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BJLUSH'Y, adj. Having the colour of a blufh.—Blof- 
foms of trees, that are white, 'are commonly inodorate ; 
thofe of apples, crabs, peaches, are blujhy, and fmell 
fweet. Bacon. 
To BLUS'TER, v. n. [fuppofed from blajl.~\ To roar 
as a florm; to be violent and loud : 
Earth his uncouth mother was, 
And bluf’ring ^Eohts his boaffed fire. Spenfer . 
To bully ; to puff; to fwagger ; to be tumultuous.—My 
heart’s too big to bear this, fays a blujlcring fellow ; I’ll 
deftroy myfelf. Sir, lays the gentleman, here’s a dagger 
at your fervice : fo the humour went off. VEJlrange. 
BLUS'TER, f Roar of ftorms j temped: 
The (kies look grimly, 
And threaten prefent blujlers. Shakefpeare. 
Noife ; tumult; turbulence ; fury : 
Spare thy Athenian cradle, and thofe kin, 
Which in the blujler of thy wrath mud fall 
With thofe that have offended. Shakefpeare. 
Boad; boideroufnefs.—A coward makes a great deal more 
blujler than a man of honour. VEJlrange. 
BLUS'TERER,/. A fwaggerer ; a bully ; a tumultu¬ 
ous noify fellow. 
BLUS'TROUS, adj. Tumultuous; noify: 
The ancient heroes were illudrious. 
For being benign, and not blufrous. Hudibras. 
BLUTEAU' (Dom. Raphael), born at London of 
French parents, in 1638, went over to France and became 
diffinguifhed as a fcholar and a preacher. From thence 
he went to Lilbon, where he died in 1734, aged ninety- 
fix. There is by him a Dictionary, Portugucfe and Latin, 
much edeemed, 8 vols. folio; Coimbra, 1712 to 1721; 
with a Supplement, Lifbon, 1727 and 1728, 2 vols. folio. 
Two doctors of. the academy of the Appliques, delivered ‘ 
each of them a difeourfe for the difeuflion of this problem : 
Whether it was more glorious for England in having 
given birth to this fcholar, or for Portugal in having pof- 
feffed him. 
BI.Y'SOOG, a river of South Wales, which runs into 
the Tivy, about three miles fouth-fouth-ead of Cardigan. 
BLYTH, a (mail town in the county of Nottingham; 
it has a weekly market on Thurfday, and two fairs annu¬ 
ally, one on Afcenlion-day, which is noted for (beep, the 
other on the 5th of October. Some of the Creify’s family 
built a hofpital here, which is now called Blilh-Spital. 
There were feveral other religious foundations, but there 
are now no remains of them. The church is a large go¬ 
thic llruCf ure, with a lofty tower, and has feveral ancient 
monuments. It is three miles and a half north of Notting- 
a m, and 150 north-north-wed of London. 
BLYTH, a fmall lea-port town in Northumberland, 
commonly called Blyth Nook, to didinguifh it from Blyth 
in Nottinghamdure, is diffant from Newcadle fourteen 
miles, and from Shields twelve. Here is a quay, and 
Pome other conveniencies; though at low water the fea, 
at the opening of the creek, may be fafely palled on horfe- 
•back. This place derives its origin from the coal-trade, 
having fome advantage from its fituation, which brought 
it fird to be regarded, and has fince preferved it inedeem. 
We find the name in fome of our old maps; but, from 
c'omparing all circumdances, it feems probable that it was 
very little noticed till about the time of the relloration. 
In the fpace of fifty years from thence, many veffels loaded 
there; and about ten years after, they became at lead 
double, though there was no village at the place, nor any 
tolerable town near it. In 1728 it feems to have doubled 
again, fince 207 veffels were that year entered in the ctif- 
tom-houfe books, as coming from this place ; and things 
have been improving ever fince. It is looked upon as a 
creek to the port of Newcadle. 
