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16. Bodianus guttatus, tlie Jew-filh, Specific charac¬ 
ter 5 two canine teeth in each jaw, three fpines in the 
operculum ; tail rounded. The head is long, operculum 
large, mouth wide; on both fides a ftrong whilkeror bone 
in "place of the lip; noftrils double; pupil of the eye 
black, iris golden. The body is yellowifti-brown; and 
the fins have a violet edging, and a number of round fpots 
of a brown colour; fome with a white dot in the middle. 
It is found in both the Indies, and in Africa. Lifter re¬ 
marks, that it gives the head-ach to thofe who eat of it. 
If it be the fame as the Jeiv-fJk of Browne, it is found alfo 
at Jamaica, and grows to the weight of two hundred 
pounds; it is very highly efteemed as food in thofe parts. 
17. Bodianus boenak, the bcenak. Specific character ; 
body banded, tail rounded, opercular fpines three. The 
head is ftriped longitudinally, and ends in a Iharp fnout; 
the under jaw protruded ; eyes black with yellow irides. 
It has feven brown bands on the body, fome of them di¬ 
vided. The fides are brown, growing reddilh towards the 
back, lighter towards the belly. Native of Japan, where 
it is called yean bcenak. This is the fecond figure on the 
annexed Plate. 
18. Bodianus hiatula, the gaping bodian. Specific cha- 
rafter; opercular fpines two; tail rounded. The head 
is long ; fnout pointed ; back dark red, with longitudinal 
ftripes of a lighter colour ; dorfal fin yellow, Ipotted with 
red. Inhabits the Mediterranean. 
19. Bodianus apua, the apua. Specific charafter, one 
fpine in the operculum, leven in the dorlal fin ; tail 
rounded. Red is the prevailing colour of this filh ; but 
it inclines to grey on the fides, and white on the belly. 
The body abounds in black fpots, of which thofe on the 
back are the largeft : the fins are rounded, and, except the 
peftorals, have a black border with a white edging. Na¬ 
tive of Brafil. The ftefti is fat, and molt delicate eating. 
2.0. Bodianus ftellifer, the ftarry bodian. A blunt fnout 
protruded beyond the aperture of the mouth, is the fpe- 
cific character. The head is fliort; mouth large ; teeth 
fmall ; tongue and palate fmooth : eyes black,, the iris 
white,, encircled with a ftarry ring of fpines, from which 
it takes its name. The filh is white on the fides and belly ; 
but the back and fins are of a golden yellow. Native of 
the Cape of Good Hope. 
ai. Bodianus tetracanthus, the four-fpined bodian. 
Specific character; opercular fpines two on each fide; 
dorlal fpines four. The head is Hatted, and broader than 
the body; upper lip thick and flexible; teeth Iharp, 
crooked, and unequal. 
-3.Z. Bodianus fex-lineatus, the fix-lined bodian. Spe¬ 
cific charafter; opercular fpines two on each fide; three 
white ftripes along each fide of the body; tail rounded. 
Mouth very large;, lower jaw protruded. This and the 
preceding were deferibed by Cepede from fpecimens in 
tire national mule urn at Paris. 
BODftCE, f. [from bodies. ] Stays ; a waiftcoat quilted 
with whalebone, worn by women: 
Her oedise half-way Ihe unlac’d ; 
About his arms flue llily call 
The filkea. band, and held him fall... Prior . 
BQD'ILESS, adj. Incorporeal; having no body. 
BOD'ILY, adj. Corporeal; containing body.—What 
refemblance could wood or ftone bear to fpirit void of all 
fenfible qualities, and bodily dimensions ? South.- —Relating 
to the body, not the mind.—Virtue atones for bodily de¬ 
feats; beauty is nothing worth,, without a mind. LiEftrange*. 
■ —Real; actual 
Whatever hath been thought on in this ftate. 
That could.be brought to bodily aft, ere Rome 
Had circumvention. Shakefpeare. 
BOD'ILY, adv. Corporeally ; united with matter.—Ic 
is his human nature, in which the godhead dwells bodily, 
that is advanced to thefe honours, and to this empire. Watts. 
BO'DIN (John), a celebrated French lawyer, born at 
Angers.- He ftudied the law. at Touloufe, where he. took. 
