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thence to Exeter. This was formerly one of the towns 
for itamping tin, but loll that privilege to Leftwithiel. 
There is no particular manufactory in the place, except 
a few common ferges, though it was once the ltaple of the 
county for the yarn-manufaClory. It had anciently feve- 
ral churches, of which one only now remains, which is 
reckoned the largeft in Cornwall; the fpire was deltroyed 
by a thunder-ftorm in 1699. Very near the town is the 
county gaol, Iheriff’s ward, and bridewell, built upon the 
principle fuggelted by the late philanthropic Mr. Howard. 
The fummer alfizes, and Michaelmas quarter-fefiions, for 
the county, are always held here, and generally the county 
meetings; as are alfo the regiftry and court of the arch¬ 
deacon of Cornwall. Here is a grammar fchool, to which 
a fmall endowment is annexed by queen Elizabeth. The 
market-day is Saturday. There are four fairs annually, 
viz. on the 25th of January, the Saturday before Eafter- 
eve, the Tuefday and Wednefday before Whit-Sunday, 
and December 6. There are alfo two fairs every year, on 
the 21ft of Auguft and the 30th of October, about a mile 
from the town, granted by charter of queen Elizabeth, 
with other lands, for the benefit of thofe afflifted with 
the leprofy. The town is diilant from Exeter fixty-three 
miles, Land’s End fifty-fix, and London 247. 
BODO'DO, a town of Africa, in the kingdom of Be¬ 
nin, near the mouth of the river Formola. 
BO'DOK, a diftricft of Lower Hungary, in the province 
of Nitra. 
BOD'ROG, a town and dill riel of Hungary, near the 
Danube, thirty miles fouth-eall of Colccza, inhabited by 
Ruffians and forne Hungarians.—Alfo, a river of Upper 
Hungary, which has its fource in the Carpathian moun¬ 
tains, and difeharges itfelf into the Theis near Tokay. 
BODUN'GEN (Great), a town of Germany, in Upper 
Saxony, and county of Klettenberg : five miles north of 
Bleiclierode. 
BODUN'GEN (Little), a town of Germany, in Upper 
Saxony, and lordlhip of Lora : four miles north of Blei- 
cherode. 
BOD'Y,yi [bodij, Sax. It originally fignified the height 
or llature of a man.] The material fubilance of an animal, 
oppofed to the immaterial foul.—By cullom, practice, and 
patience, all difficulties and hardihips, whether of body 
or of fortune, are made eafy. L'Ejlrange. —Matter: op¬ 
pofed to fpirit. A perfon; a human being: whence fome- 
body, and nobody .—Good may be drawn out of evil, and a 
body's, life may be faved without having any obligation to 
his preferver. L'Ejlrange .—Reality ; oppofed to repreien- 
tation : a lcriptural fenfe.—A lhadow of things to come ; 
but the body is of Chrift. ColoJJians. —A collective mafs ; a 
joint power.—There is in the knowledge both of God 
and man this certainty, that life and death have divided 
between them the whole body of mankind. Hooker. —The 
main army; the battle: diltinCl from the wings, van, and 
rear.'—The van of the king’s army was led by the general, 
and in. the body was the king and the prince. Clarendon .— 
A corporation ; a number of men united by lome com¬ 
mon tie.—Nothing was more common, than to hear that 
reverend body charged with what is inconfiltent; defpiled 
for their poverty, and hated for their riches. Swift. —The 
main part; the bulk : as, the body , or hull, of a fnip ; 
the body of a coach ; the body of a church ; the body, or 
trunk, of a man ; the body, or trunk, of a tree.—This, 
city has navigable rivers, that run up into the body of 
Italy ; they might fupply many countries with filh. Ad- 
difon .—A fubilance ; matter, as diftinguilhed from other 
matter.—Even a metalline body, and therefore much more 
a vegetable or animal, may, by fire, be turned into water. 
Boyle. —A paneled; a general collection : as, a body of the 
civil law; a body of divinity. Strength ;. as, wine of a 
good body. 
To BOD'Y, v. a. To produce in fome form : 
As imagination bodies forth 
The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen 
Turns them to lhape. Shakefpeare. 
BOD'Y-CLOTHES, f. Clothing for horfes that are 
dieted.—I am informed that feveral alfes are kept in body- 
clothes, and fweated every morning upon the heath. Addifon. 
