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BQRDIGHE'RA, a town of Italy, in the ftate of Genoa': 
tt\ree miles eaft-north-eaft of Ventimiglia. 
BORDO'E, one of the Ferro iflands, with a harbour on 
the north-wetf coaft. 
BORDO'NE (Paris), an excellent Italian painter, born 
at-Venice about the vear 1512 ; and, being defcended of a 
noble family, was brought up to letters, mafic, and other 
gtajgieel accomplilhments. He was a difciple of Titian, and 
flourilhed in the time of Tintoret; but was more commend¬ 
ed for the delicacy of his pencil than the purity of his out¬ 
lines. He,came into France to the court of Francis I. with 
wirofn he was in great favour and efteem ; and for whom, 
belide-s abundance of hiftories, he made the portraits of fe- 
veral court ladies in io excellent a manner, that original na¬ 
ture was hardly more charming. From France he returned 
to Venice, laden with honour and riches, and, having acquir¬ 
ed as much reputation in Italy as he had done abroad, died 
in 1587, aged feventy-five. 
BOR'DO NUO'VA, a town of Servia : eighteen miles 
eaft-fouth-eaft of Piftrina. 
ROR'DRAG, [from to boy dr age.'] An obfolete word for 
plundering.—No nightly bordrags, nor no hue and cries. 
Spen/er. 
To BOR'DRAGE, 7-'. n. To plunder the borders. Not in 
Long time in peace his realm eftablilhed, 
Yet oft annoy’d with lundry bordragings 
Of neighbour Scots, and foreign fcatterlings. Spencer. 
BOR'DURE, f in heraldry, fee Heraldry. 
To BORE, v. n. [ borian , Sax.] To pierce in a hole.— 
Mulberries will be fairer if you bore the trunk of the tree 
through, and thruft, into the places bored , wedges of fome 
hot trees. Bacon .—To hollow. To make by piercing.— 
Thefe diminutive caterpillars are able, by degrees, to pierce 
cr bore their way into a tree, with very imall holes; which, 
after they are fully entered, grow together. Ray .—To pierce ; 
to break through: 
Confider, reader, what fatigues I’ve known,' 
What riots feen, what buftling crowds I bor'd , 
How oft I crois’d where carts and coaches roar’d. Gay. 
To BORE, v. n. To make a hole.—A man may make 
an intlrument to bore a hole an inch wide, or half an inch, 
not to bore a hole of a foot. Wilkins. —To pulli forward to¬ 
wards a certain point: 
Nor fouthward to the raining regions run ; 
But boring to the weft, and, hov’ring there, 
With gaping mouths they draw prolific air. Dryden. 
To BORE, r v. n. in the manege, is when a horle carries 
his nofe near the ground. 
BORE, f. The hole made by boring. The inftrument 
with which a hole is bored. The fize of any hole ; the ca¬ 
vity ; the hollow.—This will bell appear in the bores of wind 
inftruments; therefore caufe pipes to be made with a fingle, 
double, and fo on, to a fextuple bore ; and mark what tone 
every one giveth. Bacon. — Bore of a gun or other piece of 
ordnance, is the chafe, cylinder, or hollow part of the piece. 
BORE. The preterite of to bear : 
The father bore it with undaunted foul, 
Like one who durft his deltiny controul; 
Yet with becoming grief he bore his part, 
Refign’d his fon, but not refign’d his heart. Dryden. 
BORE, a town of Afiatic Turkey,- in the province of 
Caramania : feventeen miles eaft-north-eaft of Cogni. 
BORE,, a river of Ireland, which runs into the Slaney, 
two miles fouth of Ennifcorthy. 
BORE'ADES, the delcendants of Boreas, who long pof- 
felled the fupreme power, and the priefthood, in the ifland 
of, the Hyperboreans. Diod. 
BO'REAL, adj. [ borealis , Lat.] Northern, feptentrional; 
Crete’s ample fields diminifh to our eye ; 
Before the boreal blafts the veffels fly. Pope. 
BOR 
BO'REAL 'SIGNS, f. Are the firft fix figns of the zo¬ 
diac, or thole on the northern fide of the equinoctial; viz. 
the figns qp Aries, ft Taurus, n Gemini, 25 Cancer, ft Leo, 
Jtg Virgo. 
