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being fet over the fire till it boils, it is faid a perfon may 
then pm his hand into it without injury: and, by putting 
water under the receiver of an air-pump, and applying 
1 lie flame of a candle or lamp under it, by gradually ex- 
hauftingy the water is made to boil with always lefs and 
lefs and lefs degrees of heat ; and without applying any 
heat at all, the water, or even the moifture about the bot¬ 
tom or edges of the receiver, will rife in an elaftic vapour 
tip into it, when the exhauftion is near completed. Spirit 
of w ine boils dill fooner in vacuo than water. Dr. Freind 
gives a table of the different times required to make feve¬ 
ral fluids boil by the fame heat. See Phil. Tranf. No. 122. 
SOIL'ING, in manufaCttires, is a preparation given to 
divers forts of bodies, by making them pal’s over the fire, 
chiefly in water, though fometimes in other liquids. In 
this fenfe we fpeak of the boiling of fugar, copperas, See. 
BOIL'ING, in the culinary art, is a method of drefling 
meats by coCti'On in hot water, intended to fofteh them, 
and difpofe them for eafier digeffion. The effects of boil¬ 
ing are different, according to the kinds and qualities of 
fhe water. Pulfe boiled in fea water grow harder ; mut¬ 
ton boiled in the fame becomes fofter and tenderer than in 
frefh water, but tafles faltifh and bitter. 
BOIL'ING to DEATH (caldariis dccoqutre), in the 
middle age ; a kind of punifhment inflicted on thieves, 
falfe coiners, and forne other criminals. 
BOIL'ING WELLS, or Springs, in natural hiflory. 
See Burning Springs, and Iceland. 
BOI'NA, a tow n of Hungary : four miles foutli of To- 
poltzan. 
BOIN'DIN (Nicholas), born at Paris in 1676, and en¬ 
tered into the regiment of mufqueteers in 1696. The 
weaknefs of his conftitiition, unable to refift the fatigues 
of the fervice, obliged him to laydown his arms, and 
rake to the clofet. He was received, in 1706, into the 
academy of inferiptions and belles lettres; and would 
have been-of the academie Franpoife, if the public pro- 
feflion lie made of atheifm had not determined his exclu- 
fion. He died the 30th of November, 1751, at the age of 
feventy-five, and was denied the honours of fepulture ; 
being inhumed the day following, without ceremony, at 
three o’clock in the morning. M. Parfait the elder, who 
inherited the works of Boindin, gave them to the public 
in 1753, in two vols. 121110. In the firfi, are four come¬ 
dies in profe : 1. Les Trois Garyons, compofed in con¬ 
cert with la Motte ; they afterwards difputed to whom it 
raofi belonged : Moliere would certainly not have laid 
claim to it, though it contains feveral artful and agree¬ 
able flrokes. 2. Le Bal d’Autueil, the fubjeCt of which 
is laughable, and the plot ftriking and ingenious. ..3.. Le 
Port de Mer, in conjunction with la Motte, and more 
worthy of giving birth to a quarrel of pretenfions betv, een 
them. It was applauded, and is continued on the llage. 
4. Le Petit-maitre de Robe ; too Ample, though tolerably 
well dialogued. At the head of the firft volume is a me¬ 
moir on his life and writings, compofed by himfelf. There 
is alfo by him a memoir, in which he accufes, after a lapfe 
of forty years, la Motte, Saurin, and Malaffaire, a mer- 
.chant, of having plotted the (Iratagem that caufed the ce¬ 
lebrated and unhappy Rondeau to be condemned. 
BOI'NITZ, a town of Hungary, in the county of Zell, 
remarkable for its bath, and the quantity of faffron that 
grows about it: eleven miles weft-north-weft of Kremnitz. 
BOIO'BI,/- an American fnake. SeeCoLUBER. 
BOIO'RUM DESERTA, a diftriCl of Pannonia, fo 
railed from the exciflon of the Boii by the Getae. Now 
the Weinerwald of Lower Auftria, towards Stiria, to the 
call of mount Cetius, or the Hahienberg, and foutli of 
Vindobona or Vienna. 
BOJOW'KA, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of 
Braclaw : forty-eight miles eaft of Braclaw. 
BOIQUI'RA, the American name for the rattle-fnake. 
See Crotalus. 