BOD'ZELIN, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of 
Sandomirz : twenty-four miles fouth of Radom. 
BO'E,/ [/ 3 ociu, to exclaim.] The clamour or moaning 
made by a lick perfon. 
BO'E, a fmall illand of Norway, twenty-five leagues 
north ol Berghen.—Alfo, a town of Norway, eighteen 
miles north ol Berghen.—Alfo, a town of Norway, twelve 
leagues north of Romldale. 
BGi'BERA, J. in botany, a genus of the clafs fynge- 
nefia, order fuperflua. The generic elfential characters are 
—Receptacle naked ; down fimple ; calyx double ; the 
outer many-leaved, the inner eight-leaved. 
Bcebera chryfanthemoides; a lingle lpecies. An ereCt 
branched plant, with a fingle yellow flower. Native of 
Carolina and Mexico, in North America. Cavanillcs, 
Demonjl. Bot. p. 203. 
BOE'CE, or Boethius (HeClor), an eminent Scottilh 
hiftorian, born at Dundee about the year 1470, and lludied 
with applaufe in the univerfity of Paris. It was there he 
became acquainted with Eralinus, and laid the founda¬ 
tion of a friendlhip which was fo honourable to him. In 
1500 he was recalled to Aberdeen by bilhop Elphingfton, 
who made him principal of that univerfity. Gratitude 
for this promotion engaged him to write with particular 
attention the life of that prelate. It appeared in his Hif- 
tory of the Diocefe of Aberdeen. His Hilloryof Scotland,. 
a more ufeful undertaking, was firli publilhed in 1526^ 
In 1574 it underwent a fecond impreffion. A farther con¬ 
tinuation of it was executed by Joannes Ferrerius Pede- 
montanus. Boece died about the year 1550. 
BOEDRO'MIA, f. [of to run at a cry, i. e. 
to come to help.] In antiquity, folemn fealts held at 
Athens in memory of the fuccour brought by Ion to the 
Athenians, when invaded by Eumolpus fon of Neptune,, 
in the reign of EreCtheus. Plutarch gives another account 
of the boedromia ; which, according to him, were cele¬ 
brated in memory of the viclory obtained by Thefeus 
over the Amazons, in the month Boedromion. 
BOEDRO'MION, in chronology, the third month of 
the Athenian year, anfwering to the latter part of our Au¬ 
guft and beginning of September. 
BOEH'MEN (Jacob), called the Teutonic philofopher,. 
was a noted vifionary of the 17th century, born in a vil¬ 
lage of Germany near Gorlitz, in 1575. He was brought 
up a (hoe-maker, and at twenty years of age married a 
butcher’s daughter, with whom he lived happily thirty 
years, and fupported a large family by his occupation"; 
until, after amuling himlelf with chemiftry, a vifionary 
turn of mind, heated by fermons and German divinity, 
got the upper hand of his common fenfe, and produced 
raptures and notions of divine illumination. Thefe he 
firft difeovered to the world in 1612, by a treatife intitled 
Aurora, or the Rifing of the Sun; being a mixture of 
aftrology, philofophy, chemiftry, and divinity, written 
in a quaint obfeure llyle. This being cenfured by the ma- 
giftrates of Gorlitz, he remained filent for leven years: 
but, improving that interval by purfuing the flights of 
his imagination, he relumed his pen ; and, refolving to 
redeem the time he had loft, lie,- in the remaining five 
years of his life, publilhed above twenty books, which 
greatly needed what he concluded with, a Table of his 
Principles, or a Key to his Writings; though this has not 
proved fuflicient to render them intelligible to common 
apprehenlions. The Key above-mentioned appeared in 
1624, and he did not long furvive it; he died on the 18th 
of November that fame year. The bell edition of his 
works is laid to be that in nrao. publilhed in German, 
at Amfterdam, in 1682. An Englilh edition has been 
given by Mr. William Law, in 2 vols. 4to. 
BOEHME'RIA, f. [fo named by Jacquin, in honour o£ 
George Rudolph Boekmer, profeflor of anatomy in the uni¬ 
verfity of Wirtemberg.J In botany, a genus of the clals 
monoecia, order tetrandria, natural order fcabridm. The 
generic 
