liard, .without making any enquiry into its nature and de- 
l. u. i.-vend, months had elupfed, and much application 
v■„> made, before the interdict was taken oft'. But this in¬ 
dulgence', when obtained, proved of'very little fervice. 
The work had fallen into fiich negligent hands, that the 
greater part was.deilroyed, and the reft fo effentially da¬ 
maged, that (carcely ten copies remained, which were fit 
for the public eye. The lo'fs was eftimated at 7000 livres, 
bpt he could obtain no indemnification. In the year 1780, 
he changed his plan, and publiftied the fame materials, un¬ 
der thefti 114 ; of L’Herbier de la France. 'M. Billiard died 
at Paris of a confumption, in 1793, in the forty-full year 
of his age. 
BULL MI A,/. [from ?», a particle of excefs, and 
hunger.] An infatiable hunger ; a canine or voracious ap¬ 
petite, conftituting a difeafe. See Medicine. 
BULITA'GA, a range of mountains, which divide the 
empire of Rufiia from Per-fia.. Lat. 48. 30. to 51. N. Ion. 
90. to 91 .,E. Ferro. 
BU'LiTHOS,/ [from ox, and XiS®-, a ftone.] 
A ftone found in the kidneys, or gall, or urinary bladder, 
of at) ox or cow, , 
BULK,/ [ bulche , Dot. the bread, or largeft part of a 
man.] Magnitude of material fubftance ; mafs.—Though 
an animal arrives at its full growth at a certain age, per¬ 
haps it never comes to its full bulk till the laft period of 
life. Arbulhnol.— Size ; quantity.—/hings, or objects, 
cannot enter into the mind as they fubfift in themlelves, 
and by their own natural bulk pafs into the apprehenfion ; 
but they are taken in by their ideas.. South. — The grofs ; 
the majority ; the main mafs.—Thofe very points, in which 
thefe wife men disagreed from the bulk of the people, are_ 
points in which they agreed with the received doctrines of 
our nature, Addifon.— The bulk of the debt mud be lef- 
fened'gradually. Swift. —Main fabric : . 
He rais’d-a ligli fo piteous and profound, 
. That it did feem to (hatter all his bulk, 
And end his being. Shakcfpeare. 
The main part of a (Lip's cargo ; as, to break bulk, is to 
open the cargo. 
BULK,/ [from biclcke, Dan. a beam.] A part of a 
building jutting out : 
Here ftand behind this bulk. Straight will he come : 
Wear thy" good rapier bare, and put it home. ShakcJ. 
BULK-HEAD, [ A partition made athwart the (flip 
with boards; by w hich one part is divided from the other; 
as the great eabbiri,' gun-room, bread-room, and feveral 
other divifions. The bulk-head afire is the partition be¬ 
tween the fore-cafllp and gratings in the head, 
BUL'KINESS,/ Greatnefsof ft a tit re, or fuse.—Wheat, 
qr any other grain, cannot ferveinftead of money, becaufe 
of its ■bulkivefi, and change .of its quantity. Locke. 
BULK'LKY (Charles), a celebrated preacher, born in 
London in 1719- He received his grammar-learning un¬ 
der the tpition of Mr. Lancafter, a gentleman of the efta-. 
blifhed church : he wlint to Dr. Doddridge’s academy at 
■Northampton in 1736, and commenced preaclrer in 1740. 
His fil'd fettlement was at Welford in Norrhamptonfhire : 
at what particular period he left this place, and went to 
London, is not certainly known ; bur in London he form¬ 
ed an intimacy with the Rev. Mr. Aftiworth, of the- 1 Bap- 
lift perfuafion, brother to the late Dr. Caleb 1 /Myorth, 
of Daventry : about this time,-lie quitted the Prefbyte- 
rians, was baptized by immerfi n, and joined himfelf to 
the General Baptifts. He preached at Colcheder, w here 
fie became acquainted w-ith Mifs Anne Filke, whom he 
afterwards married. From the church-books it appears, 
that lie and a Mr. Baron \yere candidates for the paftoral 
office, at White’s-alley, Moorfields, in 1743, to which he 
was defied in April the fame year. In 1745 his church 
removed to Barbican, where for a long feries of years the 
labours of his miniftry were'conduced "with ability and 
reputation. He died in April, 1797, in.the'78th year of 
B U L 
his age. Thofe-who knew him in his earlier days fpeak 
of him as a preacher in terms of high approbation : as a 
proof of his pulpit-eloquence, it (hould be mentioned, 
that he fucceeded the. eminent Dr. James Fofter in the 
Old Jewry Ledlure, and conducted it for feveral years to 
a crowded audience. His 1 works are, 1. Difeourfes on lei 
veral Subjects,-175a. 2. Vindication of Lord Shaftef- 
bury’s Writings, 1753. 3. Notes on Lord Bolingbroke’s 
Philofophical Writings. 4. Sermon on the Earthquake at 
Lilbon. 5. Obfervations on Natural Religion and Clirif- 
tianity, candidly promo fed in a Review-of the Difeourfes 
lately-.publiftied by the Lord Biffiop of London, in 3 vols. 
