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happen in the fields, it corrodes the roots of plants. After 
having attained it's full complement of limbs, and acquired 
its molt perfect form, the cockroach difpiays a mouth 
armed with jnrvs, and furnifhed with palpi. Its antennae 
■are generally as long as the body, and the abdomen as broad 
as the thorax. The tarfi of the fore feet have five joints ; 
thofe of the hinder only four; while the horns which ter¬ 
minate the abdoinen are furrowed, or wrinkled tranfverfe- 
ly. There are ten fpecies of this genus, betides the one 
peculiar to this ifiand; all of which are named, for the 
mod part, after the different countries which they inhabit; 
i. The gigantea, of a livid colour, with fquare brownifh 
marks on the bread. It is found in Afia and America, 
and is about tile iize of a hen’s egg. z. The alba is red, 
and the margin of the bread is white. It is found in 
Egypt. 3. The furinainenfis is livid, and the bread edged 
with white. It is a native of Surinam. 4. The americana 
is of an iron colour, and the hind part of the bread is 
white. The wings and elytra are longer than its body. It 
is found in America and the fouth of France. 5. The 
pivea is white* with yellow feelers. It is a native of 
America. 6. The africana is alh-coloured, and lias forhe 
hairs on its bread. It is found in Africa. 7. The orien- 
talis is of a duiky afh-Colour, has fhort elytra, with an ob¬ 
long furrow in them. This fpecies is frequent in Ameri¬ 
ca. They get into cheds, bureaus, &c. and do much hurt 
-to clothes ; they infeft people’s beds in the night, bite like 
bugs, and leave a very unfavoury fmell behind them. 
They avoid the light, and feldom appear but in the night¬ 
time. The female refembles a kind of caterpillar, as it 
has no wings ; die lays an egg of about one half the bulk 
of her belly. They eat bread, raw or drefied meat, linen, 
books, filk-vvorms, and their bags, &c. Sir Hans Sloane 
fays, that the Indians mix their afhes with fugar, and 
apply them to ulcers in order to promote the fuppuration. 
S. The germanica is livid and yellowidi, with two black 
parallel lines on the bread. It is found in Denmark. 
9. The laponica is yellow, and the elytra are fpotted with 
black. It is found in Lapland; and feeds upon cheefe, 
fillies, &c. jo. The oblongata is of an oblong figure ; 
the colour is livid and fhining; and it has two black fpots 
on the bread. The feelers are red and clavated ; and the 
feet are very hairy. It is a native of America. 
BLATTA'RIA, f. See Celsia, Lythrum, Pen- 
tapetes, Verbascum, and Lysimachia. 
To BLAT'TER, v.n. [from blatero, Lat.] To roar; 
to make a fenfelefs noile. It is a word not now ufed.— 
She rode at peace, through his only pains and excellent 
endurance, however envy lid to blatter againd him. Spenfer. 
BI. ATTERA'TION, J. [£ latteralio, Lat.] Noife; 
fenfelefs roar. 
BLAU, a river in Germany, in the circle of Swabia, 
which runs into the Danube, at Ulm. 
BLAUBEU'REN, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Swabia, and duchy of Wirtemberg, the feat of a fmall 
bailivvic, fituated on the Blau: feven miles wed of Ulm. 
BLAU'ENTHAL, a town of Germany, in the circle 
of Upper Saxony, and circle of Erzgebirg : five miles 
fouth-wed of Schwartzenberg. 
BLA'VET, a river of France, which runs into the fea, 
oppofite Belleifle. 
BLA'VIA, or Blavium, anciently a town of Acqui- 
tain, on the north bank of rhe Garonne, below its conflu¬ 
ence with the Dordogne ; now Blaye. 
BLAVIGNAC', a town of France, in the department 
of the Lozerre, and chief place of a canton, in the diflrift 
of St. Chely d’Apcher : fix miles fouth of St. Chely. 
BLAU'SLUYS, a town of Holland: two leagues wed 
of Gertrudenburg. 
BLAY,yi [ alburms .] A fmall white river filh ; called 
alfo a bleak. 