BOREA'LIS AURO'RA. See Aurora Borealis. 
BO'REAS,/! [Littleton derives it from /Sopx., food, be- 
caufe it lharpens the appetite.] The name of the north 
wind, blowing from the Hyperborean mountains. 'Accord¬ 
ing to the fables of the poets, he was the ion of Aftratus 
and Aurora. The firft thing he did when he was grown 
up, was to carry oft' Orythia, daughter 'of EreCfheus, by 
whom he had two fons, Calais and Zethes. He transform¬ 
ed himfelf into a horfe, to cover the mares of Dardanus, bv 
whom he had twelve colts, of i'uch a fwiftnels, that they ran 
over the ears of Handing corn without breaking them, and 
upon the furface of the lea without finking. The poets'lay, 
that he had two bufkins and wings on his Ihoulders, to ex- 
prefs his fleetnefs; but that he fometimes covered his face 
with his cloak, and had the iltape of a boy. In painting, he 
is ufually reprel'ented as an old man with a horrible look, 
his hair and beard covered with litow or hoary froft, with 
the feet and tail of a dragon. The north winds, medically 
confidered, though cold and biting, are of a wholefome tem¬ 
perament. They abound with acid particles, whence they 
refill putrid difeal'es; but they beget thole that depend on 
■the rigid fibre. 
BOREAS'MOI, f. [Gr.] An Athenian feftival in ho¬ 
nour of Boreas, who had an.altar erefted in Attica, and this 
feftival inftituted, becaufe in a lea-fight a great many of their 
enemies’ fliips were deftroyed by the north wind. 
BO'RECOLE, f. in botany. See Brassica. 
BO'REK, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of Kalifli: 
twenty-eight miles weft of Kalilh. 
BO'REL (Peter), native of Cadres, phyfician in ordi¬ 
nary to the French king, member of the academy of lci- 
ences for chemiltry, died in 1689, at the age of fixty-nine. 
He is the author of, 1. De vero Telelcopii Inventore, 
Hague, 1651, 4to. 2. The Antiquities of Cadres, printed 
in that town, 1649, 8vo. this book is very lcarce. 3. Trelor 
des Recherches et des Antiquites Gauloifes, Paris, 165-; 
4to. this repertory of old words and phrafes of the French 
language is much efteemed and coniulted ; it is to be found 
at the end of the laft edition of the Etymological Dictionary 
of Menage. 4. Kiftoriarum et Medico-Phyficarum Obfer- 
vationes centenarite quinque, Paris, 1676, 8vo. 5. Biblio¬ 
theca Chymica, Paris, 1654, 8vo. 
BOREL'LI (John Alphonlo), a famous philofopher and 
mathematician, born at Naples the 28th of January, 1608. 
He was profeffor of philofophy and mathematics in fome of 
the molt celebrated univerfities of Italy, particularly at 
Florence and Pifa, where he became highly in favour with 
the princes of the houfe of Medici; but, having been en¬ 
gaged in the revolt of Medina, he was obliged to retire to 
Rome, where he fpent the remainder of his life under the 
protection of Chriftina queen of Sweden, who honoured 
him with her friendlhip, and by her liberality towards him 
foftened the rigour of his hard fortune. Fie continued two 
years in the convent of the regular clergy of St. Pantaleon, 
called the pious fckools, where he inftruCted the youth in 
mathematical ftudies. He died there of a pleurify, the 31ft 
of December, 1679, in the leventy-lecond year of his age. 
He wrote in Latin, 1. Euclid reltored. 2. The Theory of 
the Influence of the Planets, in Medicine, deduced from 
Phyfical Caules. 3. Of Perculfive Force. 4. Of Natural 
Motions depended upon Gravity. 5. An Pliftorieal and Me¬ 
teorological Account of the burning of Mount ZEtna, in 1669. 
6. Of the Motion of Animals; and feveral other works, fome 
of which are in Italian. 
BO'RER, J. A piercer; an inftrument to make holys 
with.—The matter-bricklayer mufttry all the foundations 
with,a borer , iuch as well-diggers ufe to try the ground. 
Moxon. 
BORG, or Burg, a town of Denmark, in the ifland of 
Femern. Lat. 54.30. N. Ion. 11.8. E. Greenwich. 
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