6. Queen Either, a Sermon on the Marriage of George III. 
1761. 7. Economy of the Gofpel, 4to. 1764. 8. Dif- 
courfes on the Parables and Miracles of Chrift. 4 vols. 
1770. 9. Catechetical Exercifes, 1774. 10. Sermon on 
the Death of the Earl of Chatham, 17-79 > an< ^ a g reat num¬ 
ber of other valuable fermons. 
BUL'KY, adj. Of great (ize or fiature.—The manner 
of fea-engagements, which was to bore and fink the ene¬ 
my’s fliips with the roftra, gave bulky and high (hips a great 
advantage. Arbutlinot. 
BULL,/ \_bulle, Dutch.] The male of black cattle ; 
the male to a cow. See Bos.— Bulls are more crifp upon 
the forehead than cows. Bacon. 
Bed age to go to bull, or calve, we hold, 
Begins at four, and ends at ten years old. May. 
In the fcriptural fenfe, an enemy powerful, fierce, and 
violent. — Many bulls have encompafted me : ftrong bulls of 
Bafhan have befet me round. Pfalms. —One of the twelve 
figns of the zodiac : 
At lafl from Aries rolls the'bounteous fun, 
And the bright Bull receives him. T/iomfon. 
A blunder; a contradidlion.—I confefs it is what the 
Englifh call a 1 bull, in the exprefiion, though the fenfe be 
manifeft enough. Pope. —In compofition, bull generally 
notes the large fize of any thing, as bull head , bulrujh, bull¬ 
trout ; and is Therefore only an augmentative fyllable, with¬ 
out much reference to its original fignificatioh. 
BULL,/ A letter, brief, or mandate, of the pope or 
hilltop of Rome; fo called, from the lead or fometimes 
gold feal affixed thereto, which Mat. Paris, anno 1237, 
thus defcribes: In bulla dornini papa: Jlat imago Pauli a 
dext'ris crucis in medio bulloefgurata, & Petri ftnijlris. Thefe 
bulls are -chiefly idiied in matters of jullice, or of grace, 
[f the former be the intention of the bull, the lead or feal 
is hung by a hempen cord ; if the latter, by a fiik'en thread. 
This pendent feal, which is, properly fpeaking, the bull, 
is imp relied on one line with the heads of Sr. Peter and 
St, Paul, and on the other with the name of the pope and 
the year of his pontificate. Bulls are granted for the con- 
feeration of biftiops, the promotion to benefices, the cele¬ 
bration of jubilees, &c. A particular bull is read every 
year, in prefence of the pope, the day of the Lord’s flip¬ 
per, or Maundy-TJiurfday, containing excommunications 
arid anathemas again ft heretics, and all who difturb or op- 
pofe the jurifdijStron of the holy fee. After the reading 
of the bull,-the pope throws a burning torch in the pub¬ 
lic place, to denote the thunder of his anathema. Thefe 
cjecrees of the pope are often mentioned in our ftatutes, 
and were heretofore nfed, arid of ftridt force, in England; 
but by the ftatute 28 Henry VIII. c. 16. it was enabled, 
That all bulls, brief's, and difpepfations, had or obtained 
from the‘bifliop of Rome, fhould be void. And by flat. 
13 Eliz. c. 2. if any perfon ftiall obtain from Rome any 
^niil or writing to abfolve or reconcile fitch as forfake 
their due allegiance, or ftiall give or receive abfolution 
by colour of inch bull, or ufe or publifh (rich bull, &c. 
it ffiall be deemed high treafon. Another edidl, of a ftrni- 
lar name, is the Golden Bull , or Imperial conftituti-on, made 
by the emperor Charles IV. reputed to be the magna 
charta, or the fundamental law, of the German empire. 
It is called golden , becaufe it has a golden feal, in the form 
