-*74 BON 
“ The nearerthe Bone, the fweeter the fiefh.” Prov, 
“ There is a Bone for you to pick that is, a queftion 
to anfvver, or a difficulty to overcome. 
To BONE, v. a. To take out the bones from the flerti ; 
as, The cooks boned the veal. 
BONE-ACE, a game at cards, played thus : the dealer 
•deals out two cards to the firit hand, and turns up the 
fthird, and fo on through all the players, who may be fe- 
-ven, eight, or as many as the cards will permit ; he that 
has the higheft card turned up to him carries the bone ; 
that is, one half of the flake ; the other half remaining to 
be played for. Again, if there be three kings, three 
queens, three tens, &c. turned up, the eldefl hand wins 
'the bone ; but it is to be oblerved, that the ace of dia¬ 
monds is bone-ace, and wins all other cards whatever. As 
for the other half of the ilake, the neared to thirty-one 
■wins it ; and he that turns up or draws thirty-one wins 
it immediately. 
BONE-LACE, f [from bone and lace ; the bobbins 
with wInch lace is woven being frequently made of bones.] 
Flaxen lace, fuch as women wear on their linen.—We 
deflroy the fymmetry of the human figure, and foolifhly 
contrive to call off the eye from great and real beauties, 
to childifh gewgaw ribbands and bone-lace. Add-on. 
BONE'LESS, adj. Wanting bones : 
I would, while it was fmiling in my face, 
Have pluck’d my nipple from his bonelefs gums. Shakefp. 
To BONE-SET, v. n. To reflore a bon* out of joint to 
its place ; or join a bone broken to the other part.—A 
fratlured leg let in the country by one pretending to bone- 
fetting. Wife man. 
BONE-SET'TER, fi A furgeon ; one who particularly 
profefles the art of reftoring broken or luxated bones.— 
At prefent my defire is to have a good bone-fetter. Denham. 
BONE-SPA'VIN. See Farriery. 
BON-ESPER A'NCE. See Cape of Good Hope. 
BONET' (Theophilus), an eminent phyfician, born at 
Geneva in 1620. He took his degree in phyfic in 1643, 
after he had gone through moft of the famous univerfities, 
and was for fome time phyfician to the duke of Longue - 
ville. Meanwhile his fkill in his profeffion got him con¬ 
siderable practice ; but, being feized with deafnefs, it 
obliged him to retire from buiinefs, which gave him lei - 
lure to-colleifl all the obfervations he had made during a 
practice of forty years. He wrote, 1. Polyallhcs, five The- 
faurus Medico PraEiico, 3 vols. folio. 2. l.abyrinthi Medici 
extricati. 3. Mcdicini Septentrionalis Collatitia ; and other 
works. He died in March 1689. 
BONEZI'DA, a town of Tranfilvania, on the Samos : 
twelve miles north of Clanfenburg. 
BONFA'CIO, or Bonifa'cio, a fea-port town of the 
ifland of Corlica, on the fouth coafl; the town is fmall 
and fortified, and the harbour fafe : twenty-eight leagues 
fouth of Baftia. I.at.41. 11.N. Ion. 26. 53. E. Ferro. 
BONFA'DIUS (James), one of the mod polite writers 
of the fixteenth century, was born in Italy, near the lake 
di Card. He was fecretary to the cardinal de Bari, and 
after his death to the cardinal Ghinucci. He afterwards 
read public lectures on Ariflotle’s politics, and on rhetoric, 
and was made hifloriographer to the republic of Genoa, 
ile applied himfelf to compofe the annals of that date, in 
which he wrote too fatirically on fome families. This 
, creating him enemies who were refolved to ruin him, they 
accufed him of the unnatural fin; and, as witnefles were 
found to conviift him of it, lie was condemned to be burnt. 
Some fay that this fentence was executed ; and others, that 
his punifhment was changed, and that lie was beheaded. 
This was in 1560. Upon the day of his execution he wrote 
a note to John Baptifl Grimaldi, to tefiify his gratitude to 
the perfons who had endeavoured to ferve him ; and pro- 
mifed to inform them how he found himfelf in the other 
world, if it could be don? without frightening them. But 
it does not appear that he performed his promife, any 
more than others who had promifed the like before him. 