BOD 
degrees, and read leftures with great applaule. He in¬ 
tended to fettle there as law-profeflor; and, in order to 
ingratiate himfelf with the Touloufians, he compofed his 
oration, De Inftituenda in Republica Juventute; which 
he addrefled to the people and fenate of Touloufe, and re¬ 
cited it publicly in the fchools. He at length preferred 
the common to the civil law, and quitted the fchool of 
Touloufe for the bar of Paris: but, not fucceeding, he 
applied himfelf wholly to compofing books, in which he 
had fingular fuccefs. The firft work he publilhed was 
his Commentary on Oppian’s Books of Hunting, and his 
tranflation of them into Latin verfe, 1555; Method of 
Hiftory, 1566 ; Difcourfe on Coins, Sec. 1568 ; Republic* 
1576, in folio, and 3 vo. Account of the States of Blois * 
Law Tables, intitled Juris univerji diftributio, 1578 ; Demo- 
nomanie des Sorciers, 1579; and Theatre de la Nature 
univerfelle. He died of the plague, at Laon, in 1596. 
BODINCOMA'CUM, in ancient geography, the name 
of a borough of Italy in Liguria, where, according to 
Pliny, the river Eridanus was at its greateft depth : called 
in his time Indujlria. 
BODION'TICI, a people whom, according to Pliny*. 
Galba annexed to Gallia Narbonnenfis; but before this 
time they formed a part of the Ligurians. M. d’Anville 
has- placed them in the Maritime Alps. Their capital was 
Dinia. 
BOD'KIL, one of the channels between Flanders and 
Walcheren illand, in Zealand, by which flrips may fail in. 
BOD KIN, / {boddiken, or fmall body ; Skinner. An 
inftrument with a fmall blade and Iharp point, ufed to 
bore holes.—Each of them had bodkins in their hands*, 
wherewith continually they pricked him. Sidney. —An in¬ 
ftrument to draw a thread or riband through a loop: 
Or plung’d in lakes of bitter waflies lie. 
Or wedg’d whole ages in a bodkin s eye. Pope,. 
An inftrument to drefs the hair ; 
You took conftant care 
The bodkin, comb, and eflence, to prepare t 
For this your locks in paper-durance bound. Pope,. 
BOD'LEY (Sir Thomas), founder of the Bodleian li¬ 
brary at Oxford, born at Exeter in 1544. When only- 
twelve years of age, his father, Mr. John Bodley, being a 
proteftant, was obliged to leave the kingdom. He fettled, 
at Geneva with his family, and continued there till the 
death of queen Mary. In that univerlity young Bodley 
ftudied the learned languages under feveral eminent pro- 
feflors. On the accellion of queen Elizabeth, he returned 
with his father to England ; and entered at Magdalen 
college in Oxford. He afterwards became gentieman- 
uiher to queen Elizabeth in 1583 ; and, in 1585, he was. 
fent ambaflador to the king of Denmark, and fome Ger¬ 
man princes. He was next charged with an important 
commiflion to Henry III. of France; and, in 1588, went? 
ambaflador to the United Provinces, where he continued 
till 1597.. On his return to England, finding his prefer¬ 
ment obftrufted by the jarring interefts of Burleigh and. 
Eifex, he retired from court, and could never afterwards 
be prevailed on to accept of any employment. He now 
b^gan the foundation of the Bodleian library, which was 
completed in 1599. Soon after the accelfion of James I. 
he received the honour of knighthood ; and died in the. 
year 1612. He was buried in the choir of Merton college. 
BOD'MIN, [of bod, a kite, and min, C. Brit, the bank, 
of a river, by reafon of the great number of kites that: 
frequent it. 1 An ancient town in Cornwall, fituated in the 
centre of the county, and about twelve miles from each./ 
of the two channels. It is a borough and town corporate 
by charter of queen Elizabeth, with a mayor, eleven ca¬ 
pital burgefles, town-clerk, and twenty-four common 
council, who eleft the members of the borough. This, 
town had formerly an abbey, and an hofpital for lazars. 
About the year 905, king Edward erefted it into a bilhop’s 
fee, which,.in the Danifli wars, was tranflated to St. Ger¬ 
main’s, from thence to Kirton in Devonlhire, and from. 
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