BOIS (Jean du), or Joannes it Bosco, born at Paris, 
•.was originally a Celeftine monk; but, haying obtained 
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permiflion to leave the cloifter, he embraced the military 
fervice, and there diftinguiftied himfelf in fuch a manner, 
that Henry III. never called him by any other-name than 
the emperor of monks. After the extinction of the Ligue, 
he re-entered his order, became preacher in ordinary to 
Henry IV. and obtained fo much of the favour of cardinal 
Olivier, that he permitted him to bear his name and his 
arms, and procured him the abbey of Beaulieu, in Argonne. 
After the death of Henry IV. he filled his lermons with 
inveCtives againft the jefuits, whom lie believed to be the 
contrivers of it, and who had the art to punifh him for 
it; for, having gone to Rome in 1612, lie was prefently 
fliut up in St. Angelo’s caftle, where he died in 1626. 
He printed, at his own expence, the Bibliotheca Floria- 
cenfis; Lyons, 1605, in 8vo. It is a collection of fmall 
tracts, by the ancient ecclefiaftical authors, taken from the 
manuferipts of the library belonging to the nionaftery of 
Fie,dri-fur-Loire. 
BOIS (Gerard du), of the Oratoire, a native of Orleans, 
died July 15, 1696, aged fixty-feven ; fuc^eeded Pere le 
Cointe, his friend, in the place of librarian to the houfe 
of St. Honore, and inherited his papers. They were not 
ufelefs in his hands. He revifed the eighth volume of 
the Ecclefiaftical Annals of France, and publiflied it in 
1683. This work procured him a penfion of a thoufand 
livres, granted him by the clergy. He afterwards under¬ 
took, at the entreaty of Harlay, archbiftiop of Paris, the; 
Hiftory of that church; 1690, two vols. folio. It is writ¬ 
ten in Latin, and the ftyle is pure and elegant. 
BOIS (Philippe du), born in the diocefe of Bayeux, 
doCtor of the Sorbonne, librarian to le Tellier, archbiftiop 
of Rheims, died in 1703. There is by him, 1. A Cata¬ 
logue of the Library under his care; 1993, at the Louvre, 
folio. 2. An edition of Tibullus, Catullus, and Proper¬ 
tius, in two vols. 8vo. ad ufum Delpliini, 1685. 3. An 
edition of the theological works of Maldonat, in folio; 
Paris, 1677. 
BOIS-BELLE, or Henrichemont, a fmall fove- 
reignty of France, before the revolution ; fituated in Berry 
between Bourges and Sancerre, about ten leagues in cir 
cumference, containing about 6300 inhabitants; the prin¬ 
cipal towns are Henrichemont and Bois-Belle. 
BOIS-BELLE, a town of France, in the department of 
the Cher : fifteen miles north-eaft of Bourges. 
BOJS-COMMUN, a town of France, and principal 
place of a diftriCl, in the department of the Loiret, which 
contains about 1600 inhabitants : feven leagues north-eaft 
of Orleans, and five weft of Montargis. 
BOIS DE COISSI, the name given to a South Ame¬ 
rican tree growing about Surinam, held in the higheft 
eftimation by the Indians in that part of the world, and of 
late years recommended as a cure for intermittents ; but 
its powers have not proved of equal efficacy with thofe of 
cincliina. 
BOIS-LE-YOINGT, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Rhone and Loire, and chief place of a canton, 
in the diftriCl of Villefranche: four leagues and a half 
north-weft of Lyons. 
BOIS-LE-DUC, a city of Dutch Brabant, fituated on 
the river Donunel, which there receives the waters of the 
Aa ; its name in the language of the country is Hertogen- 
bofeh, flie fame meaning with Bois-le-Due, i. e. the Duies’ 
JVcod, and was fo called from its being built in a woody 
country, where the dukes of Brabant were accuftomed to 
take the diverfion of hunting. Godfrey duke of Brabant, 
to put a flop to the incurfions of the Gueldrians into that 
country, commanded the woods to be cut down in 1184, 
and laid the foundation of a city, which was finiffied, in 
1196, by his Con duke Henry, and confiderably enlarged 
in 14 53. It Is furrotinded by the waters of the Donunel 
and Aa, by which they can eafily lay the country round 
about under water, and is fometimes, efpecially in winter, 
not to be approached but by boats. It is defended by 
feveral forts ; the three principal are thole of Crevecceur, 
near the Meufe, a large fort called Ifubella, and a fmall. 
fort 
