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greateft part of the difcourfes that annually preceded this 
periodical work. 
BOUR'TANG, a town and fortrefs of Groningen : 
twelve miles fouth-fouth-weft of Winfchotten. 
BOURTH, a town of France, in the department of the 
Eure, and chief place of a canton, in the diftridt. of Ver- 
neuil : two leagues north-weft of Verneuil. 
BOUR'THES, a town of France, in the department of 
the Straits of Calais, and chief place of a canton, in the 
diftridt of Boulogne : four leagues fouth-eaftof Boulogne. 
BOU'SA, a town of Africa, in Negroland. Lat. 14. 55. 
N. Ion. 7. 25.E. Greenwich. 
To BOUSE, v. n. [buyftn , Dutch.] To drink lavifhly ; 
to tope. 
BOUSH, a town of Egypt: four miles north-eafl of 
Benifeuf. 
BOU'SKAVIR, ariverof Perfia, which runs into the 
Perfian Gulf, near Bendir Rik. 
BOUS r SAC, a town of France, and principal place of 
a diftrict, in the department of the Creufe : fix leagues 
north-eaff of Gueret, and five north-we(t of Evaux. 
BOUSSAN'GES, a town of France, in the department 
of the Herault: fix leagues north of Beziers. 
BOU'SY, ad). Drunken : 
The guefts upon the day appointed came, 
Each boufy farmer with his fimp’ring dame. King. 
BOUT,/ [ botta, Ital.] A turn; as much of an adlion 
as is performed at one’time, without interruption; a An¬ 
gle part of any adtion carried on by fucceflive intervals: 
If he chance to ’fcape this difmal bout,. 
The former legatees are blotted out. Dryden. 
BOU'TANT, or Arch-Boutant,/ in architecture, 
an arch, or part of an arch, abutting againft the reins of 
a vault to prevent its giving way. A pillar boutant is a large 
chain or pile of ftone,made to fupport a wall,terrace,or vault. 
BOUTE,/. in the manege. A horfe is called boute, 
when his legs are in a ftraight line from the knee to the 
coronet: fhort-jointed horfes are apt to be boute, and on 
the other hand long-jointed horfes are not. 
BOU'TEFEU,/ [Fr.] An incendiary ; one who kin¬ 
dles feuds and difcontents. Now difufed. —Animated by a 
bafe fellow, called John a Chamber, a very boutefeu , who 
bore much ,fway among the vulgar, they entered into open 
rebellion. Bacon. 
BOU'TISALE,/ [fuppofed from bouty or booty , and 
fate.] A fale at a cheap rate, as booty or plunder is com¬ 
monly fold.—To fpeak nothing of the great boutifale of 
colleges and chantries. Hayward. 
BOUTKOU'JA, a town of Perfia, in the province of 
Ghijam : 120 miles north-north-weft of Relhd. 
BOU'TON, or Button, one of the Molucca Tfiands, 
in the Indian fea. Lat. 5. S. Ion. 123. E. Greenwich. 
BOUTON'NE, a river of France, which runs into the 
Charente, two leagues eaft of Rochefort, it palfes by St. 
Jean d’Angely, and is navigable to that town. 
BOUTS-RIMEZ, f. A popular term in the French 
poetry; dignifying" certain rhymes, difpofed in order, and 
given to a poet with a fubjecl, to be filled up with verfes 
ending in the fame words, and the fame order. It is laid 
to be the invention of one du Lot, in 16 49. In fixing the 
bouts, it is ufual to choofe fuch as feehi the remote!!, and 
have-the leaft connection. Some authors alfert that thefe 
rhymes are of all others the eafiefi, that they afiift the in¬ 
vention, and readily furnifh new thoughts. S.arrafinhasa 
poem on the defeat of the bouts-rhimez. The academy 
of Laternilts at Thouloufe formerly contributed towards 
keeping up the bouts-rimez, by propofinjg annually a fet 
of fourteen, to be filled up on the glories of the grand mo- 
narque : the prize was a gold medal. The following, which 
was filled up by F. Commire, may fervc as an example : 
Tout eft grand dans le roi, l’afpedt feul de fon bufte 
Rend nos tiers ennemis plus froids que des gluqons. 