BON 
His Hidory of Genoa is edeemed. We have alfo fome 
letters, fome Orations, and Latin and Italian poems, of his, 
which were printed at Bologna in 1744, 8vo. 
BONFAT'TI, a town of Italy, in the kingdom of Na¬ 
ples, and province of Calabria Citra: three leagues weft 
of St. Marco. 
BONFI'NIUS (Anthony), an hidorian of the fifteenth 
century, born at Afcoli in Italy. Matthias Corvin, king 
of Hungary, having heard of his abilities and learning, 
fent for him to his court. At his fird audience he pre- 
fented him with his tranflations of Hermogenes and Hero- 
dian, and his genealogy of the Corvins, which lie dedica¬ 
ted to his majedy ; and two other works addreiTed to the 
queen, one of which treated of virginity and conjugal 
chadity, and the other a hidory of Alcoli. He had dedi¬ 
cated alfo a little collection of epigrams to the young prince 
John Corvin, to which there is added a preface. The king 
read his pieces with great pleafure, and would not allow 
him to return to Italy, but detained him with a good pen- 
don, being dedrous that he fhould follow him in his army. 
He employed him to write the hidory of the Huns, and 
Bonfinius accordingly fet about it before the death of this 
prince; but it was by order of king Uladidaus that he 
wrote the general hidory of Hungary. He carried it down 
to the year 1495. The original of this work was depofited 
in the library of Bnda, but was never publifiied. In 1543, 
Martin Brenner publifiied thirty books of this work from 
an iniperfed copy. The whole confided of forty-five 
books, which Sanbucus publifhed in 1568, tevifed and 
collated with the bed copies. Bonfinius is fuppofed to 
have died in Hungary. 
BON'FIRE, f [from bon, Fr. good, and f r e.~\ A fir* 
made for fome public caufe of triumph or exultation : 
Ring ye the bells to make it wear away, 
And bonfires make all day. Spenfer . 
BONFRE'RIUS (James), a learned Jefuir, born at 
Dinant, in 1573. He wrote a commentary on the Penta¬ 
teuch, and learned notes on the Qnamadieon of the places 
and towns mentioned in the fcripuire. He died at Tour- 
nay in 1643, aged feventy. 
BONGA'RS (Janies), in Latin Bongafias, a native of 
Orleans, was one of the mod learned men of the fixteenth 
century. He applied himfelf to the dudy of critical learn¬ 
ing, and was for near thirty years employed in the moft 
important negoeiations of Henry IV. whole refident he 
was feveral times at the courts of the princes of Germany, 
and at length his ambadador. He was of the protedant 
religion ; and, when very young, had the courage to write 
a very fpirited anfvver to a bull of pope Sixtus V. The 
public is obliged to him for the edition of feveral authors 
who have written the hidory of the expeditions to the 
Holy Land ; he alfo publifhed, among other works, an 
edition of Judin, in which lie redored feveral palfages that 
had been corrupted, by confulting valuab’e manuferipts, 
and added notes which explained many difficult pafTages. 
He died in 1612, aged fifty-eight. 
BON'GO, or Bunco, one of the Japanefe iflands. 
Lat. 32. 41. N. Ion. 131. 56. E. Greenwich. 
BON'GR AQY.,fi [bonne grace, Fr. ] A forehead-cloth, 
or covering for the forehead. Not now vfed —1 have feen 
her befet ail over with emeralds and pearls, ranged in 
rows about her cawl, her peruke, her bongrace, and chap¬ 
let. Hakewiil. 
BO'NI, or Bouguis, a kingdom of the idand of 
Celebes. 
BO'NI-BONE, a town in the ifland of Celebes, and 
capital of the kingdom of Boni. 
BONIEU'X, a town of France, in the department of 
the mouths of the Rhone: eight leagues eafl of Avignon. 
BO'NIFACE, the name of feveral eminent men, par¬ 
ticularly of nine popes. To the fird of thefe, who was 
chofen pope in 418, St. Augitdine dedicated his four 
books againft the two epidles of the Pelagians. The third 
of that.name prevailed upon the emperor Phocas to con- 
lent 
