; and there can be no 
friendfhip where there are not two friends."—Noting dif¬ 
ference, or diftindtion of one from the other.—Children 
quickly diftinguifh between yrhat is required of them, and 
what not. Locke. — Between is properly ufed of two, and 
among of more ; but perhaps this accuracy is not always 
preferved. 
BET'WPIA, a river of Hindoflan, which runs into the 
Jumna, twenty-five miles fouth-eaft of Calpy. 
BETWIX'T, prep. [ betwixt, Sax. It has the fame lig- 
nification with between , and is indifferently ufed for it.] In 
the midfi of two : 
If contradidfing interefts could be mixt, 
Nature herfelf has call a bar betwixt. Dryden. 
From one to another : 
Five years fince there was fome fpeech of marriage 
Betwixt myfelf and her. S/iahcJ'peare. 
BETZIR'VAN, or B arson, a town of Perfia, in the 
province of Adirbeitzan: too miles north-eaftof Tauris. 
BETZ'KO, a town of Hungary : eighteen miles weft 
of Topoltzan. 
BEV'ANS, a furname common to the Wclfh, as much 
as to fay ab Evans, q. d. come of Evans ox John. 
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BEVE'CUIU, a town of Brabant: eight miles fouth-eaft 
of Louvain. 
BEV'EL, or Bevil, f. in mafonry and joinery, a kind 
of fquare, one leg of which is frequently crooked, accord¬ 
ing to the fweep of an arch or vault. It is moveable on a 
point or centre, and fo may be fet to any angle. An an¬ 
gle that is not fquare, is called a bevel angle, whether it be 
more obtufe, or more acute, titan a right angle. 
To Bevel, v. a. To cut to a bevel angle.-«-Thefe rab¬ 
bets on the groundfel are bevelled downwards, that rain 
may the freelier fall off. Moxon. 
BEV'ELAND, (North), an ifland in the date of Zea¬ 
land, formed by the divided branches of the Scheldt, about 
two leagues long, and one and an half broad. 
Beveland (Zuit, or South), an ifland in the Scheldt, 
belonging to the date of Zealand : near eight leagues long, 
and two and a half wide, with the town of Goes and feve¬ 
ral villages. 
BE'VELLING, in fhip-building. See Naval Ar¬ 
chitecture. 
BE'VKR, a river of Germany, which runs into the 
Wefer, near Beverungen, in the circle of Weftphalia. 
Bever. See BeaVer. 
Bever-Head, a cape on the fouth-eafi coaft of Nova 
Scotia. Lat. 44.42. N. Ion. 62. 20. W. Greenwich. 
BEVE'RA, a river of Italy, which palles by Sofpello, 
in the county of Nice, and runs into the Roia, two miles 
north of Vintimiglia. 
BE'VERAGE, f. [bevere, Ital. to drink.] Drink; li¬ 
quor to be drunk in general.—Grains, pulfes, and all iorts 
of fruits, either bread or beverage may be made almoft of 
all. Brown. — Beverage, or water cider. A treat upon 
wearing a new fuit of clothes. A treat at firft coming 
into a prifon, called alfo garnijh. 
BE'VERGERN, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Weftphalia and bifliopric of Munfter, fituated in the midft 
of a morafs, neara fait fpring : 21 miles north of Munfter. 
BE'VERIDGE (William), a learned Englifh divine, 
born at Barrow in Leicefterlhire, in 1638. He was edu¬ 
cated at St. John’s college, Cambridge; where he applied 
with great afiiduity to the oriental languages, and made 
fuch proficiency in this part of learning, that at eighteen 
years of age he wrote a treatife of the excellency and ufe 
of the oriental tongues, efpecially the Hebrew, Chaldee, 
Syriac, Arabic, and Samaritan ; with a Syriac grammar. 
January 3, 1661, he was ordained deacon by Robert bi- 
Ihop of Lincoln, and prieft the 31ft of that month ; and, 
about the fame time, was prefented to the vicarage of 
Yealing in Middlefex, which he refigued about a year 
after, upon his being chofen redftor of St. Peter’s, Coru- 
B bill. 