BLAYE, or Blayes, a feaport town of France, and 
feat of a tribunal, in the department of the Gironde, fitua- 
tted on the right fide of the Gironde, or Gironne, near its 
«£koflux with the Dordogne. It contains 3000 inhabitants, 
B L K 
and is divided into Upper and Lower Town. The citadel 
has four badions, furrounded with good works, and deep 
wide ditches ; it is likewife defended by a fort called Pate , 
built on an ifiand in tire Gironde, which is there 1900 
toifes wide. Veffels depofit their arms and cannon at 
Blaye,. before they go to Bourdeaux : twenty miles north 
of Bourdeaux. Lat. 45. 8. N. Ion. 17. E. Ferro. 
BLAZE, f. \_blafe, a torch, Sax.] A flame ; the light 
of the flame : blaze implies more the light than the heat: 
Thy tone is darknefs in th’ abyfs of light, 
A blaze of glory that forbids the fight. Dryden. 
Publication ; wide diffufion of report—What is glory but 
the Maze of fame i Milton. — Blaze is a white mark upon the 
face of a horfe, defeending from the forehead almod to 
the nofe. 
To BLAZE, v. n. To flame ; to fiiew the light of a 
flame.—Thus you may long live an happy indrument for 
your king and country; you fhall not be a meteor, or a 
blazing dar, but Jlclla fixa ; liappy here, and more happy 
hereafter. Bacon .— To be confpicuous. 
To BLAZE, v. a. To publifh ; to make known; to 
fpread far and wide.—He went out and began to publidi 
it much, and to blaze abroad the matter. Mark. 
But, mortals, know, ’tis dill our greated pride 
To blaze thole virtues which the good would hide. Pope, 
BLAZ'ER,y. One that fpreads"reports: 
Utterers of fecrets lie from thence debarr’d, 
Babblers of folly, and blazers of crime. Spenfer. 
BLA'ZEY BAY, a bay in the Englifh Channel, on 
the fouth coadof the county of Cornwall, between Fowey 
and Deadman Point. 
To BLA'ZON, v. a. [ blajonner , Fr.] To explain, in 
proper terms, the figures or enligns armorial.—King Ed¬ 
ward gave to them the coat of arms, which I am not herald 
enough to blazon into Englifh. Addifon. —To deck ; to 
embellifh ; to adorn: 
She blazons in dread fmiles her hideous form ; 
So lightning gilds the unrelenting dorm. Garik. 
To difplay ; to fet to fliow ; to celebrate; tofetout: 
One that excels the quirk of blazoning pens, 
And, in th’ effential vedure of creation, 
Does bear all excellency. Shakcfpeare. 
To blaze about ; to make public : 
What’s this but libelling againd the fenate, 
And blazoning out injudice every where ? Shahefpeare. 
BLA'ZON, J. The art of drawing or explaining coats 
of arms. Show; divulgation; publication; celebration; 
proclamation of fome quality—Men con over their pedi¬ 
grees, and obtrude the blazon of their exploits upon the 
company. Collier. 
BLA'ZONRY, f. The art of blazoning. The word 
originally fignified the blowing or winding of a horn ; and 
was introduced into heraldry as a term denoting tbe de- 
feription of things borne in arms, with their proper figni- 
fications and intendments, from an ancient cudom the he¬ 
ralds, who were judges, had of winding an horn at jouds 
and tournaments, when they explained and recorded the 
achievements of knights. See Heraldry. 
BLEA, f. in the anatomy of plants, the inner rind or 
dry bark. 
To BLEACH, v. a. [bltechen , Ger.] To whiten; 
commonly to whiten by expofure to the open air: 
Should I not feek 
The clemency of fome more temp’rate clime, 
To purge my gloom ; and, by the fun refin’d, 
Balk in his beams, and bleach me in the wind ? Dryden, 
To BLEACFI, v, n. To grow white to grow white in 
the open air : 
The deadly winter feizes ; fhuts up fenfe; 
Lays him along the fnows, a ftiffen’d corfe, 
Stretch’d out, and bleaching in the northern blafi. Thomfon . 
BLEACH'- 