Et Guillaume n’attend que le terns des moilfons, 
Four fe voir fuccomber Ions un bras fi robufte. 
BOW m 
Qnjon ne nous vante plus les miracles d* Augufte; 
Louis de bien regner lui feroit des lecons : 
Horace en vain l’egale aux dieux dans fes chanlons : 
Moins que mon heros il etoit fage et jufte, &c. 
BOUVI'GNES, a town of the Netherlands, in the coun¬ 
ty of Namur, (ituated on the Meufe. It was furrounded 
with a wall in the year 1173, and in the year 1213 it ob¬ 
tained the rights and, privileges of a city from Jolande, 
comtelfe of Namur. In 1554, it was taken by the French, 
under Henry II. who made a great (laughter of the inha¬ 
bitants. It had formerly a ftroqg caftle, which was deftroy- 
ed in the wars. Near Bouvignes, are the remains of an an¬ 
cient city, called Chivremont, once a ftrong place, whofe 
inhabitants made themfelves remarkable by their robbe¬ 
ries, and defended ihemfelves valiantly againft Charles the 
Simple in 922, againft king Otho in 939, and againft Bruno, 
archbifhop of Cologne, in 960. At length the city was 
taken and deftroyed, in 992, by Notger, billiop of Liege. 
Four leagues fouth of Namur. 
BOUVIL'LdE,/ [from bos, an ox, becaufe cattle were 
fuppofed fubject to it; or perhaps it may rather mean the 
cow-pox.] The meafies. 
BOUVI'NES, or Pont-a-Bouvines, a village of 
Flanders, where Philip Auguftus obtained a victory over 
the emperor Otho, in 1214 : three leagues S. E. Lille. 
BOUXIE'RES-AUX-D AMES, a town of France, in 
the department of the Meurte : one league N. Nancy. 
BOUX'W 1 LLER, a town of Fra nee, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Lower Rhine, and chief place of a canton, in 
the diftridt of Haguenau : four leagues weft of Haguenan, 
and fix north-weft of Stralburg. 
BOUZAN'NE, a river of France, which runs into the 
Creufe, about a league north-weft of Argenton, in the de¬ 
partment of the Indre. 
BOUZDO'GAN, a towm of Afiatic Turkey, in the pro¬ 
vince of Natolia : twenty-four miles north-weft of Mogla. 
BOUZE, a town of France, in the department of the 
Cote d’Or, and chief place of a canton, in the diftridt of 
the Beaune: one league north-weft of Beaune. 
BOU'ZEK, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in the province 
of Caramania : thirty-two mileseaft-north-eaft of K lr-fhehr . 
BOUZIL'LE, a town of France, in the department of 
the Mayne and Loire, and chief place of a canton, in the 
diftridt of St. Florent-le-Vieil : one league S. E. Ancenis- 
BOUZI'LS, a town of France, in the department of 
Vendee, and chief place of a canton, in the diftridt of 
Montaigu : five miles fouth of Montaigu. 
BOUZ'KIR, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in the province 
of Natolia: thirty miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Beilhehri. 
BOUZO'LS, a town of France, in the department of 
the Upper Loire : one league fouth of Puy-en-Velay. 
BOUZONVIL'LE, a town of France, and feat of a tri¬ 
bunal, in the department of the Mofelle, (ituated on the 
Nied, an ancient lordfhip of the bifttop of Metz: five 
leagues eaft of. Thionville, and two and a half weft-fouth- 
weft of Sar Louis. 
To BOW, zj. a. [huger, Sax.] To bend, or infleiSL It 
founds as now, or haw:. 
Orpheus, with his lute, made trees, 
And the mountain-tops that freeze, 
Bow themfelves when he did fing. Shakefpeare. 
To bend the body in token of refpedt or fubmiffion.—They 
came to meet him, and bowed themfelves to the ground 
before him. 2 Kings. —To bend, or incline, in condefcen- 
(ion.— Let it not grieve thee to bow down thine ear to the 
poor, and give him a friendly anfwer. Ecclus.~ To deprefs ; 
to cruftr: 
Now wafting years my former ftrength confound, 
And added woes may bow me to the ground. Pope. 
To BOW, xi. n. To bend ; to fuffer flexure. To make 
a reverence : 
Rather 