About three miles fouth of Blyth Nook lies Seaton De- 
laval, the feat of the right honourable lord Deluval. It 
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is fometimes called Seaton Sluice, being an artificial porf* 
or, as the common people dile it, a harbour made by hand - 
Sir Ralph Delaval, an able admiral of the lad age, was 
continually contriving new improvements, in the exercile 
of which he never helitated at expence ; and, amongfl 
the red, made this port on his own plan, and entirely at 
his own charge, for the benefit of his tenants and felf im¬ 
mediately, but without excluding others who chofe to ufe 
it. In the condruflion of this fmall harbour he found 
enough to exercife his (kill and patience, the done pier 
which covered it from the north-ead wind being carried 
away by the fea more than once ; and, when he had over¬ 
come thisdifficulty by ufing timberas well as done, he found 
a new inconvenience, by his port filling up with mud and 
fand, though a pretty fliarp rill ran through it, which had 
fo hollowed the rock, as to produce that very bafon which 
Sir Ralph would convert into an haven. In order to re¬ 
move this mifehief, he placed a new drong fluice with flood¬ 
gates upon his brook; and, thefe being fliut by the com¬ 
ing in of the tide, the back-water collected itfelf into a 
body, and, forcing a paflage at the ebb, carried all before 
it, and twice in twenty-four hours fcotued th^ bed of the 
haven clean. Charles II. who had a great turn for mat¬ 
ters of this kind, made him collector and furveyor of his- 
own port, and it dill bears his name. It admits fmall 
veffels, yet larger veffels may lie fafe and receive their 
lading in the road, which renders it very commodious. 
BLYTH, a river of England, which runs into the Ger¬ 
man Ocean, near Southwold, in Suffolk. 
BLYTH, a river of England, which runs into the 
Tame, about a mile from Coleflfill, in Warwicklhire. 
BLYTH, a river of England, which runs into the fea;, 
near Blyth, in Northumberland. 
BLYTH'BURGH, or Blythixcburgh, an ancienfc 
town in Suffolk, twenty-two miles from Yarmouth, fiv^ 
front Halefworth, three from Dunwich, and ninety-feveii 
from London. It is feated on the river Blyth, between 
Dunwich and Halefworth, in the road to Yarmouth. It 
is reckoned ancient, becaufe feveral Roman urns were dug, 
up not many years ago among old buildings ; and the fel- 
fipns are fuppofed to have been held here in the Saxon 
times, becaufe of its having the gaol for the divifion of 
Beccles. It has a large ancient church, 142 feet long and 
fifty-four broad within the walls ; here are alfo the ruins 
of an old abbey. It was formerly a market-town, but has 
loll its charter ; it has a fair annually on old Lady-day. 
BMI, f. A note in mu fie r 
Gamut I am, the ground of all accord, 
Bmi, Bianca, take him for thy lord. Shakefpeare. 
BO, inter j. A word of terror ; from Bo, an old northern 
captain, of fuch fame, that his name was ufed to terrify 
the enemy. Temple. 
BO'A, [( 2 oa or ( 3 <u?, from an ox. 3 A puffulous erup¬ 
tion like the fmall pox, fo called becaufe it was cured, ac¬ 
cording to Pliny, by anointing it with hot ox-dung. 
BOA,, or Bo-e-arum, an jfland on the coaft of Illyri- 
cum over againft Tragurium. A place of banifliment for 
condemned perfons; now called Bua, an ifland in the 
Adriatic, joined to the continent, and to. Tragurium, now 
Tran, by a bridge. 
BOA, in zoology, a genus of ferpents, belonging to the 
order of amphibia. The characters of this genus are, that 
the beily and tail are both furnifhed with feuta. The fpe- 
cies are ten, viz. 1. The contortrix, has 150 feuta on the 
belly, and forty on the tail: the head is broad, very con¬ 
vex, and has poifon-bags in the mouth, but no fang, for 
which realon its bite is not reckoned poifonous :■ the body 
is afh-coloured, interfperfed with large da-ffey fpots ; and 
the tail is about a third of the length of the body. This 
ferpent is found in Carolina. 2. Thfrcanina, has 203; 
feuta on the belly, and feventy-feven-011 the tail ; it is 
greenifh, and variegated with white belts. It is a native 
of America, and lodges in the hollow trunks of trees, and 
is about two feet long. The bite of $he canina is.not poi- 
fonous. 
